”Dumbasses.”
Posted on 10/04/2025 2:15:18 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
Two teenage girls were found dead atop a subway train in Brooklyn, New York, early Saturday in an apparent subway surfing incident, reports the New York Times.
The girls were found unconscious on the roof of a train at the Marcy Avenue station in Williamsburg that had just crossed the Williamsburg Bridge from Manhattan.
"It's heartbreaking that two young girls are gone because they somehow thought riding outside a subway train was an acceptable game," Demetrius Crichlow, the president of New York City Transit, told the Times.
"Parents, teachers, and friends need to be clear with loved ones: getting on top of a subway car isn't 'surfing' — it's suicide."
He said the grieving families and the transit workers who discovered the girls have been "horribly shaken by this tragedy."
A number of teenagers, mostly boys, have been killed or badly injured in recent years while trying to "subway surf," a practice that dates back a century, but has been supercharged by social media.
Six people died surfing subway trains in the city last year, up from five in 2023.
The NYPD has reported that arrests of alleged subway surfers rose to 229 last year, up from 135 the year before. Most were boys, with an average age of around 14, according to police. The youngest was nine years old.
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So, is death caused by drowning, by being crushed, by electrocution, or some other grusome event?
At some point, the brain has to kick in and say “this is crazy. I shouldn’t do this”. More and more, our youth have eroded this brain function.
Can someone knowledgeable on this subject educate people like me? How does death result from this activity?
suicide surfing...
What kills them while they are still on the top? I would think that they would fall off.
The only way for a true man to go is to be caught in a combine
“””How does death result from this activity? “”
Sitting on top of a train while entering a low clearance tunnel.
They hit the top of a tunnel
My great grandpa rode on the underside of a train car because his dad wouldn’t let him take a horse to go into town. Was a common thing back in the day, by riding on the underside underside you avoided the railroad cops.
”Dumbasses.”
I'm not sure you are correct in identifying "our youth" as responsible for the erosion of brain function.
I would proffer that "our youth" are the least experienced, able and qualified, of our society, to be assigned the duty to Logic and Critically Analyze movies', medias' and social medias' presentation of real life.
I believe this is the most common cause of injury/death.
Hard to guess. If they died from impact trauma, you would think that they wouldn’t have stayed on the roof. Maybe they were struck as the both tried to climb atop the subway car between cars.
But definitely Darwin award nominees.
And with the proliferation of AI, it’s only gonna get worse
We were stupid, too. Luckily there weren’t people capturing everything on video everywhere.
Just more proof of a failing education system. They no longer teach kids how to think for themselves. Lemmings who follow tik tok idiots who eat tide pods, and other daring acts of idiocy.
Cleaning up the gene pool on surfer at a time.
The overpass decaps. My friends son died doing this. His last name is Hammerstone.
Wouldn’t be surprised if at least one of these dead teen girls, if not both, have already passed on their genes.
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