This subway performance got derailed in a hurry.
A former “American Idol” contestant held his ground after being “attacked” by a disgruntled straphanger and won over a car full of straphangers on the A train in Manhattan, a viral video showed.
Shane Dan Turner, 29, was busking between 125th Street and Columbus Circle Wednesday afternoon when a woman who claimed her ears were too sensitive for his music grabbed his tip money and drowned him out with her own loud wailing, according to the clip.
“That was me being attacked by a mentally ill woman,” Turner said as he reshared the clip with an explainer at the end of it.
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