Crime & Safety

Video: K2 User Falls Onto Brooklyn Tracks, Police Say

The man fell onto the tracks just above the Big Boy Deli, where police believe the dangerous synthetic marijuana is sold.

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — A man who said he’d been smoking K2 fell onto Brooklyn subway tracks and was almost electrocuted by the third rail, according to video and police.

Facebook Live video shows the woozy 51-year-old man lying across the tracks of the J, M, Z station at Broadway and Myrtle Avenue at about 12:30 p.m Tuesday, police said.

Taiberious Carr filmed the man, whose legs rest on the bumper above the lethally charged third rail, and recorded people screaming out pleas that the man stay very, very still.

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“Don’t move!” A woman cries. “Someone’s gonna come help you, okay?”

“It is K2,” Carr wrote. “They smoke it everyday in that very subway.”

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Emergency responders arrived at the station, lifted the man off the tracks and took him to Kings County Hospital in unknown condition, police said.

The 51-year-old later told police he’d been smoking synthetic marijuana — the drug responsible for repeated waves of overdoses across Brooklyn — that police believe is sold in the Big Boy Deli below the station.


Photos courtesy of Taiberious Carr and GoogleMaps

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