Idiotic new 'bus surfing' craze hits New York as brazen roof riders film ... trends now

Daring New Yorkers have begun filming themselves surfing on MTA buses - months after the authority cracked down on subway surfing after the death of a teenager. 

Videos circulating on social media show people sitting and at times, jumping on top of buses as the heavy-duty vehicles travel across the city. 

In one Instagram video shared by a page named @_thisisnyc_, a man wearing Nike shoes can be seen sitting on the roof of an M15 articulated bus as the vehicle barrels down Second Avenue in Manhattan's Murray Hill neighborhood. 

At one point in the video, the daredevil stands up to show viewers the other vehicles around him as the bus continues to travel speedily. 

But while the man tried to gain popularity with his risky behavior, viewers have instead criticized his actions. 

One Instagram user frustratingly wrote: 'Can we stop encouraging bus/train surfing?? 

Another demanded a collective change and said: 'We gotta stop reposting these videos cause it encourages this stupidity to continue for clout.'

One user also requested that the page stop encouraging people by posting such videos. 

The wrote: 'don't encourage this... it's really dangerous and too many people don't take things like this seriously.'

Another user also asked who would be blamed if something happened to the risk-taker. 

'extra dumb now something happens to him. It’s the drivers fault?,' the concerned user wrote.