Woman who caused subway panic with bug prank is charged with reckless endangerment

A woman who caused a panic on a subway train last week was arrested on Tuesday and now faces a reckless endangerment charge. 

Zaida Pugh, 21, a self-described actress, said she was hoping to create a viral video and start a conversation around how people treat the homeless when she walked onto a D train last week with a bucket of bugs. 

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Pugh, pretending to be homeless, said she was selling crickets and worms for a quarter each. 

In a video of the incident, a riled up and nervous group of people crowds around Pugh as she walks amid passengers on the train. She and some of the passengers shout at each other before one of them smacks the bucket out of Pugh's hands, sending hundreds of critters flying.  Read more...

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