{"id":2845,"date":"2007-10-16T21:37:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T05:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/10\/its_still_not_clear_whether_anyone_has_ever_successfully_surfed_below_ground.html"},"modified":"2007-10-16T21:37:30","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T05:37:30","slug":"its_still_not_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/its_still_not_c.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Still Not Clear Whether Anyone Has Ever Successfully Surfed Below Ground*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If they wanted us to ride on top of the cars they would have made the tunnels bigger, which is something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/16\/nyregion\/16surf.html?ex=1350273600&#038;en=3f0b92d33d3331b9&#038;ei=5124&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">you really shouldn&#8217;t have to learn the hard way<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A 21-year-old man was killed last night while riding atop a subway car in Upper Manhattan, the police said.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred about 6:30 p.m. on a C train, in a tunnel between West 145th and 155th Streets, the police said. Service was disrupted on the A, C and D subway lines for nearly two hours.<\/p>\n<p>The victim&#8217;s name was withheld, pending notification of his family, who were out of town, the police said.<\/p>\n<p>The details of the accident were unclear. One police source said that the victim fell to the tracks and was run over by the train he had been riding. A transit worker who did not give her name said that while the train was moving, the victim hit a wall and was found 50 yards south of the 155th Street station.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*Above ground, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/news\/0032,duffy,17140,1.html\">yes<\/a>, but below ground . . . yeesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If they wanted us to ride on top of the cars they would have made the tunnels bigger, which is something you really shouldn&#8217;t have to learn the hard way: A 21-year-old man was killed last night while riding atop a subway car in Upper Manhattan, the police said. The accident occurred about 6:30 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}