Dog Rescued After Falling Onto BTS Rail (video)

By Sasiwan Mokkhasen, Staff Reporter

 

 

The rescuer, Surakiti Plengsa-nguan, posed Thursday morning with the dog he rescued from the elevated railway at BTS Ploenchit. Photo: Animal Rescue Thailand / Facebook

 

BANGKOK — A dog on Wednesday night spent a few hours trapped on the BTS Skytrain rail before it was finally rescued after operating hours, a rescue organization said.

 

The volunteer group Animal Rescue Thailand said they had learned from a video posted by a Facebook user at 10:24pm on Wednesday that a brown dog was roaming the elevated railway between BTS Ploen Chit and BTS Chit Lom.

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How did the dog get up to the elevated rail, which is over 15m above the road...?

1 minute ago, trogers said:

How did the dog get up to the elevated rail, which is over 15m above the road...?

Escalator?

Weird.. I'm curious as to how he got up there.

Saw a smart pooch use the escalator up and the stairs down on the other side of the soi to avoid an angry territorial dog that wouldn't let him pass! 

2 hours ago, Skeptic7 said:

Saw a smart pooch use the escalator up and the stairs down on the other side of the soi to avoid an angry territorial dog that wouldn't let him pass! 

I would understand a dog crossing the road. But there are security guards on duty 24/7, with the grilles lowered during off hours. How did the dog enter and climb further up to the train platform?

2 minutes ago, trogers said:

I would understand a dog crossing the road. But there are security guards on duty 24/7, with the grilles lowered during off hours. How did the dog enter and climb further up to the train platform?

Simple. Just walks under the baffle gate, past the guard and up to the train level. Roughly 25% of the time the guards are not at their posts. Other times they are busy, distracted, preoccupied or just not paying close attention. Probably not common and most get shooed away, but certainly possible. Obviously doable, since this mutt made it...and certainly not the first nor only time, including other stations as well.