C.H.U.D.

LOL

Dumb snowflake fratboy goes on drunken adventure in subway and his biatch mother sues the subway?

Sounds like NYC: more assholes per square mile than any other city in the world.

I hope the case gets laughed out of court.

/ WTF happend to personal responsibility?

I like trains.

*vrooom*

Business major in NYC. Nothing of value was lost.

His name should have been Ray Brower

That's what happens when you try following Lex Luthor...

/OTIS!

Jake Havechek: LOL

Dumb snowflake fratboy goes on drunken adventure in subway and his biatch mother sues the subway?

Sounds like NYC: more assholes per square mile than any other city in the world.

I would say in the US only. From my experience of living in small towns, college towns, vacation towns, suburbs, and cities - the ratio of assholes to to normal people is the same everywhere. Considering that NYC has a much higher population density than any other place in the US, it stands to reason it would have more assholes per square mile than any other city in the US.

The city with more assholes per square mile than any other city in the world would be Hong Kong.

Maybe they should file a counter-lawsuit for having to shut down train service and clean up the remains.

ThatGuyGreg: Tunnels go under rivers. That was a hole.

tun·nel
[tuhn-l]

- noun
1. underground passage -

verb (used with or without object)
2. to make a tunnel (through or under)

There's also the small matter of . . . (link) (new window)

He was trespassing. End of story.

The Ny-Post also recommends:
"Bklyn Food delivery man died after being his 18-year-old female driver"

Um wat?

Uh, "tepid water", subby? Slightly warm water isn't high on my list of daily worries.

Did you mean "fetid", maybe?

If I lived in the city back when this happened, I think now would be the perfect time to sue the mother for lost wages for the time I couldn't get to work because of her son.

Darwinned! Sorry son. That's what the flappy gate at the end of the platform is for. It sez "keep out".
Tunnels is fer trains.

I like how they mention he was decapitated. I wish more stories about accidental (and especially stupid) deaths would go into more detail

".. a memorial service for the victim, who was cut in two lengthwise by the train wheel, leaving on half there, and a trail of random body parts for the next 200 feet, will be held this Saturday. Closed casket, snacks will be provided."

Doesn't the New York subway have those dividers that separate the train area from the platform area and keep people from jumping into the train area?


Hong Kong has had them for a little over a decade now.

leonel: Doesn't the New York subway have those dividers that separate the train area from the platform area and keep people from jumping into the train area?

HA HA HA HA HA, no.

The new stations they're building on the 2nd Ave line, and the West Side 7 Extension, are planned to have those dividers (and, along with them, real HVAC climate control on the platforms).

But those are the first all-new stations to be added to the system in about fifty years, and if I were to bet on it I'd say they'll be cut from the final plans due to budget shortfalls.

/ the system's also lacking electronic arrival signs at most stations, and wireless data service almost everywhere that's underground.

A Screaming Man with Two-Toned Shoes: There's also the small matter of . . . (link) (new window)

Now I want to play one of the Resident Evil n-rails shooters.

leonel: Doesn't the New York subway have those dividers that separate the train area from the platform area and keep people from jumping into the train area?

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Hong Kong has had them for a little over a decade now.

We pride ourselves on people being smart enough not to jump into the path of a train. Those who don't get Darwinned, and hopefully don't end up in the gene pool.
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A.M. Mogwai feeder: leonel: Doesn't the New York subway have those dividers that separate the train area from the platform area and keep people from jumping into the train area?

[gothamist.com image 593x446]
Hong Kong has had them for a little over a decade now.

We pride ourselves on people being smart enough not to jump into the path of a train. Those who don't get Darwinned, and hopefully don't end up in the gene pool.
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Well okay then! It's just when a jumper jumps, it ruins everyone's commute times and people have to wait for hours while they clean up the mess and I know in a city as big as New York that can be problematic.

You have to think about it from a cost/benefit perspective.

The NYC Subway system contains over 400 stations, and something like half a million linear feet of platform edge. Installing and maintaining that kind of safety barricade along every platform would be a capital project costing hundreds of millions of dollars*, and millions more in operations and maintenance costs every year thereafter.

In comparison, fatalities due to struck passengers (and the systemic delays caused by them) are relatively infrequent, and the cost to the MTA for each one is a few hundred hours' overtime and some bad publicity.

Put simply, it's cost-prohibitive to bother trying to keep idiots and suiciders off the tracks.


* If it's even practical -- the train cars of the current rolling stock have a variety of door configurations, complicating the design process.