Subway Delays.

Last night as I was trying to get to the Lower East Side while avoiding the L line which is seriously delayed due to construction, I decided to take a bus to the JMZ and then the JMZ to the Bowery stop. Well, after sitting on the train for 10 minutes with the conductor saying that we were being held due to a police investigation ahead of us, he finally said that the train was out of service. In order to make it on time to my friends show, I had to take a $10 cab, passing the entrance to the Bowery station which was lined with police cars and an ambulance. Here's why...

Naked man hauled off subway tracks
By Xana O'Neill and Dorian Block
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Sunday, May 4th 2008, 4:00 AM

A naked man with a crack pipe ran around a downtown subway station Saturday night and then lay on the tracks until he was carted off by cops, officials said.

Straphangers at the Bowery station of the JMZ line called 911 after seeing the disturbed man in the station.

When officers arrived at 9:45 p.m., the man got down onto the tracks, which were not powered at the time, police said.

The man remained on the tracks, with emergency crews trying to coax him off, until 11 p.m. when he suffered a head injury and lost consciousness.

It was unclear whether he hurt himself or was injured as he was removed from the tracks.

Paramedics took him to Bellevue Hospital. His condition was unknown.

Glen Williams, 52, was dozing on a bench when he saw hordes of police and emergency officials carry the man out on a stretcher. "I thought they had taken his clothes off," he said, shrugging. "This is New York."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/05/04/2008-05-04_naked_man_hauled_off_subway_tracks.html