"The worst offenders are those eating double-decker sandwiches. The AR-15 of the sandwich world. Only law enforcement should be allowed access to double-decker sandwiches."
That guy is lucky he wasn't eating one of these babies!
Posted on 11/14/2019 8:12:05 AM PST by ObozoMustGo2012
I’m with you -— I definitely appreciate the law against criminal sandwiches.
Give it time...
The worst offenders are those eating double-decker sandwiches. The AR-15 of the sandwich world. Only law enforcement should be allowed access to double-decker sandwiches.
Thank you. If Sandwich Guy was black - Most FReepers would be singing a different tune. Praising law and order here and castigating Sandwich Guy as another Jussie Smollett who "Dindu Nuffin".
Being white evidently DOES have some privilege.
I disagree with you on this point.
It's not a stupid law or stupid rule.
The rule exists because some people use the stations and trains as personal trashcans. They drop their trash on the trains and get off at their stop or they drop their trash where they stand and then get on the train.
The trash is left behind for others to clean-up.
lawfully eat your sandwich?
No thanks. I’ll just not visit that loony bin of a state.
It hardly resembles America anymore.
Your point is well taken.
I did watch the video. But not all of it. But I do believe that part of the arrest process was taken in front of fast food sellers and vendors AT THAT VERY TRAIN PLATFORM.
Which begs the question: Why sell food that one is not allowed to eat?
I wonder if chewing gum is okay??
That guy is lucky he wasn't eating one of these babies!
I respect you a lot and hate to disagree with you but I must.
The most important point isn’t the enforcement of a sensible rule. I agree the rule is sensible.
The most important point is WHERE the rule is being enforced. In a city where major health hazard behavior is completely if you. That IS the main point.
It’s like enforcing anti-littering laws in a European city where muslims are allowed to rape non-muslims.
Yes, it’s very much like that.
I don't know. Maybe there's a designated area to eat and he stepped outside the area. Maybe he walked up to the platform where the train was going to stop and transit officer believed he was going to get on the train with the food.
I once watched a guy standing at a bus stop eating a box full of chicken wings.
When the bus arrived he dropped the box, the bones, the uneaten wings, and napkins on the sidewalk where he stood and got on the bus.
If there was a trashcan at the stop I don't believe he would have made an effort to walk over and put his trash in the can. The world is his trashcan.
Don’t disagree with me THAT much.
Because, yes. Yes I do see the irony of enforcing a law about eating a sandwich on a train platform is a big deal whereas streets full of feces is not. Who lives that way? San Franciscans, I guess.
I guess I would have more respect for Sandwich Guy if his intent was to call attention to the insane idiocy of pro-poop laws as opposed to no eating laws. Especially in a place that sold food to be eaten!
You're damned right. I ALWAYS instantly obey a sociopathic, black gloved, skinheaded, 'roided thug who has the permission of the Party to shoot me for any or no reason, just because. He will be given a couple of months of paid vacation, and a medal, for killing me.
Mad dogs on power trips must be treated with caution.
You can’t eat on BART. You cannot eat in the BART station. This has always been the case on this system.
There are signs all over the place. It is impossible to be on this system, and not know this rule.
If you violate a rule and refuse to cooperate, you will be arrested. That’s just the way the law works.
This guy made several decisions that led to him being handcuffed.
1. He chose to eat, even though it was against the rule
2. He ignored an instruction to stop.
3. He refused to produce ID or accept a citation.
If he had agreed to follow the rules at any one of these three points, this whole thing could have been avoided. But he did not, and he got what he got.
As far as the rule against eating on the BART goes, this is a necessary rule to keep the system clean. It is hard enough to maintain a system without having people dropping food and waste all over the place. Banning eating is an obvious and sensible rule.
Yes.
And I’ll give you something else:
Two different police forces:
1. out on the streets of San Francisco
2. transit police
Why should transit police be blamed for laws-not-enforced out in the city?
Yes. It was a reason to search him and check for any warrants. No doubt, he does this every day, and as long as the person "presents his papers", and has no weapons, drugs, etc, they are free to go. Sandwich guy made the mistake of thinking he was a free man.
Pretty sure a lot of Nazis used this excuse as they loaded people into boxcars.
Ironic this happened on a train platform.
Agreed . I watched the entire video the other night.
Bad law, but badly behaving citizen got a reaction I’d have given if I was in the officer’s shoes.
OTOH, the optics of this are terrible. A warning would have been preferred, but the video doesn’t record the entire incident either. But from what I saw and heard, he got what he deserved.
That boy's name was ... Gavin Newsom.
But he's getting revenge, one sandwich at at time:
Sacramento, CA — The California State legislature passed a new bill today that will phase-out all sandwich toothpicks by 2022. The bill, Senate Bill 4320.1 will require all restaurants to discontinue using “single-use toothpicks” both for sandwiches and teeth cleaning. Governor Gavin Newsom is expected to sign it into law.
Now he's forcing Californians to share toothpicks.
Maybe one of them attacked him as well.
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