August 7, 2013 — Subway riders got a taste of Sharknado late yesterday when a dead shark was discovered riding to Queens on the N train.
NYU student Brandon Sanchez, 20, of Williamsburg said he and a friend made the fishy discovery when they boarded the N train at Canal Street yesterday about midnight.
“I walk in, and there’s a pretty big, three foot dead shark on the train, and it smells terrible!” said Sanchez. “We were pretty much in disbelief, and kept laughing. It was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen on the subway in New York!”
Sanchez quickly Instagrammed the carcass, and then bolted to another car. “It smelled like rotten fish,” he said.
He speculated that it may have been a prank because of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, which started on August 4.
“I don't think someone killed it and put it there,” said Sanchez. “I think somebody probably bought it and left it there as a prank.”