Man in Suit Hops on Woman’s Back to Exit Flooded Train Station in Viral Video

Colin Fredericson
By Colin Fredericson
July 19, 2019US News
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Man in Suit Hops on Woman’s Back to Exit Flooded Train Station in Viral Video
90th Street subway station in Queens, New York, on Feb. 4, 2019. (Miguel Moreno/The Epoch Times)

A video a man in a suit getting a piggyback ride from a woman on a flooding subway in New Jersey has gone viral on social media.

Ashley Maas told the New York Post that she was trying to record water pouring down the stairway when she captured the scene on July 18.

The video shows a man in a suit standing at the bottom of the stairway when a woman suddenly appears and the man hops on her back and she carries him away.

“I was literally just standing at the top of the steps, taking a video of the water cascading down. I thought it looked pretty and also insane. And then all of a sudden that woman popped out, and he hopped on her back. I had no idea she was even there,” Maas told Patch. “I was laughing so hard, I don’t even remember thinking anything more than how unexpected and silly it was. They were like children.”

“The man in this video ran off the train with me,” said Maas. “I took out my phone to get a video of the water pouring down the steps. I didn’t know the woman was there until the moment in this video happened.”

The video was uploaded to Twitter on July 18 and has garnered more than 1.2 million views, 6.5 thousand retweets, 30 thousand likes, and almost 800 comments.

The relationship between the man and the woman is unknown. However, the piggyback ride made people on Twitter curious.

“Is it just me or did this Suit seriously check his watch while he was waiting for a young woman to carry him through this flood on her back?” one person wrote.

“Tbf 300 bucks to be carried could be a better option to 1200$ shoes being water damaged beyond repair. Yes, fancy shoes get ruined super easy. No, your jordans are not fancy,” another person wrote.

Maas recorded the video at a train station in Short Hills, New Jersey. In another video, she returns to the station after the flood is over.

“Returned to the scene. Mystery duo was nowhere in sight,” she wrote on Twitter the following day.

According to Maas’s Twitter profile, she is a video producer at the New Yorker, and formerly worked at The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Vimeo.

“[T]his viral video thing is giving me all the anxiety. can’t wait to go home & hide my phone somewhere while i eat all the ice cream,” Maas tweeted after the video gained steam on social media.

There is still no news on the identities of the man and woman, or how the piggyback ride was arranged.

The flooding appears to be a result of Hurricane Barry. Remnants of the hurricane left New Jersey with torrential rains and thunderstorms. People in a portion of the state were left without power, NJ.com reported.

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