Callous death chatter
A highschool boy jumped to his death in front of a MetroNorth train in The Bronx Monday — but a cruel MTA worker seemed to care only about the troubled teen making his train late.
“Some guy got killed! I hope the motherfker suffered!” the employee declared over a hot mike in a pronouncement clearly audible to passengers on a train stuck at Grand Central Terminal due to the suicide.
Some commuters were so shocked at hearing the callous comments they sent out tweets and texts expressing their dismay.
“You know how sometimes conductors talk to each other but it’s transmitted to the entire train?” one man wrote to his daughter in a text.
“I hear the mic key up followed by a train wide broadcast in the most Bronx accent ‘yeah I think some guy got killed, I hope he suffered like a mothafker.”
Twitter user Miriam Ward recalled hearing “I hope the motherfker suffered” and responded by putting up “#speechless.”
The unidentified worker’s ire was raised when the teen — who was a student at Fordham Prep — leaped in front of the train at 3 p.m. near the Bo tanical Gardens Station, just north of the intersection of Doctor Theodore Kazimiroff Boulevard and Bedford Park Boulevard. He was killed instantly.
The incident caused massive delays throughout the afternoon and evening.
MTA officials said they are investigating.
“Such language and sentiment has no place on MetroNorth Railroad,” said spokeswoman Meredith Daniels. “We are aware of these allegations and are looking into them.”
The student was the second from Fordham to be hit and killed by a train in a month. The other was hit by a Hudson Line train at the Philipse Manor station in Sleepy Hollow on Jan. 18.