WingZombie38
10-21-2003, 01:24 PM
[This is a bit long because it was originally going to be about the bad day I had yesterday. I skipped most of my bad day and merged part of it with what this thread is about. I'm time conscious so that's why I'm able to give the correct time below.]
Yesterday, [4:30pm] I was on my way home from a very long midterm. I was on the A train heading downtown. When the train got to 34th Street [4:48pm] it stopped there and did not move. The doors were open and outside I heard the Uptown C and E wasn't running so those people had to go down and over to the Uptown A side.
It's 5:00pm and the train I was on did not move nor did we get the usual delay message. At the time I realized that no train had even come uptown or downtown since the A Express train I was on got there.
Two minutes after that, we get the message : "This train is momentarily delayed due to an injured passenger at 14th Street." Great ... it happens all the time.
After a bit the conductor tells us the same thing. Then right after you here the speakers go off on all of the 34th street Station. "Due to an injured passenger at 14th street, ALL Uptown and Downtown A, C, and E service is suspended." Perfect! Now there is no way I can get home!
Everyone on the train and station wondered what the heck happened to this person to make all service stop.
At around 5:20, my sis and I couldn't take it anymore so we trekked across Penn. Station to take the 9 train [and paid again]. Only later to findout they were going to re-route trains to the 1and 9 lines.
I didn't find out what happened until the this morning's news coverage. Service was stopped at 4pm, because some kid tried to prove how tough he was and got himself KILLED on the Northbound C Train!!
Here's the story :
Newsday - Teens Fatal Stunt (http://www.newsday.com/news/yahoo/nyc-nysub213503828oct21,0,5736011.story?coll=ny-newsaol-headlines)
Here's the clip I saw on the news this morning [it's a popup feed]:
WB11 News Feedroom (http://wpix.feedroom.com/iframeset.jsp?st=1066755617468&rdm=738006.0828658612)
This story hits very close to home because back in high school [and down the line] this is all my peers would do. Messing around between subway cars and actually trying to surf the top of the train. There are signs by the MTA [Metropolitan Transportation Authority] everywhere, including inside the train telling you can get killed messing around this way. But do these imature ones listen?
This is what I hate so much about my peers and contemporaries! Surfing a subway car!? This is not at all like cartoons or movies. You can't blame the media. Just looking at a train when it's in the station tells you there is no real clearance room up there! Those friends of him should have tried harder to stop the boy. But from personal experience, I KNOW there had to be "friends" there cheering him on. I cannot BELIEVE they waited so long to tell the train conductor what happened!
Most of all, I feel sorry for his mother. He was her only child and no doubt the world to her. Gah, I'm so upset I can't type anymore!
What do you all think?
Yesterday, [4:30pm] I was on my way home from a very long midterm. I was on the A train heading downtown. When the train got to 34th Street [4:48pm] it stopped there and did not move. The doors were open and outside I heard the Uptown C and E wasn't running so those people had to go down and over to the Uptown A side.
It's 5:00pm and the train I was on did not move nor did we get the usual delay message. At the time I realized that no train had even come uptown or downtown since the A Express train I was on got there.
Two minutes after that, we get the message : "This train is momentarily delayed due to an injured passenger at 14th Street." Great ... it happens all the time.
After a bit the conductor tells us the same thing. Then right after you here the speakers go off on all of the 34th street Station. "Due to an injured passenger at 14th street, ALL Uptown and Downtown A, C, and E service is suspended." Perfect! Now there is no way I can get home!
Everyone on the train and station wondered what the heck happened to this person to make all service stop.
At around 5:20, my sis and I couldn't take it anymore so we trekked across Penn. Station to take the 9 train [and paid again]. Only later to findout they were going to re-route trains to the 1and 9 lines.
I didn't find out what happened until the this morning's news coverage. Service was stopped at 4pm, because some kid tried to prove how tough he was and got himself KILLED on the Northbound C Train!!
Here's the story :
Newsday - Teens Fatal Stunt (http://www.newsday.com/news/yahoo/nyc-nysub213503828oct21,0,5736011.story?coll=ny-newsaol-headlines)
Here's the clip I saw on the news this morning [it's a popup feed]:
WB11 News Feedroom (http://wpix.feedroom.com/iframeset.jsp?st=1066755617468&rdm=738006.0828658612)
This story hits very close to home because back in high school [and down the line] this is all my peers would do. Messing around between subway cars and actually trying to surf the top of the train. There are signs by the MTA [Metropolitan Transportation Authority] everywhere, including inside the train telling you can get killed messing around this way. But do these imature ones listen?
This is what I hate so much about my peers and contemporaries! Surfing a subway car!? This is not at all like cartoons or movies. You can't blame the media. Just looking at a train when it's in the station tells you there is no real clearance room up there! Those friends of him should have tried harder to stop the boy. But from personal experience, I KNOW there had to be "friends" there cheering him on. I cannot BELIEVE they waited so long to tell the train conductor what happened!
Most of all, I feel sorry for his mother. He was her only child and no doubt the world to her. Gah, I'm so upset I can't type anymore!
What do you all think?