Posted on 12/19/2006 11:35:51 AM PST by Sarah
"I said, I'm not moving and he said, 'I'm not asking you, I'm telling you.' Then he spat in my face and at that point, I was in high adrenaline mode and called him a son-of-a-bitch, which I am not proud of. Then I spat back. At that point, he pushed me down and people on the bus were screaming that I was crazy. Four men surrounded me and slapped my face, punched me in the chest, pulled at my clothes, beat me, kicked me. My snood [hair covering] came off. I was fighting back and kicked one of the men in his privates. I will never forget the look on his face."
Shear says that when she bent down in the aisle to retrieve her hair covering, "one of the men kicked me in the face. Thank God he missed my eye. I got up and punched him. I said, 'I want my hair covering back' but he wouldn't give it to me, so I took his black hat and threw it in the aisle."
Miriam didn't go down without a fight. Good for her, I say. The people who criticized her are justifying assault and battery. Don't they find that odd?
....and you asked the flight attendant, Mary, for something to read, "Mary, mag, darlin'!".......
I should have known that. I think I always saw it written: The ROP.
Could you read my post 59?
Oh, wait...
Feisty, no?
I hate to say it, but she was looking for trouble...
I've actually been on one of those buses, and unknowingly got on on the front! No one said a thing, men looked away.
I just left my husband in the front, let him pay, and then we both got off at the correct stop.
"I live in France"
You're brave.
Like Japan doesn't have weird customs.
As posted elsewhere, I am presuming these are NK and hardly representative of even the frum community.
Hear hear!
Her courage in the face of a mindless mob is encouraging. I hope the Virtue and Vice squad ends up in jail (and that they think twice before they decide to assault someone from the 21st-century).
Oh, my. Bad timing, I must say -- not that there is ever a good time for it, but oh, dear.
I daresay they are filthy thugs if the answers were YES.
My judgement says such action is sinful, and trumps any "sin" of "integration".
LOL!
Good for her.
These? North Korea?
Was that the slender pilot or the paunchy pilot??
She should have kept the guy's black hat as a trophy of the fight.
More Orthodox women should give these fellows trouble when they start trying to dictate how women should behave in public. There is no reason for women to put up with this kind of treatment and these attitudes. If the men can't handle riding the public bus with women sitting nearby, maybe they need to stay home so that their male modesty and delicate sensibilities won't be harmed.
"North Korea?"
Neturei Karta (ðèåøé ÷øúà "Guardians of the City"), is a group of Haredi Jews who reject oppose the existence of the secular State of Israel.
They are mainly in Jerusalem, Ramat Bet Shemesh, Safed, Bnei Brak and NYC.
I doubt their numbers are more than 2,500.
I must have posted before you sent #59.
I put the word "sarcasm" in my post but it didn't come up.
I now have read your post #69 and appreciate it. Additionally, I have learned something I didn't know. That knowledge will help me in the future.
Are these women dressed immodestly to begin with? I don't understand how the act of climbing on a bus and sitting down can change someone from "modest" to "immodest".
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