If you live in a city with a mass transit system as sprawling as that of New York City, then you know that all sorts of things can screw up service (weather, passengers holding the doors, disembodied human heads), but has the reason ever been this cute? Late Thursday morning, the Metropolitan Transit Authority was forced to suspend service at the Church Avenue subway station in Brooklyn after a cat owner reported that two kittens had somehow gotten loose on the tracks.
After the pet owner made the report, electricity was cut from the rails and the MTA employees began their search, telling annoyed and delayed passengers that service had been suspended because of “ongoing NYPD activity.” Come on, MTA, you’re talking about adorable kittens here! Don’t you think this might be the one time subway riders would be sympathetic to the truth? (Apparently not. As one passenger told the New York Times, “I’m pro-cat, but this is absurd.”)