Two girls have people shaking their heads in disbelief after a video went viral of them twerking on New York City subway tracks. According to the New York Daily News, the video popped up on YouTube Monday, Nov. 25 and shows two girls with their backs to the cameras shaking and grinding their butts on the tracks.
A spokesperson for the MTA said the video was given to the NYPD.
"One word, dumb," said MTA's Kevin Ortiz.
According to New York Magazine, one of the girls came forward and somewhat explained why she and her friend jumped on the tracks to do the video.
"You know, yolo. I was only having fun," Jarisa Fuentes, wrote in an email to Daily Intelligencer, the magazine reports.
She said the footage was shot around 1 a.m. on Sunday at a D train station in the Bronx. Apparently Fuentes and her friends had been waiting an hour for the train and started talking about YouTube videos they saw of people jumping on the tracks to get to the opposite platform.
"But because I'm short I knew I wasn't gonna make it," she said. "We were down there for only a couple seconds. Also we made sure we were careful when we went down there."
In the email Fuentes said she and her friends "made sure no train was in sight" before she and the other unnamed girl jumped down.
"I wasn't scared," she said. "I was just cautious."
The video already has over 94,000 with most people commenting how dangerous it is. Even though singer Miley Cyrus has no connection to the video, ever since her infamous VMA performance with Robin Thicke many people have recreated the dance. According to the Daily Mail, videos have popped up of people twerking in libraries, churches and in graveyards.
