A place to talk about New York on Farcaster

A boy in my neighborhood died from subway surfing at my station last wednesday. A teenage girl died yesterday from doing it. https://gothamist.com/news/teen-girl-dies-subway-surfing-the-7-train-in-queens-nypd-says

How do you even stop this? If I'm a kid, people telling me to stop makes me want to do it even more.

The MTA “ride inside, stay alive” announcements read by teenagers make me want to ride outside.

agreed https://warpcast.com/austinmccollom/0x5e76e084

Not really sure it can be stopped, just goes in and out of fashion

jeez and she was 13 - what are the kids getting into these days….

I dont need another app to keep checking… but here we are

i thought that but it's p hard to make it seem uncool

you're also competing with tiktokers who are glorifying this shit

Imo it comes down to showing them how uncool it is.  I’d imagine .0001% finds tht impressive. 

Can’t think of an action item, need some peers to be allowed to bully

This is so sad.. didn’t even know it was a thing

under supply of parents that actually want to be parents, not sure if that is solvable