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‘Help!’: 82-Year-Old Woman Falls After Being Dragged Off Miami Train for Singing Gospel Hymns

Mar. 7, 2013 1:43pm

Emma Anderson was kicked off of the Miami Metrorail train system after she was reprimanded for singing gospel music, yet refused to stop. The 82-year-old was booted off of the public transportation system by a security guard who reportedly wasn’t too gentle in his quest to remove her.

According to The Huffington Post, the guard approached the woman as she was singing and said,Β ”Let’s go. You’re getting off here.” As he picked up her suitcase, she protested and held tightly onto her bag.

In the end, because of Anderson’s refusal to let go, she fell off of the train and landed on the platform. She yelled, “Help!” as the guard expelled her from the cart. Passengers were horrified, with some calling for the official’s name and proclaiming that his actions were inappropriate.

The bizarre and tragic encounter, as reported by WSVN-TV, unfolded on Feb. 20. The outlet describes the incident as follows, “Anderson’s efforts were no match for the guard’s strength as she was dragged toward the exit. It was at this point, once the guard had forced Anderson off the train and onto the platform, that she fell down.”

Watch a news report from WSVN-TV that shows the shocking footage, below:

WSVN-TV –

A transit spokeswoman released the following statement surrounding the incident, defending Anderson’s expulsion from the train:

Miami-Dade Transit has a responsibility to all its passengers to provide a safe and comfortable travel experience. The elderly passenger, Ms. Anderson, who was escorted from a Metrorail train, was initially asked by a security guard to refrain from singing loudly and playing an instrument while on the train.

She refused to comply. County rules associated with transit use prohibit anyone from singing, dancing or playing a musical instrument unless a commercial permit is issued by MDT. Further, Ms. Anderson’s singing was causing a disturbance to other passengers and impeding important train announcements from being heard.

We regret that Ms. Anderson had to eventually be escorted out, but regardless of age, all passengers need to abide by the rules associated with using transit.

The family has hired an attorney and is exploring its options.

(H/T: Huffington Post)

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  • malbro
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:43pm

    Throw Gramma from the train………….

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    • edcoil
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 3:47pm

      Sometimes, when the need hits, you gotta sing.

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    • OldSurfRat
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 3:49pm

      Desert

      Mr Os memaw would not be singing hymns.

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    • canadianlady
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 6:36pm

      If Obama had a grandmother, she wouldn’t look like that woman because that old lady isn’t standing in Kenya.

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    • JGraham III
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 6:43pm

      Where is the ACLU when you really need them…oh wait! They don’t consider open practice of the Christian faith a civil right. Maybe the ACLJ will take this up and maybe this wonderful saint can get some ‘retirement’ money from the County, or at least have the b*st*rd who shoved her off the train fired.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 8:55pm

      I’m with you YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING..Rules are made to be broken..and this is one of those instances..Today I heard of a woman who had been severely beaten ran up to a US POSTAL TRUCK begging for help saying someone was trying to kill her..the postal driver said he couldn’t let her into the truck..I would have said..jump in and would have left without her getting her door shut..The postal worker stuck to his guns saying he would call 911 for her..While he was arguing with her..a man came to his side and stuck a gun in his face..he bent down and took off..He noticed a ways down the road..that the woman had jumped onto the back of his truck as he could see her hands..What a flipping jerk..Makes me wonder about people..Where is God in all of this? Certainly not in the hearts of many people..I applaud the ones on this train asking for this guys name..He “drug” an 80 yr old woman off causing her to fall off of the train..Wow..and someday some of you applauding his actions…I won’t say you will be in the same boat as this woman..because I would bet she has a place in heaven..

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    • TX_Ag_Engineer
      Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:11pm

      @JHRUSKY

      Have you never seen the Looney Tunes? Bugs Bunny?

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    • TX_Ag_Engineer
      Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:17pm

      Seriously folks, what happened to punishment fitting the “crime.” Yes, she was singing loudly; does that justify throwing her (literally) off a train? I’m all for enforcing laws, but it seems a bit much. While we’re at it, why don’t we toss the 5 year old who’s singing his alphabets too loud?

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  • afishfarted
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:42pm

    So, it’s ok to coddle loud, filthy, destructive, and obnoxious Occupy Wallstreet punks, but it’s NOT ok for an elderly lady to sing and play gospel music.
    Yeah, I see the fairness in that.

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    • El Pistoffo
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 3:08pm

      Reason 126 why I moved out of that Banana Republic called Miami.

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    • shorelineliz
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 3:54pm

      If she had been singing, “What if God was one of us? Just a slob like one of us?” Nobody would have bothered her at all. Or John Lennons, “Imagine”. Nope. Still not thrown off the train.

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 4:29pm

      No, it’s not OK to ‘coddle loud, filthy, destructive, and obnoxious Occupy Wallstreet punks’. Where did you get that it was?

      Additionally, it is NOT ok for anyone to sing and play loudly ANY music on public transportation. Why is that so hard to understand? If someone was singing loudly praises to Satan you’d be OK with that, too? It isn’t what one is singing, it’s how they are singing it. Loudly interferes with the rights of others, thus it’s no longer OK to do so.

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 5:07pm

      jhrusky

      Its amazing the stupid statements that come out of peoples mouths!

      No, it’s not OK to β€˜coddle loud, filthy, destructive, and obnoxious Occupy Wallstreet punks’. Where did you get that it was?
      Maybe it’s the fact that it was tolerated for months by those ” in charge ” People put up with the noise, the filth, the destruction, the harassment. And then there is this old lady that is “maybe” bothering someone (don’t see anyone complained in the article) that could not have endured it for the short trip to where ever they or she may be going. I routinely have to listen to the screaming of brats on trains! Are they thrown out by an a–hole?
      WHAT A MAROON!

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 5:58pm

      I must side with JRHUSKY…

      From KSVN, a source cited in the above story:

      “Miami-Dade Transit spokesperson Karla Damian said there is a noise policy which stipulates that singing, dancing and playing instruments are prohibited. A written statement reads in part: “We regret that Ms. Anderson had to eventually be escorted out, but regardless of age, all passengers need to abide by rules associated with using transit.”

      Although I have sympathy for the woman, and she may have been treated rather roughly, she must abide the rules as anyone else does.

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 6:25pm

      brother_ed
      Hopefully your mother is never going to be subjected to someone like you!
      You were not there and you think it was okay to miss treat this women, but people that were there say it was inappropriate – how do you account for that?
      This whiteboy certainly would not have let it happen!

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 6:59pm

      @YOUGOTTABEKIDDING

      You’re right, I wasn’t there, so I can’t rightly claim that she ‘WAS’ mistreated. Instead I could only say that she ‘MAY HAVE BEEN’.

      If the security person used inappropriate force, he should be reprimanded.

      Regardless of her age or what she was singing, she was in the wrong.

      That type of behavior is not allowed on Dade County public transport systems, and if she was told not to sing, but decided to keep on singing, she should have been asked to get off.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 9:05pm

      @YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING AND FISH..I meant to reply to this thread..I support your views..I posted it above..

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:38am

      @ yougottabekidding

      “Maybe it’s the fact that it was tolerated for months by those ” in charge ” People put up with the noise, the filth, the destruction, the harassment. And then there is this old lady that is β€œmaybe” bothering someone (don’t see anyone complained in the article) that could not have endured it for the short trip to where ever they or she may be going. I routinely have to listen to the screaming of brats on trains! Are they thrown out by an a–hole?”

      So, you are comparing officials who tolerated occupy people with an official riding a train that was enforcing the rules of that train? Do you have any evidence that the train official was also an official that allowed the occupy crowds to protest? If you do, then you have a point. If you do not, then you are trying to compare apples to radishes.

      I can agree with you that some of the occupy protests should have been stopped, forcibly if necessary. But, in a civilized society, one must obey rules and support those that enforce those rules. Additionally, they should be enforced in a manner so as not to harm someone if at all possible.

      “WHAT A MAROON!”

      So, you are calling me a dark brownish-red … or a firework? Who’s the “moron”?

      maΒ·roon [muh-roon] Show IPA
      adjective
      1. dark brownish-red.
      2. Chiefly British .
      a. a loudly exploding firework consisting of a cardboard container filled with gunpowder.
      b. a similar firework used as a danger or warning signal, as by

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    • damnedifwedont
      Posted on March 8, 2013 at 1:08pm

      You forget…this is Ocommie’s Brave New World.

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    • TX_Ag_Engineer
      Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:47pm

      @JHRUSKY

      Seriously? Bugs Bunny? Looney Tunes? Maroon? C’mon man!

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    • changedone
      Posted on March 8, 2013 at 6:19pm

      I think I need to make a road trip to Miami, board the train and sing Muslim songs. Oh, wait…do they even have those?

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    • christianUSA
      Posted on March 9, 2013 at 2:01am

      Opinion: Really horrifing and future telling thing is that the authorities supported this action, antichristian, anti-Free speech, to anyone based on the warpped free speech represssing premisss that only licenced persons can sing on public transport thereby by complexe laws on or in public singing that includes Christian is prohibited. Now consider this rules extended to many other Public places then how is that different than communism countries; not at all, such repressive countries use these same methods to control and justify thier ruthless bullying.

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    • snooop1e
      Posted on March 9, 2013 at 9:56am

      @BROTHER_ED – I agree with you. We all have to “occupy” this planet together and whether you are singing Gospel hymns or Gangster Rap or Country doing it out loud in public is disturbing the peace and not being considerate of others around you. Some of the comments in here are saying that this is a sign of the times and this is religious persecution but lets be honest here folks, we need to pick our battles. As a Christian if I am violating the transportation authorities rules by singing out loud on the train and disturbing other passengers and a Law Enforcement or Security Officer approaches me and asks me to stop I should stop. Being a Christian doesn’t give me the right to impose my will on others and ignore rules and laws and disturb the peace. Scripture tells us to obey the laws and to submit to those who have authority over us (both inside and outside the church) As Christians we should obey the laws and not disturb the peace. Terrorists believe that they can disobey laws and disturb the peace and terrorize people who don’t share their beliefs. As Christians we should not be acting like terrorists.

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on March 9, 2013 at 4:15pm

      Well said…

      We believe in being subject to kings, rulers, presidents and magistrates, and in obeying, honoring and sustaining the law.

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    • christianUSA
      Posted on March 10, 2013 at 8:31am

      Acts5:28 saying, “Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this Man’s blood on us!”[29]But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men. Matthew5:10 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.[11]“Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.Matthew13:21 “yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. 2Corinthians4:9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed Timothy3:12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.Ephesians 6:12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.Galatians2:4 And this occurred because of false brethren secretly brought in (who came in by stealth to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage),

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    • christianUSA
      Posted on March 10, 2013 at 8:44am

      Opinion: There is a forgotten hierarchy of in this country the Constitution with rights of Free speech and religion and right to protest higher then state or local but by many even mentioned in our higher laws the highest is from God. In most disturbing the peace laws makes no difference in type of sound, this would be bias, so these have a decibel level which was not noted nor part of this matter; requiring a costly commercial license implies commercial profit making restriction was the intent of the rule, since she was not profiting that should not have been considered; if she pay for a ticket they violated the contract by removing her and by being violent to her which could also be considered assault, also no contract can be against state or federal laws; on public transport does the State of Florida now prohibiting singing or Christian song for ones pleasure as one walks or sits on a bench? This would indeed be alarming repressive restriction of Free speech! But even if so the state laws should be considered a violation of her Constitutional rights. To call an 82 year old women sitting singing on a bench a terrorist or disturber of the peace is the product of wrapped mess-up minds, as is zero tolerance of certain speech is by definition no tolerance of free-speech. Maybe if the local Christians want to keep their Free speech rights they should consider contacting an attorney to hold a singing protest.

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  • JR71
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:40pm

    If I was the transit cop, I would have sat with her and ask what she was singing? were did you learn the words? I bet you know a lot of hymns,could you tell me a little about the hymn? ect, ect.
    God fearing people love to talk about there faith to pass on the glory of our Father who art in Heaven.
    before you know it, she would be at her stop and glad to get off, nice to have talk to you young man.
    But no .. the hied guns they know nothing, they are cowards,they are tought to use force (brain washed ) they can’t think on there own.that means they are a danger to us. they will shoot at the drop of a dime.If they did that to an 82 yr. old for singing hymns, what would they do to us??? WAKE UP AMERICA
    time is getting close.

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    • NigelTufnel
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:47pm

      Bingo! The left is really aweful with human relations and interactions. They are the Barney Fife’s of the world that never want to achieve respect unless it’s at the end of a gun or badge. Oh snap. It was a close Obama associate who said that of her love for Mao! Where’s Meteor? Where’s Sinsai? Where’s Keaton? Off somewhere being angry about something or someone I’m sure.

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    • fingerprintguy
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 5:04pm

      I am quite sure that at 82, this lady was a plethora of hymn knowledge. And I doubt that she was singing so loudly as to create a disturbance or drown out the messaging system.

      I’ve ridden that system, and I want to know why, when the large group of (obvious) gang bangers hopped on with their portable stereo booming so loudly that it shook the windows on top of their hollering back and forth, that the security guards on the train all headed toward the farthest car from the action.

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    • tajloc
      Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:56am

      great answer

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    • Dr Vel
      Posted on March 8, 2013 at 8:17pm

      fingerprintguy “I’ve ridden that system, and I want to know why, when the large group of (obvious) gang bangers hopped on with their portable stereo booming so loudly that it shook the windows on top of their hollering back and forth, that the security guards on the train all headed toward the farthest car from the action.”

      Because evil attacks only the weak, the innocent. Evil and cowardice are mutually inclusive as well.

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    • DenverKitty
      Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:07pm

      JR: You came up with a wonderful reaction to the lady’s singing. That would have been my reaction to her. I also would have asked her about her destination. Was it to see grandbabies or great-grandchildren? Did she have any family pictures? There were so many other options the guard could have taken. Would he have wanted his Mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother treated like that? She may have been breaking the rules, but who was she bothering? Doesn’t age get you any consideration any more? It’s a toss-up between rules and humanity?

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    • snooop1e
      Posted on March 9, 2013 at 10:06am

      @JR71 – That is a heartwarming fairy tale but the transit police deal with hundreds of people like this day in and day out. They don’t have the resources to ride the train and chat with everyone who disturbs the peace on the train. Their job is to ensure the safety of the passengers and maintain some level of order and peace. This really could have been solved very simply if the lady would have been considerate of others and of the police officer and stopped disturbing the peace. You also have to keep in mind that on a daily basis there are a lot of mentally disturbed people who ride the transit and the police officers are not mental health professionals, they don’t have the time the training or the resources to deal with people who might be suffering from Alzheimer’s or Dementia or any of the thousands of other mental/emotional illnesses. I agree that this police officer should have used more restraint in dealing with an elderly woman but lets be honest here the entire fiasco could have been avoided if she would have obeyed the rules and stopped singing out loud.

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    • mandmsgirl
      Posted on March 9, 2013 at 6:59pm

      @JR71
      Exactly, let’s remember this woman’s age. Following the rules is a good thing to do but she may not have understood and may have had problems related with age. She certainly didn’t need to be thrown to the pavement for breaking a small law. What about Honor thy Father and Mother..I’m quite sure that includes respect for the elderly…Isn’t that a higher law…

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  • sta
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:33pm

    This is from the article…
    “County rules associated with transit use prohibit anyone from singing, dancing or playing a musical instrument unless a commercial permit is issued by MDT. ”
    She didn’t PAY. Follow the money.

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    • GoodGoshMissAgnes
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 4:20pm

      NO ONE with any human decency would drag an 82yr old woman anywhere! I don’t care if she shouting obscenities at the top of her lungs instead of singing hymns. Are we really to believe that she can sing louder than the PA system? What made it permissible to abuse an elderly woman? Her singing? Her choice of song? Her age or skin color? Wasn’t there a single person on the train with an ounce of brains? I guarantee I would have done more than “proclaim my objections” like the other passengers! She is someone’s mother, granny, aunt or sister. The ironic part is she probably prayed for the guard who tossed her off the train! I hope he can sleep at night. What a piece of trash.

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    • RIDEMODELS
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 9:50pm

      I have 3 sisters that never visit their 87 yr old mother….its all up to me and it takes patience……A whole lot of women on the Katie show today though……Katie the Gay president lover….Nice.

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  • 123456beatriz
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:25pm

    Miserable people turning enemies of the Christianity.!

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  • Locked
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:23pm

    A rail guard, who likely couldn’t make it as an actual police officer, getting angry and strong-arming an old woman? I can’t believe that could EVER happen!

    Hope he gets fired.

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    • huey6367
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:31pm

      He’s protected by his union. His disciplinart action will be to work the platform or a different train.

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    • DLV
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:59pm

      “strong arming an old woman.”
      Lol sorry Locked I can’t help but laugh.

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    • Witness1974
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 3:11pm

      Would that be the Brotherhood of Tattletales with Flashlights, the BTF?

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    • 50211bs
      Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:51am

      Locked, its obvious a future TSA worker in training.

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  • whater39
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:19pm

    About time, get those crazy Christian nut jobs out of there.

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  • woodyee
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:17pm

    No one came to the old ladies defense.

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    • hi
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 3:42pm

      I know. That’s the real story here.

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    • amerbur
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 4:22pm

      Yes they did, they told him it was not appropriate and they filmed him and they put it on the news. Someone did come to her defense.

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    • widowofanAirForcevet
      Posted on March 8, 2013 at 1:54pm

      Everyone should have started singing with her when he started to harrass her. Think he had the b*lls to throw everyone off?

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  • Horsewithnoname
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:14pm

    Let’s be honest, Granny should have stopped singing when asked to stop singing. I’m a Christian who respect old people, but no. If she had been quieter in her singing praise, maybe, for a while, but not as loudly as I heard. When in a small space, like a Bart train, the sound will travel very easily. This has nothing to do with race, but, probably the guard felt she was so very old, that she was not capable of being reasoned with. Great for her, at 82 she can move herself around to and fro, I hope to also be that independent at that age. But like we tell children, when inside a little place, use your inside voice. She’ll probably get some sort of check from it. I thought that fellow would have been her grandson or even great grandson, but who knows?

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    • sta
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:23pm

      Perhaps she had a touch of dementia. Did it break anyone’s arm or pick anyone’s pocket?
      Leave the lady alone. Patience with oldsters should be a rule, unless they are violent.

      I wouldn’t want my mother or grandmother treated this way. Patience IS a virtue.

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    • CCRYDER
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:28pm

      Sorry, Horse, but that was no way to “escort” granny off the train! The train employee should have sat down next to her, taken her hand, asked her name and then said – Mrs. Anderson while we do enjoy your singing there is a rule that no singing or playing of instruments is not allowed on the train. If you do not wish to stop singing, then you need to leave the train.

      At that point if she did not stop he should have helped her up and walked her off the train. The problem started when he grabbed her luggage which he never should have done. And that he continued to do so dragging her off the train was shameless.

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    • Vilgax
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:37pm

      Your reasoning is why we comply and compromise and eventually submit to opression. The guard had no business touching the woman. If he had an issue with her singing he could issue a warning, a ticket, or just left it alone until she got off. The act of singing on public transportation made into a crime is just the kind of thing that has crippled our society and will eventually lead to our demise. We have no tolerance for anything. Oh, except bull**t. We’ll tolerate that all day long.

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    • JR71
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:50pm

      If I was the transit cop, I would have sat with her and ask what she was singing? were did you learn the words? I bet you know a lot of hymns,could you tell me a little about the hymn? ect, ect.
      God fearing people love to talk about there faith to pass on the glory of our Father who art in Heaven.
      before you know it, she would be at her stop and glad to get off, nice to have talk to you young man.
      But no .. the hied guns they know nothing, they are cowards,they are tought to use force (brain washed ) they can’t think on there own.that means they are a danger to us. they will shoot at the drop of a dime.If they did that to an 82 yr. old for singing hymns, what would they do to us??? WAKE UP AMERICA
      time is getting close.

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    • autofixer
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 3:13pm

      No way! We have this thing called the 1st Amendment–Freedoms of religion and speech. She had a right to sing. This brownshirt thug should be sued personally.

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    • shorelineliz
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 3:44pm

      I would have joined in with the crazy old bat and been thrown from the train too! Dang! What in the H E Double Toothpicks is wrong with America? You can’t play your guitar and sing a tune on a train? Dang! This country is in the toilet!

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    • Yeshuasbondservant
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 4:28pm

      She was singing loudly because of her hearing, she can’t hear her voice softly anymore at that age. My grandma is the same way she has to turn the tv way up to hear it and talk loud to hear what she is saying.

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    • Leader1776
      Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:40am

      @JR71
      Most excellent. We have the leftists (the tolerant ones) here saying ……..throw her off the train. Forget her age, wasn’t urinating on anyone, and certainly was NOT the type of person for which the ordinance was needed. But the left in their perpetual PO’ed rants want no part of old, black, or religion.

      Your take on the situation was entirely humanistic and the most logical way to have handled this non-issue. Thanks for your post.

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  • huey6367
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:13pm

    Where’s the cry of racism?

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  • NigelTufnel
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:11pm

    Call me naive but I am continually perplexed as to why the left is angry all the time. They have achieved government controlled health care. Massive cuts to defense spending. Keynesian stimulus beyond imagination. No work requirement for welfare. A gop party in complete dis-array. Now they are on the cusp of amnesty for illegals and gun control. There isn’t much left for the left to accomplish. We’ve had reports of people walking around with $7.000 on their SNAP cards. This is Pelosi’s very definition of stimulus. Yet they are still angry 100% of the time. Why is this so? Is it because there are still Warren Buffets, Donald Trumps, Bill Gates and other wealthy people waling the planet? Or is it because there are happy people such as this elderly lady walking around them everyday? What gives Meteor? What gives Keaton? What gives Sensai? I can only conclude that everything you complained about for the the last 40 years has been addressed and now you don’t like what you see. Why are you people so mad all the time? It seems you are not happy unless there is someone to hate!

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    • huey6367
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:17pm

      They will be angry until they get everything they want. Then they will be angry because everything is screwed up. Then they will be angry because there will be no that knows how to fix it.

      Get it?

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:35pm

      They are just sad and pathetic people who aren’t happy with their lives, never will be happy, and the only joy they get is making everyone else as miserable and pathetic as they are. Living in Sacramento for 5 years, I seen it, and lived among these type of people. Nothing will ever make them happy.

      And the Utopian dream they have been sold, can never be reached, but it is like a meth addict. A meth addict gets that big first high, but it overloads their sensory sections in the brain and fries them, thus they can only reach that high once. That is what is so addictive and it drives them to reach that high again, but they never can. The same goes for liberals, they have been sold this dream, and told, if we do A, B, C, we can reach this utopia. Even when we do A,B, C, and things are still screwed up or worse, they get mad, because everyone else is screwing up their dream of utopia. Hence the anger, just like a meth addict who can’t achieve that same high again.

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    • armyofnibiru
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:36pm

      keynesian no,kenyensian yes.

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    • NigelTufnel
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:43pm

      I’m sorry Huey. But I don’t get it. I’m a conservative but I am very happy. I’ve very happy with the recent cuts to government spending. I’m very happy that the private sector appears to be finally taking over again. 198,000 jobs created last month. I’m very happy that capitalism appears to be winning against this lates round of Progessive bologney. CSCO is up $1.20 today. If I’m Obama I’m saying, “hell yes the sequester was my idea and it’s working already. Keynesian economics calls for a handing off of the baton to the private sector at some point. It appears to be now. Hurray!!!! Yet Obama acts like the end of the world is nye. I can only conclude that he is the narcisisist we said he was and that he is coming face to face with the fallacy of central planning. Central Planning is cold, boring, unattractive and something all Americans will come to despise. See Brazilia.

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    • whater39
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:46pm

      Government controlled healthcare???? Wow your either lying or uninformed. Obamacare is not single payer. It’s a mandate for health insurance. Which actually helped the private sector by forcing people to become customers. It did force several common sense laws as well, such as “pre-existing conditions”

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:59pm

      WHATER39, No, it is not yet a single payer system as 0bama has stated in interviews prior to becoming president that was his desire to eventually see. The program is designed to incrementally kill of private insurance so that the federal government can take over the medical field. Look it up online and read it sometime.
      Oh yeah, I thought that you have said some truly idiotic stuff here until I cut and pasted your site name into my search engine then read the other sites you visit. Wow, you actually do take stupidity to new heights.

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    • NigelTufnel
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 3:20pm

      Come on now 39! Don’t be so naive as to believe Obamacare is a simple mandate. You know everyone here is well-versed on Obamacare. It was sold as something it’s definitely not and it has the very power to lead to single payer. You lefties continue to take the 5 positive bullet-points that fit on a half-sheet of paper and ignore the other 3,500 pages. More people continue to hate it as it is NOT driving down costs because it’s a one size fits all and mandates coverage for things people do not need. In 5 years the average cost of the govenment mandated insurance will be $20,000 a year up from it’s initial offering of $12,000 a year. If you are a family combing for $60,000 a year and are forced onto it, you will currently pay $450 a month out of pocket for premiums plus co-pays for any visits. Most people will simply pay the $700 fine at tax time and wait to get sick to buy. Thus driving up costs and making people poorer. Look we’ve been through this all before. Why can’t you be happy with what the left has achieved? Or is it the fact that your ideals are not making people happy. People like this lady make themselves happy without you. awe….don’t be sad now. I’m sure there will be another progressive movement in another 30 years or so.

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    • Classical_Liberal
      Posted on March 8, 2013 at 5:30pm

      Nigel & RJJINGADSDEN are exactly right! It is a mandate but the gov’t will be expanding its coverage (more expenses passed onto small businesses and tax payers to pay for it). This will allow employers to drop coverage of their employees because they will have to cover most part-timers because 30 hrs will be considered full-time. In turn this means that employers will turn people over to the gov’t and private insurance companies will take a huge hit because they’ll have fewer companies on their plans. Most companies & individuals would rather pay the fine of not purchasing private insurance since it’s cheaper than the cheapest available coverage. Of course this penalty exponentially gets more expensive over a period of 5 yrs but by then private insurance will be on its last legs. This is what is happening in MA and I’m a witness of it. Insurance here is so high. I’m single and it cost my employer over 5,000 bux just to cover me. How many small businesses can put up with that? The prices aren’t getting cheaper.

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  • Nevertakecandyfromsocialists
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:08pm

    In his off hours, I bet that transit worker likes to kick puppies.

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  • tonypro
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:02pm

    miami is trying their best to be like n.y. or chicago.

    Hey, isn’t that part of wasaman schitz area?

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:13pm

      No Wasserman Schultz’s area is the lizard exhibit at the Miami zoo.

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    • OldSurfRat
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:14pm

      Why did you have to bring that POS into this?

      She looks like Joe Camel with a perm and is a total liar and waste of flesh.

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    • huey6367
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:14pm

      Miami is NY. It is populated by those that used to live in NY, screwed that area up and then moved to Miami to screw up Miami. Like Californians that moved to Colorado.

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    • huey6367
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:19pm

      And that is DWS area.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 3:18pm

      OLDSURFRAT, Wow, you really sound so happy to have Medusa representing part of your state!

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    • OldSurfRat
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 3:31pm

      RJJ

      NOO!!!!
      Stop dont look at her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 3:51pm

      OLDSURFRAT, I always try not to. Hate it when a news show slips Debbie Wassaman-Schultz into a debate. Well, in her case it always becomes a solieque.

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    • OldSurfRat
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 4:02pm

      RJJ
      Debate?? LOL

      She just keeps on giving when it comes to lying.
      She is just a carpet ****** that drifted down here with all the other garbage.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 4:16pm

      OLDSURFRAT, LOL, I thought that she was a native considering her parents are serving their sentences there, or is that just her mother? Oh, next time run the two words together so The Blaze doesn’t star that other dreaded word out. Carpetbagger. ENCINOM and a few others used it as such a slur here for a while that the moderators put it on their auto delete list.

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    • OldSurfRat
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 4:36pm

      RJJ

      From Long Island born in Queens.
      What a suprise. NOT!

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  • Just_Us2
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:01pm

    It matter little what she was singing. I don’t want rap music blared at me on the train. Your rights end at the tip of your nose. She can go on a street corner and sing all she wants and I don’t have to listen there. On a train, I am a captive audience at the mercy of every person who feels like what comes out of their mouth is important and should be heard by everyone, like it or not. Panhandlers are famous for hitting you up for change on the train.

    She was warned and she rebelled. She was escorted off the train. If she was pushed, she has a beef. If she fell on her own, then she has no one to blame but her self.

    If this were some weenie liberal preaching the gay lifestyle and they were kicked off, we would applaud and laugh if he fell and broke his wire framed glasses….OK, I would cheer and laugh.

    While this is tragic due to the woman’s age and what she was doing, bottom line is, riding the train is not a right and you have to adhere to some standards so everyone can ride. If you don’t like the rules, walk or drive. You can sing all you want in your car or on the sidewalk.

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    • NigelTufnel
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:17pm

      If riding the train is not a right then why are we forced to pay taxes in order to bring this service to people. People hack n spit on the seats all the time yet no one ever does anything. Heck…people get raped on the train at night. Did their rights end at their nose? You are just another angry person in this world. What crime has this woman committed that the punishement is brute force? You say she rebelled? Ok. I get it. Progs like you are only happy if everyone is miserable like you. Whatever happened to just ignoring things….you know….like Benghazi. “What does it matter now?” Your’s is the dumbest post I’ve read this year.

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    • ihasa
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:42pm

      Nigel.

      He’s no prog, re read his comment!

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    • autofixer
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 3:14pm

      Your an idiot! It is public transportation.

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    • shorelineliz
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 3:48pm

      Too many damn rules! Let the crazy old Black lady sing her dam song!

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    • mandmsgirl
      Posted on March 9, 2013 at 7:44pm

      @JUST_US2
      Glad I live nowhere near you

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 1:58pm

    .
    I do believe a Good Old Fashion A$$ Whooping is in order for that transit worker……

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    • OldSurfRat
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:03pm

      Spank

      A REALLY GOOD Old Fashion SOUTHERN A$$ Whooping would suit me just fine.
      What a d – i – ck!!

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  • term limits for congress
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 1:58pm

    82 year old using Miami public transportation??? She’s nuts. Should have taze’d her and stomped on her kazoo. Then, call the nursing home she escaped from and tell them they’ve got a ‘pick up’ at the train station.

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  • TEARS FOR AMERICA
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 1:58pm

    Could have been handled a little nicer…but of course, the elderly are treated like crap these days…

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  • FaithfulFriend
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 1:58pm

    I guess her and the Lord just need to sit down and shut up at the back of the bus, I mean train.

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 1:57pm

    It all depends on how loud or disruptive she was. Her age and reasoning should have been taken into account but she was asked to quiet down and she apparently did not. As far as her family is concerned she probably never heard from them until now because they think she has a lawsuit. I don’t think her singing hymns had nothing to do with her expulsion off the train. She is singing hymns now but I will bet when asked to be quiet by security she was a little less religious and did act up.

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  • ihasa
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 1:55pm

    The article insinuates she was ‘religiously persecuted’ for singing Gospel hymns, whereas the story clearly indicates otherwise. Oh well!

    Anyway, I don’t care what she was singing. You don’t rough-house old ladies, now matter how irritating to passengers they are being.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 1:55pm

    This is inexcusable, rough-handling a senior citizen in such a way as to cause her to fall.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 1:54pm

    Hmmm I wonder if they kick young blacks off the bus for rapping?

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 1:58pm

      They wouldn’t have the guts to try … but they will throw off a old lady … thugs everywhere you look.

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    • gyro
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 1:59pm

      nop

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:21pm

      This should be a Rosa Parks moment but since we’ve lost our conscious and turned everything over to the government we should not be surprised how this went down. I recall another video recently where a young woman stripped down to her underwear and washed herself with soap and water and no one stopped it.

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    • Kisses6350
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 7:54pm

      I hope they throw the wanna be black, whites kids off! Thugs do come in various color.

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  • mcsledge
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 1:52pm

    I hope that they putting a hurting on both the security guard and the MDT. There would be nothing frivolous about this lawsuit.

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    • OldSurfRat
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 1:56pm

      Amen!

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    • Vilgax
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:50pm

      This will go viral…I hope. People have no tolerance for a darn thing these days unless it suits their own agenda. This is anti-christian, racist, and downright assault on this poor woman. I hope she gets a killer attorney and they clean up. But more importantly, I hope this raises awareness that while politicians keep telling us guns are the problem, we can finally recognize it ain’t the guns – It’s our attitude!

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  • walnutportconservative
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 1:50pm

    Jesus asked the question… “did you think I came to bring peace, no I bring division.”
    This is an example of spiritual warfare.
    Jesus said the division is the sheep on the right and goats on the left.
    I don’t make this up.
    The folk who booted the gospel and the singer out would most likely be goats. Lefty in attitude.
    How about you? What do you do with that one called Jesus?

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:21pm

      Yes indeed. I’m very surprised that NO ONE stood up and asked the “Official” to leave this woman alone. NOT ONE. We are living in a dangerous age (that we all know) but I don’t think many people know how important each day now is. We will see more and more incidents of “Official” control and people acting more and more like goats. WE the people will be the ones to take the brunt because we
      have not stood up. A few kind words could have controlled this lady, a hug, joining her in singing, smiling at her, thanking her for singing…letting her know that YOU heard her, All of those things could have solved the situation, but never, DTH, never some “Official” Forcing her off the train.

      Where is our Humanity?

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:31pm

      Yes you are right!

      His mere name brings division because the demons who rule this world and are constantly whispering in our ears revile him and if your a follower (knowingly or not) you are riled up to action against the name that saves mankind from the lot of the devil. We can talk just about anything and even other false religions of this world and all is well internally speaking, but as soon as the name of the father or Jesus the son are mentioned…faces drain of their blood and pulses race…why? Because there is power in the name of Jesus and God the father. When brought to the forefront, our carnal spirit rebels and hate spews forth. Choices will be required to be made in this life….if your living for this fallen world then you’ve made your choice whether you think you have or not. When the overwhelming feeling comes over you when you hear someone speak about Christ (or sing), ask yourself why am I rebelling, why am I sooo upset inside. Thats the unrepentant spirit within and it quivers in fear of the Lord. Come on over and give yourself to Christ today and I guarantee you that when your lying on your death bed someday, you will not be pleading with them to Save your Life as did Hugo Chavez and millions of others headed to hell have done.

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    • walnutportconservative
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:38pm

      The thought of being there and having that refreshing knowledge that another like minded person was on the train with me, would have been ruined by this incident. I would have done as you said. I would have tried to engage her in a subject I most enjoy, a quiet one, about Jesus of course.

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    • Vilgax
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 6:16pm

      Our humanity left when organizations such as “Freedom From Religion” started.

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  • beggindog
    Posted on March 7, 2013 at 1:49pm

    Someone’s going to get a settlement. Frankly, I don’t want to hear ANYBODY singing ANYTHING on a train, bus, plane etc.

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    • Kupo
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 1:59pm

      Agreed. I would have been wanting her to be removed from the train as well.

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    • OldSurfRat
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:00pm

      Beggin

      She is 82 and may be having problems with dementia or more.

      We have to treat the elderly with care because you never know.
      As for the guard hope he gets a nice a$$ whipping one day when he is old.

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    • sta
      Posted on March 7, 2013 at 2:27pm

      One day, when you’re old and your mind is not what it used to be. When you find comfort in the little things, that sometimes annoy others, I pray someone will have more patience than you do with her.

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