<![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing - Gawker Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing - Gawker Comments]]> http://gawker.com Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:11:01 EDT Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:11:01 EDT http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4851132 @riskybusiness: True...I got a case of the Bosnia embellishment-itis. Sorry.

SlickaNicka

]]> 7:371291:c4851132 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:11:01 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4847791 Subway surfing is not new. Perhaps if you were from around here you might remember seeing it on the news when you were a kid.

Triborough

]]> 7:371291:c4847791 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:16:05 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4844775 @Toomanytomatoes: That's right, blame the victim.

Wormfather

]]> 7:371291:c4844775 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:29:01 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4843394 @SlickaNicka: Sheila didn't "do time" she just "went through the system."

riskybusiness

]]> 7:371291:c4843394 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:35:25 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4841706 Speaking of MTA advertising, this morning I found out that I can now charge a subway ride!

AndThenIFoundFiveDollars

]]> 7:371291:c4841706 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:35:42 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4841179 If Sheila did time for sipping a beer in a subway station, what is the penalty if caught surfing?

Instant death? (which actually seems to be the reward, too.)

SlickaNicka

]]> 7:371291:c4841179 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:14:44 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4839015 My favorite poster has the same photo as the graphic Gawker uses, but it says, "This could be his last ride."

Only someone in my station crossed out "his" with a sharpie and wrote "Adam Sandler's."

temporary

]]> 7:371291:c4839015 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:42:21 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4838568 Idiots!!!

I surf the train every day...but INSIDE. And that's just because I miss actual surfing and I don't like touching those ever warm plaguetastic bars.

luciluce666

]]> 7:371291:c4838568 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:21:35 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4837994 The MTA advertising always makes me smile with their over exaggerated expressions and puns written by by Grandma (E.g., "It's a Crime Anyway You Swipe It!")

My favorite one is the Lost and Found sign that includes things like a cobra, wad of money, crutches, teeth, etc.

MTA, if you're listening, I'd love to be in one of your posters! Call me!

sharpeiboy

]]> 7:371291:c4837994 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:48:15 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4837609 This is a good argument for the abolition of subways. Think of the children. The stupid children.

famousauthor

]]> 7:371291:c4837609 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:30:02 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4836517 Ron Perlman surfing on the roof was the best part of that stupid TV show 'Beauty and the Beast'!
I'm sure that Ellen Barkin wishes it was her ex instead & he fell off.

Greasy Thumb Guzik

]]> 7:371291:c4836517 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:39:11 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4836255 Maybe people wouldn't be so inclined to assault MTA employees if the MTA didn't employ such incompetent employees.

FitnessMadeSimple

]]> 7:371291:c4836255 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:25:24 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4836234 I just consider it a lil chlorine in the gene pool.

Road_Rash

]]> 7:371291:c4836234 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:24:09 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4836051 does anyone remember about 6 years ago the MTA put up a poster in subway stations regarding route disruptions due to construction which read "It's too much to explain on a poster" ?

oliverbabe

]]> 7:371291:c4836051 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:15:38 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4836006 My favorite subway ad is the one that says attacking a subway employee is a felony, and they complement it with the picture of the MOST punchable jerky looking subway guy ever.

Knucklehead Babylon

]]> 7:371291:c4836006 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:13:33 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4835902 @riskybusiness: And, to your point, these signs will never discourage train surfing because they are inside the train.

thedecider

]]> 7:371291:c4835902 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:08:14 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4835867 Ah, the "benefits" of Congestion Pricing.

StabbyFerosh

]]> 7:371291:c4835867 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:06:39 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4835658 Train surfing was huge in Rio for a while, where the dangers also include dodging electrical lines. In 1989, the sport killed 150 kids.

BadUncle

]]> 7:371291:c4835658 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:55:42 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4835562 A big blood smear on the window of the Manchester train would have made for much better cinema.

Truculent

]]> 7:371291:c4835562 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:50:17 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4835506 [farm4.static.flickr.com]

gawksFromaRock

]]> 7:371291:c4835506 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:47:41 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4835480 upcoming Sequel: Manchester: There will be Blood

YourGoldKeith

]]> 7:371291:c4835480 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:46:01 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4835464 @mitchel_stevens: Both of whom left Manchester, never to return.

BaconCat

]]> 7:371291:c4835464 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:45:07 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4835276

gawksFromaRock

]]> 7:371291:c4835276 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:35:36 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4835274 Manchester dude is fat.

dumblonde

]]> 7:371291:c4835274 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:35:31 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4835239 @drunkexpatwriter: Indeed. Except these idiots get stupid girls to plant their seeds in so if they don't die the idiocy goes on.

dumblonde

]]> 7:371291:c4835239 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:34:00 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4835202 I wasn't thinking about train surfing before, but that picture makes it look fun. I will start train surfing now.

Heather Fink

]]> 7:371291:c4835202 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:31:54 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4835166 @SW-2:

gawksFromaRock

]]> 7:371291:c4835166 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:29:01 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4835079 @SW-2:

gawksFromaRock

]]> 7:371291:c4835079 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:23:45 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4835048 Mancunian twatwaffle.

Sarcastro

]]> 7:371291:c4835048 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:21:28 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4834999 Keanu Reeves can subway surf WHILST fighting domestic terrorism.

FitnessMadeSimple

]]> 7:371291:c4834999 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:18:31 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4834957 Belligerent ghouls are Manchester tools...

BettyCrocker

]]> 7:371291:c4834957 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:16:28 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4834955 "Surf the web"?

Are we really sure that we want to trust these people with a computer?

Clarence Rosario

]]> 7:371291:c4834955 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:16:19 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4834951 @SW-2: Wow. That makes the 1 train look like a wide-open prairie.

flipper baby

]]> 7:371291:c4834951 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:16:11 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4834922 This is a terrible, scary trend. That being said, there have been mornings where riding on the outside of rush hour L-Train has seemed preferable to riding inside.

JudgeFudge

]]> 7:371291:c4834922 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:13:59 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4834906 Hey, stupid people need to have their fun too.

dandles

]]> 7:371291:c4834906 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:13:20 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4834903 The fact of the matter is that this ad will never discourage the people who are already thinking of doing it. It's similar to copping tags next to the sign that says "Graffiti is illegal, blah, blah, blah".

For the record, as somebody who has spent more time in the tunnels and on the tracks than most of you, subway surfing has never had any appeal to me.

Pissing on the third rail is another story.

riskybusiness

]]> 7:371291:c4834903 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:13:07 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4834882 The kid from Manchester probably shouldn't have been giving the finger...

Toomanytomatoes

]]> 7:371291:c4834882 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:11:01 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4834829 Mumbai looks like even more fun!

SW-2

]]> 7:371291:c4834829 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:07:06 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4834828 Anyone else feel the need to watch Teen Wolf now?

Calitri

]]> 7:371291:c4834828 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:07:04 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4834814 @Sarcastro:
In all likelihood, someone probably stole it. Then tried surfing on it. And now they're dead--or on youtube.

but i can't hate manchester too much. It gave us Morrissey/Denton Jr.

mitchel_stevens

]]> 7:371291:c4834814 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:06:15 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4834807 @drunkexpatwriter: Subway Surfing: For those special times when natural selection is just not good enough.

BalknChain

]]> 7:371291:c4834807 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:05:39 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4834789 Damn, you can't take food on the subway anymore, there's no trash to throw on the tracks, the rats gotta eat something.

Mike_Jahn

]]> 7:371291:c4834789 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:04:21 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4834780 Re: the Manchester video - the slow upload time just built the tension, didn't it?

In Other News...

]]> 7:371291:c4834780 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:04:02 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4834767 Manchester? Stupid Manchester is more like it.

In Other News...

]]> 7:371291:c4834767 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:03:16 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4834750 According to 99% of action movies, this is as common as brushing your teeth.

deadlizard

]]> 7:371291:c4834750 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:02:18 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4834636 @mitchel_stevens: I lost a rental car in Manchester.

Sarcastro

]]> 7:371291:c4834636 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:53:35 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4834629 It's probably not cool to hope that people die. But, then again, I've never been cool.

Sarcastro

]]> 7:371291:c4834629 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:53:10 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4834592 well, the manchester one remains the funniest and best allegory for "why Manchester is a place you should never visit."

mitchel_stevens

]]> 7:371291:c4834592 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:50:21 EDT <![CDATA[A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing]]> http://gawker.com/371291/a-guide-to-safer-subway-surfing#c4834563 I think Darwin would approve of subway surfing.

drunkexpatwriter

]]> 7:371291:c4834563 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:48:15 EDT