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Subway Ride From Hell: Desperate Straphangers Stuck in Sweltering Car
NBC 4/New York ^ | June 6, 2017 | Michelle Kim and Lori Bordonaro

Posted on 06/06/2017 5:11:08 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

This is what happens when the New York City subway literally feels like hell. Desperate straphangers stuck for nearly an hour in a powerless subway car with no air conditioning tried to break out of an F train at Manhattan's Broadway-Lafayette station Monday evening, video posted to Twitter shows.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: mta; ny; nyc; publictransportation; subway; transportation

1 posted on 06/06/2017 5:11:08 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

That subway smells BAD.


2 posted on 06/06/2017 5:12:50 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

That’s right up there with a life of no clean drinking water that 20% of the world has to suffer through. Is there a fund we can send money to?


3 posted on 06/06/2017 5:16:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Liberals aren’t human...that’s why they live in such conditions. Humans wouldn’t live that way.


4 posted on 06/06/2017 5:18:30 PM PDT by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

It was a number of years ago that I got stuck for a half hour in a train under the East River, but at least back then, those little windows opened a little ways to get some air in there.


5 posted on 06/06/2017 5:20:11 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff; All; Gabz

“...stuck for NEARLY AN HOUR!”

OMG! That’s equal to, say, a Coal Mine Disaster or a Landslide or something, where you’re trapped for days, weeks, MONTHS!

Man up, you NY wimps; you CHOOSE to live there!

Call your lovely MAYOR and complain that for a Fascist, he sure can’t get the trains to run on time! ROFLMAO!

Man, I crack myself UP!


6 posted on 06/06/2017 5:22:14 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Interesting that this piece should refer to desperate straphangers.

Although I don't live there I've been riding the subway on a fairly regular basis for years and I can't recall a single time where my fellow passengers didn't appear to be desperate.

7 posted on 06/06/2017 5:28:04 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Trial run for SHTF EMP.


8 posted on 06/06/2017 5:40:31 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Best Long Term Prepper Tactic: Beat The Muslim Demographic Tsnami - Have Big Families)
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To: Gay State Conservative

When I was in the Army the term ‘straphanger’ meant a sycophantic yes-man.


9 posted on 06/06/2017 5:50:39 PM PDT by nhbob1
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Reality is that one hour in what is basically a sealed container with a gazillion humans who involuntarily want to grab great gobs of air sounds like a serious problem. What is the interior volume of a car? I’m going to guess at about 7,500 ft3 i.e. 75’ x 10’ x 10’. An inactive human body needs about 20 or 30 cubic feet per hour of air? How many people could be on a crowded subway car... say 200 to 330? The math on this says that this was approaching a dangerous situation with not that much margin left. Good thing these things leak a bit....


10 posted on 06/06/2017 6:54:20 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
OMG! That’s equal to, say, a Coal Mine Disaster or a Landslide or something, where you’re trapped for days, weeks, MONTHS!

New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Bee Gees).

11 posted on 06/06/2017 7:12:43 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: Steely Tom

I nearly posted that for emphasis!

Great! Now my evening is shot. Bee-Gee Marathon, coming up, LOL!


12 posted on 06/06/2017 7:20:57 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I doubt they couldn’t. They didn’t want to hold up the train in case the power came back.


13 posted on 06/06/2017 8:43:41 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Anyone who rides the NYC subway knows that it is ALWAYS hell, whether the AC works or not.


14 posted on 06/06/2017 8:56:55 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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