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Youths in the Big Apple are riding a new wave and putting their lives at risk.
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In New York City, kids are increasingly riding the top of city buses and recording themselves, the New York Post reported.
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It is the latest stunt joining the deadly transit trend of surfing on subway cars.
“If there’s something ridiculous, foolhardy and dangerous, teens will figure out how to do it,” straphanger Pamelda Candusso Hirsch, 71, told the Post.
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Mustapha Sawaneh, who has driven N.Y.C. buses along crosstown routes for six years, said kids are risking their lives.
“If a cab cuts in front of you, you have to slam on the breaks. If someone steps out on the street, you have to swerve the bus,” Sawaneh, 26, said.
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“If you’re (subway) surfing, you can see a train curve ahead, what’s coming up, (but) when you’re bus surfing, you don’t know what’s going to happen.”
Bus drivers suspected the riders were climbing on their vehicles while they were parked during their 10-minute breaks.
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“Operators are going to need to check (the top of buses) before we head out,” said veteran operator Jason Williams, 40, adding it’s impossible to tell from the driver’s seat if someone is on top of the bus.
At least two people have been killed riding outside of trains this year. Last year, at least five teens were killed while on subway train roofs. Dave Steckel, an MTA spokesperson, said the agency was investigating.
New York City and state officials have tried to crack down on the transit surfers, which they said has become more common among teens who are trying to copy what they see on social media.
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