Authorities are looking for a pair of teens who they say broke into a conductor’s cab on an unknown subway train and recorded video showing them playing with the controls.
Video was posted to Facebook over the weekend showing one teen sitting in the cab and banging on buttons. Another teen, apparently the one shooting the video, reaches down and repeatedly presses a button that sounds the train’s horn.
Video of the incident was eventually taken down, but it has since been reposted on YouTube and by community activist Tony Herbert.
Herbert said angry parents contacted him after seeing the video on Facebook, and he wants to identify the teens.
"We have to bring attention to it and let him know clearly this is not acceptable, and we're not going to have you doing this," he said.
The MTA said Monday that the teens were in a cab in the back end of the train, so there wasn't much damage they could cause. The agency said the cab car doors are supposed to be looked, and it is looking into how the kids got in.
“It was stupid and stupid of them to record it,” the MTA said in a statement. “MTA is working with NYPD to apprehend and press charges against the people.”
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The train operators' union added that if the teens had been able to activate the controls, the train would have automatically halted in an emergency stop.
"They can ring the horn, they can turn the lights off with a few switches, but nothing of consequence at all," said Kevin Harrington, vice president of Transport Workers Union 100. "They were really wasting their time."
