Marge Karabelski wants her son’s misadventure to be a warning for others.

Last Saturday evening, Tommy Karabelski was hit by a subway train at Islington station.

Out for a night with his friends, he went beyond the subway platform’s yellow do-not-pass line to urinate and was hit by an oncoming train.

The 22-year-old is now in a coma at St. Michael’s Hospital with two brain bleeds, eye socket and facial damage, a thinning vein in his neck, blood in his lungs and listed in serious condition.

“Kids do stupid things and he isn’t out of the woods yet,” his mother Marge Karabelski said Thursday at the hospital with her son. ”We are hoping for a full recovery.

“ If nothing else, hopefully this will stop someone else from doing the same thing,”.

Karabelski, a warehouse worker , was in town visiting his Toronto girlfriend to celebrate her birthday.

Agencies/Canadajournal