Last Thursday after leaving the Langston Bar & Grille, I meandered my way thru NorthEast DC, finding my way to the Stadium-Armory Metro Station. It was late in the evening, perhaps around 8:45 or so by the time I arrived to the train station. The frequency of train service sucks at this time of night.
Much to my delight, upon reaching the bottom of the entry escalator, I heard (and saw) a train arriving on my side of the platform. Having a 50/50 chance of it being the blue line, I commenced my trot toward the train. I zipped thru the faregate with the smoothness of the likes of Billy Dee Williams (*sips Colt 45*). As I ran down the platform escalator, I noticed something peculiar. "Thats odd...only the one car has the doors open, and none of the lights are on" I thought to myself. "Oh well...I AM still tipsy from the $5 Long Island."
I approached the set of open doors at the end of the car, and got the shock of my metro commuting career. Out came a female metro transit police officer with a freakin 12 GAUGE SHOTGUN!!! This sight stopped me in my tracks (no pun intended). I didn't know that I was equipped with anti-lock brakes until that very moment. After I stopped, I put my hands up and froze for a split second. She didn't point the gun at me or anything, but she just stood there in the doorway with the gun across her chest, looking EXTRA badass!
After being a deer in the headlights, I came to the conclusion that this WAS NOT the blue line. I began to laugh at the police officer, and she laughed back. She knew that I was in another world when I came down the escalator, and she was just waiting for me to wake up and smell the coffee. Having iMetro in mind, I said to myself "I gotta get a picture of this." The police officer saw me whip out the iPhone to take a pic. As I did, she backed away from the doors to avoid being photographed. Seconds later, like 4 other officers came out of nowhere with a huge metal cart on wheels. They rushed it onto the train in SWAT-like fashion. The doors immediately closed behind them, and off into the tunnel went the MONEY TRAIN!!
WHO KNEW METRO HAD A MONEY TRAIN!?!?!?! 
A rare glimpse of MetroMan making love to Officer Grace Santiago (Played by Jennifer Lopez) in the 1995 blockbuster, "Money Train". When questioned about this scene with Metroman in a recent interview, a clearly flustered Lopez could only come up with the words "Aye Papi!" 
3 comments:
1st of all I can't see the 2nd pic. 2nd - there is nothing else, I just can't see the pic!!!
Made that mistake back in 97 when I use to ride from Greenbelt.
Those dudes back then had NO since of HUMOR and were ready to BUST A CAP!
That mess was funny.
The first, and only, time I saw the money train was within months of 9/11/01. I'd only lived in DC for a little over a year.
I saw the armed guard come out, and I thought it was OVER. I was going to be dead body at the metro stop. I was thinking, my mother is right, I should NEVER have moved here from Indiana.
Then the armed person got right back in and the train left.
I didn't leave, since I didn't have another way home, but I was scared out of my mind. I looked for the incident online, but I couldn't find it.
It was years before someone explained to me what it really was. I don't know how it came up. I'd forgotten about the incident (and didn't want to ask anyone - I figured people wouldn't believe me.) When it was finally explained, I was like "OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
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