Video: 'Despicable' Prankster Dumps Cereal On Subway Floors

NEW YORK CITY — Not even a global pandemic can stop New Yorkers from ruining each other's subway commutes.

A TikTok prankster who decided now was the perfect time to dump an enormous tub of milky cereal on the floor of a moving subway has spurred outrage from city dwellers and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority itself.

"A new low: Pulling a prank on essential workers," the MTA tweeted. "Despicable."

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The video, retweeted by the MTA Wednesday, is the work of @fckjoshy, a social media star with more than 3.3 million followers who posted video to TikTok Tuesday of his prank on a 4 train in The Bronx.

“Everyone started moving away and filming me, but I was like ‘can someone help’?” he narrates. “Surprisingly no one offered. So I had to put the soggy cereal in myself.”

Followers on TikTok and Twitter were less than amused.

“Did you think about who needs to clean that?" wrote one TikTok user.

"Some people cannot even afford food right now," wrote another. "So it would be nice if you didn't waste all that food."

"Maybe I'm getting old but how is this funny?" wrote a third. "Can someone explain to me what part is funny?"

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