Viral TikTok Shows Woman Using Lock To Avoid NYC Subway Shovers

New York City NY

24 November, 2021

12:46 PM

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NEW YORK CITY — A viral TikTok is showing viewers how to save themselves from being shoved onto the subway. TikTok user Wanda Vela posted a video this week showing her locking herself to a subway platform pole with a bike chain. Her reason: "people want to shove people into trains." "It ain't gonna happen to me," she said on the video, which garnered 224,000 "likes" as of Wednesday afternoon. The video was first reported by the New York Post. Recent subway shoving incidents — such as this unprovoked attack — have stoked fears among some straphangers that MTA stations are unsafe. Crime in subways actually went down in October, according to MTA officials. But still, Vela's video tapped into concerns that people waiting for subway trains could become victims of random attacks. In the video, she stood chained to a pole and said she'd wait there until a train arrives. "Ain't nobody pushing me," she said. Watch the video here.