A woman went viral on X after sharing her husband’s experience on a New York City subway.
“My husband was on a crowded train yesterday when a homeless woman got on, pulled down her pants, and peed all over the train in front of everyone,” the woman started.
“He hasn’t stopped talking about it for the past 24+ hrs. It is the single most traumatizing thing that’s happened to him in nyc,” she added.
The post has garnered over 5.8 million views at the time of this writing; however, that’s likely because of all the virtue signaling from left-wingers about public pee.
One X user, for example, responded: “i’ve been on the subway with homeless people that peed, screamed, all sorts of stuff. it was mildly uncomfortable but truly didn’t impact my day in any way. maybe your husband needs to toughen up.”
In a subsequent post, that user added: “i totally understand nobody wants pee in their subway car but if that’s the most traumatizing thing that ever happens to you in the city you should consider yourself very lucky.”
Another user eventually chimed in to highlight how abnormal it is to encounter urine in cities, noting that everyone deserves “to live in functioning cities where public displays of anti social behavior are not tolerated.”
That response prompted a particularly interesting thread response from an account named Beatrice Adler-Bolton. “Posts like this are a painful but useful case study in what we disability scholars call ‘carceral sanism’ which is a kind of maximalist fusion of ‘mental health stigma’ with punitive social logics,” Adler-Bolton penned.
“It frames visible crisis as a breach of public order, not evidence of abandonment.”
Subways across U.S. cities have been in the spotlight for quite some time given the spikes in criminal and abnormal behaviors.
For example, a Guatemalan immigrant was charged with murder roughly one year ago after allegedly setting a woman on fire on a New York subway. Resist the Mainstream reported last March that he would avoid deportation due to the city’s sanctuary policies, despite federal immigration authorities requesting his detention.
That story came just a few months after Governor Kathy Hochul announced that New York City had completed installing surveillance cameras in “every single subway car” across its vast transportation network.
“The recent surge in violent crimes in our public transit system cannot continue — and we need to tackle this crisis head-on,” Hochul stated at the time. She pointed to decades of inadequate investment in mental health care and supportive housing as contributing factors to the current crisis.
“It’s the result of a failure to get treatment to people who are living on the streets and are disconnected from our mental health care system,” Hochul explained.
Back in November, a 26-year-old Indiana woman was fighting for her life after a stranger doused her with gasoline and set her ablaze on a Chicago metro train.
That attack was reportedly unprovoked.
