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The 1, 2, 3, and 9 trains ground to a halt yesterday for eight hours as a robbery turned into a police chase into the subway tunnels, ending in the shooting of the robbery suspect. A 66 year-old man with a bloody head approached police yesterday at 11:45AM, emerging from the A/C/E stop at Church and Chambers in Tribeca, who said he had just been robbed and beaten, perhaps by a gun (the Post reports that the robbery was captured on surveillance cameras). The police chased the suspect along Chambers; the suspect went down the 1/2/3/9 stop at West Broadway and Chambers, jumping in front of a 3 train that had just arrived in the station. Police followed him (at least one officer did) into the tunnel, and the suspect reportedly yelled, "Shoot me! Shoot me!" One of the officers shot him in the chest, and the middle-aged suspect later died at NYU Downtown Hospital. The suspect was unarmed, but one witness says it seems like the supsect was holding something, though "It was too fast." The suspect was referred to as a "mole man," someone who lives in the subway tunnels. And there really are people who live in the subway tunnels.
One 3 train passenger told the Times that after the shooting, the MTA told passenger to leave the station: "It was not very smart of us to be on a train during a shootout." Gothamist was heading downtown in the early afternoon, when the PA system said that there would be no 1/2/3/9 service "due to an investigation at Chambers Street" and then we wondered if it was a real investigation. Little did we know.
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There are? Before perpetuating urban legends, you might want to read Cecil Adams's The Mole People revisited (a link to it is on the page you link to) and Joseph Brennan's Fantasy in The Mole People
Summary: "One draws the obvious conclusion: Parts of Toth's book are true, parts of it aren't, and you take your chances deciding which are which."
You know, if you're going to report the news at least try to be acurate. NY1 and other local news report that the man yelled ""You'll have to shoot me first," and charged at cops, before being shot.
Have you seen the movie, Dark Days? There's a group of people who live under the tunnels at Penn Station.
Also, Dirk, I took the "Shoot me! Shoot me!" from Newsday, who had their article up first last night. I'm sure there are a number of different accounts about what was said.
Jen, my bad. Forgive my pre-coffee post.
Also, I don't know if mole people exist, but I imagine if they did, they would have already been eaten by the C.H.U.D.
Ya know, there's just something about the way Jen wrote:
And there really are people who live in the subway tunnels...
that opens up a whole world of criticism.
To paraphrase J.M. Barrie:
I do believe in fairies, I do, I do!
why not? we know they are living in the Amtrak tunnels... and there are some pretty large, unused spaces in the subway (like the extra tracks in the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station, just for starters)...
People do indeed live in subway tunnels. They are not foodies, but they do live in tunnels.
They might not care about Tina Brown either.