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Some kids are living life fast, figuratively and literally. A group of teenagers decided to take a New York City train for a spin and shared their joyride on social media.
It seems Mayor Eric Adams needs to reconsider how the city’s public transportation is being guarded during off hours. As spotted on Newsweek, a group of youths took advantage of a security lapse on Saturday evening and stole an empty “R” train at the Forest Hills-71st Avenue station in Queens around 10:20 p.m. MTA officials told local police that the group drove the train “a short distance” and broke several windows in the process. It is believed they gained entrance with a set of staff keys.
The unidentified youngsters filmed the act and shared it to Instagram. “Cover your faces,” one of the voices said in the video. Another chimes in saying, “Cover your face, b***h.” The footage shows the kids driving the vehicle within the subway tunnels. Luckily, security cameras captured the crew entering the train prior to their joyride.
“They obviously knew something about both where the train was and how to operate a train, and how to get the keys,” transportation expert Robert Paaswell told CBS News. “Once you start it, it’s just a throttle, and you use the throttle to move it and to slow it down.” The suspects have yet to be apprehended. An MTA official tells CBS “New York City Transit is working with the NYPD on their investigation of this incident.”
You can see footage from the joyride below.
Kids Take An NYC Subway Train For Joyride And Share It On Instagram
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