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5-year-old rides NYC subway alone for 34 stops
5-year-old rides NYC subway alone for 34 stops
NEW YORK – Authorities say a 5-year-old boy slipped onto a New York City subway alone and rode for 34 stops from one end of Manhattan to the other before anyone intercepted him.
Samuel Sosa has been reunited with his mother, unharmed, after his hourlong transit odyssey Monday.
Griselda Sosa says her son got away from her around 7:40 a.m. while she got coffee near an elevated station on the No. 1 line in the northernmost part of Manhattan. The boy apparently sprinted up the station's stairs, squeezed under a turnstile and boarded a southbound train before she could stop him.
Police quickly put out an alert, but Sammy made it to the end of the line before transit workers spotted him around 8:40 a.m.
His mother calls authorities' response "good and fast."
(This version CORRECTS that boy boarded train in northernmost part of Manhattan, sted the Bronx.)
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Posted 4/14/09 1:13 PM  |
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Re: 5-year-old rides NYC subway alone for 34 stops
I'm glad he was ultimately found and fine... but that seems like a long time for him to be missing. His mother must have been worried sick.
Not to hijack... but the kid's name is Samuel Sosa... Sammy Sosa... 
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| Posted 4/14/09 1:19 PM |
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LightUpOurLife
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Re: 5-year-old rides NYC subway alone for 34 stops
Posted by Kara
Not to hijack... but the kid's name is Samuel Sosa... Sammy Sosa...
I caught that too 
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| Posted 4/14/09 1:21 PM |
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Re: 5-year-old rides NYC subway alone for 34 stops
aww, glad they got him safe and sound.
Posted by lipglossjunky73
Samuel Sosa has been reunited with his mother, unharmed, after his hourlong transit odyssey Monday.
i totally read this as "unarmed"
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| Posted 4/14/09 2:17 PM |
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kimbalina
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Re: 5-year-old rides NYC subway alone for 34 stops
Amazing... that he is
1. ok
2. that no one noticed a 5 year old ALONE 
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| Posted 4/14/09 2:20 PM |
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MrsScott
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Re: 5-year-old rides NYC subway alone for 34 stops
Thank goodness he was found and he is ok it is amazing how much people do not pay attention to their surroundings and things go unnoticed for so long
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| Posted 4/14/09 3:36 PM |
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Re: 5-year-old rides NYC subway alone for 34 stops
Posted by kimbalina
Amazing... that he is
1. ok
2. that no one noticed a 5 year old ALONE
That's exactly what I was thinking.
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| Posted 4/14/09 4:05 PM |
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