Tube passengers on the London Undeground were treated to some complimentary second-hand crack smoke the other night as a commuter pulled out his crack pipe and starting smoking it inside a Victoria Line carriage.

A Reddit user said that they were on their way home from work when  ‘a dirty, scuffy-looking man’ was behaving ‘oddly and attempting to light a small, metal pipe.’

It took a moment for them to realise that this man ‘was attempting to light up some crack.’

Mind the crack, indeed. Describing the experience on Reddit, they wrote:

He was as high as a kite, occasionally looking around but not really focusing on anything, with a gormless grin expression on his face. He was phlegming and spitting on the floor near-constantly too; every few moments he’d spit yellow liquid onto the floor below him whilst constantly clicking away at his lighter trying to get his crack to smoke, which was largely burnt up mass but still pungent enough to recognise that it was crack.

I deliberated for a few moments before calmly getting up and moving over to the other end of the carriage. During these few moments, most people either left the carriage to wait at another stop or joined me at the other end, leaving the crack addict to enjoy his half of the carriage alone.

Once off the train, they told TfL about it, but were told the man is a known addict in the area and there are complaints about him every other day, but there’s nothing they can do about it. Um, how about throwing him off the train and taking his crack away every time he does it? Pretty sure he’d start avoiding the Tube then.

Transport Secreary Heidi Alexander commented on the incident on LBC Breakfast, saying ‘smoking crack cocaine on the London Underground is obviously totally unacceptable.’

Might have been a better idea for the passengers to text British Transport Police instead of informing some disinterested Tfl worker. Then again, maybe the BTP would also say that there’s nothing they can do about it. See it, say it, sorry there’s nothing we can do?

Well anyway, apparently Sadiq Khan and the TfL Commissioner Andy Lord are ‘looking very closely as to how this happened and what action is taken against that.’

A TfL spokesperson told Metro it is working with police, specialist teams and other agencies ‘to help move vulnerable people away from our network and into help and support.’ Which they’d better start doing pronto or else the London Underground could reach the levels of the NYC Subway, where this sort of behaviour is basically part of the experience.

Here’s hoping this man gets the help he needs and BTP pull their finger out and start dealing with people like this on public transport.

To watch a man try to steal a TikToker’s phone as she filmed a video on the subway, click HERE.