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Concrete jungle where dreams are made of, right?
Watching someone fondle themselves near you on a subway ride is pretty…uh…irritating. And if you’re a subway employee, I’m assuming that having a dead body near you while you’re trying to use the restroom is also a tad annoying. Well, that’s apparently what’s been going on.
According to the Transport Workers Union Local 100, the city’s public transit worker union, when a person dies on the subway or in a terminal, their body is quickly removed so that service can resume like nothing happened. But where is the body taken? To the nearest room of course.
“If a lunch room is the nearest, they’ll put it in the lunch room,” one source told the Post.
Deputy Police Commissioner Peter Donald says that it’s up to emergency medical specialists “to make the call if someone is DOA.”
Union official Derrick Echevarria said that the situation has been going on for years.
“We brought this up at our last safety meeting with management,” Tarek said. “We had one case where a member walked in and encountered a body in a bathroom without warning and had to go home for the day. This does cause lost time.”
And another subway worker, LAShawn Jones, said that she once walked into an employee restroom and was shocked to see the body of a person who had recently committed suicide. Well that’s awful.
