Posted on 12/27/2012 8:08:24 PM PST by Baynative
At least keep them under ten cars. Anything more than that is an assault train.
brilliant!
What the hell ever happened to just throwing someone under the bus?
Soon, it will be less important to be the first one in line....
The poor guy.
When I used subways regularly I always stayed back against the wall until the train pulled in.
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Have we all forgotten the fact that we can implement safety locks on these trains?
I take the 6 train from 86th to 14th everyday. I’ve been hyper aware since the first one happened.
In fact, in Union Square, there are almost ALWAYS insane muttering people on the platform, I even saw personally, one push a random woman once. She was leaning on the post so she didn’t fall forward and there was no train coming though.
This is getting out of hand. Lock these freakin’ sickos up, pronto.
If not, people, like me, are just going to start punching these whackos out when they present themselves in dangerous situations, which in the city can be anything really. Even standing on the sidewalk; they could just push you into traffic.
Why there is a pandemic of these f’ing sickos going about trying to commit per-meditated murder is strange, though.
Scary times. Glad I’m moving back to the burbs in July after 10 years!!! Can’t come soon enough. LOOOOONG gone are the days of the pretty, safe, affluent, Rudy G., NYC.
Not again!
NYC is still the Concrete Jungle.
A relative of mine works for the NY Metro. At subway stations or train platforms he makes a habit of not standing too close and then he faces away from the incoming train to make sure no cretin from hell tries such a deed.
NYC subway users will now be required to press themselves against the subway station walls as the train approaches. Only after the train stops and the doors open can they rush to board ... this is a sick demented society. Really.
It sounds like she was armed. I thought everyone in NYC was unarmed?
True words. I can literally see it coming to that.
Lock up the crazies, NOW.
Lock up the crazies should be a campaign slogan.
Has anyone from Hollywood Tweeted?
Beyonce? Gwyneth Paltrow? Alec Baldwin?
Shall I be the first to demand background checks and fingerprinting of all those purchasing subway tokens?
What drugs was the woman taking?
We will be hearing from celebrities soon saying how trains are bad and need to be banned..people don’t kill people, trains do
Sounds like an Obama voter to me.
What is going in in NYC. I have never heard of incidents like this in other major cities with subway systems.
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.
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.
“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”.
and my friends laugh at me because I won’t venture any where near NYC.
What the hell - is Bloomberg incapable of passing legislation that declares subway platforms “Pushing-free zones”?
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!
I use to ride the trains on the East Coast. I never understood the allure of standing near the edge of the platform.
Let the filthy GD b*sta*d MODEL for us how to fall under a subway train when pushed.
Your comment reminded me of this scene from “Crocodile Dundee”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLS3RGesIFQ
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.
>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.
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.
“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!!!
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!
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.
Obamacare doesn’t sound so good now, does it libs?
Here is another article on a man mumbling to himself then stabbing a woman.
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
Ban soda and salt, that will help.
Should they ever find the perp, will the punishment fit the crime? I sincerely doubt it.
Mojo Nixon - Elvis is everywhere
If it’s rush hour and you stand against the wall, you’ll never get on the train. Sometimes there’s only room for two or three more people on the train, so that’s why people stand near the edge. They want to get to work on time.
I remember one of these in Phila, probably around 20 or 25 years ago. I used to commute by train there all the time, and that incident taught me to always be aware when I'm on the platform.
One time my Uncle, who could only see shadowy movement, ventured too close to the end of the Platform with my his Wife, who is completely Blind, right behind him.
My Uncle tumbled on the tracks, letting go of my Aunt’s hand before she followed him off the edge. She knew what happened, don’t know how, but she knew and started screaming for help.
In an instant, two MEN jumped in after him and lifted him back onto the Platform, saving his life. I shudder to think what would have happened to my Uncle in today’s Society.
Years ago on a Bill Cosby album there was a story titled “A Nut In Every Car”. He was talking about the NYC subway system. Youtube I think has it LOL.
Again? What a horrific way to die! Prayers for his loved ones.
The Hispanic woman who did this acts like someone crazed on drugs.
“What the hell ever happened to just throwing someone under the bus?”
smh...
winner of the first 20...
What I don’t understand, the more heinous the crime the more
likely the suspect will be judged insane and sent to some
asylum. To me if he/she is able to do a crime, they must
have a working brain. They are the most dangerous of all
criminals. They should be the first to be put to sleep.
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