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classy said:
Yea right, like you really meant the color of the train..........first fvcking post, you chime in with some color sh1t
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I really hope someday you can move beyond race being the primary filter through which you percieve things around you. Until that time, please stop ruining ATOT threads with it.


Now back to this lady talking loudly on a cell phone in a public place...that is extremely annoying. I would have been upset if I was on the train as well.
 
OCGuy said:
I really hope someday you can move beyond race being the primary filter through which you percieve things around you. Until that time, please stop ruining ATOT threads with it.


Now back to this lady talking loudly on a cell phone in a public place...that is extremely annoying. I would have been upset if I was on the train as well.
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Whatever..........LOL
 
Youtube video

Woman feels 'disrespected' after being kicked off train

PORTLAND, Ore. – A woman who got pulled of an Amtrak train by police after passengers complained she was speaking too loudly on a cell phone said she felt “disrespected” by the entire incident.

Lakeysha Beard of Tigard was charged with disorderly conduct after police said she got into a “verbal altercation” with train passengers on Sunday. Passengers complained she refused to put down her cell phone and conductors had to stop the train in Salem, where police got involved.

Beard told KATU she was indeed talking on her phone, but said she didn’t understand why she had to be escorted off the train.

She made the comments during a brief phone interview. Beard declined a more extensive on-camera interview, saying she didn’t feel well.

An Amtrak official said a number of passengers complained Beard was being disrespectful during her prolonged phone conversations on the train. Salem police reported she had been on the phone non-stop since the train pulled out of Oakland, Calif. 16 hours earlier.

While this is an extreme example, social etiquette expert and instructor Jodi Blackwood said too many people don’t exercise basic courtesy when it comes to using their phones.

She said when people speak too loudly and have personal conversations in public places they don’t always realize the message they’re sending.

“What does that say to them? It says that you’re only thinking of yourself and that you are only aware of what you need and what you are doing and you are a less considerate person,” Blackwood said.

Amtrak does have a policy that riders can’t use cell phones in designated “quiet cars,” like the one in which Beard was riding.
 
amdhunter said:
There is no law against people using their phones on the train. Although annoying, they should have minded their business and let her talk if she felt like it.
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I've ridden enough PT and experienced enough loudass motherfuckers on their cellphones--any color any age--to know that for this incident to have resulted in a stopped train and de-boarding, she wasn't simply talking loud on her phone.

I'll assume she was loud as fuck, questionable content, probably yelling and screaming, and projecting her insanity towards others on the train. it's possibly that it took one person to suggest to her, even politely, to tone it the fuck down for her to snap and escalate things.
 
Sephire said:
An Amtrak official said a number of passengers complained Beard was being disrespectful during her prolonged phone conversations on the train. Salem police reported she had been on the phone non-stop since the train pulled out of Oakland, Calif. 16 hours earlier.

Amtrak does have a policy that riders can’t use cell phones in designated “quiet cars,” like the one in which Beard was riding.
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Wow, look like I'll have to find out what cellphone last 16 hours of continuous use without charging. :awe: I can't imagine use a phone>30 minutes, let alone 16 hours (960 minutes). Maybe she has unlimited minutes.

Not sure why they didn't just move her to the "noisy cars", instead of letting her leave the train.
 
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Metra 'quiet cars' get ringing endorsement from passengers

Passengers interviewed at the LaSalle Street Station late last week said their biggest issue with the designated cars so far has been fellow commuters serving as unofficial "quiet police."

Mallika Sehar, of Tinley Park, said she was unaware she was on a quiet car when she recently took a call from her son at school.

"The person next to me pointed to a sign and asked me if the call was important," said Sehar, 40. "I said no and she told me we were in a quiet car."



First time I'm hearing about quiet cars.
 
Apparently some cities have started this program.

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One of the comments on the youtube link with the woman that got tasered was pretty insightful; it's not a racial thing but rather a cultural thing. That woman felt entitled to do whatever the hell she wanted at her convenience, and damn the convenience of anybody else. While she probably felt that this sense of entitlement was due to her race, it is not in fact a trait shared by all members of her race.

I'm trying to picture an equally large Indian woman doing this, and failing. I just don't see it ever happening.
 
This chick was probably one of those that practically scream while talking on the phone. There was one (old white guy) today actually, but a customer in the building I was working at. On speakerphone and shouting...plus constantly saying "SPEAK UP, I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"...

I wanted to choke him.
 
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