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‘Fat Bit**’: NYC Subway Riders Brawl Over Woman’s Spaghetti-Eating
- Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:14am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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There is a NYC subway rider‘s code that says you just don’t eat food on the train. Sure, a Snickers here and there, or even (if you want to push it) a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is okay. But a Subway sandwich on the subway, a juicy burger, or even Chinese food is out of the question. And so too is spaghetti.
So when one girl started chowing down on some of the aforementioned pasta on the train recently, she drew the ire of a fellow passenger. Things started with your typical name-calling (“animal” and “bit**” got thrown around) and then degenerated into this (all out madness):
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(H/T: MyFoxNY.com)
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Comments (461)
Creestof
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:40amYou forget though, in the even of a natural disaster, they’d all pull together and politely watch out for each other.
Riiiight…Let me ask you something…if you were one of those who survived, would you really mind at this point if a natural (or man made) disaster wiped out a 3rd of the population in America?
A comedian I once saw, had a catch phrase…“Time to cull the herd”…I think I see his point now.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:38amOn top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese,
I lost my poor meatball, and some of my weave…
dontbotherme
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 5:23pmSmarty pants. :D
Report Post »Warphead
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:35amAnother blah, blah, blah, blah, blah non-story. If she isn’t making a mess then leave her alone. A subway train in New York ain’t no church.
Report Post »catndahat
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:05amExactly–consider the context. Most people would find it too jerky/stop-start to want to eat on the train, so I doub’t this woman is going to set any new mass transit trends in New York. It was an isolated incident, she should have been left alone.
Report Post »texasfarmer
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:35amNeeds subtitles.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 4:15pmHow about “UMGOWA”?
Report Post »Emma Nelson
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:34amThis is also a moral statement. I can do what ever I want in your face attitude of some people. They are nasty they live nasty like animals
Report Post »ImahaIngttta
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:34amThe only problem here is that two people cannot own the same train. People have to learn to be civil.
Report Post »dlmarsh
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:33amMaybe it is more than just unwritten code. In Washington D.C. it is against the law to eat or drink on the WMATA subway trains. The Metro police will actually issue a ticket to the person doing it.
Report Post »Emma Nelson
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:33amNasty people just doing nasty stuff. Reminds me of a zoo
Report Post »conservativemom99
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:32amBoth of them were wrong…pick your battles…eating on the subway may be annoying, but it‘s not a hill I’m going to climb much less die on.
Report Post »This is just stupid times three.
Thank goodness for the MAN stepping in to break it up! The guy filming was too busy getting something good for youtube. sad.
ALISSTER
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:31amIt really surprised me that the “African American” girls turned violent. I didn’t expect that at all.
LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:58amWatch the Video again Allis … the White girl grab the black girl first …..
Report Post »TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:46amno blacky kicked the lady that was SEATED and got in her space
Report Post »REETZBEE
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 3:37pmMost skinny black chicks are pissed off anyway and are looking to fight with a fat white chick over anything.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:30amthe violence was uncalled for. The woman eating was not bothering anybody and seemed to be eating in a respectful manner; out of container with a plastic bag under container. If it doesn’t pick my pocket or break my bones.To call someone an animal was also uncalled for.
Report Post »Drippy Fawcett
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:42amIt was TOTALLY called for. Animals will eat anything, anywhere, anytime. The food-snarfing woman was acting like an animal, inconsiderate and instinctual. We, as humans, have the ability, ulike animals, to make reasonable decisions, such as being polite, that may go against our instincts. Animals are unable to do that. They can only do what instict or training tells them to. Animals have no free will.
Report Post »Bill Hamilton
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:46amReasonable decision-making. Being polite. Going against instincts. Not giving in to what training tells us. May you politely direct me to the part of your post that follows any of these criteria? I may have missed it in between all of that insane stuff you wrote.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 4:18pmWho determines what is reasonable or unreasonable?
Humans like you, who call other humans animals?
YOU’RE the animal.
YOU’RE inhumane, by definition, for dehumanizing other humans.
Report Post »Dr. Frank Lippenheimer
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:02pmTotally respectful. And dainty too.
Report Post »MMSands
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 7:30pmwell said.
Report Post »sgallion1
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 7:47pmThe reaction to the comment was a far greater wrong.
Report Post »piper60
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 8:56pmShe broke the rules of the subway system, regardless of whether she was bothering anybody or not.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:29amWho’s unwritten code? Who cares as long as it isn’t spilling all over you. If there isn’t a “NO EATING/DRINKING ON SUBWAY”, get over yourself.
Report Post »TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:46amursamajor, your parents failed to raise you properly so i don’t fault you
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:41pmYou also show yourself for the leftist progressive you are “Termlimitsnow”… placing blame on someone else and making me a “victim”.
Obama, Reid and Pelosi would be so PROUD of you!
ottodiedacktick
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:02pm@URSAMAJOR
You are right, I mean, correct. I am a total bleeding heart liberal who has voted Democrat for the past 30 years, but even I wasn’t stupid enough to have voted for Obama. Were you? Come on, admit it, you got suckered, didn’t ya? You sound like a typical hyper-programmed, mind-controlled, indoctrinated robot, but at least you sound well educated.
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 3:56pm@ OTTODIEDACKTICK
Nope… I’m a conservative Republican who is having a blast mocking the “Republicans” who believe the comfort of the masses supercedes the liberty of the individual… and to those same “Republicans” who have been equating offensive pasta eating with theft and rape.
But… maybe I should just fall in line like the good little Moderates and embrace civility (i.e. caving in to progressive Democrats like a cheap whore)
Report Post »TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 4:46pmursaminor, you’re argument about rape vs. pasta is plain silly. I used that as a simple comparison so maybe your simple mind could see that your personal wants can affect others. You’re proving my point for me…..thanks simpleton.
Report Post »nothingbuthetruth
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:28amMen finally standing up for what is right. No color, just for what is right.
Report Post »catndahat
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:03amIDK, I still think eating is not a big deal. I think these little ways that liberty is chipped away via thousands of municipal codes is what has led us to this autocratic state of society today.
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 6:55pmYes! A little something extra in his next paycheck!
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:26amWasn’t Japan was it?
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:35pmNo it wasn’t, and it really had nothing to do with the spaghetti I’ll bet…
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:26amThis is why I don’t live in NYC. If I had to listen to some East Coast elitist Democrat snob preach to me about eating ANYTHING, I’d probablly call them some names, too.
Report Post »TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:44amand you would probably take a beat down too
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:21pmif it means standing up for the liberty of the indvidual over the Marxist Collective, I’ll take the beating from the Norteastern, left-wing, Obama-loving, elitist Democrats and Republicans…
… seems they use violence to solve all the problems Big Brother Government doesn’t anyway.
Report Post »hannahh
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 1:42pmwhat name do you call moochelle obama then
Report Post »wireme
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:03pmMajor its not about individual liberties its about common courtesy and respect for others if you were eating on the train then I should have the right to smoke a gig right next to you if everyone did what ever they wanted without regard to others it would be pure pandemonium.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:25amI take it that this wasn’t Japan…
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 6:54pmGood one!
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:25amHey you are hungry? EAT
Report Post »Joseff
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:25amI guess audio might have helped. I don’t get it. Maybe someone from NY can explain.
Joe
Report Post »expatinontariocanada
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:24amThis was a setup! Who takes a video of someone doing something “unacceptable” if they don’t expect something to happen. Who took the video? If they were with the spaghetti eater then this is a big setup! Provocateur!
Report Post »goatkid
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:29amyou’re probably right.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:02amI believe you are right. People do this all the time to get their 15 mins of fame and who cares. If they want to look stupid to thousands of people then so be it.
Report Post »hannahh
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 1:39pmyep
Report Post »7Ate9
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 4:02amThe fight started before Voyeur-boy with the cell phone camera (and a YouTube account) started rolling. That was WHY he started filming.
Report Post »dopesackjack
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:24amfirst
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:29amNot even close.
Report Post »Treaty
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:00pm5rd
Report Post »catndahat
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:24amI personally would never eat on the subway–have only brought bottled water onboard….but if someone else wants to, why should I be concerned? I’ve seen people do all kinds of things on the subway, believe me, eating is not that disturbing! ;P
Report Post »nothingbuthetruth
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:34amit is if it smells and if the rules only apply to some, then why have rules? did you ever see anyone park in a handycap spot that wasnt handycapped? No big deal right, not that many handycap people clamering for that spot, but when everyone else does the right thing and parks somewhere else, what give that person the right to break the law/rules/code? It is just wrong and we need to have a civil society or there will be this at every corner.
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:00amRight on, nothingbutthetruth!!!
The more laws and rules and codes that we have forced upon us by the pseudo-intellectual, Progressive/American Fascist movement the BETTER!
Silly Founders and their “individual liberty” balderdash…
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 4:39pmI’m shocked at the immaturity of some of the posters regarding this issue. Reserved parking spaces for the handicapped = violation of the founding principles? Seriously?
You DO understand that the Constitution only limits the Federal Government’s powers, right? It doesn’t apply to city or state ordinances. A city can enact just about any rule or law the population desires.
Beyond that, if someone is violating a law and someone else calls them on it, it doesn’t make the outside party a “busy body”, it makes them a “stand up individual”. You know, I hope that if you’re in a position to be annoyed by some jerk breaking a law in your proximity, that someone with more testicular fortitude than you have will stand up for your rights, too. You should be so lucky.
Report Post »The_Eye
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 7:08pmursamajor…you sound like a hysterical ass. this is about saving TAX DOLLARS. There isn’t an unwritten code. As someone mentioned above in NYC it is LAW that you can’t eat on the trains (it is the in every other city I’ve lived in). It attracts vermin and disease. It also costs more to clean up when there is a buffet smeared on the floor from some jag who can’t wait 10 minutes til they are street side to finish their food. It also spares lawsuits when these same idiots spill a hot cup of coffee on someone and that person suits the city (and wins)
Report Post »I don’t see how it is patently unfair to tell someone to not eat their smelly food in what is essentially a sealed container. You know the old saying ‘your rights end at the beginning of my nose’ well, the odor of that crap is barging it’s way straight passed my my nose. Thus the crux of the law.
You talk about the founding fathers but they had laws too, chief. Beyond that, they believed in letting cities and States set their own laws which NYC has done. Most of the same founding fathers lived in places that had civil codes in the cities akin to this ordinance. You need to learn history and you need to learn to pick your battles more carefully.
912828Buckeye
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:24amSilly people.
Report Post »Shane the Golden
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 9:49pmCan’t take the animal out of some folks…. I don’t think I would eat on a stinky, germ infested (I assume, never been on one) subway.
Report Post »Just saying.
goatkid
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:23amTo tell the truth, I have never ridden on a subway. So I don’t know the first thing about subway etiquette. But really, if someone wants to eat their luck, why should anyone else care? There are so many people around with sticks up their asses.
Report Post »goatkid
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:27amOOPS. I meant If someone wants to eat their LUNCH.
Report Post »ANTISOCIAL-IST
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:36amin the closed environment of a nyc subway car the stench could become unbearable – yes, even spaghetti. as you said, you haven’t been on a subway, which says it all, among the body odor, urine, etc.
Report Post »i guess it’s similar to people on their phone in the theatre. you could understand that, right?
hologram5
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:39amAgreed, I don’t see any issue with her eating on the train. Especially if I’m hungry and she shares :)
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:47amLucky it was PEANUTS!
Report Post »My-Hero-is-Allen West
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:07amA little common sense would serve everyone now and again. Bringing that kind of food onto a crowed SW or plane for that matter should be understood that it should not be done. No different than her lighting up and smoking as well. Some things you should sense to know you just don’t do. But either she did not have common sense or maybe she just does not care for those around her (I go with the does not care).
Report Post »MrsNix
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:13amI’m with you. What’s the big deal?
Report Post »True2The_Word
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:17amIt took almost 3 minutes of reashurch to find the rules (laws) that govern the riders of the NY subway (most major subways have identical or simular laws).
There IS A LAW AGAINST EATING ON THE SUBWAY! You CAN drink non-alocholic bervarages from a closed (lidded) container.
It only takes a minute of thought to see that the law is intended to protect the public from all the results of spilled (and it will get spilled) food. Of thoes who think this is no big deal, which one of you would like to clean up the mess left by the spilled food when the train bumps or stops or jerks as they all do? Do you think for a moment, the person who is willing to break the law, even cares about the people around them or would clean-up after themselves? So who will clean-up? My guess is that the Transit athority will have to use Union Labor (they are all Unionized) and they will have to be paid a special hazzard-pay for handling Bio-Hazzards.
If you concider the above, does that change your opinion about the incodent?
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:40amYou have convinced me… the comfort of the Collective is more important than the liberty of the individual to eat spaghetti on the subway. I’ve seen the errors on my ays. The individual must spread his legs always grab his ankles in submission to the masses.
LONG LIVE OBAMA!
LONG LIVE DER KOLEKTIVE!!!
Report Post »TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:41ammajor is a perfect example of the inconsiderate, entitlement crowd…..no home raising
Report Post »My Two Cents
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:42amI would think that eating lunch on a subway train would be akin to eating lunch in a bathroom stall.
Report Post »OUTRIDER WRITER
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:46amMy Hero…etc.
Report Post »You’ve made a very good point about common sense when eating in close quarters. I’m just about to pick up my 300 lb female coworker (if only I could….) and body slam her for eating at every single meeting a small group of us have once a week or so. The banana skins, yogurt cups, microwave meals, cinnamon oatmeal, candy bars, steamed broccoli, Subway sandwiches, and chips is maddening. If there’s a meeting, she’s eating.
UrsaMajor
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:16pmWhy so mad? I said that you guys convinced me…
Progressive, Obama-loving, Borg, Unwritten Code = good
Thomas Jefferson, individual liberty, Sarah Palin, eating spaghetti on the subway = evil worthy of firing squad
You Notheastern fake conservative Republicans stay CLASSY and keep kissing Progressive ass!
UrsaMajor
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:33pmTerm Limitsnow is the perfect example of a mindless progressive sheep who needs Big Brother Governement and the Mass Collective Band to plot out every minute of his life and do his thinking for him.
“Can’t eat that spaghetti! Don’t want to offend a single, solitary person! I sure do love that Obama!”
Report Post »ottodiedacktick
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:33pm@URSAMAJOR
After riding on a subway train, Thomas Jefferson came up with the brilliant idea of the separation of spaghetti and train. It’s ok to kiss progressive tush, just make sure your pants are on, and don’t do it on the train. EEEH!
Report Post »TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:37pmursa I’m surely not afraid to offend, you obviously haven‘t been on the blaze for very long if you don’t know that. I’m not progressive or from NY but my parents did instill manors and common courtesy in me in my upbringing. I can tell you’re a punk kid with no skin in the game, so I’m not going fault you. When you grow up you will learn.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:41pmANTISOCIAS-IST
I have not been on a subway. I don’t eat apaghatti ” ‘can’t “‘
Report Post »but I sure hope it smell’s better than body oder, urine, ect.
ottodiedacktick
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:47pm@TERM
The greatest invention on earth was the Walkman! When I was growing up in NYC, you should’ve heard what is was like to be in a crowded, sweaty, stinky subway train when someone enters with a “ghetto blaster”. My ears are still ringing, no wait, that’s the doorbell.
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:24pmDo you think one day when I get to be all growed up like you “termlimitsnow” I will be able to equate eating spaghetti on the subway to RAPE the way you do? Oh, JOY! Thank goodness you had parents who taught you to trivialize brutal sexual assault.
Please, teach me to be a classy left-wing “I Know What‘s Better For You Than Yourself Because I Are ’Mart” fake-conservative!
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 4:33pm@UrsaMajor
Your statement is rediculous. You have no context for what you’re saying, you don’t understand or care about the law, but yet you insist on having an opinion. Douche.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:22ami hope it was not bleached flour pasta, true crime is the plastic bag. i believe it is a felony in ca.
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:46amShe must not have had any trans-fats in that spaghetti, or else the “subway code” leftist sheep would have executed the woman on the spot!
Report Post »TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:38amwhat if someone is allergic to peanuts….
Report Post »hersey10
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:22amIgnorant folk don’t obey rules or codes . People that can’t mind their own business inject themselves into situations when they should not . Was nice to see someone actually intervent once the hair pulling started .
Report Post »nothingbuthetruth
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:39amthats the problem, no body says anything, while everyone else plays by the rules and not bring garlic smelling spagetti on the train, it is close quarters. That woman is right to have said something and those men who stood up for her are great Americans!
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:34amGreat Americans believe in FREEDOM… not some unwritten “code” the a city of millions of left-wing Progressives cling to in order never having to make a decision for themselves. That woman was a true individual on a train full of mind-numbed, entitlement sheep.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:05amIt looks like both parties were wrong – the girl that was eating and the white lady who was making it her business! So, question, is there an actual law that says you can’t eat on the subway or it is just an matter of politeness?. Wow, glad I don’t live in New York or have to take the subway everyday.http://wp.me/pYLB7-KJ
Report Post »TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:36amI don’t know about NY subway but in DC there is no food or drink allowed on the metro. This is a perfect example of the entitlement crowd showing their utter disregard for other people. It’s all about me, me, me all the time. These folks are never taught about manners and common courtesy and people that have been raised properly are sick and tired of it. I hope we see more of this…..people need to stop putting up with their selfish actions. None of the other black folks seemed to upset about the whole thing, leading me to believe that it is common knowledge that food is a no no on the subway.
Obamunism
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:40amURSAMAJOR – “Great Americans believe in FREEDOM… not some unwritten “code” the a city of millions of left-wing Progressives cling to in order never having to make a decision for themselves. That woman was a true individual on a train full of mind-numbed, entitlement sheep.”
You seem to be under the impression that freedom means anarchy. While perhaps you do not agree with a rule, there are reasons they are put in place. Here, in the subway, for instance, if you let passengers bring meals on-board with them, such as this “lady” did, too often the subway would be crowded with people eating. This would increase the amount of waste disposal required in the subway and around the subway stations, requiring more people to attend to it. There would also be a need to clean the train more frequently, as with a high volume of people in a densely packed area, food spills/accidents are almost sure to occur. The subway system is a business, like any other, and should not be made to bend to you, the consumers’ will simply because you are hungry and cannot wait 30 minutes until you are home.
By your logic, if you don’t want to stop at a stoplight, should you be able to just speed right through it, as it is your freedom to do so? Your logic is extremely flawed here, and you don’t seem to understand the fundamental differences between freedom and anarchy.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:41amIs there a rule that says you can’t eat anything on a public transport?
If so, she broke the rules.
Report Post »If not, people should mind their own business.
ltb
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:41amBlaze, I hope you didn’t remove my comment. I’m going to repost it and if it disappears a second time, I will never listen to Glenn Beck again. There is nothing about this post that is not true or anything in it that would be considered offensive by Americans with an ounce of sense. If you do censor it, then you are just as despicable as so-called Liberals and just as guilty as them when it comes to exploiting minorities, because you are trying to suppress the truth. Once again…
Conservatives need to be relentless about exposing the Liberal exploitation of minorities for political gains; otherwise, crime rates, unemployment rates, high school dropout rates, illiteracy rates, drug abuse rates, spousal abuse rates, child abuse rates and abortion rates will remain abnormally high in the black community. What Liberals are doing to minorities is a crime. They have been using the ghettos as voting plantations since LBJ, where their slaves are fed and sheltered as long as the slaves behave and vote to keep Liberals in power. When slaves dare to leave the plantation to become self-sufficient, they are hunted down and verbally lynched. We need more outstanding Americans like Herman Cain to go into the ghettos to let these people know that they are human beings with intrinsic worth. Just like the founders of the Republican Party fought to free the slaves of the 1800s, contemporary Republicans need to fight to free modern slaves from their Liberal masters.
…..
“I’ll have those [n-word deleted] voting Democratic for the next 200 years” – Lyndon B. Johnson
TSUNAMI-22
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:52am@ LTB
Good post. Pointing out the obvious truth should never be perceived as offensive to anyone.
Report Post »N5DVC
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:02pmSpaghetti eater: Pinhead
Report Post »Whiney woman: Bigger Pinhead – needs to mind her own business
Man who proke things up: Patriot! We need more folks like him!
JGP
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:10pm@ LTB
(I’m going to try to repost my evidently offensive comment on your original post)
Amen and amen.
Report Post »UMMAH GUMMAH
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:15pm.
There is in fact a law NO FOOD NO DRINK on the MTA subways. They don‘t really enforce it though and to some that means they don’t have to follow it.
People in NY pull across the intersection after deciding that the red light they are stopped at is too long. This place is descending into pre-African anarchy.
Think Cairo or Nairobi.
.
ottodiedacktick
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:19pmDoes anyone remember how, a few weeks ago, a rat was featured “tucking-in” a homeless guy on the subway train? Eating on Public Transportation=Filth, Rats, Decease, etc.
To make matters worse, the rats don’t even pay their fares!
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:22pmI love how people report other peoples posts…just so their own can rise to the top of the page.
ottodiedacktick
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:32pm@CREESTOF
Wow, that explains a whole lot! I thought I had gotten scrubbed because people were offended. Hey, now, I don’t feel so bad, thanx. ;-D
Report Post »ottodiedacktick
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:43pm@THEREALAMERICA
I don’t mind the melting pot stuff, but do they literally have to have the “melting pot” on the train? What’s next, are people actually going to start cooking on the train? Announcer: “Board the D train for dumplings on 59th street … next stop 125th street, this is an express train only … !”
Report Post »ottodiedacktick
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:53pm@URSAMAJOR
If you have ever been on a NYC subway train you would know that these unwritten “Codes” are posted in plain English and Universal Symbolic Language on every subway car in the entire city for the past 30 years!
Report Post »finwe
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:53pmIt was really nice to see that man intervene. This world is full of complacent people too scared to speak up. I give major props to that guy.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:56pmIn this world there are things one can eat cold …….. Spaghetti is not one of them.
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:59pmIf it’s against the law to eat on the subway in NYC… I sure am glad I don’t live in that kind of Big Brother facist utopia!
Rational Man
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:01pmUn-written code or not, it appeared that the white lady was begging for a whippin to me.
Report Post »Now they have pasta all over the floor. Did that help anything?
nothingbuthetruth
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:02pmUrsamajor…your post sound very confusing. me thinks you are a anarchist and dont any representive government. We need to have a civil society with limited government, and that is what our founders had in mind. Read the constitution!!!
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:04pmLet’s see, in a city filled with drug dealers, pornographers, pimps, prostitutes, rapists, molesters, murderers, theives… someone actually took the time to make laws to put a stop to that darned PUBLIC SPAGHETTI-EATING!??!
New York, you want to know why you’re the butt of so many jokes? This Big Brother attitude is why!
Report Post »ottodiedacktick
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:04pm@MISSIONARY
The only mouth causing a scene was the one being stuffed with spaghetti. I believe that if the girls had been White, the woman would’ve said something to them as well. The White woman made a decision that she was going to hold these Black young ladies to the same standard as everyone on the train. In other words, she did not patronize them by not expecting that someone who is Black should not be held to the same standards as everyone else. The White woman is no longer afraid of being called a racist, and she literally took a stand!
Report Post »finwe
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:12pm@ URSAMAJOR
You know that eating on trains in new york city causes waste, waste that is then eaten by rats and rats cause disease. Sorry if you don’t live in an urban area, but many places have a no food policy for this reason. Also, food causes messes, which have to then be cleaned up, which then means we have to pay for someone to clean it up. Which causes a cost, which causes taxes. Pretty simple ideas here…not rocket science.
Report Post »ottodiedacktick
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:17pm@URSAMAJOR
When you ride on a subway train, you agree to give up some rights as a private commuter. This is not an example of a fascist state, the spaghetti chomper can eat spaghetti while driving her own car anytime she pleases. Nobody is stopping her. When I’m at home (not now), I sometimes like to pick my nose and walk in my underwear, should I also have the right to do that on a subway train?
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:30pmWhile I personally would NOT eat on the train.. it answers the question as to WHY so many INSIST on driving NOT taking public transportation… TO MANY RULES.. here in IL they have so many rules the ONLY one they forgot was to tell you to hold your breath while riding.. I have to say I like the fact this woman DOESN’T follow ALL the rules.. IF you look at people as they board a train it looks like a cattle car being load.. all the sheep following the rules set down to put them ALL in the SAME square box.. and the SHEEP pay for it.. what people don‘t realize is it’s a NUDGE to conform to what THEY want.. to see how well they can CONTROL you and if you DON’T conform how many people will react like the person who called her names..
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:50pmLike I said before, you guys have CONVINCED me.
Power to the Collective!
Down with the individual!
Che shirts for EVEYone!
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:28pmAs far as me not having “any skin in the game”… I’m not the one trumpeting the glory of the Collective Mass of individual freedom and liberty. just go to HuffPo where you can be happy with your fellow fascist pigs, you fake conservative.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:32pmheres how normal people act
Report Post »1st woman…”You know, theres no eating on the bus”
2nd woman..”oh I’m sorry…I was really hungry..but let me just put this away until I get home”
1st woman…”I really appraciate that…thanks”
2nd woman..”no problem…have a nice night”
instead we have this…
Kalish
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:40pmI always speak up if I see something going on, but someone eating ? she wasn’t bothering anyone before the other white lady said something
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:48pmI meant…theres no eating on the train :o) brought back memories on the Los Angeles bus lines!…people were much more courtious back then.
Report Post »hud
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 3:09pmWhen you bees around ignint leave
pitboss711
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 3:54pmYou can take the thugs out of the ghetto, but you can’t take the ghetto out of the thugs.
Report Post »ottodiedacktick
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 4:52pmThis is not a story about liberal vs conservative, rather, this is a story concerning city vs country. In the city, you don’t have an expectation of privacy, but you have an expectation of anonymity. In the country, you don’t have an expectation of anonymity, but you have an expectation of privacy.
Country folk don’t understand what they are seeing in the subway scene.
Report Post »omgfolks
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 5:10pmTo all parties involved. Your STUPID and not to mention Stupid and did I say STUPID. What a waste of human being. all of you should be Banned from public.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 6:45pm“What kind of animals eat on the train?”
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Hungry ones!
The_Eye
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 6:54pmI don’t know about NYC, but I lived in Chicago and Los Angeles and in both places if you are caught eating on the trains/buses you can be cited. (same goes for drinks) As the author of the story said, they will usually let a candy bar slide if you just power house it down and don’t make a mess but even then they can if they want to.
Report Post »It‘s about keeping the trains and buses clean so there aren’t a billion pieces of food sloshing around and I can tell you from experience, some people who decide to flout the rules don’t exactly hold their items all that firmly and end up spilling hot coffee all over you. In a case like that a lawsuit could be brought up against the city which is ANOTHER reason to ban that sort of thing on the train.
Beej13
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 7:54pmThe whole story is not being told here.
The two girls (both teenagers) were being chastised for eating on the train by a GROUP of people — including two black gentleman and another woman — seated to their right. By the time the camera started recording, there was already an argument underway between them. The white woman then interjected her not-so-constructive “animals” comment to support the others. At that point, the girls shifted their focus from the group to her.
Apparently bent on escalating the situation before their stop, the girl eating pasta and her friend stood up and further confronted the group…in particular, the opinionated white woman. At that point, the gentleman continued to chastise the “immature” girls and advised them to “relax” and “chill out” before ultimately intervening to break up the resulting confrontation.
It did NOT start out as a conflict between the white woman and the two girls. That seems to have been lost in the repeated showing of this video. The white woman’s comment was unnecessarily provocative and only served to raise the tension level to the point that there was an altercation.
The real story here, though, is the utter lack of respect on the part of everyone involved. The two girls clearly have no respect for rules, authority or their elders. I would’ve never talked back to an adult stranger the way these girls did. It just wasn’t permitted in my house.
Likewise, the white woman was out of line for her comment. To show disdain or disapproval is one thing. Good parents do it all the time without insulting their kids or engaging in personal attacks. To call complete strangers “animals” for eating pasta on a train is a bit over the line. She was unnecessarily rude and it came back to bite her.
This should not be turned into a black/white issue, though. This was about bad decisions, bad behavior and mutual disrespect by all parties involved. No one in this clip can claim innocence or a moral high ground. In essence, they all reaped what they sowed.
Report Post »Mee the People
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 8:38pmcarry a gun because cops are too heavy and never there when you need one
Report Post »savarulz
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:08pm@walkwithme1966
Report Post »It’s been a while since I was on a subway or light rail (the BART system) in the Bay Area, but there was a rule 20 years ago of no eating on the train, small things ok, but open a thing of spaghetti that was breaking the rules. This girl just had no respect for any of the other passengers.
getalong
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 12:04amI couldn’t believe the way that woman? ate her spaghetti. My dog has better table manners. Black angry women – what’s new. When someone does not have the intelligence to debate they use violence as a way to cover up their lack of education. Good for the men who intervened and stopped the raging woman from really hurting the other woman. Kudo’s to the woman who called this slob on her behavior.
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 6:55amLooks to me like the only place that cow doesn’t eat is on the train.
Report Post »So what if someone is hungry or behind schedule and wants to eat en route- or has low blood sugar or whatever- what difference does it make where the hell they eat? Having a ‘code’ like that is as rediculous as lsitening to the fat ass hog in the White House telling us what we’re allowed to eat.
Wolf
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 7:02amOne other reason for the white snob getting her ass kicked: what kind of person opens a conversation with, “What kind of ANIMAL eats on the train?” She deserved a lot more than she got.
Report Post »pitboss711
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 3:01pmObvously some of these idiots have obviously never ridden on a city bus or subway system. Public transportation systems have rules that people are expected to abide by. These rules are in place for a reason. Those who abide by the rules take exception when they see someone who thinks they’re above the rules. Bottom line…if you don’t want to follow the rules when you ride public transportation, then get a car.
Report Post »GPS-Tech
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 3:38pmSome advice to people who dont normally go out into the streets. Don’t start a confrontation with someone you dont know.
Report Post »dswynne1
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 4:34pmThe white woman should have just minded her business. It ain’t worth it arguing over nothing.
Report Post »ALMOSTLOST
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:04pmagree…but thats why we call it public behavior if we all follow the rules of common courtesy and share the idea that things work better when we do,we all win!!! or am i a raciest commie?
Report Post »Pucci
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 9:35pmpeople too damn busy miding other peoples business they don’t have time to mind thier own. chance of smug 100%!
Report Post »Pucci
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 9:44pmfirst they come for our cigarettes- now our spaghetti.
Report Post »Bekster
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 12:00amYep, we had one cranky old lady, two rude young girls and a voyer taking video. It was sure nice to see a grown up who stepped up and stopped a bad situation from getting worse. I hope God sends something nice to happen to him.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:24amWALKWITHME1966 you wrong again, enough of jerks that think its okay to be rude.Only one side was wrong and she happen to be black.
Report Post »Flyin57
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 11:54amJust be glad she was eating then instead of thirty minutes earlier or she might have been doing have have “done” something else on the subway hahaha ;-)
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