“I Was Speechless”: 75 People Share The Most Unhinged Things They Have Ever Seen On The Subway

I once saw a woman put her foot up on the pole, flip her skirt up to her hips, and shave her legs with an electric razor.

Clouds of hair clippings and tiny skin flakes came off of her. Everyone (except her) left the car quickly.

Somebody with a giant iguana on a cart and a giant snake on their shoulder. A train Utica Ave. Last summer. I didn’t question it.

LA subway/light rail:

SO MANY TALENTED DANCERS/MUSICIANS that just casually hop on, do a show, and hop back off after collecting donations. Had three violinists and an opera singer a couple weeks ago, it was *stunning*.

I was in Korea, a Canadian who was drunk got into an argument with his Korean girlfriend. Long story short they had issues, but he decided he would strip down. This embarrassed her quite a bit. I was watching in completely enjoyment cause this was awesome. At one stop to further reinforce his belief that he's [undressed], he decided to throw ALL OF HIS CLOTHES out of the stop. This was even funnier.

At the next step the Korean police detained him.

He was upset because he felt his Girlfriend was cheating on him with a Korean guy. Not sure how him taking off his clothes made his argument any stronger...nor how throwing his clothes out of the train helped his cause either.

But I thought it was hilarious.

Oh, and he wasn't aggressive to the girl, more like passionate pleas of love...on a subway train. I did record it, but this was like 5 or 6 years ago and several phones ago and my friends advised due to Korean libel laws I should most likely not publish it so I never saved it...

I've been riding the subway and the commuter rail trains in Massachusetts for 30 years.

Been on about 5 trains that have hit people.

Seen a crazy woman chasing an innocent female passenger and then go on to kick the [hell] out of a male subway inspector who intervened.

One of my favorites was the guy who fell asleep standing up, leaning forward against the doors. The train stopped, doors opened, and he just slowly feel forward like a tree falling in the woods. Never put his hands down.... slap, right onto the platform. Turned over like "hey who woke me up and how did it get down here" expression on his face.

I once saw a guy 'clean' his shoes with a fish. He just rubbed a fish all over his shoes making them shine with goo. I don't know what he was going for but he looked quite satisfied when he put them back on his feet.

Former Subway rider here. I rode the subway for about a year and a half when I lived in the city about 10 years ago. Here are a few highlights.

-A homeless dude setting up a literal camp inside a car of a subway train. Tent, sleeping bag, hot plate, the whole package.
-Someone smashing bottles into the side of the subway car...from the inside.
-A teenage girl eating an entire watermelon size ziplock bag of boiled eggs in a 20 minute period.

From across the platform, I saw a pigeon get on the F train in Coney Island. It was so casual like it was the usual routine.

A man dressed as a Centaur running up and down the train playing ( I use that word loosely ) a ukulele. He was seriously trying to perform and I was trying to not bust out laughing.

My wife has interesting stories from her time commuting on the trains in Tokyo. One time she fell asleep on the train after a long day at work and was about to miss her stop, but some random stranger tapped her on her shoulder and said “hey miss, wake up it’s your station”. She was half asleep and already off the train when she realized how stalker-ish that was.

Another time some teenage girl started to pluck hair strands from my wife’s hair, and when my wife confronted her about it, the girl simply replied “ok, if you don’t like it then I’ll stop”. No apology or anything.

I ride the subway sometimes. Once saw an old woman with a bottle of Sprite. Woman gives the bottle its own seat, and then laughs maniacally for the next 5 stops. Then gets up, and screams at the Sprite bottle, telling it to “Stay here, don’t move.” Then turns around and looks back the Sprite bottle until she gets off.

A rat got stuck in the car with us for like 3 stops. Everyone kept running around screaming and it crawled up the outside of a man’s jeans.

Was on the London underground - the Tube if you will - and saw a guy in full Jesus robes, bare feet, crown of thorns and a large wooden cross that he was balancing on his shoulder and dragging behind him. I'm guessing he was a pilgrim?

On my most recent trip to NY I was on the 7 in Queens. A full mariachi band got on at our stop, played a song, passed a sombrero around for tips, then got off at the next stop to hit up another car. It was pretty great. They even had a full sized upright bass. That takes moxie to bring that into the subway.

Maybe not craziest but grossest. Super crowded train. Woman on train with pre-teen who had just been discharged from hospital (she had the bracelet) and looked so ill (green faced)

Sick child is leaning against pole and no one is offering a seat. I was standing a little away from her. Then all of a sudden with no warning she vomits all over the people in bench in front of her-- like massive. This one dude was completely covered. Poor kid but it was so disgusting. Everyone screamed!

The 1, 181st Street station. Heard a meowing sound, I started looking around for a cat. Realized it was just an old man doing the meowing.

I once sat next to a man holding a [box full of pigeons].

A guy was playing hip hop super loud and a woman asked him if he'd turn it down and he did.

Saw a woman clipping her toenails on the train once.

Not a nasty one just to break up the thread: a dude with a VERY thick Eastern European accent wearing sunglasses and (iirc) a full matching track suit carried a portable amp onto the middle of the train, set it down while the karaoke track for “Careless Whisper” blasted - he then paced FAST up and down the car with a wireless mic shouting “GEORGE MAYKEL” over and over again. Weird rendition but I really dug it at the time.