Almost a thousand New Yorkers dodged a huge bullet in the form of a giant drill bit that came inches from skewering a subway train they were riding.
The massive drill nearly doubled as the world’s biggest canopener, carving its way through a packed F train on Thursday afternoon.
A Metropolitan Transportation Authority supervisor called it “a near miss.”
“Oh my God! If it had hit the train, you could forget about it! Of course we are concerned,” the supervisor said.
“Somebody made a mistake; maybe a surveyor or a field engineer,” one MTA source told the New York Post. “They drilled into the street, but didn’t realize they were right over the F train tunnel. They weren’t supposed to be in that spot.” h/t mashable
The drill bit, which was approximately 10 inches in diameter, shattered glass windows and came within inches of boring through the subway car’s roof.
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