Transit's Own Frank Abagnale
Twenty years ago he pulled a fast one that would have made thrill seekers everywhere proud, commandeering a subway train by posing as a New York MTA train driver. He became so famous that a play was written about his life. And he's at it again. This time, Darius McCollum broke into a Queens rail yard and was arrested while wearing a worker's vest and hard hat and carrying several sets of transit keys.
McCollum apparently suffers from Asperger's Syndrome, which leads to obsessive behavior. By the time he was 8, he had memorized the routes of the entire New York City subway and would dispense directions without consulting a map.
Shouldn't MTA just take the hint and hire this guy, already?
[On a related note, this also leads me to believe that our own RJ3 may be suffering from a bit of Asperger's Syndrome himself, since he too has memorized the entire system and delights in mocking tourists from Nebraska who can't properly navigate the system]
Reuters.com | Newsday
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amg | 05:49 PM |
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Yep, I'm a regular Rain Man. Yeah. Yeah. Definately L train. Definately L train.
Hmm... I, too, knew all there was to know about the subway system when I was growing up in Manhattan, though I've since forgotten it all (which is regrettable, because now I actually have friends who live out in Brooklyn and I'm never sure how to get to their houses when I'm visiting New York).
P.S. Has anyone ever pointed out that your line-wrapping is incongruent with the fact that you can't resize the comments windows?
