Guillotine

A woman got her head stuck between the doors of a car on the 2 train.

Yes, her head. The doors closed around her neck.

She was obviously trying to slip onto the train right as it was leaving. Now, I’ve seen many items stuck into closing doors to stop them. A foot, perhaps. Bags for sure. Maybe even an arm. But a head was the most frightening thing I’ve ever seen sticking into a subway car.

And the doors stayed closed for a good moment or two.

It was instantly shocking but people did rush up to help her, seeming more frightened than she did. Thankfully the doors opened, her head in tact. And she sits down, way too nonchalantly. No shudder. Nothing!

But what if it had beheaded her? Would the conductor just keep going on oblivious? I certainly would have changed cars…screaming…and pointing…

I guess it would be quite the modern guillotine. Although if it snapped off your head, I’m sure it’s safe to assume it’d snap off your arm too. That’d probably get people to stop holding doors. That, or New York would become quite the one-armed, one footed community.