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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Train wrecking is a federal capital crime if they want to prosecute it.
You can blame Demorats for closing them all down......now Prison guards have to contend with the mental fruitcakes out there.
You can blame Demorats for closing them all down......now Prison guards have to contend with the mental fruitcakes out there.
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