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Teens Tampering With Subways


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Just now, whz1995 said:

Just put them in jail for 5 years. Sometimes the society is too nice for those a**hole kids/teens. 

I saw this on another forum posted by a person taking the subway last week: 

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I was in the last car of a downtown 5 train the other night and at 125th st station two teen guys, probably 17 years old, entered the car and opened the door to the train operator cab with a key. Those doors are locked and secured and cannot be accessed without the right key. how the hell did they get access to the key? As the train headed south they hit the horn and must have hit the panel of buttons repeatedly because at 59th st the lights turned out for a second and then the 5 train signage changed to ‘shuttle’ . The vandals escaped the train through the back door, traversing the outside of the train before jumping onto the platform. The train was probably sitting at 59th st station for about 20-30 minutes while the police and mta conductor checked out the back cab. The train was eventually put out of service. 

Who will be held accountable for this security breach? Will anybody be fired or reprimanded for not keeping that key guarded? 

 

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2 minutes ago, whz1995 said:

Just put them in jail for 5 years. Sometimes the society is too nice for those a**hole kids/teens. 

Yeah, no.

1 minute ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

I saw this on another forum posted by a person taking the subway last week: 

This is as old as time. In the 70s-80s it was stealing rollsigns right out of the boxes, same thing for years after. Subway surfing, trespassing, vandalism, whathaveyou. It's not the end of the world. Kids will always act like idiots, and the good thing about the way the world works is that dumb people are too dumb to avoid getting caught, and so eventually they'll get caught. Nobody should be "fired" as that dumb post suggests. These things come and go and it just isn't worth frothing at the mouth over. Least of all worth pointing fingers at employees who've done nothing wrong.

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8 minutes ago, MHV9218 said:

Yeah, no.

This is as old as time. In the 70s-80s it was stealing rollsigns right out of the boxes, same thing for years after. Subway surfing, trespassing, vandalism, whathaveyou. It's not the end of the world. Kids will always act like idiots, and the good thing about the way the world works is that dumb people are too dumb to avoid getting caught, and so eventually they'll get caught. Nobody should be "fired" as that dumb post suggests. These things come and go and it just isn't worth frothing at the mouth over. Least of all worth pointing fingers at employees who've done nothing wrong.

This is all pretty obvious. I'm just wondering what preventive steps were taken (if any) from 2015 to now? For example this has happened several times recently with the buses in the last few months, and now the (MTA) is taking steps only after having several buses stolen for joy rides.  

So far they've been lucky that no one has been injured or killed, but luck doesn't last forever.

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4 minutes ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

This is all pretty obvious. I'm just wondering what preventive steps were taken (if any) from 2015 to now? For example this has happened several times recently with the buses in the last few months, and now the (MTA) is taking steps only after having several buses stolen for joy rides.  

So far they've been lucky that no one has been hurt or injured but luck doesn't last forever.

The thing you're doing, which is why it's annoying me, is the outraged citizen thing where everybody goes "What's being done?! What's happened?!" This is what happened with RTSes in Brooklyn last month: the MTA had a retirement plan to meet service needs, the outraged and misinformed public/journalists yelled at them, and now they've been forced to pursue a riskier plan. Of course the MTA has taken action on this and of course the professionals in the Transit Police department have worked on it. To act like nothing has happened and nobody has done their jobs in response is just being obtuse. The bus situation was a new event, and the entire thing was recorded on camera (a new innovation on recent orders) so it's all in NYPD hands.

Basically, this is the kind of whining I expect from the general public, but we're on a specialists' forum, so I think we can do better. If there's a real story, we can talk about it. But it's a waste of thread space just doing the "this is an outrage! We have to do something!" They're not all just asleep at the wheel. 

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1 minute ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

This is all pretty obvious. I'm just wondering what preventive steps were taken (if any) from 2015 to now? For example this has happened several times recently with the buses in the last few months, and now the (MTA) is taking steps only after having several buses stolen for joy rides.  

So far they've been lucky that no one has been hurt or injured but luck doesn't last forever.

Wow,where the hell did those ppl get the bus keys from?

Is MTA using the same key for same type of car/subway? Are the drives dedicated to a specific car/subway? If the answers were no, the only possibility is someone steals keys from keys room. ( I dont think they can duplicate those keys)

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9 minutes ago, MHV9218 said:

The thing you're doing, which is why it's annoying me, is the outraged citizen thing where everybody goes "What's being done?! What's happened?!" This is what happened with RTSes in Brooklyn last month: the MTA had a retirement plan to meet service needs, the outraged and misinformed public/journalists yelled at them, and now they've been forced to pursue a riskier plan. Of course the MTA has taken action on this and of course the professionals in the Transit Police department have worked on it. To act like nothing has happened and nobody has done their jobs in response is just being obtuse. The bus situation was a new event, and the entire thing was recorded on camera (a new innovation on recent orders) so it's all in NYPD hands.

Basically, this is the kind of whining I expect from the general public, but we're on a specialists' forum, so I think we can do better. If there's a real story, we can talk about it. But it's a waste of thread space just doing the "this is an outrage! We have to do something!" They're not all just asleep at the wheel. 

What outrage?  I'm not outraged at all.  At the same time, I certainly find it troubling that teenagers have keys to subway cars and can just roam freely on a train in service.  I know you don't think it's troubling of course because nothing is ever a big deal to you, but that still doesn't answer my question, which is what steps has the (MTA) taken to curb this?  As long as there is no press on it, I'm sure they'll just go on as business as usual, and that's the problem with this agency. Always reactive and not proactive.

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1 minute ago, whz1995 said:

Wow,where the hell did those ppl get the bus keys from?

Is MTA using the same key for same type of car/subway? Are the drives dedicated to a specific car/subway? If the answers were no, the only possibility is someone steals keys from keys room. ( I dont think they can duplicate those keys)

For the buses, they didn't need keys.  Some sort of pushing mechanism. The (MTA) is retrofitting ALL buses now with keys, but here's the thing though... If teens can just get the keys, then what is point of spending all of this money in the first place?  

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17 minutes ago, whz1995 said:

Wow,where the hell did those ppl get the bus keys from?

Is MTA using the same key for same type of car/subway? Are the drives dedicated to a specific car/subway? If the answers were no, the only possibility is someone steals keys from keys room. ( I dont think they can duplicate those keys)

No there were no bus keys. I'm saying that BEFORE the conversion to keys, teens could just hop on the bus and go for a joy ride. NOW they have keys.  The problem here is that the subways HAVE keys and these teens got them somehow.  Lesson is to hope this goes away... lol I don't think I was aware of this in 2015 or I was and forgot about it.  Either way it's crazy.

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14 hours ago, Calvin said:

No offense but was it really necessary to bring back an outdated event? like expired milk that was bought today

You obviously didn't read what was posted, just saw the video and nothing else.  There is no video of the latest episode, so the video was posted as an example.

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10 minutes ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

You obviously didn't read what was posted, just saw the video and nothing else.  There is no video of the latest episode, so the video was posted as an example.

Great, Thanks.

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