# Another "what is it?" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 13, 2020, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-is-it/927938 "2020-12-13T01:36:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-is-it/927938/1 "2020-12-13T01:36:17Z")
So this morning I was watching trains on a live webcam when something or someone unusual got off the train. [Here’s the video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et-3-BMSv38) Go to 11:57:40 and pay attention to the open door closest to the camera. Who or what gets off the train with the man and ambles down the platform with him? _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-is-it/927938/1))_ ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-is-it/927938/2 "2020-12-13T01:40:58Z")
Looks like a bird that could be a domestic turkey. \*\*\*It’s a live video. You have to find the 11:57:40 time reported at the top of the video, not the YouTube play time. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-is-it/927938/3 "2020-12-13T02:11:12Z")
Ambles down the platform with him? It’s under his arm the whole way, right? And then the woman he meets pats the bird’s head in greeting, totally ignoring the man, so I assume it’s not dinner. The only other possibility I considered was whether it’s a fluffy white dog, but in the first few seconds when the man is walking towards us and you see it head-on it sure looks like a turkey. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-is-it/927938/4 "2020-12-13T02:21:39Z")
What video are you watching? OP, will that portion of the video remain over time? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-is-it/927938/5 "2020-12-13T02:29:57Z")
It’s “a live stream of Galesburg, IL, USA, for people who enjoy watching trains”. And I guess they get frequent flame wars in the comments, there are more rules than SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-is-it/927938/6 "2020-12-13T03:07:59Z")
You don’t describe anything like what takes place at 11:57:40 starting from the doorway nearest the camera. There is nothing that looks like a fluffy white dog. No woman that he meets, And the man isn’t walking toward us. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-is-it/927938/7 "2020-12-13T03:14:26Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > You don’t describe anything like what takes place at 11:57:40 Ah, you’re right - I had picked up on a guy 20 seconds earlier, coming out further back with some animal under his arm. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-is-it/927938/8 "2020-12-13T03:17:12Z")
Hard to tell, but my first thought was that it was a person without legs wearing a backpack and walking on his hands. I found a [video profile](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMmYvfKS7Yc) of a man named Rowdy Burton who walks that way. He he was born with a birth defect called [sacral agenesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caudal_regression_syndrome) which required his legs to be amputated at a young age. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-is-it/927938/9 "2020-12-13T04:13:39Z")
Definitely think it’s a legless person with a backpack, as **bibliophage** suggests. I saw a pic of someone like that on Twitter recently. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-is-it/927938/10 "2020-12-13T04:38:19Z")
I don’t know if there’s a way to rewind more than 12 hours back, I’ve never tried.