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MTA Worker Pushed Into Tracks By "Clean-Shaven Lunatic"
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Jaya Saxena
Published Feb 6, 2011
Modified Feb 6, 2011
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Jaya Saxena
Published Feb 6, 2011
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Off-duty MTA worker Sabrina Scott was saved by an unidentified subway hero after being attacked by what the Daily News calls a "clean-shaven lunatic." On Friday evening, Scott was reportedly chased around the East Broadway F station by the man, who reportedly said things like, "Are you scared of me?" A Good Samaritan answered her cries for help and began fighting her attacker. Unfortunately in their scuffle they knocked into Scott and pushed her onto the tracks.
Scott was knocked unconscious, but when she awoke she was being carried out of the station by paramedics. She describes her attacker as a middle-aged Hispanic man with a shaved face and head who started acting strange. He threw his coat on the floor and kept holding the doors to a downtown F train open as it was trying to leave. Scott says of her subway hero, "I have a son that I need to be here for, so thank God I'm still alive. Thank God." The mystery man now joins a long line of subway heroes, who should really get together and start a club or something.
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