New York’s infamous transit thief, 50-year-old Darius McCollum, has been impersonating transit staff and stealing trains and buses for over 35 years. He has been arrested no less than 30 times and has spent much of his life behind bars. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome (an autism disorder), as well as depression and anxiety stemming from a childhood school attack, the courts have never understood his obsession with transit. The subway was his sanctuary as child and he soon had memorized every trains schedule and all their stops. So much so that a driver once asked him to drive the train to the next station while he got it on with a ticket collector. He was 14 and drove the train perfectly and on time. He promised the judge he would never to do it again, but somehow he always ends up back on the rails or behind the wheel of a bus, and, inevitably, back in front of a judge and then in jail. -Jennifer Morris
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