I bumped into a friend who is cop in the British Transport Police at a station while he was working. While I was there somehow a happy-drunk guy fell between a train and the platform and got stuck. That’s not the crazy part.
The crazy part is the four separate people who all ended up getting arrested because they attacked my friend and the other responders trying to free the stuck man - physically kicking and trying to drag them away - because he/they wouldn’t order the train to leave the station and it was making them late. Four separate people, all apparently sober, all absolute psychopaths who would happily see someone mangled by a train so they wouldn’t be inconvenienced, and so utterly convinced of their righteousness that they were prepared to physically attack police officers and paramedics.
I was later told this is pretty normal when there’s a “one under”: aside from the person who fell getting injured or dying, the biggest immediate problem is a handful of narcissistic cunts who interpret the whole thing as some kind of personal insult. It really shook me that anyone could be like that.
What the fuck?
This is the second highest comment in the thread and it’s so bizarre that I don’t think I need to bother thinking of something to contribute myself.
So, trying to kill someone who falls onto the tracks is normal? Someone should study this
The topic here is public transportation, but look at how many behave on the roads with their personnal cars, ready to cause accidents just to not be slowed
or the fact that millions die on the roads each year, and no one gives a damn unless they are their own family members…
This is like the weirdest IRL trolley problem, but the consequences of the decision are 1 death vs. several people running late or being mildly inconvenienced.
#Utilitarian at all cost *💪🏼 *unless it’s me getting mangled
Imagining a fully automated dystopian future where decisions are always predetermined and based on greater good rules. Billionaires can’t grasp why we’re so ungrateful for the better world they’ve created, so clearly it must be further proof we don’t know what’s best for us.
While I generally oppose police brutality, I think this is a good case for it.
I think in that case the Transport Police should ask them to leave the station building, or get physically moved out without warning. If they refuse, you can set the rest of the train on them, stating that they delay is now due to the person not leaving the train/platform, rather than the passenger being stuck.
Guy getting mad at the conductor for calling him sir because only a priest can be called that…
HUH??
Yeah he argued with the conductor for like 10 minutes while the whole traincar listened in silence.
Poor employee was just following guidelines of politely addressing customers
The tram I was on with my dad and little sister struck a woman, she had an umbrella open so she didn’t see the tram (it was a sunny summer day). It cracked her head open and I’ll never forget that sound. The driver panicked and only opened the front door of the tram, right where the woman was laying on the ground, so we were forced to walk out of the tram and jump over the pool of blood gushing from her head. My dad tried to make us not look but I saw the hole in her head, and her brain. I was 10 and my sister 8.
She died on the way to the hospital.
And I just realised I now live in the apartment building right by the tram tracks where it happened, haven’t thought about that memory for a long time.Jesus fuck…
Someone sprayed ME with a bottle of water. I was on my phone, and when i looked up this old lady was spraying water over her shoulder without looking and hit me directly in the face! When i asked what she was doing she walked over to me saying someone had cursed her, and her reflection in the window was facing the wrong way so she decided to spray “holy water” over her shoulder.
Thankfully after getting a COVID test done (this was in 2021 mind you) it was in fact just water.
reflection in the window was facing the wrong way so she decided to spray “holy water”
And this kind of thing happens often enough that she carries holy water on her all the time? 'K ‘mam we’re gonna need you to take your meds’
I’m just glad there wasn’t anything mixed into the water, and I wasn’t being sprayed with some unknown virus 🦠
Seeing your reflection facing the wrong way would be actually terrifying… I think it would take more than holy water to fix that, though.
Possibly, but is also a random curse to have if that was the only symptom 🤔
Random… Until your reflection grabs you from behind and pulls you into the mirror realm…
Oh shit!!
Not just water, but holy water. At least now u know ur not a vampire either!
Always good to see a silver lining 😉
An entire international high-speed train was delayed for almost 2 hours because Karen got the police called over having too much foam in her beer.
OMG
You want to hear the story?
yup
I was seated near the restaurant wagon on an international train. I had my headphones on and wasn’t aware of what was going on, but suddenly there was a ruckus that got my attention.
A lady has gotten into an argument with a train employee about the beer to foam ratio in her cup. Apparently there was some name calling involved before I got to listen into the conversation, but she literally called for the manager. Eventually the police was called (which already meant delays for the train) and since it was basically the “border station”, the police told Karen that she had to get off the train if she wants to press charges. And then the strangest thing happened:
She just said no. She paid for her ticket, she’s not getting off … and the fucking police caved. They held the train and interviewed her on it. Why, I do not know. It seems so insane.
I was so lucky that I could get out of the train at the station we stopped and get home at a reasonable time … but I never wanted to throw beer at someone’s face that much. Fuck this lady in particularity …
Nuts
Baltimore Maryland train, some man thought I was so pretty(?) he handed me a $5 bill on his way out of the train. I looked at him like , “WTF?!” wordlessly declined his offering, he looked offended, and he left. That’s the weirdest thing I’ve personally experienced or seen on public transportation but I’ve seen a lot weirder things online. Like a couple months ago that man who fucking STABBED some young lady in the neck & MURDERED her 🤦🏼♀️
The one that stands out is someone on a call in a packed bus who started shouting “I didn’t tell no one you got raped in prison!” into the phone repeatedly.
They made themselves a liar. Felt bad for whoever was on the other side of the line.
He was probably pretending to talk to someone on the phone. But there was no one on the phone. He was senile. Because that’s the demographic we’re dealing with here.
It was a woman in her 20s who had been having a much more minor argument on the phone up to that point. I’ve seen the scenario you’re talking about too, but this one seemed like an actual phone call.
Then again, who knows?
Lol, decades in Munich public transport, the best question would be what I haven’t seen. Seriously.
- people talking to themselves, lots of them
- people talking to strangers with the wildest stories, then turn the attention to you if you don’t recognize it in time
- people screaming around they’ll kill, blow up, whatever everyone
- people fighting with each other, holding up the public transport running out and back in
- oh and Italians standing at the rails pissing on Italian wiesn weekend. Of course their backs to the street. So front to the rails. Or the other way around, doesn’t matter anyway.
… Yeah
Would have been 2003/04, waiting for the bus to college. Dude who looked like a farmer with a huge beard asked “is this the stop for town.” I said yes, sat down, didn’t think anything of it. Few minutes later I noticed his bag was moving. No idea what the hell was in it.
I’ve been on a bus that drove into an active flood.
That was pretty exciting watching everyone jump on their seat to avoid the water.
Someone planing out a snuff and CNC porno shoot with some woman threw the phone that is being shot in a former ww2 bunker with nazi uniforms and BD dildos
Snuff? Someone’s just casually planning out their own or somebody else’s murder over the phone?
YES! IT WAS SOOO STRANGE!!
This is fascinating. Do you remember any details? Was it the guy or the woman who was going to be killed? Was there anyone else involved?
It was a guy late 20s or early 30s calling a woman. The woman he called from what i heard would have been the victim of the rape snuff and another guy plus the guy Filming
Wow. What country was this in?
Germany
I jooed.on at my.stop and then get.off at my stop and that was it…weird shit huh!
c/aneurysmposting
Idk if this counts as crazy but one day a guy went up to me and said “hey I’m about to smoke meth. Its probably going to smell so you can change seats if you want to.” And then I did and that was basically it.
Very polite methhead.
Around here they don’t ask they just fucking light up. So I would actually appreciate that. Sounds like a decent person.
Nothing that crazy I guess, but two events I remember:
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A small fire broke out next to the tracks and the train driver actually stopped the train and got out to extinguish it
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A train busker played so loudly and terribly that a group of random passengers got together to shove him out of the train at the next station.
Someone playing an instrument inside of a train, Jesus that’s obnoxious
Indeed. Busking on the street is fine, as you can just walk somewhere else if you don’t like it, but on a train you’re trapped with them. Pretty sure it’s illegal here as well.
Yeah, you haven’t lived until you’ve had to ride the express A going downtown with a mariachi band at full-tilt.
There are places where this is common. They hope to get paid (I assume to get them to leave). Sometimes they’re accompanied by pick-pockets who pray on the distracted.
Assholes, they’re basically extorting people to stop the annoying shit and to get them to fuck off
Yeah, I hadn’t heard any buskers on the Stockholm metro for years until a few weeks ago when a guy I had seen earlier busking, came onboard again with his weird wooden box with metal strings that is played with two hooked sticks and started playing.
Not proper public transport, but my dad is an active member of a heritage railroad.
This railroad rund both steam and diesel trains.
When it is dry outside they will run a fire watch train after the steam train, basically a tank car with water and a petrol pump, pulled by a diesel locomotive.
But this day they didn’t run the fire watch train, and I was tagging along with dad as he drove the classic DMU trains.
We come around a corner and see smoke comming from a farmer’s field, it had caught on fire/smolder from the steam train…
We stop, obviously, bring our large water can and start working the fire, after a few min the fire department came and we could hand it over to them
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On the NYC subway a guy was taking up two seats, he pulls out a notebook and starts (screaming) reading from it. It was all about some conspiracy that got him kicked out of Columbia University. People started moving away from him. At the next stop a guy gets on the train and says to “hey psycho you really need two seats” the crazy guy slides over freeing up one of the seats and then goes back to yelling.
“hey psycho you really need two seats” Read this in the TF2 Scout character’s voice
If you were from, where I was from, you’d be
fuckingdead.It is entirely within Scouts character to just… “yo, knucklehead, scoot over”, and then just put on his headset when the screaming resumes.
Though, being from Boston, and being exceptionally prideful… that may cause some issues on the NYC subway.
Newbie strap-hanger new to The City, a train rolled-up empty and it was cold or hot as fuck, and in my naivety was like, “these idiots aren’t hittin up all the free space!!!”… Yeah, dude taking a shit.
