Boy rides NYC subway for 34 stops
NEW YORK – Authorities say a 5-year-old boy slipped onto a New York City subway alone and rode for 34 stops from one end of Manhattan to the other before anyone intercepted him.
Samuel Sosa has been reunited with his mother, unharmed, after his hourlong transit odyssey Monday.
Griselda Sosa says her son got away from her around 7:40 a.m. while she got coffee near an elevated station on the No. 1 line in the northernmost part of Manhattan. The boy apparently sprinted up the station’s stairs, squeezed under a turnstile and boarded a southbound train before she could stop him.
Police quickly put out an alert, but Sammy made it to the end of the line before transit workers spotted him around 8:40 a.m.
His mother calls authorities’ response “good and fast.”
Okay, I know this might sound a little wild, but she should’ve let him go. Seriously, because if he sees what happens at night in New York, he’ll be back home by midnight and never leave until he’s 35. We need to stop scaring our kids. The numbers are actually very minimal that anything will happen to you at any given time. New York is actually in the 200′s of the most dangerous, missing the #1 spot by well, about 200.
Bottom Line: Don’t let your kid loose in DETROIT
