Hypothetically Speaking: What would YOU DO?!?!

United States
December 20, 2006 10:48am CST
Ok. Here's a scenario for you. I just made this up earlier and I'm curious to find out what all of you would do if, heaven forbid, you ever were to find yourself in this predicament. Read it, think about it, and then send me your answers. I'm curious to know what you all would do. You're on a bridge, laying across some train tracks. Over the railing, you're holding onto your loving wife of 15 years with your right hand. With your left hand, you've got your sweet little 4 year old daughter. Below all of you are icy white water rapids and giant sharp rocks. A 65 car feight train is coming full speed ahead. Your hands are so cold and they are slipping. Your feet lay across the other side of one of the railings, as you try to hang onto the rail for dear life. 1 You could drop your daughter, and save your wife of 15 years. Then pull her up to the tracks with you, then hurry to get off the bridge, where there is no shoulder, before the train runs you both over. 2 You could drop your wife, and save your daughter who is only 4 years old. Pull her up and run with her to the end of the bridge, where you will have shoulder enough to be out of harm's way. 3 Or you could drop them both, and save yourself. 4 Or you could try with all your might to save them both, and chance getting yourself run over by the train, and still losing your wife and daughter. 5 Or you can take your chances and jump with them into the rapids. 6 You do something completely different than any of these; explain your answer. Ok... what would YOU do? Write back, because I want to know!!! -Desiree
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