Another Adult Male Surfer is Killed!

Subway surfer dies after falling off train onto tracks in Bronx 

A subway surfer died after falling off a train in the Bronx Sunday morning, police said.

The victim, described only as a man in his 30s, fell from the top of a southbound D train at the Tremont Ave. station in Mount Hope just after 4 a.m., cops said.

He fell onto the tracks and was struck by the train, according to officials.  He died at the scene.

Any NYPD official with experience with the subway system knows that "surfing" is practiced by young teenagers acting in groups.  They do not surf late at night. Here's a case where one of those foolish teenagers was killed in mid-afternoon while his pals videoed the stunt.

To my knowledge no adult male has ever been observed by witnesses "surfing" on the roof or the side of a speeding train.

But in my opinion, the current management of the Transit Bureau of the NYPD has hit upon this variant of their old standbys. They have claimed for years that unwitnessed track deaths happen because he or she had been "moving between cars" or "walking on the tracks."

But "late night surfing" looks like the new favorite. 

Back in May the NYPD/MTA accused a 24-year old electrician of having been surfing all by himself at 2:30 am. Here's the link.

In October a sole surfer was killed at 4:45 am.  Link.

Here's what I think actually happened to those three men: they were attacked by thugs and throw off the moving train. But the Transit Bureau's "No Case Squad" ensured that the killers lived to kill again.

Who was the mastermind behind the new "he was surfing" line that certainly pleases the MTA lawyers?  Was it Joseph Fox, Chief of Transit in the world-famous NYPD?

Two More Track Deaths

Two killed, another severely injured by trains across city in seven-hour span

Two men were killed and another was severely injured by trains across the city within a seven-hour span Friday and Saturday.

On Saturday morning, a man died after leaping in front of an oncoming train at a Bronx subway station, cops said.

The unidentified victim was struck by a southbound 1 train as it pulled into 231st St. station in Kingsbridge around 4:50 a.m., according to police.

The train's conductor saw the man jump from the platform, officials said.
 
In Harlem, a man was struck and killed by a downtown D train Friday night, police said.

The man was walking across the tracks — from the uptown platform to the downtown platform — in the B/D station on 155th St. and Frederick Douglass Blvd. at 11:20 p.m. when he was hit, cops said.

  ... In a separate incident in Brooklyn, thirty minutes earlier, a man lost part of his arm after being run over by a B train at the elevated Brighton Beach station.

The man was struck and trapped by the train around 10:50 p.m., officials said. He is expected to survive.

Two people killed by trains and -- what a surprise! -- they were both entirely responsible for their own deaths.

One "walker" and one "leaper." 

Both were killed in the off hours when "civilian" witnesses are rare.

There are -- most probably -- no surveillance cameras at the scene of these violent deaths so the MTA lawyers will have a no problem blaming the dead men. 

And, if these victims were actually murdered, their killers are as happy as those lawyers.
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