When someone gets in your face

[lethe]

but...

you do have screws loose.

nothing more dangerous than the crazy white guy
crazy "whatever else" guy might shoot or stab you
crazy white guy, who the hell knows what they'll do

I use a similar tactic when in bad neighborhoods, I look overly pleased to be there.
Nothing scarier than a smile when there should be none.

[mitt]

What language were they speaking?  I couldn't understand a damn word.


mitt

[Grappa]

Agree with most of what Bladecutter said, but I would give the DWW a few points for having the nerve to stand up for what is right.  It kinda irritates the shit out of me to see people blatantly disregard the rules and everyone around them.  Granted it was a series of dumb moves by DWW, and she had very little tact, but she was calling someone out for breaking the rules/law.  Most of us just turn the other cheek.  Would I have bothered?  Probably not.  As Ron White says, "You can't fix stupid."

[Veloce-Fino]

Quite a few of us law-abiding types that carry too. 

What language were they speaking?  I couldn't understand a damn word.

mitt

[lethe]

Agree with most of what Bladecutter said, but I would give the DWW a few points for having the nerve to stand up for what is right.  It kinda irritates the shit out of me to see people blatantly disregard the rules and everyone around them.  Granted it was a series of dumb moves by DWW, and she had very little tact, but she was calling someone out for breaking the rules/law.  Most of us just turn the other cheek.  Would I have bothered?  Probably not.  As Ron White says, "You can't fix stupid."

you'd be correcting people every two minutes on a NYC subway if you felt that was your duty
it would not be a very lengthy career

[Grappa]

you'd be correcting people every two minutes on a NYC subway if you felt that was your duty
it would not be a very lengthy career

Yeah, you're right about that.  I just wanted the DWW to get a few positive points.  Guess it's the Human Resources side of me, giving both positive and negative feedback. 

[Vindingo]

Agree with most of what Bladecutter said, but I would give the DWW a few points for having the nerve to stand up for what is right.  It kinda irritates the shit out of me to see people blatantly disregard the rules and everyone around them. 

It pisses me off too... these are the same people that litter where ever they go.  Driving through Newark the other day the amount of garbage on the ground just blew me away.  Maybe it was the contrast of the beautiful day and absolute shit hole of a city.  Even though the crappy burb I live in is boring, it is clean.  The only place where you constantly see garbage on the ground is within a 10 yard radius of the bus stops.     

Their blatant disregard for rules will catch up with them eventually.

[lethe]

It pisses me off too... these are the same people that litter where ever they go.  Driving through Newark the other day the amount of garbage on the ground just blew me away.  Maybe it was the contrast of the beautiful day and absolute shit hole of a city.  Even though the crappy burb I live in is boring, it is clean.  The only place where you constantly see garbage on the ground is within a 10 yard radius of the bus stops.     

Their blatant disregard for rules will catch up with them eventually.

don't know about that, accountability seems to be something that has been lost and never to be found again

[Privateer]

there are times to stand up for The Rules and times to let shit go.

Someone eating their dinner on the train, probably to/from work?  big deal.  If they're not slopping it on you, who cares.

[jc.cyberdemon]

i try not to eat in public places like that and if i did i would be pretty make the beast with two backsing pissed if someone ran their mouth at me while u was eating yup she definitely had an ass kicking coming to her.

[RAT900]

It pisses me off too... these are the same people that litter where ever they go.  Driving through Newark the other day the amount of garbage on the ground just blew me away.  Maybe it was the contrast of the beautiful day and absolute shit hole of a city.  Even though the crappy burb I live in is boring, it is clean.  The only place where you constantly see garbage on the ground is within a 10 yard radius of the bus stops.     

Their blatant disregard for rules will catch up with them eventually.

A city made up of people who also throw their garbage out in their own hallways for the rats when they are at home...

because taking it down to the trash bins requires too much effort

and yes it has already caught up with them

they get to live shitty lives in a shit hole of their own making


Humans as a species are naturally-born as disgusting monkeys....

they need to be educated/trained/socially "house-broken"

to elevate themselves to the level of human-being

[Heath]

There had to be something said or done before the video started.  Something happened that made him want to start the video in the first place.  The whole "who eats spaghetti on the subway"  wouldn't of just come out of the blue like that.  I wish there was some write up or more about the whole thing.

[RAT900]

The Lower Eastside Tenements weren't any better in the 19th and early 20th Centuries than any of the current venues

It never ceases to amaze me that people are surprised about human squalor, human behavior etc etc...

Coming out of the hole, we are all basically no better than Travis the Chimp if we are operating without training in higher-order behavior and socialization....

we just have less hair, wear clothes and have a bigger range of communication noises

the simple truth of the matter is that the only thing that "might" possibly differentiate us from a cage of our cousins at the zoo

is training

[Kopfjäger]

Just watch Kings of NY.

[RAT900]

There had to be something said or done before the video started.  Something happened that made him want to start the video in the first place.  The whole "who eats spaghetti on the subway"  wouldn't of just come out of the blue like that.  I wish there was some write up or more about the whole thing.

I would rather endure someone eating on the train than evacuating their bowels on the train...which I have witnessed....

IRT  Wall Street...Uptown Express rush hour...Chambers Street stop...

"Homeless" man (de-institutionalized insane) filthy and stinking gets on the train wild-eyed and looking like he could go-off at any second...Captain Craptastic came in through the end set of side doors...

were are now on our way to 14th Street...which can be an eternity depending on train congestion or worse what is going on in the subway car you choose to ride in

I am watching him from my safety position...I am standing by the door between the train cars in case I see a reason to move to the relative safety of another subway car...

grabs the floor-to-ceiling pole....people get a whiff and start clearing back from him....he is only about 5 or 6 feet away from me and it is overpowering

all of a sudden he starts bouncing up and down....I recognize the dance...

my son used to do it as a toddler when he was getting ready to load up his diapers

I immediately smile to myself and turn, open the end-door and move quickly to the next subway car

watching through the end-door windows I see him still holding the pole and shaking his leg wildly to get the shit he just let loose out on the floor

within seconds a mob of commuters is trying to force their way into my new subway car


there is a cardinal rule in subway riding...

if it is rush hour and a packed train rolls into the station and it has one completely empty car

DO NOT board that car....there is something really really bad in there that you don't want to see or experience