The Perils of Public Transportation
Dial “T” for transport theft. Kevin Bacon gets jacked in a subway station. A brazen thief came up to him while he was waiting for a train at a 53rd and 7th Ave. stop, and ripped off his Blackberry, presumably replete with numbers for wife Kyra Sedgwick and many others from whom he’s separated by only six degrees. All in broad daylight, well, during the day, in the dank lighting of the underground station, where Bacon gave chase but lost his assailant in the crowd. I hadn’t been on the subway since my last NY visit in January, and was wondering last week, while playing Ms. Public Transportation, why the automated subway announcer even warned passengers not to take out electronic devices, and this was before the Bacon heist. OK, I get it now. I’ll still ride ’em, but I’ll hide ’em.
