Posted on 09/20/2020 2:01:05 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
A Manhattan subway train derailed Sunday morning after a maniacal, laughing vandal tossed metal clamps onto the tracks, police sources said.
The uptown A train was about 50 feet into the 14th St. station in the West Village when it ran into the metal tie plates, also known as D plates at 8:14 a.m.
Three passengers suffered minor injuries. One refused medical attention, another was treated at the scene and the third was taken to Bellevue Hospital for further treatment, officials said.
The plates are normally used to secure tracks to the roadbed. Cop sources said the ones thrown onto the tacks had been left behind by Metropolitan Transportation Authority work crews.
The saboteur tossed them onto the tracks but a bystander leapt onto the roadbed to clear the debris before the train pulled in, a police source said.
The vandal — a 30-year-old homeless sources said has an extensive criminal history — was undeterred. He threw more clamps just as the A train roared into the station, the source said.
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Read the story, these idiots let him go. What will he do next set down town city hall on fire laughing?
Hey, NY, you’re gonna have to get in control of these terrorists sooner or later.
I think you’ve correctly identified what they meant to convey. Sigh.
Law and order has gone into the crapper in this country.
Don’t know what a D plate looks like. Couldn’t find one with a quick Google image search, but doncha y’all think it’s high time for D plate control?
shoulda pushed him onto the tracks and told him to clear them
bump
Call it what it is, not vandalism, the guy is a domestic terrorist and that is what he should be charged with.
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Exactly. Vandalism would be spray painting a subway car. This guy tried to derail a subway car.
"Why so serious?"
Back in the day these people would be in mental asylums but since the 80s we just put them on a bus and send them from city to city.
“Guy is a 30-year-old with an ‘extensive criminal history’”
I’m old enough to remember when repeat criminal whackos like this were declared to be “chronically mentally ill”, medicated and locked away where they couldn’t do any more harm. He’s crazy—what do they think he’s gonna do?
Great minds think alike and yours beat mine by 9 seconds.
“This crap should not be reported. Reason? Copycats”
Riots, hijackings, murders, beheadings, etc. should not be reported ...
The Joker is back?
Huh? Where would you find a schizophrenic in NYC?
Well,there’s the Mayor....and the Governor is known to visit occasionally...
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Sounds like a lobotomy is in order. Do it like Nicholson’s!
Nah, do it courtesy Dr. Smith & Wesson.
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