28 y/o man jumps turnstile, breaks neck and died (Scott: crime, neighborhood)
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Awhile back when I was a rookie, some dude got smacked by the train in Sunset Park. He survived, but his right arm and left leg were mangled beyond repair.
As we were wheeling him to the ambulance, an ESU cop asked him why he crossed the tracks. He responded that he went in on the wrong side and didn't want to swipe again.
The cop said, "So instead of $2.00 it cost you an arm and a leg."
How many people can actually say they saw something cost someone an arm and a leg?
OMG!! I know I wasn't supposed to laugh, but I did, I admit it.
Christopher De La Cruz, 28, was pronounced dead following the incident at the Forest Hills-71st Avenue train station in Queens at about 6:45 a.m. Sunday, police said.
The sickening surveillance video shows De La Cruz trying to jump over a turnstile after he entered the subway station — but he initially falls and appears to drop his phone.
De La Cruz, who was wearing a backpack, then stumbles back briefly before repeatedly trying to hop over another turnstile.
On the final attempt, De La Cruz can be seen hoisting himself up — but losing his balance and flipping over the barrier.
He came crashing down onto his head and broke his neck, police said.
Awhile back when I was a rookie, some dude got smacked by the train in Sunset Park. He survived, but his right arm and left leg were mangled beyond repair.
As we were wheeling him to the ambulance, an ESU cop asked him why he crossed the tracks. He responded that he went in on the wrong side and didn't want to swipe again.
The cop said, "So instead of $2.00 it cost you an arm and a leg."
How many people can actually say they saw something cost someone an arm and a leg?
If he went to the token booth the clerk could have checked when he swiped in last, seen that it was recent, and let him in through the gate. That's what you do if you make a mistake.
If he went to the token booth the clerk could have checked when he swiped in last, seen that it was recent, and let him in through the gate. That's what you do if you make a mistake.
Next time maybe he'll do that, and he can be pretty sure that the clerk will remember him, too.
Re the dead guy in the topic--the lesson here is don't make your death so stupid that people laugh about it.
one time me and my partner had been visiting relatives in the city, Franklin Street to be exact, we were going home when I had realized we were on the wrong side of the subway, and it was going uptown, we needed to go to downtown to Brooklyn, luckily there were 4 policeman standing close to us, and one of them obviously overheard me saying, "oh no, were on the wrong side we need to be on the other", and he came over to me and said: no, don't go uptown and transfer, just go across the street and come back down, go thru the doors, I will wave the token man. something to that effect, I can't remember the exact words.
but, I would have of paid the extra token metro card if need be, we were lucky he heard me.
we did just that, crossed the street and came back down, he did wave and we were good.
nothing is worth the cost of an additional token......
At least he's wearing a mask around his chin and was absolutely prepared to be MTA Covid-19 SAFE! And most likely vaccinated as well; meaning he was a good person! Certainly a better person AND smarter person than the un-vaccinated population.
Before seeing video pretty much guessed what happened, and after watching my hunch was confirmed.
Contrary to popular belief it takes quite a bit of effort to jump turnstiles. In particular upper body strength to pole vault one's body clear up and over to other side.
What usually happens is what you see in in that video, people struggle, fail, get legs caught in turnstile, etc...
It didn't help this guy also had that big backpack and bulky heavy jacket/coat.
Basically what one thought happened did, guy got caught up in turnstile, tripped and fell head first onto other side hitting that hard concrete floor.
Many subway far evaders simply try to go under or somehow shimmy through turnstile instead of jumping because they cannot manage. Of course easier way is just to find an open gate.....
Though it isn't nice to speak ill of the dead, the guy was an amateur.
Some posters may be getting a laugh, and while it was a foolish way to die its sad his last moments were on a dirty subway station floor. He looked drunk too. How many of us have been stumbling around train stations or other bad areas drunk at night? Im sure many have. I did.
Its a grim reminder how fast we can be taken out, in the least expectef of ways.
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And most likely vaccinated as well; meaning he was a good person! 
Certainly a better person AND smarter person than the un-vaccinated population. 
