Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

yeah, I don't think he needed to give that bullshit explanation. otoh I don't think he necessarily did anything wrong.

whether it was right or wrong to take the picture depends on a lot of things I have no way of knowing, but the explanation stinks of some kind of ugly guilt & justification attempt and is ridiculously implausible. doesn't cast the guy in a good light.

and I get it that a photojournalist will operate on the principle that you shoot first and evaluate later, and I'm not impressed with the evaluation the guy made that suggested to him that he should sell the photo to the Post.

he was a NYPost photographer iirc

In all news reports he's referred to as a freelance photographer, who had been working on a contracted job for the post earlier in the day.

unless I misunderstand how the freelance photojournalism world works, I think he would have still had to sell the photo to the post if it wasn't for the assignment he'd been contracted for? I could be totally wrong about that though.

posts in the grand tradition of [stated fact] + [I might not know what I'm talking about]

yeah I mean I have no idea what the terms of his contract was, like which specific photos he takes on a freelance contract are the property of the post or not. the post was definitely tremendously, egregiously wrong in publishing the photos, but I don't know if the act of taking the photos itself (regardless of what he did with them afterwards) was necessarily wrong.

It is probably the case everyone who associates with the NY Post ends up with a mark or stain that they can't remove.

Or maybe they just feel like their hands are always covered in filth or blood.

http://ginavergel.com/2012/12/04/advice-should-you-ever-fall-or-get-pushed-into-the-subway-tracks/

http://secondavenuesagas.com/2012/12/18/report-mta-chairman-lhota-to-resign-on-friday/

hahah leave before the fare hike, perfect

fare hike was gonna happen even before he came into office

sure but it's good politics regardless

no idea what his campaign/platform will look like but if its him vs quinn I might vote for him. don't think he has a chance regardless.

^ A Giuliani deputy mayor?!? Are u outta yr fuggin mind???

he's prob gonna be more progressive than Quinn on lotsa stuff and w/o a doubt on transportation

not voting for him yet cause who knows how he's actually gonna run this

http://gothamist.com/2012/12/27/man_fatally_struck_by_7_train_in_qu.php

my train! my stop!

btw f the airtrain

Subways are for killing

buzzas are for reviving

ahhh this bothers me greatly

By 10:30, the victim’s mangled body had not been removed from the tracks.

“I heard the train screech as it was stopping and then heard this loud scream,” said Linda Santini-Tripodis, the owner of Merit Group & Associates, who was beneath the 40th Street station at the time.

“I’m never going to forget that scream for as long as I live,” Santini-Tripodis said.

Lordy.

it would be cool if the MTA got a billion zillion dollars and could install platform doors in all their stations

http://i.imgur.com/ZI9ez.jpg

lotsa cops and news vans here

fewer people on the yellow line

in other news

http://secondavenuesagas.com/2012/12/28/real-time-subway-location-data-theres-an-app-for-that/

I know I mentioned it before, but I'm sticking to the center columns on platforms from now on.

http://www.nytimes.com/video/2012/12/28/nyregion/100000001977924/suspect-in-subway-killing.html

chinavision OTM.

http://sunnysidepost.com/2012/12/29/woman-in-custody-following-subway-murder/

Iirc don't like 100 ppl die from getting struck by MTA trains every year? Is it just now being widely reported bcz of sensationalism?

almost none of those are homicides

A 31-year-old woman will be charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime, according to a source within the Queens district attorney’s office.

The woman, Erica Menendez of the Bronx, is in custody after making statements that implicated herself in the death of Sunando Sen on Thursday night.

The New York Times reported that a law enforcement official said that Ms. Menendez had “told the cops it was an act against Muslims,” and cited the Sept. 11 attacks. The victim, Sunando Sen, was born in India and, according to a roommate, was raised Hindu.

“The defendant is accused of committing what is every subway commuter’s nightmare,” Mr. Brown said in an interview. “Being suddenly and senselessly pushed into the path of an oncoming train.”

Mr. Brown quoting Ms. Menendez as telling the police, “I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I’ve been beating them up.”

God damn. Living here, walking down the street or riding the subway, there's an extent to which it's not even useful to me to distinguish between whether someone is mentally ill, incredibly stupid or just a fucking asshole.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/nyregion/erika-menendez-suspect-in-fatal-subway-push-had-troubled-past.html

reagan is laughing at us

reagan say hi to me

fuck that story is deeply depressing

re Lhota for mayor.... BEVARE

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/nyregion/for-giuliani-a-chance-to-put-new-stamp-on-city.html

idk nothing in there too shocking

like I said I don't think he has a chance in hell, how hard is it to run against 'the MTA'.

http://secondavenuesagas.com/2013/01/09/wrestling-the-rail-option-away-from-queensway/

idk nothing in there too shocking

like I said I don't think he has a chance in hell, how hard is it to run against 'the MTA'.

― iatee, Tuesday, January 1, 2013 10:56 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I just told a friend of mine the other day that I think his opponents should literally just run ads that say "Joe Lhota is running for Mayor of New York City. BUT HE'S THE HEAD OF THE MTA." and that's it.

it's hard to imagine a worse starting point. as far as most New Yorkers are concerned, the MTA is an evil demon force that occasionally shuts down the subway system, which otherwise functions completely on its own. or Bloomberg, maybe he runs it.

It's like a parasite running for mayor of its host

it's how i became mod iirc

Most New Yorkers know the subway is kept functioning by the Deros:

a race of mal-formed subhuman creatures called deros (from detrimental robots) who inhabited a vast system of underground cities all over the world. The original name of their habitat was Lemuria, and they had once been slaves of the Lemurian master race. But the master race had long since disappeared from the earth, leaving the ignorant and malicious deros in control of the great cities and wonderful machines it had built. Since then the deros occupied themselves mainly in persecuting the human race who lived on the crust of the earth above them.

The deros were responsible for much of the evil in the world. Catastrophes, from shipwrecks to sprained ankles, were attributable to their influence. They often appeared on the surface of the earth and were sufficiently human in appearance to pass unnoticed in a crowd. But they performed most of their harassment by telepathy, rays, and other remote control devices from their subterranean homes.
Their underground cities communicated with the surface through various caves which were extremely dangerous for human beings to enter.

(Source: d@v1d 1cke)

But the master race had long since disappeared from the earth, leaving the ignorant and malicious deros in control of the great cities and wonderful machines it had built.

this is actually a pretty good description of ny state politics