There's a lot of obnoxious behavior we have to put up with in the subway: the fingernail clipping, the rats in the mouth, the masturbating. It can also be revolting when someone fills the subway car with the stench of their McDonald's or Chinese food. But of all the foods to make a stand over, is spaghetti really pungent enough to fight for/against? NYC the Blog found this video of a recent subway fight on YouTube. In the right corner, a young woman eating pasta. In the left corner, a disgusted passenger who asks aloud, "What kind of animals eat on the train like that?" Oh yes she didn't.
If you want to cut to the chase, things start to get physical around the two minute mark. There's some posturing, then some slapping and hitting, then a Good Samaritan breaks it up and lectures the aggressors. Sadly, the spaghetti is lost in the scuffle. SPOILER ALERT: Nobody cleans it up.
Neither the transit police nor the MTA were notified of the incident, but an MTA spokesperson tells us, "Although food is not prohibited on the subway, we periodically issue public service campaigns to ask customers to avoid doing so in order to help us control insects and other pests." Clearly, the MTA has their next PSA right here—and it comes with a ready-made slogan: "What kind of animals eat on the train like that?"
