TOR was mortified when we heard about the. Brutal murder of a subway passenger for refusing to give up his seat late Friday Night. The victim had refused to give up a seat which he was occupying with his bookbag which although annoying does cannot be justified with cold-murder. This I have to imagine is every subway riders biggest fears, a psychopath attacking you while you are stuck on in a tin-can with no escape. It's like camp Crystal Lake without the Coeds.
One of the 'heroes' of the story was the train conductor who was credited with quick thinking when he refused to open the doors of the car when it pulled into the station keeping the killer trapped like a giant rat in a cage. One of the thoughts I had was that he not only kept the killer trapped but also all the other passengers stuck on that particular car with a guy who had just plunged a knife into the jugular of another man.
Another part of any story like this which bothers me is how the newsprint always looks for rational or reasons why this may have happened and will always find the one neighbor who will say "he seemed like a quiet guy, never said much but didn't bother anybody". I feel like you can get anybody to say that about anybody else they hardly know.
What bothers me more though are the stories that come out from family and friends with some twisted justification like telling the press the guy was laid off recently and thus very stressed. This is the biggest load of crap in my opinion, just because you lose your job or get reprimanded at work should not even be mentioned as reason to have killed a man.
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