I Survived The Blizzard, And All I Got Was A Stinkin' MTA Fare Hike?

Yep, folks...it's that time again.

Even though you can barely march your ass through our non-plowed BK streets to even get to the subway, and once you get there who knows if the train will even be running, but STILL! IT'S TIME FOR A FARE HIKE!

As of Thursday, December 30, 2010:

• your monthly metro card will jump from $89 to $104 (a 17% increase)
• weekly 7 day passes will jump from $27 to $29
• single rides will jump from $2.25 to $2.50

Congrats to everyone! And by everyone I mean the MTA! Cause the rest of us are fucked!

(via Gothamist)

G Train Bloodbath

photo: Daily NewsDaym.

I knew shit was effed on the F yesterday morn when I started to get some scoop via Twitter, but the sitch was way more fucked up than I could have imagined. Some dude, Ryan Devaney, freaked the hell out, stabbed his mom to death and then went after his dad (critically injuring him) before throwing himself onto the tracks of the 15th Street G train in Windor Terrace.

Devaney was hit by an oncoming G train, and the dude SURVIVED.

According to the NY Post, the guy was mentally ill, and had been struggling for ages to keep it together (good reminder to stay the hell on your meds, ppl).

Needless to say, this whole shebang ensured that a whole hell of a lot of people were late for work today.

OH, and we also received our second pathetic vague Gawker reference when @blindcavefish's tweet to me was screencapped for their post. [Yay? I guess?].

Why Are You On My Train?

Buck and Rock from whyareyouonmytrain on Vimeo.

I say that phrase to myself in my head, every morn when I get on the Q, mostly because I'm jealous of all the seat hogging motherfuckers already on the train cause I wish I were one of them.

But the two ladies behind the Why Are You On My Train blog seem to have purer motivations: i.e. they just *really* wanna know wtf you're doing on their train...so much so, they'll record all the bullshit you tell them on camera and then post it on their site for all of us to see.

The videos are all kind of fascinating, especially the one above as I SAW THAT DUDE ON MY TRAIN THE OTHER DAY! I feel like singing that stupid "Circle of Life" song from the Lion King right now.

'Oh, You're Getting Fucking Arrested'

I have no clue where this woman actually lives, but fuck it: I'm nominating her for FIPS woman of the year anyway! We salute you, justifiably pissed off subway lady!

Apparently this chick was ridin the subz, mindin her own beezwax, when low and behold, she notices some dude WITH HIS JUNK OUTSIDE OF HIS PANTS tryin to press up against her. She wasn't quick enough with her Blackberry camera, but thankfully some bystander with an iPhone documented her rant in its entirety. Cause basically she went ape shit on the perp's ass...and it was totally fucking epic:

"Oh, you're getting fucking arrested. I'm not leaving your side. My plans are done for the night. I'm escorting you to the police station. Oh, yes. Oh, fucking yes."

You go girl.

(via URLesque)

COOL OR NOT COOL: Disgusting Subway Junk?

Ok, so let's just stop being polite and start getting real for a sec: this is one of the most vile things I have ever been witness to on our public transit system.

I could have sworn I did ANOTHER post on some similarly gross subway junk sitch with another dude, but I can't find it now. And anyway, even if I did, trust me: this was way the hell more disgusting.

I'm not quite sure what the best gameplan is for being fat and dealing with your own junk in a non-gagtastical way, but can we all just agree that this dude ain't doin it right??

For the record, Brooklyn bound Q, Monday eve.

As Tami from Season 2 of the Real World said: "this wasn't not funny."