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Some how, this will be the NYPD’s fault too.

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There was a high school “Basket-brawl” last night at a game in Madison Square Garden.  Lincoln and Boys & Girls schools were playing each other when the fights broke out.

There was a pretty flagrant foul that some fans flipped out over. 

Says WCBS-TV:

The male, who was wearing a brown jacket, was pulled over the railing by school safety officers and appeared to not be resisting, but four officers are seen beating him. Two of the officers struck the boy several times with their batons.

For the love.  That’s all we need.  Is this Al Sharpton’s busy season or what?  Here’s a concept…if you start a fight in a public arena, and you’re swinging at people, you might get your skull cracked by a baton.  Cost of doing business.

By now, you’re probably saying, “True, but what does this have to do with the subway?”  Well, the melee spilled out into the streets, and into the subway.  Somehow, the brawl traveled from MSG up to Times Square.  There in the subway, the fighting continued.  The CBS 2 video shows the cops flooding into the subway to break up more fights.

21 people were arrested, one of which had a gun.  So yeah, let’s worry about people getting roughed up by the police in this kind of fight.  After all, the combatants are only carrying guns in the subway…no biggie.  Oh, did I mention that there were even shots fired?

Hey, what about those MTA signs that say “Illegal possession of a fire arm in the subway carries a minimum of 3 1/2 years in prison?”  Sounds like they are really working.

Some how, this will be the NYPD’s fault too.

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There was a high school “Basket-brawl” last night at a game in Madison Square Garden.  Lincoln and Boys & Girls schools were playing each other when the fights broke out.

There was a pretty flagrant foul that some fans flipped out over. 

Says WCBS-TV:

The male, who was wearing a brown jacket, was pulled over the railing by school safety officers and appeared to not be resisting, but four officers are seen beating him. Two of the officers struck the boy several times with their batons.

For the love.  That’s all we need.  Is this Al Sharpton’s busy season or what?  Here’s a concept…if you start a fight in a public arena, and you’re swinging at people, you might get your skull cracked by a baton.  Cost of doing business.

By now, you’re probably saying, “True, but what does this have to do with the subway?”  Well, the melee spilled out into the streets, and into the subway.  Somehow, the brawl traveled from MSG up to Times Square.  There in the subway, the fighting continued.  The CBS 2 video shows the cops flooding into the subway to break up more fights.

21 people were arrested, one of which had a gun.  So yeah, let’s worry about people getting roughed up by the police in this kind of fight.  After all, the combatants are only carrying guns in the subway…no biggie.  Oh, did I mention that there were even shots fired?

Hey, what about those MTA signs that say “Illegal possession of a fire arm in the subway carries a minimum of 3 1/2 years in prison?”  Sounds like they are really working.

Dodging Disaster

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kalid.jpgToday it was announced that crazy ass Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was in fact involved in all the crap we suspected.  He confessed to things like the 9/11 plot, the first World Trade Center bombing, the crazy shoe bomber, etc.  All told, a list of 31 plots.

After reading the list, it struck me that none of them involved mass transit (other than bombing suspension bridges).  Then I got distracted and forgot about it.

Later, I saw that Chuck was thinking the same thing.  However, he’s a real journalist and not as distractable, so he actually wrote a post about it.  Now I’m here catching up. 

At the end of the day though, it doesn’t really matter that he didn’t cop to a plot to blow up the subway.  He could have just left it out.  Besides, there’s plenty of other crazies out there plotting to do it anyway. 

Follow Up: Subway can be attacked at any time. Grrreat.

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 As a follow up to yesterdays terrorism post, we noticed an interesting piece on CBS 2 this afternoon.

At the airports, the government spends an average of $7.50 per passenger.  For the subway, only $0.015 per passenger.  That’s right.  One and a half cents per rider.  WTF?

Ever take a close look at your plane ticket?  Sometimes you can actually see a “security screening fee” on there.  The airports are starting to pass some of the costs on to the passengers.

On a different note, does it piss anyone else off when you see cops in the subway just standing around talking to eachother?  SUBWAYblogger sees cops all the time, but they are rarely (if ever) actually paying attention to people passing by.  They’re just standing there shootin’ the shit.  Chatting it up. 

Someone should do a hidden camera experiment.  Just get an empty cardboard box.  In big red letters, write EXPLOSIVES on the site.  Then just stroll by a group of cops in the subway.  See if you get stopped.  I highly doubt it.  Of course, if they did notice, you would probably get swarmed on by the SWAT team, so maybe that’s not a good idea.

Schizo Subway Bomber Gets 5 Years

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A schizophrenic Staten Island man, James Elshafay, has been sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to blow up the Herald Square subway station.  Elshafay plead guilty and also testified agains Shahawar Matin Siraj, the mastermind of the plot.

Siraj was sentenced last year to 30 years in prison.

More Details.

Schizophrenic or not, neither one of them should ever be allowed out of prison again.  I think many straphangers would back me up on that.

L Train Stabbing Leaves One Dead

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If you were at the New Lots Ave stop of the L train at around 3am this morning, you probably saw a pretty ugly thing.  Five people were arrested in connection with the stabbing and subsequent death of 20-year old Gerlin Collando. 

Collando was stabbed multiple times in the chest.  Allegedly, the argument that lead to the stabbing was the result of Collando dancing with someone else’s girlfriend at a party.

The suspects jumped onto a departing train, however, police held the train and caught up to the suspects at the next stop.

Now that the “hard” news is out of the way, let’s discuss…

How freaking scary would it be to find yourself stuck in a train car with the “suspects?”  One thing that idiot criminals forget is that they can’t out run a radio.  So, when police were called to the scene, they were able to radio for the train to be held.  Thus, the train stopped, doors closed, with the suspects trapped inside.

Not a crew that SUBWAYblogger would like to be locked in with.  There had to have come a point where the suspects knew that something was going on.  They had to know that the train was stopped because of them.

Anyway, stopping the train gives police plenty of time to get set up at the next stop.  At that point, there’s really no where else to run.

Just imagine sitting on that train.  Out the window, you see this group of guys stab another guy.  Then they run into the car that you are already sitting in.  What do you do?  Probably you just act like any other New Yorker, and act like nothing is out of the ordinary. 

Ummm…city condom ads are creepy. No?

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Am I the only one that’s a little creeped out by the NYC Condom ads?  You have to give them credit, because they are pretty bold and edgy for a government organization.  But they are still strange. 

They give off that perverted Uncle Bob vibe.  Like some old guy is trying to push condoms on you.  For some unknown reason, this conjures a mental image of Mayor Bloomberg saying “Here, have a rubber.  Get some!”

Too Much Information: Sex advice from subway performers

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Nerve did a bizarre article that profiles subway performers and sex advice.  Sure, you may be thinking “of course subway performers are sex experts.”  However, SUBWAYblogger did not think the same thing. 

Anyway, here’s a sample of the kind of thing that gets asked in the article.

How would you handle a menstrual explosion during sex with a casual partner?
Pretend it happens every day. I would be like, “Yeah, here it is again. Thank God!”

Yeaaaahh…about that…

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