The cases of surfing or jumping on the roofs of the New York subways continue to register an increase in 2023 that causes concern and mourning.

Eleven months ago, a Univisión report reported that 60 minors had died. In the first half of 2023, 7 have died amid this chilling trend.

“It is incomprehensible how someone would risk their life in that way,” commented Big Apple journalist Blanca Rosa Vílchez when she told what she saw for the chain: at least six boys – climbing the subway – jumped on the roof.

“I was at the top of the train and when I woke up I had already lost a foot, the subway almost ran over me,” said a survivor of the risky practice.

“Because you did?”, The reporter asked him, to which he replied: “For the adrenaline of the moment”.

The impressive jumps have unfortunately “become popular on social networks,” they said on that occasion, citing police spokesmen.

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Deaths from subway ‘surfing’ in this 2023

Neither the risks nor the number of dead and injured keep the courageous youngsters away.

So far into 2023, just as disturbingly, the images continue to take over the networks.

The increase, the authorities repeat, is due to social networks.

11 months ago there were 68 deaths and all victims were between 12 and 15 years old.

Univision

By the end of 2022, according to EFE, they estimate the total number of incidents from on top of the train at 928.

On Friday, June 30, at the end of the first semester of 2023, the EFE news agency reported that “the challenge of ‘surfing’ either on or between moving cars on the New York subway has caused the deaths of at least seven people.

They reported that the most recent death is that of 14-year-old Jevon Fraser. “He was found on a platform in Queens County with head trauma and died shortly afterwards in the hospital where he was admitted.”

TikTok denies relationship

New York Police Chief Michael Kemper, quoted in EFE, stressed that the vast majority of Subway surfers are 12 and 13 year olds.

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Michael Kemper, Chief of Police

Eric Adams, the mayor of the Big Apple, asked TikTok “to remove videos showing kids surfing the subway.”

Of the popular social network, they said “the subway surfing trend predates the platform.”

This is a matter of conscience, you need to think. The boy who lost one of his feet advised Univisión, “When you’re a boy, you don’t think, you don’t think about the consequences it could have.” And what do you think?