The Daily News (and the NYC subway) provides today’s chuckle

What, you thought all subway news was violent? Nah.

The headline to this story reads, “Man’s Subway Track Saunter Snarls Commute For Thousands.” But then things get kind of funny:

Service on the No. 7 subway line was shut down for an hour and a half across much of Queens Friday morning as police followed a man who decided to take a 4-mile, sunrise stroll along the elevated tracks.

The poorly planned perambulation suspended service across a wide swath of the borough between 5:30 a.m. and 7 a.m…

Kudos to Evan Simko-Bednarski, the journalist who wrote this piece. (“The poorly planned perambulation…”)

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