'For passengers, they are more expensive than their own lives': MTA warns of the dangers of Apple AirPods

Recently, metro users have so often lost Apple AirPods in the metro that the transport department is considering a new public announcement warning passengers not to remove their wireless headphones when boarding or leaving trains.

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“For passengers, they are more expensive than their own lives,” said one of the subway cleaners about Bluetooth headphones for 159 dollars.

“Just last week, I had to stop a man from going down on rails to raise his headphones. I asked him to go upstairs to the booth and make a report. "

Between March and mid-July, metro workers collected 84 AirPods - almost 20 per month.

“This happens all the time,” said a support officer who was trying to find a female AirPod on the rail. “This thing is not even bigger than my little finger,” he said, recalling that he had picked up a tiny earphone after being pulled out of the rut.

"My boss told me to never do this again."

Another employee said that once he had to stop a woman from going down to the tracks to raise her headphones.

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“I told her that she cannot come down, she needs to wait for help. She waited about an hour until they came for her. "

“People don’t understand how deep it is down there,” he added, “and it’s not so easy to get up.”

Some people creatively tried to get their fallen headphones.

In July, Ashley Meyer wrote on Twitter about trying to find lost AirPods. She attached a piece of duct tape to the end of the broom and reached down to the rails. With the help of such a simple device, she was able to get a headphone.

This post about saving AirPod became viral, causing thousands of likes and reposts on Twitter.

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Owners of headphones trying to get their devices lead to delays in transport, reports The Wall Street Journal.

According to the latest traffic management data, almost 2% of train disruptions in June were attributed to passengers who dropped AirPods onto railroad tracks.

"Sometimes people say, 'Can you go and get my AirPods?' But we are not going to stop the train for this. And we certainly don't want people jumping onto train tracks to get their AirPods,” says New York City Transit chief Andy Byford.

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