Re: Neither is standing in front of a tank...
It's just good luck that that guy didn't get ground under the treads instead. It could easily have happened. It wasn't much later that machine guns were dropping people just like him.
I'm quite pleased that he may still be alive and well.
I'm not among those calling Rachel "stupid," in the Darwin Award sense (unless you want to get into her politics), but the specific course of action she and her friends were taking was quite dangerous, and the outcome was inevitable given enough time.