WEIRD: Subway Workers Say MTA Stores Dead Bodies In Their Lunch Rooms

Lianne Hikind | August 14, 2017
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The New York Post is reporting that Metropolitan Transit Authority stands accused of storing dead bodies in their break room. 

“Leaking” corpses of people killed by subway trains are often brought to employee lunch rooms and other break areas inside stations, disgusted union officials and sources said on Monday.

While these are only allegations at this point, it's still super nasty. Workers railed against the MTA in a closed Facebook group, saying the bodies are brought to employee lunch rooms if that room happens to be the closest, and stored there until the coroner shows up to collect them.

“Be a pro?” Tommy McNally, a TWU safety inspector from Staten Island posted in the group. “Station Agents walking over bodies in the bathroom? Uncovered bodies leaking fluids..be a pro…this isn’t Vietnam pal….be a pro and suck it up if you get hepatitis…? No, close the station, put the body in a bag, on the platform, wait for the morgue to take it…then open the station.” 

There are not enough words for how disgusting this is. 

According to the New York Post, the MTA denies these claims, saying that bodies are not stored in break areas but rather in other "nonpublic" rooms. An MTA spokesperson had this to say:

It’s of the utmost importance” that anyone who dies in the subway system is removed from the tracks and platforms as fast as possible “to restore service quickly and to give humane treatment to the deceased and their family.”

“The placement and removal of bodies are handled by NYPD and the NYC Medical Examiner, and we’re discussing with TWU officials how any of the current practices can be enhanced for the comfort of our workers,” the statement said.

Gross.

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