How to report mentally unstable person to train personnel

[BugsyPal]

Originally Posted by beanniebaby7

True agree with your post, believe me if a mentally ill person is acting out, the subway car has plenty of room to stay far away
even if the train was overcrowded. I would find a way out.

Again which is why subway personnel leave these things to the NYPD.


If you live in NYC you know you cannot get away from persons babbling to themselves on the streets. Fair enough, we all have learned how to avoid and keep our guard. If one gets in the same subway car again we up our guard....


The last thing you want to do is confront such persons if you are untrained and so forth. You don't know what could set them off and what would have been nothing can turn into a very nasty/violent thing.

[NooYowkur81]

Originally Posted by Henna

I was riding the E today in a car that had a guy incoherently shouting and waving his cane in the air and slamming it down on the floor. I did just take my chances and continue riding in that car, mostly because I wasn't close enough to either end of the car to run out and get in the next one. He wasn't hitting anyone with his cane (yet) but I felt things could possibly turn ugly.

Is there a way to report this kind of thing to the MTA while you're on the train?

The MTA/city hasn't done a good job of addressing this and I'm not blaming this on a particular administration because it has been a problem for a long time. I think you are supposed to wait until the train stops and tell the conductor but this isn't always practical and I feel most new yorkers have grown a large tolerance of stuff like this. Most will just move to another car or block it out.

[Mightyqueen801]

Maybe he WAS the train conductor.