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| Silky Johnson |
Ahhhh I love public transit. Nowhere else can you encounter such a broad cross-section of humanity than on the bus.
Yesterday a man was on the bus who clearly hasn't taken his meds in at least 6 months, because he was having a conversation with the empty seat next to him the whole time. Then he kept turning around and seeking agreement from other imaginary people on the bus, lol.
And today some ghetto broad was yakking SO LOUD on her phone the whole time to her baby daddy, about how he's so immature, needs to pay child support, doesn't care about his kid (whose name escapes atm, but I recall her saying it, lol), blahblahblah, etc., etc.
These sort of things aren't new...stuff like this happens all the time on public transit.
I just figured we could have a discussion about whack jobs on the bus/subway/whatever. Lol. |
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| SuspicionVandit |
you don't look mexican :conf:
when I was 15 or 16 a toddler his pants and the whole bus smelled very bad. and then he died. |
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| Silky Johnson |
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| Theresa |
A while ago I was on the bus when a couple came on the bus. The guy was clearly drunk off his ass and ended up on the floor in front of the door at the back of the bus. He reached out to a guy sitting in the seats facing the door, and when the guy kinda pulled away, he lost his .
He got up and started swinging at this guy and yelling. When his girlfriend tried to restrain him, he slammed her up against the plastic barrier thing that is between the seats that face forward directly behind the back door, and then started strangling her. While he was doing that, he noticed these two really old Asian men sitting in the seats behind the barrier and then started screaming at them to go back to their own country.
Ironic thing was that he was Philippino or something...
In the meantime, the bus driver pulled over and called the police, but luckily the nut job got off the bus. I think that was the first time I truly feared for my safety on public transit. |
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| Silky Johnson |
The first week of school somebody jumped in front of the train...not one of the days I was on it though.
Then a month later some kids had been throwing rocks at it, so they set up one of the marshalls in a ditch in the area where they knew it was happening, and they caught the kids that were doing it...but at the expense of everyone else's time. My friends were on the train that day and said they watched the whole thing go down, and saw the kids get reamed the out, lol. |
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| Theresa |
Although the news never confirmed it, I am pretty sure that someone jumped in front of the train here not long ago.
We were trying to get somewhere and the train service had been stopped to an entire section of the city. When we got to that part of the city, we discovered a 5 or 6 block area surrounding the train tracks and station cordoned off and there were firetrucks, ambulances and police cars.
I googled it and nothing came up, but I have my suspicion.
I can't imagine how incredibly traumatizing it would be to 1. be the conductor of a train that hit someone, and 2. be a passenger on the train and witness it. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Yep, well...passengERS. The lady working at the time we were talking about the jumper said it happens quite often, and that it's horrifying for everyone at the front of the train and the conductor. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| What makes buses such spectacular freakshows is that you don't get a cross-section of humanity. You get a dense sample of those who cannot drive/run a car: the elderly, kids, the poor, the crazy. |
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| Omega_Blue |
i remember one time, there was this really creepy homeless/mentally unstable guy who wouldn't leave a semi-attractive college girl alone on the bus. it got so annoying for me, watching this whole thing go down and the girl pretty much cower in fear, that i got up, grabbed one of the "oh " bars and stood between the two of them, and i asked the girl "do you mind if i stand here? i wasn't interrupting anything was i?"
she got this look of relief on her face and said "no not at all!" the guy asked her if she knew me, she was like "yeah we've been friends a long, long time" and we both proceeded to ignore the guy. anyways, we ended up getting off on the same stop and went our separate ways, she said thanks, and that was it.
..in retrospect, i should've gotten her number. lol |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
What makes buses such spectacular freakshows is that you don't get a cross-section of humanity. You get a dense sample of those who cannot drive/run a car: the elderly, kids, the poor, the crazy. |
Maybe where you live. But where I live, all kinds of people use public transit. |
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| Omega_Blue |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
Maybe where you live. But where I live, all kinds of people use public transit. |
yup, where i live, sure there's a bunch of poor people or kids, but there's definitely far more students and normal people who just don't like to drive in my neigbhorhood. go outside the neighborhood, into the "hood" hood, and yeah. then it gets sketchy. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
Maybe where you live. But where I live, all kinds of people use public transit. |
True. If you live in a city, I can believe that. I live in a rural area, and most people need a car to survive. So it's only the fringes of society who use the buses. |
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