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Shirtless man walks on TTC subway tracks spraying fire extinguisher in wild video

Chaotic scenes on the TTC have just become a daily part of life in Toronto, and yet another shocking video was captured on the city's public transit system last week.

A clip posted to TikTok on Sunday shows a shirtless man illegally crossing the platform at Christie station on the TTC's Line 2 subway, spraying a fire extinguisher as he takes the extremely dangerous shortcut across two sets of electrified tracks.

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The original clip on TikTok has racked up over 21k likes and more than 700 comments after just one day, while a re-posting on Twitter/X has been viewed 114,000 times.

Many of the comments posted in reply to the original TikTok clip share the opinion that this type of scene is all too common on the TTC these days.

"Every freakin day bro," says one frustrated commuter.

Others join in on recent comparisons between Toronto and Gotham City, like one response asking, "What in the Batman is going on?"

The TTC's Stuart Green tells blogTO that the incident occurred on July 27 just after 7 p.m., and was reported to transit control by the station collector. Green says that the individual filmed crossing the tracks exited the station and that Toronto Police 14 Division was notified.

A TTC page covering such incidents warns that track trespassing onto tracks is illegal and potentially fatal, while also causing delays for subway riders. In 2018, 1572 delay minutes were recorded on the transit system due to over 110 'Unauthorized at Track Level' incidents.

The transit agency cautions the public that trespassing includes "descending to track level to retrieve a dropped phone or personal item, entering, walking or running through a subway tunnel, or crossing the subway tracks to get to [the] platform on the other side."

For an idea of how dangerous these incidents can be even in the absence of an oncoming train, the TTC’s Line 2 runs on a 600-volt DC current. A human can be killed at voltages as low as 40 DC.

"Thankfully, there were no injuries reported during this incident, but it could have ended tragically," says Green.

Green hopes that fellow passengers, "rather than recording, posting and embarrassing someone who may be in crisis, people seeing this kind of thing cut power to the tracks and report it ASAP so we can dispatch assistance."

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