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mahatmakanejeeves

(61,654 posts)
Fri Apr 24, 2015, 08:18 AM Apr 2015

Deliberately Trespassing on Live Metro Tracks

Including a couple who drop down onto the tracks so that he can take pictures of her doing a handstand.

Yes, you read that correctly.

Deliberately Trespassing on Live Metro Tracks

Investigations
By Scott MacFarlane

Updated at 12:09 AM EDT on Friday, Apr 24, 2015

In a series of recent incidents, Washington Metrorail passengers have deliberately and dangerously walked along the rail tracks and narrowly escaped injuries or death.

In almost a dozen trespassing incidents, all of which occurred in the past six months, Metro patrons knowingly lowered themselves onto the track beds. In some cases, the people were trying to retrieve dropped items. In one instance, a young man and woman deliberately walk along the tracks to capture photos of the woman’s yoga routine.
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A separate set of videos show a man and woman deliberately walking along Orange Line tracks at the West Falls Church station shortly after 11 a.m. Dec. 12. The surveillance camera images show the woman striking yoga poses as the man appears to take photos of her.
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