It was always being done up until like 3 years ago and it was very successful in catching scumbags with active warrants and bad intentions. They have been letting people hop the train for at least 2 years straight.Watching everyone else do it even tempted me a couple of times, although I never did it. Paying my fare made me feel like a sucker when all of these rotten fucks weren't paying and were breaking balls on the subway to boot.
In my prime, I would have restrained and arrested that guy all by myself. At just a few months from 50, I still would have done better arresting that guy all by myself than they are doing there as a group. MAYBE I would have needed one other guy to help if he was on coke or dust. These cops are the weakest pussies available. Since the late 90's, they have been hiring guys who used to get swirlies and wedgies in high school.
Dude was 61 working as a bouncer. Anyone who hired an elderly nigger to work nightlife security is a cheap idiot. I mean, if the guy was 30, he still could have been stabbed, but I’m sure him being geriatric emboldened his attackers. I used to work about 1/4 mile away from that place and I knew at 43 or 44 that it was time to hang it up. Another guy named J.R. was the bouncer at Rudy’s in Manhattan for like 15 years and he hung it up when he was like 45. Some of these guys are like punch drunk boxers who will go on being useless if you let them.
Typical NYC moment: No one renders Aid. Fucking animals.
These guys pretend to be deaf and leave these cards that teach the American Sign Language alphabet or a small, travel-sized package of tissues on the seat next to you hoping that in exchange you’ll make a donation. If you don’t bite, they come back around, scoop up their stuff and go to the next car. It’s actually much more tolerable than most other street hustles because you don’t have to listen to some junkie or nigger bellowing out some bullshit story and standing in front of you with their hand out talking about God to guilt you into falling prey to their scam. These guys just leave this stuff next to you for 30-60 seconds and if you don’t touch it and avoid eye contact, they take it and silently move on. This was big 30 years ago and I just started seeing it again like last year after a long absence.