L Train Rider Punches MTA Employee For 'Snitching' On Subway Urinator

WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN — Gotta appreciate the rare sense of NYC solidarity, if a bit aggressive and misguided, in the L train rider who allegedly punched an MTA employee early Wednesday morning for, in the suspect's own (reported) words, "snitching" to cops about another rider who had been urinating between cars.

Here's what went down, according to the NYPD:

A 53-year-old MTA worker spotted a guy peeing between subway cars on a Brooklyn-bound L train in the wee hours Wednesday morning, somewhere near the 1st Avenue station in the East Village area.

When the train pulled into the Bedford Avenue stop in Williamsburg, the MTA worker told police officers at the station what he had seen — prompting them to "escort" the alleged subway urinator off the train and out of the station, an NYPD spokesman said.

That's when another L train rider — our yet-unidentified white knight — allegedly intervened.

"He told the MTA worker that he shouldn't have told the police about the guy peeing," then punched the worker, a police spokesman told Patch.

The NYPD spokesman refused to relay the actual words used by the attacker. However, the New York Daily News, citing unnamed sources, reported the guy called the MTA employee a "snitch" before punching him.

“Why you snitch on him?” the attacker reportedly asked the worker. “Wait [til] we leave. I’m gonna f--- you up.”

At which point he allegedly did just that.

Police said the assailant then fled the station, and has been on the lam ever since. No suspects have been named in Wednesday morning's weird L train solidarity attack, according to the NYPD.

Photo by Eliza Rubin/Patch