Drunk Man Gets Leg Severed by Subway Train

@The OldRuben

Other than a guard on every platform, I’m not sure how they’d secure the whole system.

I’d be for that if the MTA cut out a lot of the redundant, over-paid administrative positions, no-show and patronage jobs and other non-esssential bureaucrats and gave them new jobs patrolling stations.

But then again, I’m a dreamer.

Until then, I will continue to wait for the train at the back of the platform, preferably near a handrail or column I can grab onto if some nut job tries to toss me on the tracks. But then again, the nut jobs will have plenty of other easier targets standing on the edge, a mere push away from a horrific death.

@theOldRuben

I hardly blame the MTA agent in the booth who is busy selling metro cards, counting money and other things, for not knowing that some nitwit on the platform out of their sight, decided to catch a few Zzzzz’s under the platform.

Some things are best left to Darwin’s natural selection.

Are you telling me that the MTA agent in that stop can’t even see if someone falls into the tracks?

and the MTA will continue to raise the price of the train while providing less security, less service and less everything. And you Goobers will continue to bend over and take it. I see you people all the time on the news, supporting the MTA’s decision with the claim that things “must get paid somehow” I hope the next person who jumps off the 7 train lands on YOU! the MTA supporter

@Garcon Boucher The above is directed at you. Sorry I left your screen name out. Making fun of someone’s serious misfortune, no matter how their human weaknesses contributed to it, doesn’t amuse me. It is a level of comedy appropriate to the gallows or a foxhole, but I find it out of place here.

As to the accuracy of the reporting, CBS News reported one thing, the Daily News another. Both Queens publications just picked it up from other sources, as they made clear in their items. So, without further reporting the facts remain unclear: Did he lose one or two limbs? Was he or was he not intoxicated? Was he sleeping or was he unconscious? Without further fact checking we cannot know, unless you have a reliable source of information you haven’t mentioned. The way the facts are stated in the DN story, which this site picked up, implies the guy deserved it and the readers here seem to concur. I don’t agree.

Just my opinion. I don’t ask anyone to back me up or like it. Go ahead and state yours. I won’t call you names for it or attempt to make you feel like a wuss for having it.

@Micky. Besides, who would foot the bill for his legal representation?

Sycamore, only one of the man’s legs was run over by the train so the Courier headline is not entirely accurate. He did indeed have his leg severed so the Sunnyside Post headline also provides more relevant information. He also was drunk which explains why he decided to sleep on the tracks and therefore important. The SP headline was concise and informative. Sorry if the unpleasant reality of the incident isn’t graceful enough for you. It’s refreshing when the news just tells you like it is without trying to sugar coat or doll up the story.

This states the same “facts” with more grace. It’s from the Queens Courier

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Man’s legs run over while sleeping on tracks of Woodside station

A man sleeping on the tracks of the “E”/”M”/”R” station in Woodside lost his legs to a subway train Sunday.

According to CBS New York, around 4:40 a.m., a 26-year-old man from Elizabeth, New Jersey, was laying on the tracks in an allegedly drunken state, when a northbound “E” train severed his legs.

He was taken to Elmhurst Hospital and is expected to survive

He Should have taken his nap at Los Verdes since they are open until 6am on the weekends.

I’ll admit the story was a little limp , let’s not JUMP to conclusions Sycamore.

No, you are the only one that will admit it.

am I the only one who found this story humerus?