Posted on 04/14/2017 5:22:05 PM PDT by kiryandil
A mob of Penn Station travelers fled the transit hub in hysteria after Amtrak police officers used a stun gun on a man.
The busy Penn Station was already a mad house from a NJ Transit train that stalled in a tunnel, backing up service for more than two hours ahead of the Friday rush on a holiday weekend.
By 6:30 p.m., shortly after the stalled train was taken to Penn Station, riders stampeded away from the site where the man was hit with the stun gun. Luggage food and clothes were strewn across the floor.
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Because apparently, New York City and New Jersey don't have enough gun laws... 😀
So UAL runs choo choos now, too?
There was a blizzard at Penn Station (panicked snowflakes)?
I used to wait in Penn Station every week for the train back to Vermont. I generally had to wait an hour, because if I missed the train I lost my weekend, and there was no telling whether the subway would reach the station in reasonable time. And the train was usually half an hour late, but you couldn’t be sure.
After 9/11, the place was loaded with law officers with guns and sometimes soldiers with rifles. If someone left a briefcase on a bench for a little while and got some exercise, there would be a bomb panic. And every once in a while there was a bomb threat, and the whole station went crazy.
That’s rush hour in NYC, especially on the holidays.
They never do say why the person was tasered.
Somebody said they went down like dominoes...
“Lead us not into Penn Station
And deliver us from evil...”
It’s a snowflake nation.
Back in the 60s and 70s when Georgetown was DCs hot spot. A gang of cops would grab some citizen and beat the living snot out of them on the sidewalk and everybody would just look as they walked by.
Like ‘did you see that?’
No panic just ho hum.
‘I wonder what he did?’
‘The “Hot Nuts” are playing at the ‘Crazy Horse’ let’s go.
It’s just life in the Big City these daze. Peeps need to get used to it if they keep electing donkeys like da Commieo and Schumckie.
God,that's funny!
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I feel sorry for the tourists and uninitiated going up and down the steps on the 8th Ave side, especially 33rd St. It’s a gauntlet of the bedraggled suffering from mental illness and/or drug abuse. I understand why the cops let them stay inside in the winter and I do feel sorry for them but it sure is unpleasant.
Walking around inside NY Penn Station, especially late at night, it’s a wonder-world of heavily armed police and national guard mixed with disheveled homeless sometimes shouting at each other and the bleary eyed, post happy hour commuters.
Going on almost 20 years of this for me!
What kind of food does luggage eat? (Looks like they've deleted that from the story).
I used to go through Penn Station all the time and on 9/11 I was in my office high above the station, the 48 story tower at One Penn Plaza..... looking out at the WTC towers on fire a couple of miles down the island. Crazy times. Now I haven’t been back in quite a few years....
I had a pied-a-terre down on the Battery when I commuted from Vermont. My apartment was on the 29th floor. I was finishing breakfast and looking out the window when the second plane flew by, at just about my height. I guess it then went upward before crashing into the World Trade Center. There was a picture in the NY Times of the plane flying by the tower, and you can see my window in it.
I won’t go through all the details again, which could go on endlessly, but it was a pretty ghastly experience. I heard the bang when it crashed into the Trade Tower, but thought it was a sonic bomb until I learned differently. The Trade Towers were about three blocks north of my apartment.
Sonic boom.
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