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MTA Releases Surveillance Photos of Suspects in Metro-North Conductor Attack

November 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment

[Update: I just got word minutes ago that all three suspects have been identified and arrests are imminent.] [ Update: Conductor Bobby was on the train at the time and files this report on Derailed (scroll down a little to '11/16'). ] MTA has released surveillance photos of the three women wanted for questioning in [...]

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Tags: Aberrant Passengers · Crime · Metro-North

Park Slope Mom Couldn’t Get A Seat On The Subway

September 1st, 2009 · No Comments

As my wife is 8 months pregnant with our first child and rides the Metro-North New Haven Line every day, this article in the New York Times City Room was relevant to me personally, and I wanted to repost it as a service to the moms out there. That, and my mom grew up in Park [...]

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Tags: Aberrant Passengers

Bobby’s Conductor’s Log

July 7th, 2008 · No Comments

I urge you to go over and take a peek at Bobby’s Conductor Log for yesterday. It is a great peek into a conductor’s daily life – I would gladly read a log like this daily.

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Tags: Aberrant Passengers · Conductor Conduct

Platform Jumping – For Once, I Agree 100% With MTA [Platform Jumping]

July 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

There is a new game in town, and I’m going to predict this now: someone is definitely going to get killed doing this. Kids are jumping from one train platform to the other at single-track stations. Its insane. Obviously one could easily break a leg, get electrocuted, killed by a passing train – or all [...]

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Tags: Aberrant Passengers · Commuting Horror Stories · MTA · Safety and Accidents

Above The Law – Ex-Cop, LIRR Harasser Gets Off Again

April 14th, 2008 · No Comments

60-year-old ex-cop John Clifford has been arrested EIGHT times on the Long Island Railroad for harassing other passengers. Just recently, he was let off again, acting as his own lawyer in successfully being cleared of two misdemeanor offenses. Whats more, in 1994 he was arrested for (admittedly) striking a fellow female passenger in the head [...]

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Tags: Aberrant Passengers · Commuting Horror Stories · Crime · LIRR

Woman Changes Clothes On Subway (video)

April 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A woman changes her clothes on an Asian subway (and shaves her legs). We could all learn some lessons in multitasking from this power commuter. Not really all that sfw, much like the pole dancing video I shamelessly posted last month.

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Tags: Aberrant Passengers · Awww How Sweet · Entertainment · New York Subways · Offbeat

“Greenwich Narcotics Squad” Stakeout Nets “Drug Bust” – Greenwich Time

March 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments

Now, I don’t admit to knowing much about drug enforcement, but today Greenwich Time posted a story today titled ‘Cops make marijuana bust’, reporting that 3 town men were arrested by Greenwich narcotics officers following a Tuesday night stakeout. Whats funny is that when I read the details of the story: The ‘three town men’ [...]

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Tags: Aberrant Passengers · Fairfield County · Safety and Accidents