Brooklyn, NY – Move over, Pizza Rat: A pair of goats became the latest members of the animal kingdom to seize their 15 minutes of social media fame in New York City when they wandered onto subway tracks on Monday, forcing trains to be rerouted.
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“Two very baaaaad boys” read the caption on a Twitter photo of two black and white goats discovered cruising the N line subway tracks near the 8th Avenue subway station in Borough Park at about 10:30 a.m.
The runaways, who were on the tracks between the Fort Hamilton and New Utrecht stations, managed to elude police and animal control workers until 12:45 p.m., when they were finally apprehended, said Andrei Berman, spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs New York’s subway system, one of the world’s largest.
“A new one for us (we think): Two goats are roaming along the N line tracks in Brooklyn,” the MTA tweeted.
Trains were rerouted to the subway’s D line during the capture effort, he said.
Twitter reaction moved faster than New York’s problem-plagued subway, with most people remarking warmly on the mass transit interlopers.
But a handful of New Yorkers used the goats as a cue to complain about service delays and sweltering cars in the subway system, which is relied on by about half of the workers in the city’s four largest boroughs.
“‘Goats on the track’ is the only acceptable reason for subway delays. I don’t want to hear about ‘signal problems’ anymore,” tweeted @DvoraMeyers, a writer for the online sports website Deadspin.
Berman said it was not yet clear how the animals found their way onto the tracks. But they appeared to be destined to capture New York headlines and hearts, one-upping the Pizza Rat, which grabbed few if any hearts in 2015 after it was filmed carrying a slice of pizza down the stairs into the New York subway.
I’m glad that the goats didn’t go near the third rail, and that they were rescued.
Probably escapees from a local abattoir…catch them, schecht them and give them to poor Yidden – as it is written “HaShem Aiz L’Amo Yitain….
So that’s where my korban pesach went. Must have eloped.
My bro Munch says the goats should be in government and the politicians on the track.
First time in decades those lousy tracks are being used for something useful. I say bring in more farm animals and keep them there. Give a little sample of country life to the poor city folks 🙂
Let ’em enjoy it!
Oops correction!
I thought this was those old conrail tracks. Now I realized it’s the “N” subway line.
Eh! Still keep the goats, more fun then a dopey subway.
Most likely, they escaped from one of the many Muslim live animals butcher stores that line 1st ave thru 5th ave.