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Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
Yahoo! News ^ | Liz Goodwin

Posted on 05/18/2011 1:13:16 PM PDT by Allegra

A woman who was escorted off an Amtrak train by police this weekend after she allegedly refused to stop talking loudly on her cell-phone has the Internet cheering her fate.

Civilians and quiet-car champions are supporting her ejection for violating policy at high volume during the 16-hour journey. It doesn't help her cause that she became belligerent when confronted about it by one of her fellow passengers.

KOMO News reports that Lakeysha Beard says she felt "disrespected" by the incident, though passengers said it was Beard who was being rude by refusing to stop yapping while sitting in one of the train's designated quiet cars.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: amtrak; blackkk; cellphone; entitled; ghettovalues; keepinitreal; lakeyshabeard; lizgoodwin; urbanculture; womanspreading
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To: Allegra

I was in the waiting room of a doctors office and there was some guy talking really loud on his phone for at least 20 minutes. When his name was called and he walked off everyone started clapping.


41 posted on 05/18/2011 2:27:23 PM PDT by willk
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To: Mr.Unique
Tell us the entire story first...

Lol. I wasn't entirely blameless, since I called that behaviour "jungle drum culture", which drew immediate and hysterical charges of "racism". And no, I wasn't nice about it. In the deathless words of JC Clarke, "I don't wanna be nice".

42 posted on 05/18/2011 2:28:26 PM PDT by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

This particular segment of the public wouldn’t knowingly reference Hebrew is their life depended on it. Come to think of it, I just yesterday came across one of the MOA rituals which sort of spells out the distance between anything Hebrew and those folks. I’ll put it up when I get around to it :).


43 posted on 05/18/2011 2:33:21 PM PDT by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

“Lay-key-sha should wear more flattering colors, like orange. White makes her look ever so slightly overweight. :)”

You mean like an orange jump suit?


44 posted on 05/18/2011 2:33:44 PM PDT by dljordan ("The Land of the Fee and the Home of the Slave")
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To: Allegra

Yes! And they should KEEP her off the train.


45 posted on 05/18/2011 2:35:19 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Vaquero

On her way to participate in a fast-food restaurant beat-down?


46 posted on 05/18/2011 2:36:54 PM PDT by Noumenon ("One man with courage is a majority." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Vaquero

“Lakeysha Beard”, huh? Probaly accompanied by her sisters Linoleum, Urethra, Yomama.

Where do they get these names?


47 posted on 05/18/2011 2:38:48 PM PDT by Noumenon ("One man with courage is a majority." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Allegra
somebody should splain to the ugly sow that respect is a TWO way street...
48 posted on 05/18/2011 2:47:29 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Noumenon

49 posted on 05/18/2011 2:48:34 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: rawhide

Yes! A three pointer!


50 posted on 05/18/2011 2:52:04 PM PDT by Noumenon ("One man with courage is a majority." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
made up names because the females that bore them were either too stooopid or too lazy to actually look up REAL african names in the first place...
51 posted on 05/18/2011 2:54:04 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Allegra

We need to adopt the standard we see in Japan. Cell phone conversation on trains there is frowned upon as bad manners and will draw a physical response from almost everyone on the train.


52 posted on 05/18/2011 3:15:01 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: Noumenon

Remember the ATF agent in Unintended Consequences whose nickname was “G.G.”?


53 posted on 05/18/2011 6:41:24 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Now I’ll have to look that one up. It’s been a while since I read it, but I’ve got an original hardback edition. Lot of inspiration and useful tips in that novel as I recall.


54 posted on 05/18/2011 7:43:03 PM PDT by Noumenon ("One man with courage is a majority." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Allegra

Today, I went to drop off my rental car before picking up my minivan from the repair shop (was in an accident on the 6th, yes, we’re all okay, thankfully). From the rental counter, the driver was going to drop me off at the repair shop, which was up north of Fort Smith in the town of Van Buren. He was also taking a woman who was picking up another car at another location. I sat in the back of the crew-cab pickup that had been my rental for over a week w/my 3 y.o. son. That woman spent her entire time (about 15+ minutes) texting on her freaking phone. If I had to hear ‘message received’ one more time, I was going to strangle her. What happened to making polite conversation on a ride? So I can understand the frustration of passengers dealing with this for 2/3 of a day.


55 posted on 05/18/2011 7:52:23 PM PDT by Hoosier Catholic Momma (Change everything you are, everything you were, your number has been called.)
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To: Allegra

I once rode the Amtrak train from Milwaukee to Chicago. My first observation was that I now knew where old Metroliners go to die. My second observation was that there was no Quiet Car, and vendors passed through the train selling beer. There was a group of guys behind me who, I learned in the course of the trip, were salesman for IBM. One of them, I’ll call him “Dave,” got louder and louder and more obnoxious as the beer cans piled up, despite some attempts by his companions to restrain him. I bit my lip all the way to Chicago. As we were getting off, I was in line behind them. I tapped one of them on the shoulder and asked politely, though not quietly, “Is Dave still competing for ‘Asshole of the Year’ or is he celebrating his ‘Lifetime Achievement’ award.” Dave spun around to glare at me, but his buddies were laughing so hard there was nothing he could do. I left the train to applause.


56 posted on 05/18/2011 8:56:04 PM PDT by blau993
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To: Noumenon

Pages 536 and 547.


57 posted on 05/19/2011 4:16:06 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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