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Gang fight in the Subway

Thursday, May 22, 2008 | | 0 comments |

I had just walked off the L train I wasn't paying attention to what was going on because I had my ear phones on suddenly I found my self walking right in-between an argument.  There was about five teenage boys, about two of them had on blue shirts with blue flags and the other three had on red with red bandanas immediately I knew it was a gang clash between the "bloods" and the "crips." 


I was walking toward the stairs and this guy walks right in-front of me he said "it ain't nothing it ain't nothing" to the guy he was arguing with then I looked down at his hands and he had a knife so I tried to move away because I didn't what they were about to do.  The other guy took his shirt off and handed it to his friend and he said "so what up then."  The guy with the knife even though he had a weapon I could tell he was scared, so when the train came he walked on the train and his friend followed him. They didn't get to fight and soon after the police came.

She's Going to Jail

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 | | 0 comments |

Yesterday at Broadway Junction as soon as I got off the L train I saw this girl getting arrested in the subway as the police officer was putting the cuffs on her she kept yelling get off of me! get off of me! She was with her friend and people kept staring because they didn't know what was going on. She was getting kind of ruff with the police officer because she didn't want to put on the cuffs, so he was man handling her to get the cuffs on.  After that she started crying. 


I was in a hurry, so I just walked pass and took a glance but as I walked toward the escalators at to catch the C train I saw another police officer escorting this guy in cuffs out of the subway, after that I was really curious about what happen. I don't know what they did but it was a big scene and I was left wondering what the hell happened?

Fake Bum

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 | | 0 comments |

I was on the J train and one of the usually beggars came on the train he was a real character because he would put up an act to get money from people.  He was kind of a heavy set guy real tall, with muscles he would come on the train with the most dirties torn up clothes and he would put on shoes that his feet were bursting out of, his hair is always in an Afro full of  lint. When he begs he would yell real loud and act like he had some sort of mental retardation most of the time he came on the train people get scared, everybody would move away from him because he looked like he could seriously hurt somebody.  


On day as I was entering the train station I saw him, he was smoking a cigarette with this guy I thought to my self what a sorry excuse for a human being. From his everyday act you wouldn't even know he could speak proper English and here he was talking to this guy asking him for a cigarette.  Nothing was wrong with him he was just another lazy crock trying who didn't like to work so he made up a scam to get money from unsuspecting people who felt sorry for him.

Batteries Batteries

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 | | 3 comments |

There is this woman on the J line she sells batteries for a living I don't think she knows English very well because all I've ever heard her say is "batteries batteries." She comes onto the train everyday with her backpack full of batteries dragging it behind her from cart to cart. It looks like she has been doing it for years. I've noticed a few times that if anybody doesn't buy her batteries she would start cursing in creole.  She looks grumpy most of the time, most people think she is crazy because of the way she dresses it looks like she just puts on some random clothes with lots of layers.  Sometimes I wonder how much money can she really make by selling batteries on the train probably not a lot but she's there everyday riding the train to the last stop at Parsons boulevard and then getting on the next Manhattan bound train. Some of you that take the J train has probably seen her it wouldn't be a regular train ride in NYC without the colorful people you ride with.

What kind of characters do you see while commuting on the NYC subway?