No-nonsense NYC woman’s hilarious reaction on realizing subway surfer had just climbed on top of train she was riding

A video of a woman’s reaction to a New York subway surfer has gone viral on TikTok as city officials try to crack down on the dangerous trend.

In a clip that has been viewed more than 75,000 times, a man wearing a head-to-toe gray sweatsuit and a black backpack is caught standing on top of a moving subway train.

One passenger was so shocked by the young man’s behavior that she urged him to get off, while fellow commuters told her to leave the situation alone.

‘Leave him? Are you crazy?’ she said before opening the subway car door and starting yelling at him to get off.

“Get your mother the fuck down! Go downstairs!’ she shouted, but to no avail.

“I’m going to beat him up,” she added, closing the doors in surprise.

The perpetrator of the subway surfing has not yet been identified.

Users in the comments praised the woman for her response and praised her for her maternal instincts.

“Someone had to tell them,” one user commented. “In NYC we all mind our business a little too hard, so sometimes people think they’re invisible.”

“Bless her heart. She was on her own and took care of things!’ said another.

“Thank you, Miss Lady, because if that were my son, I’d like someone to remind them!” said a third.

City officials, the Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA) and the New York Police Department (NYPD) have combated the rise of the dangerous trend in recent years, going so far as to launch a prevention campaign.

City Hall and the MTA worked together last year to remove thousands of videos and photos of subway surfing from social media.

“The difference between then and now is that if I did something stupid, it was only 35 people,” Adams said at a news conference in September. “If these kids do something now, it will expand to 35 million people.”

Officials have linked the trend to social media, with teens engaging in the trend for the sake of its virality. The MTA reported five surfing-related deaths on the subway this year alone, matching the total number of fatalities from the previous five years combined.

Last February, 15-year-old subway surfer Zackery Nazario made headlines after his head was hit by a beam while surfing on the subway, causing him to fall onto the tracks.

‘Some of these sites are more addictive than drugs, people can’t get off them. And you start to duplicate this behavior,” Adams said at a news conference.

“I think the national government needs to step in and say, ‘What is the corporate responsibility of social media?’ I’m just surprised this hasn’t happened,” Adams said.

And in January, Alam Reyes, 14, fell from a Coney Island-bound F train in Brooklyn on Friday and died at the scene.

His heartbroken half-brother revealed that the teen followed multiple accounts that posted photos and videos of subway surfing around the city.

“I talked to him the day he died,” Tinoco, 32, said.

“I just said good morning because I was going to work.”

“He was a nice guy, he had a lot of friends, he just was in the wrong circle.”

Tinoco said his brother left class at Landmark High School in Chelsea and went surfing with a friend on the subway.

The friend continued to the next stop after Reyes fell at the elevated Avenue N station in Midwood above McDonald Avenue.

“Research more on social media to see who they follow, to see who they hang out with,” Tinoco warned other families.

‘It clearly shows that his friends were surfing in the subway. There are many. I have seen a lot. There are a lot of kids doing it,” he said.

He added: “They only do it for posts.”

“Another innocent life has been lost, and that cannot happen,” the president of New York City Transportation said in a statement after Reyes’ death.

“I implore parents to talk to their children and teachers to talk to their students. Riding on top of the subway is reckless and stupid and the consequences can be fatal,” Davey said.

Last year, four other teenagers, including Jay Thirunarayanapuram, died while surfing and filming themselves on the subway, five days after his 15th birthday.

In 2022, the MTA reported 928 cases of people riding outside, on top of or between trains – compared to just 206 in 2021.

The NYPD has also started using drones to catch subway surfers in real time.