The criminal carefully jams the token slot with a matchbook or a gum wrapper and waits for a would-be rider to plunk a token down.
The token plunker bangs against the locked turnstile and walks away in frustration.
Then from the shadows, the token sucker appears like a vampire, quickly sealing his lips over the token slot, inhaling powerfully and producing his prize: a $1.50 token, hard earned and obviously badly needed.
“It gave you the willies,” said Brendan J. McGarry, a veteran transit police officer. “We’ve had cases every so often, these guys would end up choking and swallowing the tokens. Then what do you do? You’ve got to wait for the evidence to come out?”
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