Gothamist: Another Week, Another Bizarre Subway Shooting

Jimbo

Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:58:33 -0500

Jake, You have to throw down in that situation. It's like Thunderdome: Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves!

Yojimbot

Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:26:41 -0500

i think the guy thought his rival was an up and coming model/actor and was just trying to help his career.

Sterling

Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:59:17 -0500

The other alternative is to act like a crazy person yourself - no one ever bothers them. Just go buy an army surplus jacket and walk around saying "The devil ate my dictionary! The devil ATE MY DICTIONARY!" I saw a dead guy on the 6 train around 1990 - everybody was stepping over him, and then some stupid do-gooder NYU students checked his pulse and alerted the conductor. We all had to exit the train at Union Square until the coroner got there to remove the body. Hello? Why stop the train? I'm willing to bet the decendent was in much less of a hurry to get someplace than everybody who had to get off the train.

why

Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:43:30 -0500

why do you give us subway advice like you're our mother or something? hello, patronizing?

Brian Konash

Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:58:50 -0500

I passed the bullet cracked subway tiles at Wall Street Station this morning on my way to work. The MTA has already marked the spot for repair in Transit Heiroglyphic Markup Language.

Magnificent Bastard

Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:08:51 -0500

For what it's worth, I think I've seen an actual "pissing match" on the subway. I'm not quite sure what the rules were, but I think one of the requirements was you had to drink a lot beforehand.

Brian Van

Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:05:03 -0500

The NYTimes article points out that, oddly, as crime is at a low point, these 5 recent events (the model, the robber, the revenge killing, the woman falling on the tracks, and now this) have happened at 5 of the most heavily traveled stations in the city. And there's something like 468 stations. (out of memory - fact checking is for losers. ha!) Let's give the nutcases in New York some credit, though... they're not all doing their thing on the subway. At least two (or more) people have jumped to their deaths out of Midtown buildings in the past week, and then there's that guy who offed himself on the Brooklyn Bridge. Plenty of crime going on in the outer boroughs too, but apparently those stories won't sell copies of the News and the Post. (Give the Times some credit... based on it's placement on the website, I don't think this story was above-the-fold on the print version)

jake

Tue, 29 Jun 2004 08:24:41 -0500

makes me sort of glad that i didn't confront the guy who was muttering things like "goddamn jew!" to me on the 1/9 last week. we were the only people on the train, though, and he really got my goat.