Ride the subway here for long enough and you learn to not look up from your phone or book or magazine full of left-wing clatptrap for basically any reason. Showtime dancers, mariachi band, subway preacher, clearly pregnant lady, all of it is greyed out in your magical reality-denying vision that's focused into a single point in front of you. Still, 7 train riders took that Zen focus to new heights this morning when they ignored what appeared to be a huge trail of blood getting sopped up by newspapers that ran down the center of a subway car.
A tipster emailed us the above pictures and told us that when he got on the 7 train at around 9:05 this morning, he "noticed this trail of liquid and everyone sitting around it." Shortly after getting on the train, the tipster tells us that a conductor's voice came over the speaker to ask if everyone was alright, and then the train was evacuated and taken out of service.
A Twitter user appears to have been on same train this morning, and tweeted her ongoing astonishment at both the blood and the nonchalance exhibited by her fellow straphangers:
More:
http://gothamist.com/2017/05/18/subway_blood_trail_whatevs.php#photo-1The article is full of tweets - as with all items passing for news these days - so the passengers were hardly ignoring the blood/spill/whateverthehellitis. Still, amusing.