8-15-17

What I find additionally amazing is that there are so many dead bodies in the New York Subway System. Seriously?  Check out the body count in the last article.DD

Stand clear of the dead bodies in NY subways!

“Leaking” corpses of people killed by subway trains are often brought to employee lunch rooms and other break areas inside stations, disgusted union officials and sources said Monday.

In an effort to restore service quickly, bodies are simply carted off to “whatever room happens to be nearest,” a union source told The Post.

“If a lunch room is the nearest, they’ll put it in the lunch room,” the source said.

And that’s enough to make transit workers lose their lunch.

MTA STASHES LEAKY DEΛD BODlES In EMPLOYEE LUNCH ROOMS

Source James Munder

Cops accused of storing dead bodies in MTA employee break rooms

Continued

LaShawn Jones, 52, who has been a station agent for 18 years, said she was coming into work at the 103rd Street 1 train station about five years ago — and made a quick stop in the employee bathroom when she saw some NYPD Emergency Service Unit officers handling a body inside.

“They weren’t aware that I was coming in and I wasn’t aware that they were in there,” Jones told The Post. “All I remember seeing was a black bag with purplish stuff.”

Jones returned to the bathroom on her lunch break — and though the body was gone, she saw some “hair and scalp and basically body parts in the sink,” she said.

Jones said she immediately went to her booth and called her supervisor. The mess was eventually cleaned up, “but the fact I had to experience that was disgusting,” she said.

“That can totally mess with your psyche, not just for that day but for the future as well,” Jones added. “I couldn’t go home. I was hysterical and I was crying, but by the time the supervisor got there, I calmed myself down.”

Others are so traumatized that they need to take time off, said Derick Echevarria, vice president of stations for Transport Workers Union Local 100.

“To see pieces of a body is traumatizing,” he said. “It stays with them to see something like that.”

Theresa Green, a station agent for 28 years who is a member of the TWU Local 100 union, told the Chief-Leader, which was the first to report the story, that dead bodies at subway stations have been handled this way for years and “nothing was ever done.”

“I saw this on April 7, 2008, when someone committed suicide in the Franklin Avenue C station in Brooklyn, and it still goes on because this is their procedure,” Green told the paper.

Union officials said it takes at least two hours for a corpse to leave the station.

“The police are forced [to] store the bodies in utility rooms and other subway rooms while waiting for Medical Examiner’s Office staff to arrive. It’s unacceptable that transit workers have to endure this on the job,” a TWU Local 100 spokesperson said in a statement. “Mayor de Blasio and his administration have failed to provide enough staffing for the Medical Examiner’s Office to quickly retrieve and remove bodies from the subway after these tragedies.”

An MTA source said bodies are temporarily kept in non-public areas by the NYPD while they wait for the medical examiner to show up.

In a statement, an MTA spokesperson said that “it’s of the utmost importance” that anyone who dies in the subway system is removed from the tracks and platforms as fast as possible “to restore service quickly and to give humane treatment to the deceased and their family.”

“The placement and removal of bodies are handled by NYPD and the NYC Medical Examiner, and we’re discussing with TWU officials how any of the current practices can be enhanced for the comfort of our workers,” the statement said.

A City Hall spokeswoman said in a statement that the ME’s office and the NYPD “are committed to reducing our response times even further to ensure both the humane treatment of the deceased and the health of subway workers and straphangers.”

Only members of the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit can remove dead bodies from a subway track or tunnel, according to a section of the department’s patrol guide provided to The Post. Source NY Post

48 People Were Killed by Subways in 2016, Lowest in 5 Years, MTA Says

By Aidan Gardiner

NEW YORK CITY — Forty-eight people were fatally struck by subways in 2016, marking the lowest year-end total in five years, according to the MTA.

The 2016 dip is 10 fewer than the five-year high in 2014 and is due in part to the authority’s awareness campaign — including one involving Pokémon Go — urging riders to be more careful, according to MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz.

“We have various public information campaigns warning customers to stay away from platform edges and I think customers are heeding that warning,” Ortiz said.

Straphangers agree.

“You should stand at least 3 feet back. I just don’t want to stand too close. From here, I can still see whether the train is coming,” said Leshell Wills, 43.

Fewer people overall were hit in 2016 with 168 incidents, down four from the previous year, Ortiz said.

That includes high-profile cases like that of Connie Watton, who police said was shoved in front of a 1 train in Times Square by Melanie Liverpool-Turner. Liverpool-Turner is due back in court for that case in February and has confessed to, but never charged with, pushing a German student to her death in Union Square.

Incidents like that have also driven people away from platform edges.

“I usually stand way behind the yellow. You just hear of people pushing people, stuff like that. You never know, so just follow the rules and stay behind the line,” said Corey Williams, 35.

“I have no clue why someone would want to stand that close. Anything could happen. Occasionally, I’ll look to see whether the train is coming, but it’s a quick glance,” Williams added.

The MTA breaks train strike incidents into six categories: people who were hit outside of a subway station (like in a tunnel), those hit in stations but not on a platform, hits on the platform, alleged suicides, attempted suicides and people who fell between subway cars.

The 2016 and 2015 totals for each category are fairly consistent:

Similarly, while 2016 marked the lowest number of fatalities, the decrease hasn’t been dramatic.

The MTA plans on testing platform doors, similar to those seen on AirTrain, that would separate people from the trains hurtling along the tracks.

It’s slated to be tested at the L train’s Sixth Avenue station at West 14th Street, though MTA officials said in February 2016 that its location could change.

If the MTA adopts the screen doors, it’s still unclear where else they’d be used. MTA officials have said in the past that installing them would be “prohibitively” expensive.

With reporting by Trevor Kapp.

SOURCE DNA Info

DISCLAIMER: Ads seen on this page or site are not endorsed by nor are they placed by Due Diligence

#medicalexaminer #nysubway #deadbodies

ARE YOU COMPLETELY PREPARED & PROTECTED?  

The Bible tells us that every human has sinned and fallen short of the glory of God which is  is a heart-penetrating truth. He has provided a way to cleanse us of our sins since we can never be “good enough” to cleanse ourselves. That avenue to God’s grace, mercy and forgiveness (the cleansing of our sins) is through His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth Who is equally God.

 Not one of us are guaranteed a “tomorrow”. Has your time run out? Will you continue to ignore the promptings of God the Holy Spirit or have you awakened to the essential need for God, risking eternal damnation?

​​God the Holy Father, God the Holy Son and God the Holy Spirit are One God, the true, living, uncreated God Who is ever-present, all knowing, all powerful and all loving. He desires that every single person be forgiven, saved and to live eternally with Him. He is our only real protection and His love for you is unchanging. Accept Jesus Christ as your Savior, the true Messiah, today.

 You can’t take your salvation for a test drive. You’re all-in or not.

 Admit to Him that you are a sinner in need of forgiveness, that you are truly sorry for your sins.  Acknowledge that He died for your sins, rose from the dead and lives forevermore. Invite Him into your life and to help you to turn from sin. Rejoice! You just became a Christian! Now trust in Him and get to know Him through the Bible which tells us everything we need to know and through prayer/talking to Him. He eagerly desires relationship with you.