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...DECEMBER 22. 1984, an electronics expect named Bernhard Goetz became a hero by pulling out a gun and shooting four teenagers who, he told the conductor of the IRI subway train on which he was riding, tried to rip him off. Then he went to New Hampshire...
...approval of the average frustrated New York City subway rider was palpable. The tabloids gleefully compared the "subway sigilante" to the Charles Bronson character in the movie "Death Wish," and set about gauging the level of public support, which was extremely high Police hotlines set up to collect eyewitness information proved virtually worthless; they were clogged with congratulations and others to pay for the legal defense of the gunman, whose advocates included civil rights leader Roy Innis...
...Goetz Black, rather than the other way around, the public would have taken a completely different view of the situation. But Goetz's predilections aside, the likelihood of two dozen randomly chosen Manhattan residents all being racists is slim at best--more likely, those 23 grand jurors are subway riders...
...furthermore, to a seat. She mumbles into the aggregate human mass that riding the Long Island Rail Road is, on the whole, one of the 14 most uncomfortable things a human being can do, vying for pride of place with one of its associated enterprises, the New York City subway system, and root-canal surgery. To her surprise, all the inadvertent intimates within earshot protest vehemently. "It's not as bad as you make it sound," argues a gentleman who is traveling with a box containing a large chiming clock. "So you're stuck belly to belly with a stranger...
...defense: "They are trying to move 285,000 people a day. It's the nation's largest commuter railroad. I'm not defending the equipment, you understand, but it's an almost impossible task. Take the averages--you're still ahead." Of what? "Well, it's better than the subway...