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Also, The Subway Train Is Not Your Hair Salon
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Jen Carlson
Published Apr 24, 2013
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Is she just trolling us? (Photo by Eddie Going of Going with Eddie)
You know New Yorkers, always on the go! Forever rushing around wearing all black and never calling home and other New Yorker stereotypes! Our lives are just so jam-packed with Important Things that we can't even eat our own goddam oatmeal in peace in quiet. But sometimes even the busiest New Yorker has to draw a line, and we may have found it. This photo was taken on the Manhattan bound N train, and shows a woman cutting her hair on a moving subway with sharp scissors.
Not only is this incredibly dangerous, but it's also disgusting—tipster Eddie Going, who took the photo, tells us "it was all over the floor and all over the seat. It was gross." Let's get it together, New York.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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