Death-Defying Tunnel Trek Better Than Being Stuck On F Train, Rider Decides

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — This subway rider diced with death rather than cope with the disaster that New York City's subway has become.

Stuck underground and getting later and later for work, the man made the terrifying decision that the filth, dark, rats and potentially deadly third rail were better options than waiting for the train to move.

The 22-year-old man going by Matt D. told the New York Post that he jumped off the stalled train and walked to the nearest subway station in order to avoid getting canned at his new job.

Matt's journey through the muck and mire of the subway system began, as so many others do, on the F train. It came to an abrupt stop before the 34th Street Herald Square station and stalled in the tunnel for what seemed like an hour, he told the Post.

"I was texting my boss nonstop, but I had no service," Matt, of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, told the Post. "I just started two weeks ago and I didn’t want to get in trouble.

"People were bugging out on the train, saying, ‘We’re going to be late,’"

So when another passenger decided to venture out into the tracks and walk to 34th Street, Matt joined him, he told the Post. He filmed the trek as he followed the man down the center of the tracks, paying no heed to the electrified third rail which would have fried either of them should they have touched it.

In the end, his boss wasn't even upset, Matt told the Post. When Matt sent his boss the footage of the subway walk he was forgiven for his tardiness.

"He was laughing and said I was crazy," Matt told the Post.

Read the full New York Post article and see Matt's video here:

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