1.   An officer allegedly pulled the emergency cord as a joke.

2.   That coppery twang on the emergency cord that hangs tight in his gut.

3.   A quick-thinking ticket inspector yanked an emergency cord.

4.   Nine masked IRA men, some of them armed, boarded the train earlier and pulled the emergency cord as it pulled along the Kilwilkie housing project.

5.   Passengers pulled the emergency cord to alert police, and two of the youths were arrested.

6.   He once threw part of the Swiss train system into chaos by pulling the emergency cord to prevent the train from leaving without his luggage.

7.   Someone pulled the emergency cord and the train came to a stop.

8.   The man was attacked while riding the subway, and passengers pulled the emergency cord to alert police, Corriere della Sera reported.