Mayor: Keep 2 NY subway push deaths in perspective

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This may have been posted as a response in another thread, but I think it deserves its own discussion.

By TOM HAYSAssociated Press

 

NEW YORK (AP) - For New York City, it wasn't an unusual sight: a possibly mentally ill woman pacing and mumbling to herself on an elevated subway station platform.

 

The woman eventually took a seat on a bench Thursday night, witnesses later said. Then, without any warning or provocation, she sprang up and used both hands to shove a man into the path of an oncoming train.

 

As police sought on Friday to locate the unidentified woman, Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged residents to keep the second fatal subway shove in the city this month in perspective. The news of the horrific death of 46-year-old Sunando Sen, who was from India and lived in Queens, came as the mayor touted drops in the city's annual homicide and shooting totals.

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The mayor has a point, I suppose: traveling by subway is probably a lot safer than traveling by taxi, for example, but high-profile episodes like this get a lot more press for obvious reasons.