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Jersey Man Says Screw It And Walks Home Through PATH Tunnel
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John Del Signore
Published May 9, 2011
Modified May 9, 2011
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Published May 9, 2011
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Most of us at one time or another have gazed longingly down a dark subway tunnel during an interminable wait and thought, "I'd probably get there faster if I just walked it." In the other trespassing-transit-tunnels scare, a Bayonne, New Jersey man decided to do just that yesterday, and strolled from the World Trade Center PATH station to Jersey City. The Post reports that Reymundo Rodriguez, 20, went the entire two miles without getting killed or noticed, until a Port Authority contractor spotted him exiting around 3 a.m. and called the cops. Asked by the contractor what he was doing, Rodriguez replied, "The train never came... so I decided to walk." But when the cops caught up with him, they say he inexplicably told them, "I just put a bomb down on the tracks."
It appears that Rodriguez may not be in full possession of his faculties; he also allegedly said he saw President Obama on TV, "and he told me it was safe to walk through the tunnel." Typical Obama—encouraging walking is no doubt one of his wife's health-nut policy initiatives. The tunnel was shut down as the Joint Terrorism Task Force and bomb-sniffing dogs searched for a device, finding nothing. Rodriguez was charged with criminal trespass and released after a hospital evaluation.
The Port Authority was supposedly on heightened alert after Osama bin Laden's death, but Rodriguez's visit has reportedly prompted the PA police to bolster security even more.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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