![]() He chalked up their devilish behavior to a lack of activities outside the classroom. The employee did not give his full name because the city would not let him speak freely about the kids, who he has known for a few years. “It’s the result of kids not having to go to school or do anything for two years,” said Jim, a city employee who mentors the group of kids at a community center in the South Bronx. The source couldn’t mention how many videos had been uploaded over the year, only that there were less than 10 videos per day over the past two weeks on the subject. Another teenager bloodied his head in June after slamming into an overpass on a 7 train in North Corona. In August, a 15-year-old’s arm was severed after he fell off an R train passing through the 74th Street-Roosevelt Avenue station in Queens. The practice became so popular that teenagers regularly got hurt. What started as one group’s truant adventures, quickly turned into a city-wide trend. We’d post it, start to get 10,000 views, maybe more, then (the video) would get shut down.” said A-Dot, a 15-year-old member of the group who declined to give his real name out of fear of getting arrested. They exchanged comments on TikTok and Instagram with their friends. Videos surfaced of their feet hanging off zipping 4 trains or vaping electronic cigarettes on top of barreling number 7’s in the rain. They watched old YouTube videos of “urban explorers” standing on top of trains and decided to try it out themselves.
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