Twerking on the subway tracks is probably not a good idea. However two young women decided to do it anyway. A video posted to YouTube on Monday shows two women twerking on the subway tracks in New York City.
The two women can be heard laughing as they perform the dance move dangerously close to a 600-volt rail and right in the path of trains. A male friend can be heard laughing in the background as the tattooed women in black sweatshirts tell him "No face! No face!"
The Metropolitan Transport Authority seems to think the video was taken on the 8th Avenue line in which the A, C and E trains run. The trains run at all hours and sometimes arrive every five minutes.
The YouTube video has been viewed more than 86,000 times. There are many comments on the video in which users point out how stupid the idea was and how they even wish a train came.
The video was sent to the NYPD and they are investigating the incident.
The women were dngerously close to the third rail of the track. It is used to power trains and can carry about 625 volts of electricity. When a person touches it, or part of the ground that the rail is touching, the person is hit with a lethal dose of electricity.
Over the summer, Matthew Zeno, 30, urinated on the rail while drunk in Brooklyn. He was killed by the current that passed through the stream. A friend that tried to help him was also injured.
Twerking, a dance in which someone shakes their buttocks, has become very popular ever since Miley Cyrus did it at the MTV VMA awards with Robin Thicke. Many people have since filmed videos of themselves twerking in strange places.
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