[Bed_Zeppelin]

Video at link.

At least this didn't involve a beatdown of some kind.

[driftdiver]

So are they afraid the cell phone is gonna cause Amtrak to lose money?

[Cvengr]

KATU tried to contact Beard for comment but could not reach her.

Should've tried her cell phone number.

[BenLurkin]

Having commuted on trains, I have heard some doozies of cell phone conversations. The problem isn't always how loud they talk but the subjects of some conversations were painfully, unpleasantly, disturbingly personal. It's almost as if some people want to be disruptive.

[Jane Long]

Let me guess, this cell phone talking passenger will now sue Amtrak.

Defund Amtrak...why are the majority of Amtrak's fares subsidized?

[ltc8k6]

http://www.katu.com/news/local/121962009.html

Amtrak does have such a policy in certain cars...

[GreyHoundSailor]

That’s why cell phone jammers exist. Legal to own, but not to use. They work great (so I’ve been told).

[LostInBayport]

Talking non-stop from California to Oregon? Unless she was manning a suicide hotline, I can't think of any reason to stay on the line for that length of time!

[Kieri]

Throw Lakeysha from the train. It’ll make a great children’s book.

[Cicero]

I put in quite a lot of time on Amtrak while I was long distance commuting. There are few things more annoying than someone in the seat behind you who won’t stop talking on their cell phone.

It’s one thing to make a quick call home to say you are late, or something of that kind. It’s quite another to talk nonstop as this woman was evidently doing.

[PAR35]

Lakeysha

I'm thinking that that is a 'no picture necessary' name.

since getting on the train in Oakland, Calif.

Now I'm sure of it.

[mylife]

Her ringtone: ♪Mmmmm ♪Mmmmm ♪Mmmmm....♪Barack Hussien Obama.

[AU72]

A pocket size cell phone jammer would be a hot seller.

[Cheetahcat]

Damn Lakeysha was just talking to her Aunt Jemima about some breakfast!

[JoeFromCA]

Interesting to contemplate how she paid for her ticket, her cell phone, all the food necessary to maintain that figure, etc. Just askin’, but I’ll bet it’s not by working for a living.

[Tamatoa]

I was on the train from Oakland to Salem 2 months ago and it stopped and kicked out some guys who were making too much noise disturbing the passengers who were sleeping. Do not mess with the conductor on a train it is a federal offense.

[downtownconservative]

I didn’t know Lakesha was an Amish name...

[patriot08]

I knew instantly it had to be one of those Amish again.

[SuziQ]

The other passengers shouldn’t have confronted her. They should have just gone to get the Conductor so he could do his job.

[Eye of Unk]

Real trains should have a modern day version of a phone booth, basically in effect there should be on such trains as these that are of the type with the lounge cars and such cubicles with sound suppression panels that any cell phone user can use with some privacy, and to not annoy fellow passengers.

But from I see of this it was called for, pun intended.

[dennisw]

 

Woman feels 'disrespected' after being kicked off train

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By Emily Sinovic KATU News and KATU.com Staff

Lakeysha Beard said she didn't understand what all the fuss was about when she was escorted off an Amtrak train. Police said she yelled at passengers who asked her to stop talking so loudly on her cell phone.

Lakeysha Beard being escorted off an Amtrak train by police.

PORTLAND, Ore. – A woman who got pulled of an Amtrak train by police after passengers complained she was speaking too loudly on a cell phone said she felt “disrespected” by the entire incident.

 

Lakeysha Beard of Tigard was charged with disorderly conduct after police said she got into a “verbal altercation” with train passengers on Sunday. Passengers complained she refused to put down her cell phone and conductors had to stop the train in Salem, where police got involved.

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