Two of the six punks who stole two New York City subway trains parked overnight in a tunnel under Brooklyn’s 4th Avenue late last month were arrested Monday – one of them taken out of class at his high school – and charged with reckless endangerment, possession of burglary tools, criminal mischief, and criminal trespass for their brief joyride, the New York Daily News reports.
Four others are still being sought in the January 25th incident in which the unnamed 15 and 17 year-old males – whose names were not made public due to their age – and their dudes stole not one but two R trains and drove them down an empty express track being used for overnight storage. The local chapter of the Transport Workers Union had offered a $3,500 reward for information leading to their arrests, a snitches’ prize that seemed to indicate the union were upset a bunch of punk kids made them look lazy and incompetent by easily stealing two freaking subway trains.
As for the utter void of anything resembling even the most basic of security measures to prevent such joyriding, the New York City Transit Authority on Monday announced plans to address that by adding alarms and brighter lights to train controls to warn when cars are moved without permission. Not sure what that would have done in this situation besides maybe have made it easier to catch these kids after they had already stolen the train. The article also mentions that the MTA is looking at having biometric security installed, but who knows how the hell long that will take.