“It was extremely stupid“, he confides today. “If there’s anyone who needs a time machine, it’s me.“, he adds. Isa, who had spent six weeks in the hospital and suffered from “many” operations, survived but some are less fortunate: in February, a 15-year-old boy was mort after falling from the roof of a running subway. Another teenager, from the Bronx, died in December.
After these accidents, the New York police recalled that the subway was “not a playground“and that getting on a moving wagon is illegal. Even on New York’s photogenic network, the largest in the United States (more than 400 stations), where the airways offer spectacular views of the city. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), which manages the public transport network, has called for the social media responsibility by designating TikTok, Instagram or Snapchat.
According to the MTA, the release of videos on the networks last spring and summer boosted the popularity of the challenge.
It identified 928 reports of people traveling outside of cars, more than four times more than in 2021 and almost double from 2019 (490), the last year before the Covid pandemic. “If they released videos of people playing Russian roulette with live bullets, they would realize the consequences. It is the same for these children, who are encouraged by these glorification videos“, recently lambasted the CEO of the MTA Janno Lieber.
