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Adrenaline junkies are now surfing on the Big Apple’s buses as they zip down the boulevards.
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These daredevils are riding a new wave.
Adrenaline junkies are now surfing on top of the Big Apple’s buses as they zip down the boulevards. This is a new twist on the dangerous transportation trend of subway surfing.
An intrepid roof rider took to Instagram this week to film his illegal trip on an M15 articulated bus, showing the cityscape blurring past as the steel behemoth hurtles down Second Avenue in Manhattan’s Murray Hill neighborhood. This was revealed in a shared video footage.
Another dizzy-inducing clip Posted in X In February, a young man wearing a hoodie was shown crouching on the roof of another articulated bus, then jumping onto another section of the vehicle and ducking under power lines.
“If something is stupid, reckless and dangerous, teens will think about how to do it,” straphanger Pamelda Candusso-Hirsch, 71, told the Post. .
“They can ruin so many lives forever.”
Mustafa Sawaneh, who has been driving MTA buses on routes outside the city for six years, said the brave surfers who perform stunts from underground to the city streets now face more “unpredictable” and dangerous terrain. I warned you that
“If a taxi cuts in front of me, I have to slam on the brakes. If someone comes onto the road, I have to move the bus to the side,” said Sawaneh, 26.
“If you… [subway] While surfing, I see a train curve ahead, what will happen next? [but] When you’re bass surfing, you never know what’s going to happen. ”
Several bus drivers suspected that reckless passengers were somehow getting into their cars and driving out of control during their 10-minute breaks or 30-second stops at red lights.
“Operators must check [the top of buses] before we leave,” said veteran operator Jason Williams, 40.
He warned that telling whether a bus has a stowaway on the roof from the driver’s seat “is impossible unless someone tells us, and by then it may be too late.”
New York City and state officials are trying to crack down on transit surfers, a growing number of teenagers trying to imitate what they see on TikTok and Instagram.
In September, the Adams administration and the MTA launched a public service campaign with ads and announcements warning about the dangers of subway surfing.
At least two people have died this year after riding on the outside of a train, including 14-year-old Aram Reyes, who died after being thrown from the front of a southbound F train in Brooklyn.
Last year, at least five teens died while surfing the subway.
MTA spokesman Dave Steckel said the agency is investigating the incident.
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