A video of a woman's reaction to a New York subway surfer has gone viral on TikTok as City officials attempt to crackdown on the dangerous trend.
In a clipthat has garnered more than 75,000 views, a man dressed in head-to-toe grey sweat suit and a black backpack is caught standing on top of a moving subway.
One passenger was so appalled by the young man's behavior that she urged him to get down while fellow commuters told her to leave the situation alone.
'Leave him? Are you crazy?' she said before openingthe subway carriage door and started screaming at him to get down.
'Get your mother f*cking ass down! Get your ass down!' she shouted, but to no avail.
In a TikTok video that has garnered more than 75,000 views, a man dressed in head-to-toe grey sweat suit and a black backpack is caught subway surfing
A woman has a hilarious reaction when she realizes someone is surfing on top of her subway car
'Imma break his ass,' she added, closing the doors in astonishment.
The subway surfing culprit has not been identified.
Users in the comments commended the woman for her reaction, praising her for her maternal instincts.
'Someone had to tell them,' one user commented. 'In NYC we all mind our business all little too hard that sometimes people think they're like invisible.'
'Bless her heart. She stood alone and handled business!' said another.
'Thank you, Miss Lady because if that was my son, I would want someone to give 'em a reminder!' said a third.
City officials, the Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA) and the New York Police Department (NYPD) have been battling the rise of the dangerous trend in recent years, even going as far as launching a prevention campaign.
City Hall and the MTA teamed up last year to remove thousands of subway surfing videos and photos from social media.
‘The difference of now and then is that when I did something dumb, it stayed on the block, it stayed to 35 people,' Adams said in a press conference in September. 'Now these children, when they do something, it expands to 35 million people.'
Officials have linked the trend to social media, with teenagers engaging in the trend for the sake of virality. The MTA reported five deaths from subway surfing this year alone, matching the total fatalities from the previous five years combined.
Last February 15-year-old subway surfer Zackery Nazario hit headlines after his head was struck by a beam while subway surfing causing him to fall on the tracks.
'Some of these sites, they're more addictive than drugs, people can't get off them. And you start duplicating this behavior,' Adams said in a press conference.
'I think the national government must come in and say, 'What is the corporate responsibility of social media?' I'm just surprised this hasn't been done,' said Adams.
Alam Reyes, 14, fell off a Coney Island bound F Train in Brooklyn on Friday
Last year, the MTA reported 928 instances of people riding outside, on top of, or in between trains - compared to just 206 in 2021. Pictured: A Washington DC Metro subway train
And in January, Alam Reyes, 14, fell off a Coney Island bound F Train in Brooklyn on Friday and died at the scene.
His heartbroken half-brother revealed the teenager followed multiple accounts that posted pictures and videos of subway surfing around the city.
'I spoke to him the day he died,' Tinoco, 32, said.
'I just said good morning because I was going to work.'
'He was a nice kid, he had a lot of friends, he just hung out in the wrong circle.'
Tinoco said his brother ditched class at Landmark High School in Chelsea and went subway surfing with a friend.
The friend continued on to the next stop after Reyes fell at the elevated Avenue N station in Midwood above McDonald Avenue.
'Investigate more on social media to see who they're following, to see who they're hanging out with,' Tinoco warned other families.
'It clearly shows his friends were subway surfing. There's a lot of them. I saw a lot. There's a lot of kids doing it,' he said.
He added: 'They're doing it just for posts.'
'Another innocent life has been lost, and it should not happen,' New York City Transport President said in a statement following Reyes' death.
'I implore parents to talk with their children and teachers to speak with their students, riding on top of subway trains is reckless, dumb and the consequences can be lethal,' Davey said.
Despite the best efforts of emergency responders, the boy was pronounced dead at the scene
JayThirunarayanapuram, 15, was discovered on June 20 by the tracks near theRhode Island Avenue station in Washington DC
Last year four other teens including Jay Thirunarayanapuram died while surfing a subway and filming himself five days after his 15th birthday.
In 2022 the MTA reported 928 instances of people riding outside, on top of, or in between trains - compared to just 206 in 2021.
The NYPD has also begun deploying drones to catch subway surfers in real time.
