As seen underground in New York City
Saw a family of German tourists. Two boys—maybe 8- and 10-years-old—got into a fight. The mom broke it up, and the 8-year-old starting protesting wildly, waving his arms, gesticulating madly, grunting, huffing, puffing, furious. I know he’s 8, but we’ve all seen clips of Hitler Youth, and there’s still something really terrifying about an angry German giving a speech in a public place.
-Submitted by Sam R., seen on the uptown 3 train.
I don’t know if this should really count as vandalism since the grammar correction is looking pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty good.
- Submitted by Jared W., seen on the Canal Street ACE Station.
An overweight, tattooed man in a bandana bonded with a foreign guy over his hard core rock band t-shirt. The bandana guy pushed up his sleeve to reveal he had the logo of the band on his upper arm–it was the same image as the foreign guy’s t-shirt. He had a tattoo because his brother was in the group. You could tell that from foreign guy’s perspective that this was a cool thing. Bandana guy and foreign guy bonded loudly in an otherwise silent train. By the time bandana guy got to his destination, he had told foreign guy about his life as a single father and recovering meth addict. Everyone in the car was touched.
-Submitted by Shira D., seen on the morning 6 train.
On the subway platform last night I saw a woman give her baby a pacifier. The infant immediately threw it on the ground. The mother dropped down, picked it up, and put it directly back into the child’s mouth.
- Submitted by Mike, seen on the platform at the Brooklyn Bridge 4/5/6 stop.
This photo could be the logo for the MTA’s citywide mess of crumbling infrastructure and slipshod maintenance: A rusted away pipe that has been refashioned with a hollow cylinder of duct tape.
Also pictured: Awesome man with awesome beard.
-Submitted by Ryan H., taken on the Broadway-Nassau ACE platform.
Last night on his show, Sean Hannity mentioned a new pro-atheism ad campaign going on in the New York City subway system:
If you’ve been riding the New York City subway lately, you may have seen some curious ads plastered on the walls, spreading the word that you can live a great life without God.
Ads like this one are hitting New York City subways, courtesy of a $25,000 ad campaign launched by the group Big Apple Coalition of Reason. According to a spokesman for the group, the ads are meant to inform New Yorkers that, “A million of us have found or created natural morality and lead good, productive and meaningful lives without appeal to religious dogma or God.”
Wow, how incredibly informative.
Can you imagine the outrage if a Christian group put pro-God ads in the New York City subways?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,568839,00.html
Hannity’s argument is that intolerant leftist New Yorkers are okay with atheists buying subway ads but would be outraged if Christians did the same thing. The problem with this thinking is that Christians have been putting up pro-Christianity ads in the subway for years and nobody cares.
Christian advertising isn’t as omnipresent as Dr. Zizmor’s rainbows, but the average straphanger has seen plenty of it on the train. There are ads for all kinds of competing churches, each offering their own flavor of Christianity and their own path to salvation. One ad even extols the virtues of giving up your life and becoming a Franciscan monk. Meanwhile on the platform, the Jews for Jesus hand out pamphlets, the Latter Day Saints hand out tracts, and the Scientologists give stress tests. There’s even a semi-permanent proselytization center in the Times Square station (among other places).
Of course, Sean Hannity doesn’t factor this into his argument because he doesn’t ride the subway and has no idea what he’s talking about. Christian subway ads exist and New Yorkers couldn’t care less, just like we don’t care about Dr. Zizmor’s potions or ZONI’s English lessons.
The photo above was taken today, by me. There was no outrage spotted on the scene.
- Submitted by anonymous, taken on the BDFV platform at West 4th Street
Why won’t Heath Ledger answer our questions about his role in 9/11?
Oh.
- Submitted by Adam N., taken at the 116th Street 1 Station
