‘Good kid’: Mom mourns teen son killed
subway surfing between Brooklyn and Manhattan
WPIX-TV [New York, NY],
by
Shirley Chan
&
Jay Dow
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
2/22/2023 9:17:20 AM
LOWER EAST SIDE, Manhattan — The heartbroken mother of a 15-year-old boy killed while subway surfing on a train crossing the Williamsburg Bridge remembered her son as a “good kid,” as she urged fellow parents to be aware of the dangerous and potentially deadly trend. Zackery Nazario “was a very nice kid. Old soul, very mature. Good kid, good kid,” grieving mom Norma Nazario told PIX11 News. The teen boy was killed Monday evening while riding atop a Manhattan-bound J train headed over the Williamsburg Bridge, according to authorities. Nazario hit his head on a metal beam as the train
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 2/22/2023 9:20:51 AM (No. 1409100)
Parent feels no responsibility for this tragedy?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
hershey 2/22/2023 9:21:05 AM (No. 1409101)
Sorry he died, but 'very mature' people do not ride on the top of subway trains...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Vitaman 2/22/2023 9:26:55 AM (No. 1409106)
Sad that this young man had to become a Darwin Award nominee as an example to those doing stupid things because trend.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 2/22/2023 9:34:48 AM (No. 1409116)
Horrible and I feel for the kid's survivors. Unfortunately it just goes to show, ever a'good kid' can win Darwin Awards.
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#1 - "Jesuslover" I'm sure Jesus would be comforting a woman who just lost her child instead of snarking about her accountability online like an armchair quarterback. I doubt you know anything about this poor family aside from the headline.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
red1066 2/22/2023 9:41:48 AM (No. 1409123)
The death and the description of the teen doesn't add up or make sense. The parents say the kid was an old soul and very mature, yet the way he died indicates just that he was just the opposite. I've been called an old soul my entire life, because I've always had the feeling that I've been here before. I didn't do stupid and sometimes dangerous things when I was younger simply because of that feeling. Yes, I may have missed out on doing some exciting things which at the time seemed cool, but I don't regret it one bit.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 2/22/2023 9:48:37 AM (No. 1409129)
By a unanimous decision the Darwin Award for Subway Surfer of the Year for Surfing under the influence of marijuana goes to The Good Kid.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 2/22/2023 10:00:50 AM (No. 1409139)
Gavin Newsom is the US version of Canada's Justin Trudeau. He is a very dangerous person and we need to keep him away from the WH. Far away.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 2/22/2023 10:11:52 AM (No. 1409153)
Lawsuit to follow, expensive measures to be taken to prevent stupidity from ever happening again, ticket prices rise, affected poor people riot because they can't afford. We've seen this tragedy play out before.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 2/22/2023 10:15:15 AM (No. 1409156)
Feel sorry for his family, any child's death is a loss no matter how it happened. Fifteen year old children aren't very smart or mature and will often do things pretty dumb to our eyes. This is why we need to stop medical personnel and school officials from grooming and mutilating children because children don't have the life experience to know what they are doing.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Californian 2/22/2023 10:18:02 AM (No. 1409158)
This sort of thing is why TikTok is blocked at my wifi at home for all devices.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
BluesClues 2/22/2023 10:42:54 AM (No. 1409178)
Sometimes folks die when they do dangerous things. Sure it's sad. The thing that get's me, is the parents say, "The MTA needs to do something about this!". Um, hello! The MTA needs to do something? How about the parents need to teach their kids better. Or at least, the parents need to accept the fact that their son did dangerous things. But blaming it on the MTA is a stretch.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 2/22/2023 11:12:30 AM (No. 1409211)
As I commented about a previous story, LIfe is an ongoing, daily intelligence test. This "adventure" is extremely stupid, and deadly.
It gets difficult to gin up a lot of sympathy for people who do ultra stupid, terribly dangerous stunts like this and get harmed. Nobody forced these people....free choice, and bad judgement can result in a much shorter life.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 2/22/2023 12:19:58 PM (No. 1409274)
Oh please #5, stop it. And maybe poster #1 is posing the question so that other parents can learn from tragic situations like these. They seem to be happening more and more and, quite honestly, parents really do need to have a vested interest in what their child is doing. Talk with them, find out what they are doing, and really care about them. . .
Give me a break - don't you think some of us are hurting inside because of what is all happening? Seems like nobody gives a hoot and we just have to accept what is going on.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 2/22/2023 12:42:23 PM (No. 1409297)
I have sympathy for the boy's family. Teens are notorious for doing stupid things, and some pay a high price. Unfortunately this boy was one of them.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 2/22/2023 12:47:43 PM (No. 1409298)
Most of us engaged in risky, stupid, dangerous and or illegal activity at some point in our teens. Thankfully, nobody had to knock on a parent's door with unfortunate news. There but for the grace of God.......
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Hazymac 2/22/2023 12:48:25 PM (No. 1409300)
When one's head gets hit on the top the NYC subway at full speed, one is dead. The "hunker down when you're on top of thew subway" rule didn't apply.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 2/22/2023 1:36:17 PM (No. 1409333)
Chuck Darwin approves.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Highlander 2/22/2023 7:19:16 PM (No. 1409514)
Every generation of teenagers had stupid games to win stupid prizes. Remember “chicken?”
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 2/22/2023 7:40:09 PM (No. 1409534)
Sad but this happens all the time. I look back on the stupid, dangerous things I did as a teen....drag racing, etc. teenage boys have rubber bands for brains.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
pensom2 2/23/2023 1:59:40 AM (No. 1409702)
Mammas, don't let your babies grow up to be subway surfers.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
broken01 2/28/2023 12:38:47 PM (No. 1413881)
Somehow the movie "Speed" with Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock and the late great Dennis Hopper comes to mind. Sorry for the loss of their son but someone should've told Zack that it's never cool nor safe to play on top of moving subway trains.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
RWPollock 3/1/2023 6:59:52 AM (No. 1414460)
Darwinism at work. What an idiot!
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Very sad - he was just turning his life around. There are social media sites egging-on people who ride atop the subway car for fun.