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Keno learned all about the system by hanging out in the subway dispatcher's office in Brooklyn, where he picked up the transit jargon and befriended motormen. Keno, stocky and stout, convinced one of them, Regoberto Sabio, that he was a 25-year-old motorman, and would ride Sabio's route with him. "He didn't show me an ID card or anything like that," Sabio later told a reporter, "but there was nothing in his mannerisms that made me think he was anything but another motorman." By riding with Sabio, Keno learned firsthand how to drive the trains, what...
Then came the day Sabio went on vacation. That Saturday Keno called Manhattan's 207th Street station on the A-train line and, pretending to be Sabio, requested a shift. When he showed up, he signed in using Sabio's Transit Authority pass number. He received a mild admonition for wearing jeans instead of his full uniform, but, says Lieut. Robert Valentino of the New York City transit police, "he looked like a motorman and he acted like a motorman, so they gave him an assignment." Keno dutifully studied the route out to Brooklyn before the 3:58 p.m. departure...
...dead stop. All he had to do was get out of the train, get onto the tracks and reset the brake. But Keno was afraid of the dark subway tunnels, the rats and exposed high-voltage lines. For a full 30 minutes he sat panicked as the conductor and Transit Authority supervisors, still not knowing his identity, coached and chided him. Finally a rail inspector arrived and repowered the train. At the terminal, Keno was sent for the mandatory drug test that motormen take in the event of a serious gaffe. However, he fled before reaching the Transit Authority offices...
...ashamed of what he did and worried about what will happen to him next. "He wanted to show people that he could drive a train, and someday he wanted to become a motorman," says Melissa. "He accomplished his goal and everything, but in the wrong way." At first, a Transit Authority spokesman insisted they would "throw the book at this kid," charging him with reckless endangerment, forgery and criminal impersonation. Says Valentino: "We were fortunate in that no one got injured...
...that anyone could be obsessed with their much maligned subways. Movie-of-the-week packagers are lining up for Keno's signature. Said ex-Mayor Ed Koch: "If I were the judge, I'd explain to him that he did place people in danger. Then I would ask the ((Transit Authority)) to give him an internship." That would be a dream come true for Keno Thomas. But such an ending is up to the lawyers and the courts. And that's another kind of story...