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A transit system cleaner was apparently so desperate for a vacation he lied about getting slashed on the job — going so far as to cut his own hands to try to sell the ruse, according to prosecutors.“My goal was to have the summer off because it was too hot down there,” Henry Herring, 54, allegedly told investigators after the hoax was exposed.Herring, who was hired as a transit cleaner last year and has since been suspended without pay by the MTA, was arrested on a charge of falsely reporting an incident last week.[URL unfurl="true"]https://nypost.com/2024/08/05/us-news/mta-worker-charged-with-making-phony-subway-slashing-claim-to-have-the-summer-off-da/[/URL]
A transit system cleaner was apparently so desperate for a vacation he lied about getting slashed on the job — going so far as to cut his own hands to try to sell the ruse, according to prosecutors.
“My goal was to have the summer off because it was too hot down there,” Henry Herring, 54, allegedly told investigators after the hoax was exposed.
Herring, who was hired as a transit cleaner last year and has since been suspended without pay by the MTA, was arrested on a charge of falsely reporting an incident last week.
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