Video: Five Second Rule Applies For Hot Dogs On The Subway!

At first, this video will probably tug on your heartstrings, and you may very well be filled with a hollow sadness, for the subway rider seen here does not seem to have all her wits about her (the videographer speculates she's on heroin), and she's dressed like Charlie Brown. But then, after about 20 seconds, the scene shifts from sad to mesmerizing and then something else entirely—an ode to the resiliency of the human spirit. All those fights about whether eating on the subway should be illegal become moot—this video is, above all things, a celebration of the five second rule. (And at least she wasn't licking her shoe.)

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By Ben Yakas in Food on May 26, 2011 2:58 PM

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sharpshoota

Definite opiate addiction....probably methadone user. You spot these folks noddin' on the subways every morning on their daily journey to get their "fix". That's a sad life.

Unkle_Bob

We get it. There are people with mental disabilities and/or drug addictions. Can we please stop making fun of them?

Emmily_Litella

At least she has the good sense to express displeasure with Ms. conductor's incompetence.

Mr Mel

Am I the only one here that feels sorry for her and her plight?

Peanut_Butter

Nope, you're not alone.

Mr. Know-It-All

After all this "rape cop" commentary, I needed this. I just laughed so hard I spit up my gin and tonic.

Gwinny

I once dropped a cheesesteak sandwich on the floor of an Amtrak train but still ate it. Hey, I was really hungry, and all it did was boost my immune system.

Peanut_Butter

hahahahahaha Keep telling yourself the latter, if it makes you feel better.

PicoPhreako69

Hey, she ain't dead yet, so...... yeah.

lnason2241

She and the shoe licker should date.

antimisogynycrusader

Charlie Brown? How do know she wasn't dressed as a bumble bee?

Peanut_Butter

Charrie Brown-san!

Tamar Weinberg

Totally what I came here to say.

Professor Von Nostren

Gaaaah!

schmeep

That's the methadone-with-benzodiazepine nod (Xanax, Klonopin, etc.). So, it's a legal, and pathetic high.

NYCKaY

This lady has been around the city for years! usually she is yelling at folks.

splicernyc

So that's what happened to the girl from the Blind Melon video.

Guest

Best Gothamist comment ever. *applause*

Blogarithm

DAMMIT!!! I was like...I hope nobody made that comment yet. Huzzah to you, splicernyc. I guess I'll have to watch the news for my chance to make an Urge Overkill reference.