Going Into Labor Makes PATH Train Run Express!

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Want to make the PATH train go express? All you need to do is pick a day in the future when you'll be in a rush and get knocked up nine months in advance. Then, when your water breaks in New Jersey, just make sure commute to the hospital via mass transit, which will snap into high gear in tune with your contractions! At least, that's what we've learned from 31-year-old Rabita Sarker, of Harrison, NJ, who gave birth on the PATH this morning with the help of her husband and another passenger.

Sarker boarded the PATH train at Journal Square, and the crew made the train run express after learning she was in labor. By the time the train pulled into 33rd Street in Manhattan, her husband was holding the child in his arms. Sarker had given birth between the 23rd and 33rd Street stations at 9:49 a.m., according to ABC 7. Fortunately for her, she didn't bring her child into the world on an MTA train, because she would have gotten a summons for putting her feet up.

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By John Del Signore in News on January 16, 2012 4:40 PM

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"Tim Osman"

Why would they want to run the train express? Why wouldn't they get this woman in labor off the train and above ground to a medical facility? Sounds like it all turned out well but I think it is odd that they did not take her off the train asap.

delicats

I think running the train express was in her best interest, as it probably saved time and gave the paramedics time to get to 33rd st.

Ian MacAllen

Luckily, the father of her child wasn't Tom Cruise, otherwise her placenta would have garnered a citation for having an open food container.

diablofreak

I don't know which is more sick, the fact that you thought of this or the fact that this would indeed be true if the father WAS Tom Cruise.

either way, bravo, friend.

Emmily_Litella

I once witnessed a woman’s water break on a subway seat, and she was not pregnant. Its like a coffee break, but instead of gaining a few ounces, you lose a few.

delicats

Why would her water break if she wasn't pregnant? What?

Harlem Rat

what's the over/under that no one gave up their seat for her?

Gothamistriss

I thought the general consensus was that we hate people who put their feet up, and are happy when they get a summons for it? You put that last line in there like we're upset when it happens.