Woman Freaks Out After Straphanger Urinates On Her Face In Manhattan-Bound Train

All subway riders beware as closing your eyes during a ride may not be such a pleasant experience as a straphanger might just urinate on you.

Sounds incredible, but this is what happened to a 26-year-old woman traveling on a Brooklyn-bound train as it left the 75th St.- Elderts Lane station in Woodhaven, Queens on Thursday.

The seated woman had her eyes closed and was listening to music when she felt something wet on her face, police said. She opened her eyes to realize a straphanger had urinated on her face.

The woman reported the incident at the nearest New York Police Department Transit police station. She said the incident happened shortly before 2 a.m. EDT and the stranger who urinated said nothing and ran off the train as it stopped at the Cypress Hills station in Brooklyn, according to the New York Daily News.

Police said an investigation is ongoing and that the man is still on the loose. They also said the suspect is a black man, who was about 5-feet-3 and was wearing a red shirt and black pants, the report said.

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The police urged those who had any information regarding the suspect to call CrimeStoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.

Twitter users were quick to post several funny reactions after hearing about the incident.

Urinating inside subway or tracks or at the station is not uncommon; in August last year, a subway rider released a cloud of crickets and peed herself in a Brooklyn-bound D train train crossing the Manhattan Bridge, sending straphangers scurrying away from her. “Woman just let crickets out on the D Train as we went over the Manhattan Bridge,” one of the passengers Ezra Mechaber posted on Twitter, according to the Daily News. She further wrote: “Panic ensued. Someone pulled the E-Brake. Stuck. New York."

According to Rory Frizell, who was in the train, the woman told the passengers she needed to vomit and started to panic. Then she said, “I have to s---” and tried to lift her dress. A co-passenger calmed her and kept her from making the chaotic situation worse. Then the deranged woman opened and waved a container of bugs, causing her fellow riders to freak, police said.

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Apart from this incident, in September 2015, a woman in her early 20s was killed at Grand Central station in Manhattan when she fell onto the tracks while urinating between two subway cars, according to a report. Walking between subway cars is prohibited by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), which charges anyone guilty with a $75 fine.

In July 2013, a 30-year-old man, Matthew Zeno, was electrocuted by the third rail, which provides electric traction power to trains, as he walked along the Brooklyn subway tracks, the police said. A friend accompanying Zeno also suffered a shock but survived. Both of them had left a bar and were apparently looking for a place to urinate when they walked north on the southbound G-train track bed at the Broadway station in Williamsburg, police said, Time reported.