Surf's Up!
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I think the below article was posted here previously, but I could not find it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/31/subway-surfing-new-york-deaths-injuries
The video quickly went viral in June: a group of people dashing across the roof of a moving New York City J train. Captured from far off, the train can be seen about to cross the Williamsburg Bridge, with its 135-foot drop to the East River – yet the daredevils, dressed in black, leap from car to car.
A similar stunt resulted in a far more horrifying clip less than two weeks later, when a 15-year-old boy suffered a severe head injury while riding on top of a 7 train in Queens. Footage reviewed by the Guardian showed first responders hoisting the profusely bleeding teen off the roof and laying him on the floor with part of his skull separated.
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https://people.com/11-year-old-boy-dies-after-subway-surfing-new-york-city-police-say-8713696
An 11-year-old boy was killed while "subway surfing" in Brooklyn, New York, on Monday, Sept. 16, the city's Metropolitan Transportation Authority and New York Police Department confirm with PEOPLE.
At 10:13 a.m., the victim, who has not been publicly identified, struck his head on an overhang at the Fourth Avenue/Ninth Street stop in Park Slope, Brooklyn, authorities said.
Once hit, he fell to the tracks and was run over by the G train,
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After smashing his head and after he was run over by the train, I’m sure someone shot him just to be sure.
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New York City police found two girls dead early Saturday morning in what apparently was a game of “subway surfing” that turned out to be fatal, authorities said.
Police said they responded to a 911 call at the Marcy Avenue stop in Brooklyn just after 3 a.m. to find two unconscious and unresponsive females who were pronounced dead at the scene.
Police didn’t identify the victims or give their ages. But New York City Transit President Demetrius Crichlow described them as girls involved in subway surfing.
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You hear a lot about the losers in games of subway surfing, but never the winners. Somewhere out there are people with the profound sense of accomplishment that they subway surfed and survived. I'm not saying I'm one of them, but I'm one of them. And it makes me a better person. I mean, not in that gay way where you're "better than you were yesterday". No. Better than everybody else. At least, better than everybody who hasn't subway surfed and survived.
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