Neither, this guy is an idiot.
Ludicrous.
Apparently, this guy never worried about how HE bothered folks, taking up a row of seats and eating his breakfast on the train.
If I had to ride one of those trains everyday, I'd find another life quickly.
He’s neither a hero, nor a bully. He’s a liberal dumbass.
Riding a train, taking up five seats, telling others he has a “right to be left alone” on public transportation?
He’s an idiot.
This guy realizes he’s in NEW YORK right? lol
bully
Bully
Neither.
We all get annoyed with silly people talking to friends on their cell phones about nonsense. I woudln’t mind that but they are so LOUD. It’s like they think it is cool or something to talk so everyone else around them can hear their conversations. That said: You CANNOT just outright slap someone because they are doing something you don’t like no matter how annoying or stupid it might be.
As for him...who gave him the right to take up 5 whole seats? Suppose someone didn’t like that and behaved towards him in the same manner? Sorry for his bad back but...it is NOT his right to grab 5 seats for himself so...it goes both ways.
Back in the summer of 1971 I lived in the northern suburbs of Chicago, home from college for three months. A friend of my father provided me & a friend jobs for the summer working construction. His company had the insulation contract for the Sears Tower and the Federal Office Building. We rode the train, often with a friend named Penny who had a secretarial job. We often joined an older man in a quadrant of 4 seats. He was cordial and would ask about our plans for the future and engage in other small talk. Turns out he was William Rentschler and we would be seeing his name in the news as a member of the Nixon team in DC. Learned a lot about people that summer, both on the train AND on the unionized construction site!
One of these times, he try this only to discover that he is in a car full of Bernard Goetzes.
The trouble with public transportation is the public. I won’t ride anymore with a bunch of urban thugs.
The guy is a jerk, to be sure. But people have become totally inconsiderate. Even in places where quiet used to be the norm, like churches, libraries, movie theaters, and yes, the classroom, they seem to be in a contest to see who can be the most obnoxious. I have paid good money to see a movie only to have the morons around me chitchatting like they were in their living room watching TV. One person, who had apparently seen the film before, gave a scene by scene narrative to her companion about what was going to happen next. When I politely requested she refrain, she told me if I didn’t like it I should move. I cannot wait for when we can use cell phones in airplanes. The cacaphony of 300 people yakking at once will make a crying baby a welcome noise. People are afraid to stop talking because then they might actually have to think. Can’t have that.
"Hero or Bully?"
Well, by reading the other posts I see that I am in the minority in my thinking, and admittedly I don't use public transportation, but that said I'm going with bully. I also think, particularly now that he has had a minor victory in court and is probably more emboldened then ever, that things will not end well for Mr.Clifford.
Maybe I'm completely off base on this, but either he is going to get the idea that he is untouchable and really go off on someone in a much more serious way, or he's going to try something on the wrong person and perhaps not live long enough to wish he hadn't.