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Bloody Loco's "Victim" Speaks Out
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Jen Carlson
Published Mar 23, 2011
Modified Mar 23, 2011
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Published Mar 23, 2011
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Do you think Bloody Loco knows that he's become an internet sensation? The man who demanded a fellow straphanger on the 7 train recognize (a-fucking-sap!) remains a mystery, which is probably a good thing, but Gawker did get a little more information about the behind-the-scenes. The sweater-clad, book-reading man Bloody Loco was yelling at tells them, "I got on the subway and accidentally bumped his leg and it started. He called me a pussy and I told him 'I am what I eat.' When a girl laughed he went ballistic. The guy got off a couple of stops later asking me to get off the subway and 'shoot it out' with him" [he declined].
Elsewhere on the internet, there's a fake Bloody Loco Twitter account, where recently Faux Loco Twote: "FUCK #SWEATERGUY #RECOGNIZE #BLOODYLOCO". At press time, there is no Sweater Guy Twitter account.
Something tells us this isn't the last we've heard of Bloody Loco, he's still out there people, riding the subway, waiting for you to sit across from him...
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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