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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Dead man rides subway for hours
2006-01-24
It took more than six hours for anyone to realize that a 64-year-old Brooklyn man had died on a New York City subway train. Eugene Reilly, who died of a heart attack, likely got onto a Brooklyn-bound Q train just before 1 a.m. Thursday. He wasn't found until 7:15 a.m. when a curious commuter touched his shoulder, trying to wake him, the New York Daily News reported.

Reilly, a mail handler, worked the 4 p.m.-to-12:30 a.m. shift and was headed home, his wife said. He was sitting up in his seat, which transit officials said was likely the reason their workers left him alone for so long, the newspaper said. "The policy is that if someone is sitting up, employees are not allowed to touch them," said Deirdre Parker, a city transit spokeswoman. A different transit official said employees probably saw Reilly, who was in the last car of the train, but thought he was sleeping. "People sleep on the train all the time," an official said. "No one thought anything of it."
Posted by:Fred

#4  Cheaper than funerals.
Posted by: Omavilet Glereper9991   2006-01-24 22:03  

#3  Mike that's so sad.
The poor MedTech!

Part of me is screaming with hysterical laughter.
Posted by: 6   2006-01-24 16:43  

#2  Not all that unusual, sadly. At the medical practice where my ex worked, one of the new medtechs had a twenty minute conversation with an elderly lady who had expired a few minutes before - and this was in a building with five MDs and literally two dozen nurses and assorted medtechs.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2006-01-24 12:19  

#1  Dead man rides subway for hours

ghost voter riding all the precincts.

/test run paid for by the hildabeast commitee for pres
Posted by: RD   2006-01-24 03:14  

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