LIRR Conductor Flips Off Person Filming New M9 Train

The Long Island Rail Road's new M9 train has attracted plenty of attention since its long-awaited debut on Wednesday and on Friday morning the railroad asked people to share photos of the new train on social media.

Less than an hour later, a video was posted on YouTube that shows a conductor on the M9 giving the middle finger to a person filming.

"I told you twice already stop filming. The cops are on their way," the conductor says in the video posted on YouTube by Fan Railer, a train enthusiast with 336,000 subscribers.

"Definitely not good for publicity, considering the LIRR literally just tweeted asking for people to take pictures of the M9 train LOL," the caption on the video reads. "Thanks for keeping me entertained though."

The video was shared numerous times in response to the LIRR's solicitation of M9 photos on Twitter.

"The conduct in this video is completely unacceptable," Metropolitan Transit Authority spokeswoman Meredith Daniels told Patch. "We expect our conductors and all employees to behave professionally at all times. This incident has been reported directly to supervisors and will be investigated.”

Fan Railer, who asked Patch not to use his real name, said the video was filmed Friday morning at Nostrand Avenue Station in Brooklyn.

"I’ve had plenty of pushback before," he said of filming trains, which is legal as long as it's done in a safe manner and doesn't involve trespassing or hindering railroad operations. "But the train crews are usually professional about it. They’ll threaten to call the cops, etc, but this is the first time someone’s openly flipped me off."