Subway Commute Club, Rule 1: Keep The Train In Service

Yesterday, NY Times reporter Mireya Navarro witnessed, on a 2 train last night, a man who boarded at Canal Street and was napping on the subway seats: "His eyes still closed, [he] sat up a couple of stops later, opened his fly and urinated. From a seated position, he thoroughly soaked his vicinity, and the half-full car emptied out in the middle as his fellow passengers — including this reporter — fled in both directions." Aboard another train car, Navarro said she would contact the authorities when she got out at her stop, "They should remove him, I argued, before other unsuspecting riders walked into the car and had to deal with him and the mess." But her fellow straphangers nixed that idea, with one woman explaining, "All they’ll do is take the train out of service, and we’ll all be stuck." Photo: imjustsayin' on Flickr

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By Jen Chung in News on February 2, 2009 4:34 PM

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whitecastlerock

The MTA shits on the public every day with sub par service and threats of fare increases.

NannyState

Performance Art just isn't what it used to be.

morevino

c'mon.. you never fell asleep on the train and crapped yourself?

gentrification. you are she princess.

morevino

welcome to ny. hayseed.

cucarachita

I wouldn't get on another car, I'd get off the train -- those guys start moving from car to car. Better to just get the hell off. So might as well take the train out of service. It's HAZMAT after all. Disgusting. Plus, the guy might need to be picked up and put somewhere, ever think of that? Instead of leaving him to slime more people/subways.

FutureMan83

why is this even a story?

nycnewsjunkie

Rule #1:

Look at the seat before you sit down...

Theres been times where Ive had to warn fellow riders not to sit in a seat because the guy who just sat there pissed himself.

babyhitler

one time there was this bum who looked like he slept in a septic tank for a 100 years and just woke up! The smell was overpowering!!! He cleared an entire subway car and people on the platform. It was pandemonium from this bum's stench and many people were throwing up. I almost cried from it. if a terrorist really wanted to strike fear into the hearts of NYer's they would find this man and bottle his smell.

ed_Extinct

Was that the 6 train in mid July, in the summer of '98

ed_Extinct

Hello!!! Another use for the 3 billion plastic bags we seem to be using in this city. give them to the homeless, they can make piss-bombs. Like a water bomb but with pee.

ed_Extinct

For the faint hearted, I am of course, kidding. Doodie bombs are more fun.

Clarice City

This lady has nothing to complain about. Everyone knows that bodily fluids on the train rank as following:

Gag reflex-------------------------------------Kinda yuck

poop BO vomit amniotic fluid snots urine saliva blood

Clarice City

that's really annoying. I can't undo the "reply to" option. sorry

Clarice City

I was waiting for the AC in Chinatown with a co-worker and we saw a guy walk to the end of the platform, drop his pants, grab ahold of the railing (Don't fall in!), dangle his butt over the rails and....pooped. He did not wipe himself, either.

Pooping guy acted as if all of this was pretty routine for him.

Clarice City

Can I make a number 2 train joke now?

Felix Hoenikker

Perhaps the other riders should have emptied their bladders on this piece of human trash.

Gothampc

"Navarro said she would contact the authorities when she got out at her stop, "They should remove him, I argued, before other unsuspecting riders walked into the car and had to deal with him and the mess."

Did this woman step off the Greyhound yesterday? Unless there's blood, the "authorities" rarely do jack.

Jen S

It's amazing how we'll lower or ignore our standards to survive in this city.

Rocknrope

What, no cameraphone image?

MrManhattan

I agree, no reason to take the whole train out of service.

Any New Yorker knows the reason when one unoccupied car is between two occupied cars and will go forward/back accordingly.

Tourists go home with another one of those "only in New York" stories.