Freight Train Hopping with the Spoon Lady (2009 adventures)

Caught riding the risk — NYC kid arrested for subway surfing on the 7 train.What starts as a thrill can end in handcuffs. The MTA and NYPD aren’t playing when it comes to subway stunts.⸻Hashtags:#SubwaySurfing #7Train #NYCNews #MTAChronicles #CityBoyTimes #TrainTrouble #UrbanAlert #StreetNews #ViralNYC #OnlyInNYC #NYPD #SubwaySafety #cityboytimesdaily #UndergroundNYC #TransitWatch | Gomez V Omar

The State Government is cracking down on a spike in teens ‘train surfing,’ with the T4 Eastern Suburbs and Illawarra Line bearing the brunt of the dangerous trend. New metal ‘nose cones’ are being rolled out on the entire Tangara fleet, to block access to the tread plates between carriages, which ‘buffer riders’ cling on to. The stunts are often posted to social media. There have been 132 train surfing incidents reported on the T4 line this year, which accounts for almost half of all cases acros