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Subway Commute Club, Rule 1: Keep The Train In Service
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Jen Chung
Published Feb 2, 2009
Modified Feb 2, 2009
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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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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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