The subways are an insane asylum on wheels — we must get the mentally ill off the trainsBy Steve Cuozzo
July 23, 2023
Watch the opening doors!
Prepare to enter a rolling lunatic asylum when you get into a subway car.
The “progressive” crowd will howl at me for telling the truth about the subways, the supposed “lifeblood of the city.”
The MTA and the NYPD will claim I’m exaggerating.
But facts must be faced. It’s time to drag the mentally ill off by force and move them to where they can’t harm anyone.
If we don’t, the underground madhouse will soon reverse the recent increase in ridership — and kiss the city’s nascent recovery goodbye.
Oh, I forgot — laws don’t allow us to do that. Silly me!
I’ve ridden the subways for 50 years. I’ve never seen so many deranged individuals — schizophrenic, otherwise demented and/or drugged to the point of unpredictable potential violence.
Neither have you if you use the subways at all, even if nobody tried to push you onto the track.
I have no medical or academic credentials to make such judgements. My credentials are my eyes.
On Monday around 7 p.m., a tall, lanky white man on the uptown F in Midtown paced back and forth in the crowded aisle, muttered incoherently about a lost hat and flailed his arms so widely that he struck seated passengers who shrank at his approach.
Everyone did the “proper” thing — kept their eyes elsewhere as if no potential assault or homicide were in their minds. Of course not!
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/07/23/we-must-get-mentally-ill-off-subways-for-our-safety-and-theirs/
