Service was quickly halted on a line of Mexico Metropolis’s subway system after a rooster obtained free on the tracks
MEXICO CITY — Service was quickly halted on a line of Mexico Metropolis’s subway system after a rooster obtained free on the tracks.
Video distributed by the town’s Metro system Monday confirmed the electrical energy minimize off at a station close to the town’s heart on Sunday.
The video confirmed upkeep personnel and civil protection officers in laborious hats chasing the elusive chook across the tracks with brooms, gloves and a trash bag.
The rooster eluded a number of makes an attempt to seize it earlier than one employee tossed his coat over the chook.
The metro system mentioned service was shortly restored after the incident.
Mexico Metropolis’s subway system has been tormented by a sequence of incidents that metropolis officers had claimed had been sabotage. Earlier this 12 months a lady was arrested, however later launched, after bits of a plastic washer agitator fell on the subway tracks at one other station. It was later decided the incident was unintended.
Accidents on the subway have been a recurrent embarrassment for Mexico Metropolis Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, who is taken into account the most certainly candidate of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena social gathering to succeed him within the 2024 presidential election.
In Could 2021, an elevated part of the subway system collapsed, killing 26 folks and injuring almost 100. An investigation blamed deficiencies within the line’s building, and 10 former officers have been charged with murder, damage and injury to property, although none have been jailed.
Just like the president, Sheinbaum usually ascribes setbacks to a conservative conspiracy towards her.
Earlier this 12 months, López Obrador ordered 6,000 Nationwide Guard brokers to patrol subway platforms.