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(New York, NY) — NYPD cops say they busted a ten-year-old boy subway surfing this past weekend. The pre-teen is the youngest person in recent memory to be caught performing the often-deadly practice of riding on top of subway cars. Cops say the kid was on the roof of an A-train on the elevated tracks in Queens around 6:30 Sunday evening. The boy was released to his mother’s custody. The city and the MTA have launched programs to try and cut down on subway-surfing, a trend that’s gained steam on social media.
Last month, the mother of a 15-year-old boy who died while subway surfing filed a lawsuit against TikTok, Meta and the MTA. Norma Nazario says she found a slew of subway surfing videos on her son Zackery’s social media accounts. She says social media inspired him to try the deadly stunt. Zackery was subway surfing on a Brooklyn-bound J train over the Williamsburg Bridge on February 20th, 2023, when a low beam struck him in the head, causing him to fall and get hit by a train.
