Isa Islam was just 12 days shy of his 18th birthday when he decided to subway surf in 2013. Ten years later, he now bears the scars of his decision.
subway cars, has exploded. In 2019, there were 490 cases. By last year, it had nearly doubled to 928 cases.
The explosion corresponds with social media trends last year where people were filming themselves engaged in dangerous acts and posting those videos to social media platforms. to take those videos down, and is pleading with subway riders to know that people surfing on top of subway cars are all too often killed.The MTA is calling on social media platforms to not post videos of people "subway surfing" a-top moving trains.
As for Isa Islam, he has a simple message to riders, which is the same message he would send to himself 10 years ago, "don't do it."
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