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Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« on: May 18, 2011, 07:51:27 AM »


Police escorted a woman off an Amtrak train after she allegedly refused to stop talking loudly on her cell-phone during the 16-hour journey and 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. She had not stopped talking since the train pulled out of Oakland, California, 16 hours before it reached Salem, Oregon, when a passenger confronted her about the talking. That's when Beard got "aggressive," KATU reports, and conductors stopped the train so that police could remove her and charge her with disorderly conduct.

Amtrak created quiet cars in 2001 when a group of passengers who rode the Philadelphia to D.C. route every morning asked if they could reserve a car where cell phone loudmouths weren't welcome. Ever since, the rare havens of quiet have become a battlefield between silence-loving rule-followers and rebellious cell-phone addicts. Gawker joked that the cops who removed Beard from the train were heroes and that Beard should be charged with "unspeakable crimes against humanity and sentenced to life on some distant planet where there are no reception bars, ever."

The internet is full of tales of innocent people's quiet car journeys being marred by loud passengers who ignore the rules. An Israeli blogger with a PhD in conflict resolution wrote a lengthy post about the best way to get a fellow passenger to shut up without starting World War III. "Always assume the transgressor is ignorant, not arrogant. This way you won't feel wronged and can communicate your message with less contempt and hostility," he writes.

Meanwhile writer Christopher Buckley, a self-described quiet car Nazi, wonders why there would be any confusion as to the correct behavior in that part of the train: "The Quiet Car does not hide its light under a bushel. Prominent and explicit signs hang from the ceiling at five-foot intervals. They declare, unequivocally, that NO CELL PHONES ARE PERMITTED and that conversation must be kept to a minimum and in hushed tones."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110518/us_yblog_thelookout/loud-cell-phone-talker-removed-from-quiet-car-by-police

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2011, 07:57:39 AM »
That fat slob should have been tossed from the train while it was in motion.   

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2011, 08:00:06 AM »
That fat slob should have been tossed from the train while it was in motion.   

how dumb is she.. how the fuck are you in the quiet car on the phone... just go to another part

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2011, 08:01:19 AM »
how dumb is she.. how the fuck are you in the quiet car on the phone... just go to another part

Its why I rarely go to movies anymore.   People are talking and texting the whole damned time. 

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2011, 08:03:05 AM »
Classic...

Stupid fat B......    Will she be put on the no train ride list?

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2011, 08:04:41 AM »
Its why I rarely go to movies anymore.   People are talking and texting the whole damned time. 

i take the train sometimes up to san francisco (no homo) and its a pretty cool ride. i can plug my comp in.. watch movies, get some work done and get hella drunk...

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2011, 08:04:47 AM »
Its why I rarely go to movies anymore.   People are talking and texting the whole damned time. 


oh, i thought it was because you had no one to go with  ;D

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2011, 08:09:55 AM »

oh, i thought it was because you had no one to go with  ;D

Another insult to me.    ::)

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2011, 08:14:51 AM »
She should have been tazed.

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2011, 08:16:21 AM »
i take the train sometimes up to san francisco (no homo) and its a pretty cool ride. i can plug my comp in.. watch movies, get some work done and get hella drunk...

why do you feel like you have to use a disclaimer?   :D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2011, 08:19:01 AM »
why do you feel like you have to use a disclaimer?   :D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

In the past, I have visited Atlanta (no homo)     ;D

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2011, 08:20:51 AM »
Its why I rarely go to movies anymore.   People are talking and texting the whole damned time. 

I hate it when people text during the movie.  Makes me wish I had a device I could point at someone's cell phone and disable it for 2 hours.    >:(

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #12 on: May 18, 2011, 08:23:01 AM »
I hate it when people text during the movie.  Makes me wish I had a device I could point at someone's cell phone and disable it for 2 hours.    >:(

just curious, how does people texting during the movies bother you?

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2011, 08:28:39 AM »
just curious, how does people texting during the movies bother you?

It's the cell phone light, too bright and too distracting.  It ruins a good movie for me. 

Maybe cell phones should automatically switch to white text on a black background when texting in a dark room. 

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2011, 08:53:05 AM »
why do you feel like you have to use a disclaimer?   :D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

train to san francisco.. sounds like a gay gangbang porn title

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #15 on: May 18, 2011, 09:01:47 AM »
I'ma let the homeboys up the hill run a train on your girlfriend. You know what a train is, don't you?

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2011, 09:29:16 AM »
I'ma let the homeboys up the hill run a train on your girlfriend. You know what a train is, don't you?

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2011, 09:32:14 AM »
Why did I think "black woman" before even opening this thread?

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #18 on: May 18, 2011, 09:33:20 AM »
I hate it when people text during the movie.  Makes me wish I had a device I could point at someone's cell phone and disable it for 2 hours.    >:(

Cell phone jammer.  Best $375 ever spent.

They might be able to turn on their screen, but they won't be texting or talking shit on it.

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #19 on: May 18, 2011, 10:57:29 AM »
Cell phone jammer.  Best $375 ever spent.

They might be able to turn on their screen, but they won't be texting or talking shit on it.

Aren't those illegal in many countries?  Either way, I wouldn't want to disable all cell phones in the room, just the ones I point the device to, the annoying text maniac sitting a few sits to my right, or in front of me, etc.  I don't believe a device like that exists, yet.

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #20 on: May 18, 2011, 11:23:12 AM »
train to san francisco.. sounds like a gay gangbang porn title

lol  ok. 

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #21 on: May 18, 2011, 11:25:51 AM »
Good.  Send her to Jenny Craig.  And an etiquette class. 

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #22 on: May 18, 2011, 02:31:10 PM »
Aren't those illegal in many countries?  Either way, I wouldn't want to disable all cell phones in the room, just the ones I point the device to, the annoying text maniac sitting a few sits to my right, or in front of me, etc.  I don't believe a device like that exists, yet.

Yes.  Very illegal.  Which is why you don't dare get caught with one.

The only thing you can point at a phone abuser and stop them on the spot is a gun.  Which while the gun could be legal, the actions won't.

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #23 on: May 18, 2011, 04:20:39 PM »
I don't want to say anything about that picture but..................... ....................... :-X

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Re: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police
« Reply #24 on: May 18, 2011, 06:42:08 PM »
Why did I think "black woman" before even opening this thread?
LOL heard this on the news this morning and knew before they even showed the picture.

Whats best is how she says "she felt disrespected"...seriously?

to me it seems like a lot of AA ppl suffer from this type of mentality where they feel they can be as loud they want where ever they want and others should put up with it.