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A Twitter Uproar Follows After a Woman Got Onto the Tracks at the Myrtle-Broadway Stop

Luckily, no one was harmed, but people were still fuming.

A Twitter Uproar Follows After a Woman Got Onto the Tracks at the Myrtle-Broadway Stop

A Twitter Uproar Follows After a Woman Got Onto the Tracks at the Myrtle-Broadway Stop

Luckily, no one was harmed, but people were still fuming.

A Twitter Uproar Follows After a Woman Got Onto the Tracks at the Myrtle-Broadway Stop
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Yesterday morning’s JMZ train suffered delays when a woman wandered onto the tracks at Myrtle-Broadway and started walking toward Manhattan. 

A video posted to Instagram shows a rather bewildered-looking person standing in the middle of the track with at least one person reaching out to her. But let’s be honest, most other people were hoping to snap a photo.


Seriously? What the fuck are you thinking? #doyouwannadie #bushwick #smarchweather

A post shared by Gabriel Anthony Mendoza (@anthonycloud9) on


The NYPD confirms that they removed the woman from the tracks and took her to Woodhull Hospital for psychiatric evaluation. They do not keep statistics regarding how many people are safely removed from subway tracks each year. 

While nobody was hurt, plenty of people were inconvenienced. Alex Andia, a frequent M train commuter who was stuck at the…

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