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Clean up on platform two – we have a human spillage’: Photographer captures moment Tube worker called for help as a woman passenger threw up at the station

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1 Aralık 2015

Clean up on platform two – we have a human spillage’: Photographer captures moment Tube worker called for help as a woman passenger threw up at the station

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This is the moment that a scantily-clad woman was caught hunched over at a Tube station before workers called for a clean-up after a ‘human spillage’.

A photographer took the picture as he returned home and says it was the embodiment of late-night London – but it wasn’t even midnight.

It shows a security guard holding his radio as the woman is sick on an Underground platform in front a couple who are cuddling.

This picture, called Mind The Gap, shows a worried security guard about to call for back-up as a scantily-clad woman prepares to be sick on a platform of London Underground in front a love-struck couple

Moments later, he says into his radio: ‘Clean up on platform two – we have a human spillage,’ photographer Paul Coomber said.

Mr Coomber, 56, a retail worker, took the picture that he calls Mind The Gap regularly takes pictures of some of London’s most iconic landmarks, including Tower Bridge lit up at night, yet he said the picture of the woman on the platform is the most eye-catching one he has taken all year.

He said: ‘She was clearly a bit worse for wear and doubled over as if she was about to throw up.

‘It was too good an opportunity to miss because I think it tells a story about London.

‘There’s the concern in the eyes of platform guard, who wishes he was anywhere except work and probably had to deal with the mess afterwards.

‘There’s this young, professional-looking couple embracing each other, clearly doing their best to ignore her and wanting their train to hurry up and arrive.

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‘Then, bang in the middle, you have the woman, who had obviously enjoyed herself a bit too much. It was only about 9.30pm.

‘I didn’t see her face properly, but she looked to be in her 20s. I only took one picture and then the guard moved in to shield her and protect her modesty.

Mr Coomber had been at Covent Garden earlier in the day where he took pictures of a balloon release in the market with his Nikon

The photographer, from Croydon, south London, also enjoys taking cityscapes around London of some of the capital's famous landmarks such as Tower Bridge (pictured) — The photographer, from Croydon, south London, also enjoys taking cityscapes around London of some of the capital’s famous landmarks such as Tower Bridge (pictured)

Mr Coomber regularly takes pictures around London yet he said that the image of the woman on the Tube was possibly the most eye-catching photo he has captured all year

Photographer Paul Coomber (pictured) said the photo of the scantily-clad woman 'tells a story about London life' in the evening — Photographer Paul Coomber (pictured) said the photo of the scantily-clad woman ‘tells a story about London life’ in the evening

‘Over the radio he said: “Clean up on platform two – we have a human spillage”.

‘My train came soon after and I knew there and then that this was the best photo I’d taken all day; possibly all year.’

Mr Coomber had been at Covent Garden earlier in the evening taking shots of a balloon release with his Nikon D750.

The photographer from Croydon, south London, where he lives with his wife Karmen, 63, added: ‘Sometimes you spend all night fiddling with the right settings taking hours to get a good picture, but with this one I just had the camera around my neck and quickly took the cap off the lens.

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