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Spotted: Riding the Rocket

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SPOTTED BY: Joana Duque (photo by German Aguirre).
WHERE: Queen and Jarvis.
WHEN: This morning’s, er, commute.
WHAT: Though the TTC often laments, with some justification, that too many riders are evading paying their fares, they generally have out-of-date transfers in mind. This, however, is a whole new way of circumventing fare collectors. (New to Toronto, at least. Skylarking, or subway surfing, was a problem in New York a few years ago, though it seems to have largely faded.)
Hope you made it to where you were going safely, guy, and everyone else—definitely please don’t try this. Ever.

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  • bigdaddyhame

    I've seen plenty of cyclists skylarking busses over the years but this is a whole 'nother level of crazy.

  • http://twitter.com/dpirraglia Daniela Pirraglia

    When I first saw this picture, I thought it was an ad for something. Like some sort of robber movie. Instead it's just a crazy person.

  • HotDang

    Reminds me of the scene in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” Danny Devito does the same trick, but in that city, the streetcars had ample bench-sized bumpers covered with street urchins.

  • tyrannosaurus_rek

    Countdown until some well-meaning wet blanket excoriates Torontoist for promoting crime or whatever.

  • tomwest

    By posting a picture of something illegal, pointing this out, and adding comments about dangerous/stupid it is? That's the very opposite of promoting!

  • tyrannosaurus_rek

    But is that enough? What about people – children! – who scan the photo but don't read the text? They could die because of Torontoist! Surely Hamutal could have reported the photographer to the police for being an accomplice to the crime!

    Please, won't somebody think of the children?!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CU5KPACL6XIOAXUUR7X7FK3SFA Rob

    Not that it's important to anyone but the actors in question, but I believe you mean Bob Hoskins.

  • BradTTC

    Spotted: Future recipient of a Darwin Award

  • http://twitter.com/cwhaley Charles P. Whaley

    A skateboard and a rope, and we could have a new metro sport happening!

  • tomwest

    There's a difference between showing a picture of illegal activity along with text saying “this is bad!” (like here), and showing a picture of illegal activity and saying “oh look, pretty!” (like in the article you linked to).

    I'm not sure why you don't see the difference.

  • torontothegreat

    Wow, the jets are flying really low today…

  • HotDang
  • http://twitter.com/Russ_Morgs Russ_Morgs

    This hasn't been the first time in TO - http://russellmorgan.files.wor…

  • HotDang
  • http://twitter.com/Russ_Morgs Russ_Morgs

    This hasn't been the first time in TO - http://russellmorgan.files.wor…