Pregnant woman's reward for 'decent dude' who gave her his seat on a train

Yvonne Lin, a 38-year-old New Yorker, was so pleased when a man stood up to give her a seat on the subway she gave him a trophy.

Lin, a designer, posted on Instagram that she regularly used the subway during both her pregnancies, but it wasn't until she was in the third trimester of her second that a man gave her a seat on a packed train.

Lin said that while many women had given her a seat, she decided to continue her social experiment to see whether a man would stand for her - and he would be handsomely rewarded.

A bronze statuette - which appears to depict the "Incredible Hulk" tearing his shirt - atop a plaque that reads "#1 decent dude. First man to offer subway seat to pregnant woman throughout Two Pregnancies." became a prize.

"I was getting no seats from men," she said, "if I finally get a seat from a guy then I have to celebrate this some way and make sure he knows he's appreciated."

"I thought, 'You know what, it's worth it to carry it,'" Lin said.

"I didn't get a single subway seat offered to me by a man throughout my first pregnancy. So for the second pregnancy, I had this made and I've been carrying it around everyday - till last Friday. This guy is the winner!"