dangerous stunts – Lee Duigon

From June 13, 2022

I only heard this morning about a new fad heating up in our glamorous urban centers.

Subway surfing!

It’s easy and fun to do. Just pick a train and hop onto the roof, preferably before it gets up to full speed. See the little guys in the video walking along the top of the train. I don’t know how fast New York subways go, or for how long the, um, “surfers” stay on. (I just looked it up: top speed, 55 mph.)

This has been going on for several years in cities all over the world. In 2018 in New York, the MTA reported 68 deaths, half of which they ruled to be suicides.

Yeahbut, yeahbut! You can get on YouTube!

Oh, well then! What’re we waiting for…?

Do you mind, out there, if I don’t do any nooze today? Really, the stories are flowing into the “I Don’t Want to Believe It!” zone.

As an alternative, I offer this boy and his pogo stick, showing off his ability to hop up and down a sidewalk and the front porch step. Kid, when I had a pogo stick, I went up and down whole flights of stairs–and if my mother could’ve seen it, she would’ve had conniptions.

I wonder if I could do that today. I could change my name to “Bustyer Kiester.” I dunno: things you did as a matter of course at 12 years old seem downright suicidal 60 years later.

But I think we should all have pogo sticks. It’d help us keep our sanity.