text: The NYPD says the subway surfer who was videotaped riding on the outside of a C train last week has been arrested. And this was at least the third time he's been caught doing so, leading one to wonder: does he know something we don't know? 
   
   Isaiah Thompson, 22, was arrested on Tuesday and has been charged with reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct for the most recent subway surfing incident. Police tell Gothamist this was at least the third time over the last year that he was caught riding on the outside of a train—he was previously arrested in March and November of 2017 and hit with similar charges, which clearly did nothing to quench his thirst for the thrill of riding uncomfortably while hanging on by his fingertips. (The NY Post says he was arrested a fourth time in September also for subway surfing, though police could not confirm that.) 
   
   Straphanger Matt Beary took the above video around 8:30 a.m. on Friday, between the Clinton-Washington and Lafayette Street stations on the C line. Beary says the subway surfer casually hopped off the train at Lafayette Street. "I just wanted to take the video because I thought it was awesome and also scary as hell," he told the Post. 
   
   New York City Transit chief Andy Byford told Gothamist: "Riding on the outside of a subway car is incredibly dangerous, disruptive, and foolish - it can cause major delays and easily result in death. This young man is lucky he ended up in police custody and not in a hospital or worse. We’re grateful to the NYPD Transit Bureau for its excellent police work and will assist in any way possible to obtain a strong conviction." 
   
   In September 2017—one of the months Thompson was arrested for subway surfing according to the NY Post's sources—the man in the video below was captured on video subway surfing: 
   
   This is the part where we have to remind you that subway surfing is really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really dumb and deadly. Just wait for the next train to come, you can survive waiting five more minutes, and just ride an MTA bus if you want an adrenaline rush. ||||| It’s summertime in New York City, which means the subway is at its most insufferable. Missing a train means waiting even longer in the suffocating heat of the rat-infested underground ovens that are New York subway stations. The trains are packed and sweaty, and the particularly unlucky commuter might get stuck in a car with broken air conditioning. 
   
   But one Brooklyn man has allegedly made a gutsy, incredibly dangerous habit to avoid all that, opting to ride on the outside of the train, “where fresh breezes and mole people beckon from the velvety darkness,” as Gothamist put it. 
   
   It was about 8:30 a.m. Friday when the daring soul missed the northbound C train at the Clinton-Washington Avenues stop in Brooklyn. 
   
   After the doors closed, the man, identified by the New York Police Department as 22-year-old Isaiah Thompson, grabbed onto the train from the outside. And off he went, surfing through the subway tunnel while some commuters — including one headphone-clad man looking at his phone — rode unsuspecting inside, according to a video captured by another subway rider, Matthew Beary. 
   
   “It was just sort of like spur-of-the-moment, take a camera out not knowing what was happening, but realizing as I’m taking this video that this guy is clearly hanging on,” Beary told Pix 11. 
   
   The video, which has now been viewed on Instagram more than 39,000 times, shows the man holding on in a calm, nonchalant manner, even letting down one of his arms. One woman with her back to the surfer is seen gazing out the window at him, her face stunned. 
   
   “It gave me the feeling that he had done this before,” Beary told CBS New York. “As he rode down he pressed himself against the door tightly so that way he wouldn’t get hit by anything.” 
   
   “My thought was I hope he’s going to be okay,” Beary added. “The woman next to me had her hand over her mouth in shock.” 
   
   Thompson survived his voyage, jumping off at the Lafayette Avenue stop, according to Beary. “Classic NYC craziness,” Beary wrote on his Instagram post. 
   
   But on Tuesday, days after Beary posted his video on Instagram, Thompson was arrested at his residence in Brooklyn, the NYPD told The Washington Post. He was charged with reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct. 
   
   And according to NYPD officials who spoke to New York news outlets, this was not the first time Thompson has been caught riding on the outside of a train. 
   
   Police told Gothamist that he was previously arrested in March and November of 2017 on similar charges. Authorities told the New York Daily News he was arrested four times in 2017, mostly on the C train line in Brooklyn. 
   
   New York City’s transit chief, Andy Byford, told Gothamist that riding on the outside of a subway car is “incredibly dangerous, disruptive, and foolish — it can cause major delays and easily result in death.” 
   
   Indeed, several people have died trying such a stunt. In January, a 29-year-old man fell to his death between two subway cars while riding on the roof of a New York City train. In 2017, A 13-year-old boy was seriously injured after crashing into a sign at the end of a station platform while subway surfing. In 2016, a Brooklyn urban photographer reportedly died after trying to ride on top of a Coney Island-bound F train. 
   
   “This young man is lucky he ended up in police custody and not in a hospital or worse,” Byford told Gothamist. 
   
   Thompson could not be located for comment.
target: – His name is Isaiah Thompson, but based on all the headlines coming out of New York City, he may as well go by "subway surfer" from here on out. Police arrested the 22-year-old and accused him of (calmly) riding on the outside of a subway car, a stunt that was captured in an Instragram video by a rider inside the car, reports Gothamist. Even more remarkable: This is at least the fourth time that Thompson has been arrested for the same offense, reports the New York Post. “I just wanted to take the video because I thought it was awesome and also scary as hell," Matthew Beary, the man who filmed last week's risky ride, tells the Post. The city's transit chief has a different view: "This young man is lucky he ended up in police custody and not in a hospital or worse," says Andy Byford. (The Washington Post rounds up two deaths and one serious injury since 2016 alone for other subway surfers.) Thompson faces charges of reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct, and creating a hazardous condition.