A crazed New York City subway passenger jumped onto the tracks and threatened to kill himself this week in the name of “social justice.”
An unidentified man with a bottle of vodka jumped onto the D and B train tracks at the 42nd Street/Bryant Park station in New York City and threatened to kill himself in the name of “social justice.”
As soon as first responders arrived on the scene, he taunted them by licking his finger and threatening to touch a portion of the electrocuted track rail.
Brooklyn-based photojournalist Eli Wohl captured the incident on his camera. “People were mostly pleading with him: ‘Just come up, come up,’” Wohl said in a statement. “Whatever he did, he kept on mentioning different social issues — women’s rights and racial stuff.”
Twitter user Michelle Collins claims that she witnessed the incident and detailed what she saw in a series of tweets. “In a NY first, I just saw a man on the subway tracks at Bryant Park threatening to kill himself over the unfair treatment of women,” she wrote.
In a NY first, I just saw a man on the subway tracks at Bryant Park threatening to kill himself over the unfair treatment of women.
— Michelle Collins (@michcoll) January 10, 2018
People were overly calm as an mta employee signaled the train approaching. I left bc I didn’t want to see a man die today. But minutes later calm was restored, didn’t see cops or anything, maybe he retreated into the tunnels with the other mole feminists.
— Michelle Collins (@michcoll) January 10, 2018
I spoke to an older woman waiting for the train who asked me if he was a Communist… In short, hope he gets help and New Yorkers as per usual did not bat a lash.
— Michelle Collins (@michcoll) January 10, 2018
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