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Fun City: Crazed Naked Guy Terrorizes New York City Subway Passengers

A crazed naked man seen menacing New York City subway passengers on a scary new viral video was handcuffed and transported to a Bronx hospital last week, but not charged in connection with the bizarre incident, according to police.

Warning: The above video contains profanity and nudity and is NSFW.

The man’s May 2 outburst occurred on a northbound 6 train in the Hunts Point Avenue station in the south Bronx. As seen in the video, which was originally uploaded to YouTube by a straphanger, the man yelled racial and ethnic slurs as he finished removing his pants.

After hurling himself into a set of doors, the man took off his boxer shorts, which elicited squeals from shocked observers. As a police officer was talking on his radio, the man bolted from the subway car and accosted a woman walking up a stairway. After slamming a package of hers to the ground, he lunged at a man walking perilously close to a platform edge.

With the help of some male onlookers, the cop succeeded in wrestling the man to the ground, where he was subdued. A police spokesman told TSG that the man, 41, was treated as an emotionally disturbed person and transported in custody to Lincoln Hospital for psychological evaluation.

The Transit District 12 officer with whom he grappled suffered a minor injury for which he was treated and released at Jacobi Hospital, the spokesman added.

Comments (73)

Amen brother.
Having said that though, once the crazy man started assaulting people this cop should have tackled him immediately, despite the sad fact that he puts himself at "legal risk", or he shouldn't be a cop. Even if he were hesitating initially because of what I said above, once crazy man started assaulting people, his "legal" instincts should tell him that the attacked person will now sue! Things to explore: what non-lethal means did the cop have on his belt (nightstick? stungun?)
This happens quite a bit. When I used to ride, they had a ton of Bellevue mental patients that were just released into the subway. It was almost a 1 to 10 ratio of mental patients to passengers. Some people would buy them food because they were starving to death and couldn't feed themselves. Most ex-patients were just sitting on the subway there rocking back and forth sniffing rubber bands like they were having an autistic fit. There's nothing terror related about this, except the fact that they are ignored by most New Yorkers and left to die.
This is normal for the New York subways.
I am not a racist, but I know for SURE that if this was a Black man, he would be shot or dead within 10 seconds. Look how long the officer allowed the shenanigans to go on before he did Anything!!!! Of this I am certain......
Agree 100% w/ BKBlast!! Black or hispanic man (whether or not he was high or mentally ill), would've been tased, shot, and beaten for that right there! SMH!!
THEY PAY THAT COP TO STAND THERE AND WATCH WHILE A CRAZED NAKED MENTAL CASE IS SCREAMING AND ACCOSTING A WOMAN??? WOW FIRE THAT HALF WIT, WHATS HE BEING PAID FOR? ISNT PART OF HIS JOB DESCRIPTION TO STOP INSANE RAMPAGING FOOLS OR DOES HE JUST WATCH FOR TURNSTILE JUMPERS?
Ah, so here's a way that unarmed white people can defend themselves on the subway...
This man will surely be a delegate to the next Democrat convention in 2012....he is what Democrats are all about....no doubt.
So should we not address mentally unstable homeless people? This guys votes as much as he showers. Give me a break.