Video: How To Hop Trains In Queens Like An Old-Timey Hobo

Jeff Seal shows you how it's done.

Last summer we interviewed Brooklyn comedian Jeff Seal, who has an abiding passion for train-hopping adventures. In this funny new video, Seal gives a demonstration on how New Yorkers can live out their latent Jack Kerouac fantasies without having to leave city limits. Starting in Fresh Ponds, Queens, Seal enjoys a scenic train ride all the way up the Bronx. Pro tip: Don't trip:

How To Train Hop from Jeff Seal on Vimeo.

Last year, after he returned from a four day rail jaunt, we asked Seal how dangerous this sort of thing really is (it's obviously illegal). He told us, "I guess it's dangerous, but I don't know. It's one of those things where if you know what you're doing, it's not that dangerous. I wasn't too worried. I guess if I got my legs chopped off I would be kind of screwed, but I don't know. I didn't think that would happen." And look—one year later, and he's still got both stems!