[Maru]

BROOKLYN, NY --
A woman has been arrested in connection with a wild subway incident in which live crickets were apparently released on a crowded train.

The NYPD said Zaida Pugh was picked up by the Brooklyn Warrant Squad. She's facing a reckless endangerment charge.

NYPD Chief Robert Boyce said she put people at risk.

Pugh, who says she's an actress on her Facebook page, later admitted the video she made showing the ordeal was a social experiment that she hoped would go viral. This one involved crickets and worms on a D train last week.

Pugh said for this experiment, she wanted to see how people treat homeless people, so she dressed up as one and carried the critters around in a container. She told a media outlet that the bugs - more than 300 crickets and at least 200 worms -- were for the "amusement for the video."

But the stunt went awry, and the bugs went flying into the air, causing panic on the train. A passenger pulled the emergency brake and the train was stuck on the Manhattan Bridge for about a half hour while the MTA investigated.

Pugh later posted a teary, nearly 40-minute apology, saying "I just wanted my art and messages to spread across the world and people get my point of views."

http://abc13.com/1492950/

[Shaun]

She sounds like someone that could do with a job.

[Ammi]

...I thought it said wild cricketers for a moment...I don't get the homeless experiment and why the crickets and worms with that...anyways, you can't train crickets I guess is the message there...

[Ammi]

..here for the wild cricketers though...

[Maru]

Damn it, people replied. Now I can't make use of an epic cricket joke...

[Cherie]

Sorry but

[Niamh.]

ew gross


-I too was expecting this to be about Cricket the sport-

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

ew gross


-I too was expecting this to be about Cricket the sport-

I thought maybe a Cricket Mobile publicity stunt

Who knew



I'm not sure I have the energy to watch her 40 minute apology. Waiting for the Dr. Phil interview though

[Livia]

Not Freddie Flintoff, then. He's a bit wild. All-England drunken pedalo champ.

[Vicky.]

I don't get why someone (even pretending to be)homeless would be carrying a box of ****ign crickets and worms? Am I missing something

[Mystic Mock]

I was hoping it was a wild Sporting moment then.

[T*]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

I don't get why someone (even pretending to be)homeless would be carrying a box of ****ign crickets and worms? Am I missing something

To sell apparently

[smudgie]

Maybe she was hoping to worm her way out of it all.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Maru

I thought maybe a Cricket Mobile publicity stunt

Who knew



I'm not sure I have the energy to watch her 40 minute apology. Waiting for the Dr. Phil interview though

Originally Posted by Livia

Not Freddie Flintoff, then. He's a bit wild. All-England drunken pedalo champ.

I would have watched a 40 minute apology from Freddie Flintoff tbh

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Shaun

She sounds like someone that could do with a job.

You sound like the daily mail... It was a joke.