I'm sorry but I highly doubt a terrorist doing some research work would be wearing muslim clothing and just holding out a counter, that's just way too obvious, that's like setting off an alarm on purpose.. Wouldn't it make more sense to just to blend in with normal clothes and click the counter inside your pocket...This guy was most likely either crazy or just doing something else.
Better be safe and piss off one guy than feel intense regret if something happened. You did the right thing
correct
I would probably have paid no attention to it and listen to my music and sleep like i usually do.
*edit* oh if i did notice someone with a clicker... my first thought would be probably something for school/paper on # of people that come into a subway cart... meh the last thing on my mind would be of a attack
It is better safe than sorry. Think about how you would feel if something happened and you had done nothing.
Uh, there are always people using counters in the stations, especially 42nd St. They usually work for the MTA. Of course, they are usually wearing orange vests. The guy was also a moron not to identify himself to you if he was a legitimate worker.
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Wow, what a perfect cover for a terrorist.
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he could have very well been praying you know.. they have to do it at certain times a day and they arnt gonna let someone stop them.
i have a muslim friend who would just sit their and start praying when it was time.
the clicker is the most interesting part, dont know what that could have been.
i have a muslim friend who would just sit their and start praying when it was time.
the clicker is the most interesting part, dont know what that could have been.
prayers... they count their prayers that way =P
not sure if i would have done the same thing... just cause if i were a terrorist, i'd use a $2.99 digital watch with the start-stop timer feature. but that's just me *shrugs*
not sure if i would have done the same thing... just cause if i were a terrorist, i'd use a $2.99 digital watch with the start-stop timer feature. but that's just me *shrugs*
Maybe he wanted everyone to think he was crazy because it was so obivious?
Better to get him checked out and find out he's a nutcase than have him slip
away without being checked out.
I talked about that possibility with a co-worker of mine ... but the frequency of his clicks was way too rapid to be counting prayers. It may not have been timing ... it may have been people, honestly I don't know. What I do know is that he was counting something, and that he wasn't happy when I confronted him. The best description I have for his reaction was that he "shut down" and refused to respond in any way.
Right ... wrong ... I don't know, but I did what I felt was right, and I can live with that. If somebody saw me doing something suspicious, and I was innocent, I'd have no problem explaining myself or my actions (no matter how bizarre). This guy didn't want to do that ... not that he was obligated to do so, but he had the opportunity, and he chose not to.
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