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Man pushed to his death under train in Queens
The New York Times ^ | 12/27/12

Posted on 12/27/2012 8:08:24 PM PST by Baynative

The woman walked behind the man along the platform, mumbling to herself, witnesses told the police, before shoving him into the path of a northbound No. 7 train just after 8 p.m.

It is the second time this month that a man has been killed after being pushed onto the subway tracks.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: ny; nyc; queens; rail; subway; train
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To: Baynative

What is going in in NYC. I have never heard of incidents like this in other major cities with subway systems.


21 posted on 12/27/2012 8:33:05 PM PST by matt04
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To: Baynative

There is a reason public transportation never became popular in America. Thugs. America has a bumper crop and it is wise to isolate and avoid them or you will be sacrificed at the alter of socialism.

Don’t live in the city ghetto. Don’t travel with the ghetto on the bus or train. Make city politicans accept and accomodate private, safe transportation. If they don’t, refuse to work in their city.


22 posted on 12/27/2012 8:35:21 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson

That’s the unspoken truth. I’ve seen the look of terror as people get on a bus or train and see the only seat(s) available are next to thugs. Especially young females. No wonder people won’t use public transportation.

I had one thug show me a gun on a bus 30 years ago. That was my last time on Greyhound.


23 posted on 12/27/2012 8:43:02 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Elections do have consequences, young people of America)
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To: Gay State Conservative

“Every time I await a train in a NYC subway station I make a conscious effort to stay away from the tracks to avoid just such a fate.”

I used to take the number 7 in the 70s. I stood away from the track with the same fear, but then there was the other fear...shoving your way into the train from the crowd that assembled around the two sliding doors and cramming up against the glass as it slammed back and forth down the track to queens...

‘anybody here from Queens? I’m from normal parents myself”.


24 posted on 12/27/2012 8:44:12 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Baynative

and my friends laugh at me because I won’t venture any where near NYC.


25 posted on 12/27/2012 8:44:34 PM PST by Wiggins
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To: Baynative

What the hell - is Bloomberg incapable of passing legislation that declares subway platforms “Pushing-free zones”?


26 posted on 12/27/2012 8:49:03 PM PST by Stosh
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To: ConservaTexan

Don’t say it too loud - Bloomie is looking for ways to impede common sense. NYC, the financial capitol, and the mayor’s focus is on salt and big drinks. His focus is on health and nothing about the SAFETY of the millions who live there and the millions who come and go on a daily basis.

He’s safe - so he’s just another liberal where it’s all about him.

If Rudy didn’t do a whoop*ss job of cleaning NYC - I doubt he would have run for mayor. He would have stayed in his ivory tower with limousines at his disposal. He’s living off the successful job Rudy did, so he can live out his fantasy of telling people what to do. Put the shaker and big gulp down. What a freak’n wuss he is - fairy style!


27 posted on 12/27/2012 8:49:36 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: Baynative

I use to ride the trains on the East Coast. I never understood the allure of standing near the edge of the platform.


28 posted on 12/27/2012 8:52:46 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Baynative

Let the filthy GD b*sta*d MODEL for us how to fall under a subway train when pushed.


29 posted on 12/27/2012 8:53:22 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Your comment reminded me of this scene from “Crocodile Dundee”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLS3RGesIFQ


30 posted on 12/27/2012 9:00:45 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: EinNYC

All the people who make decisions in NY ride around in limo’s and have armed bodyguards..they could care less about what happens to the little people.


31 posted on 12/27/2012 9:02:14 PM PST by Oldexpat
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To: Vigilanteman

>The woman, whom the police described as Hispanic, in her early 20s and heavyset, fled and was being sought by all police officers in the area.

Does this mean that witnesses did not apprehend this woman? Was she holding a weapon or are these witnesses really so effing cowardly and/or stupid to let her get away?

Any half healthy witness that did not apprehend this woman (if she was unarmed) needs to be locked up with the criminals themselves.


32 posted on 12/27/2012 9:05:34 PM PST by soycd
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To: Oldexpat

Well said! And that mini-monster is chief among them. He probably gave away packages of his own “odor-free” excrement as holiday gifts. And figured the recipients would be thrilled and grateful to receive them.


33 posted on 12/27/2012 9:07:11 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Gay State Conservative

“Every time I await a train in a NYC subway station I make a conscious effort to stay away from the tracks to avoid just such a fate.”

Me too!!!


34 posted on 12/27/2012 9:09:26 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: Baynative

New convenience rules in effect immediately -

Trains must not exceed 2 mi/h within 1000 feet of any living creature or within 1 mile of a school building.

Also, passengers must be held in a waiting room until the train comes to a complete stop and has maintained that stop for 60 seconds. At that time passengers will be allowed to enter the platform area one at a time. No running allowed. The next passenger will not be released from the waiting room until the previous passenger is seated.

There will be no standing inside of cars. If any passenger stands during the boarding process, the boarding process will be halted until the standing passengers has been arrested and removed from the premises.

These new rules have been instituted by Mayor Bloomberg for your convenience. Thanks for riding with us!


35 posted on 12/27/2012 9:15:12 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: BitWielder1

What we really need is to make all the subways train-free zones. There is no reason to allow these dangerous trains to run rampant through the tunnels of the city, just waiting for some innocent victim to hit.

Sure, some will say that trains don’t kill people, crazy people on platforms do — but we know the truth, that if there was no train on that track, nobody would be getting hit by a train.


36 posted on 12/27/2012 9:19:09 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Baynative

Obamacare doesn’t sound so good now, does it libs?


37 posted on 12/27/2012 9:19:48 PM PST by digital-olive
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To: Baynative
"The woman walked behind the man along the platform, mumbling to herself,....."

Here is another article on a man mumbling to himself then stabbing a woman.

Woman stabbed on Greyhound

It used to be when people were mumbling to themselves you KNEW they were crazy. Not anymore. When I am about to get away from a mumbling person I then see that little microphone in their ear

38 posted on 12/27/2012 9:20:38 PM PST by Spunky (We lost so now I am thinking of joining them and getting an Obamaphone.)
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To: Baynative

Ban soda and salt, that will help.


39 posted on 12/27/2012 9:23:05 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Baynative
Investigators were unable to immediately determine much about the victim beyond his gender, Mr. Browne said. “The body is very badly damaged and making it difficult to make those kind of judgments,” he added.

Should they ever find the perp, will the punishment fit the crime? I sincerely doubt it.

40 posted on 12/27/2012 9:32:34 PM PST by 4Runner
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