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25 New Yorkers Confess the Craziest Things They Saw On the Subway

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Lady changes her baby’s diaper on a loaded bus, leaves the diaper on the bus. She did it at least once a month for 9 months. Her reason: “I paid for the service, I should get to use it however I want”.

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I still feel traumatized from the homeless guy who pulled down his pants and took a shit right in front of my face on the E train a couple years ago.

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Recently saw a Chinese man walking out of Grand St station in front of me shuffling his feet, suddenly he does a full wind-up and goal-kicks something. I see a rat go flying into the stairs and make contact with a pretty nasty thud. The guy looked back at us hoping we were impressed. I was.

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16 year old dude in a suit on the Q masturbating when there were about ten people in the car. Two of them right across from him. Me and this guy sitting across from him had these moments of looking at each other like “is he?”. “ah fuck, he is.”

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A couple of months ago I was on the 6 train heading south from 77th street when we reached the Hunter College stop. The doors stayed open a little too long and we weren’t moving. Suddenly the guy came on the intercom and said everyone has to get off the train because the engine caught on fire! We stepped out of the car and the tunnel was filling with smoke. Everyone was covering their mouths and running trying to get out of the station.

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.