A woman on the 8:16 into Gotham had quite a fright this morning. Just as we pulled into the Grand Central tunnel, the poster hanging inches from her face to the left fell off its moorings and crashed upon her. It was only made of cardboard and surely didn’t hurt her, but the poster’s content did give her quite a startle.
The poster advertised “Jesse James is a Dead Man”–a new reality show on Spike where some hipster doofus named Jesse James attempts to kill himself each week in some Nielsen-appealing manner. The poster itself featured the words “DEATH DEFIED” writ large, along with a creepy shot of James’ visage that’s half man, half cyborg, and about a third ghost. [Editor's Note: We will refrain from making mean jokes about the face-transplant woman here.]
Even after the woman got the poster back in place, she couldn’t help but stare at it for several seconds–perhaps witnessing her life flash before her during that time.