There are two important things to keep in mind before you watch the video below, in which an agile young person leaps across the tracks at the Bedford-Nostrand Avenue station: a) teens are notoriously foolish, and b) jumping across subway tracks endangers the lives of people other than just the jumper. With that in mind, move over subway surfers and mass transit miscreants, there's a new contender for this year's Darwin Award.
Jumping across MTA platformsThis guy is wild! [Don't try this]
Posted by New Yorkers on Friday, April 3, 2015
Subway jumping: the perfect activity when you need to feel alive, you're too scared to do something supremely dangerous, but you still want a rush to stave off your existential dread.
Just like these geniuses:
This phenomenon is not limited to NYC:
It has even provided musical inspiration.
And we admit that pulling off a subway ollie is impressive, but only if you're a professional underground skating videographer. Or Tom Cruise. Cruise always does his own stunts.
