An emotionally disturbed woman who was reportedly trying to sell crickets and worms on a D train last night caused a panic after she dropped her box full of bugs on the floor of a crowded car and started screaming. It appears the insects were excited to scramble about for freedom, but everyone else onboard the train was a little freaked out, to say the least. One commuter captured some of the incident on video and uploaded it to Facebook:

The Post reports that the unidentified woman was onboard the train at around 6 p.m. yesterday when she was pushed or hit by some teenagers, prompting her to drop the box. Things escalated quickly: "People started running toward the back of the train. They had crickets on their shirts, on their pants, in their hair. They were everywhere," Chris Calabrese, a 29-year-old Bensonhurst resident who was on the train with his girlfriend, told us. "There were women crying. It was the same type of chaos you would see if she had a gun or bomb."

Granted, other straphangers have probably seen even crazier stuff in their day, but a car full of crickets and worms is a lot to handle on an evening commute. To make matters worse, someone decided to pull the emergency brake, so everyone was stuck on the Manhattan bridge with the little buggies (and no A/C) for half an hour.

There are crickets in subway rn and they won't stop being loud af. Send help — Emma☺ (@emmapapslinky) August 25, 2016

Woman just let crickets out on the D Train as we went over the Manhattan Bridge. Panic ensued. Someone pulled the E-Brake. Stuck. New York. — Ezra Mechaber (@ezramechaber) August 24, 2016

Mass hysteria in a locked, enclosed space is something else. — Ezra Mechaber (@ezramechaber) August 24, 2016



The person who posted the above video wrote in a Facebook post:

We had no idea what was happening, just heard yelling, then screaming, then something flew in the air (the crickets...) and people scattered into the far end of the train—100 people at least jammed in—I was starting to panic because I had no idea if there was something caustic or flammable and I was pinned.... I heard someone on the platform say that the cops got the [person] that hit her. She really wasn't a threat, but she was in full on psychosis and people were trying to calm her down her and get her to sit. Some train crew opened the door between the cars and I thought she was going to jump out. Then she pulled up her pant leg and starting to urinate on the floor. People were standing on the seats. The man in the white/blue plaid shirt was being SUPER patient with her and trying to calm her down, he got her to sit from time to time—he was talking to her and trying to direct her. He really stuck with her. He was the hero in this—may many blessings be bestowed upon him.

Eventually, the cricket-filled car made its way to Dekalb Avenue, though not before the woman "tried to throw up on everyone," according to Calabrese, before urinating on the floor.

She attempted to move into another car when the train pulled into the station, but she was taken into custody by emergency services. She was removed from the train, and theoretically the crickets and worms were dispatched to safe spaces outside the subway. Or they just joined the rest of their brethren within the system: