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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
A very intoxicated man explained at length to my friend and me that we should stay in school instead of dropping out to join the military like he did. He wasn't wrong.
I was sat opposite a woman who had a grocery bag filled to the brim with crisps packets, or so it seemed.
She started out just munching on crisps, mouth fully open, shoving her hands in there. She emptied two packs in between two stops (metro). Efficient.
When she had enough she started rumaging frantically through her bag for a solid 20 seconds, and then triumphantly dug out a can of whipped cream (squirty cream format for my UK friends), opened it, and just emptied the whole thing in her mouth in one go!
Could've been a firefighter. They'll tear your ass apart in the fire academy if you don't have your rope on you, at all times. Now that I think about it, you wouldn't believe the stuff I keep in my car at all times now.
Wile walking to the bus my dog picked up a dead bird off the ground and was just carrying it like the good little 'triever she was until I noticed and removed it.
I watched a guy chug a bottle of orange Listerine, ramble incoherently for ten minutes, then proceed to have uncontrollable diarrhea all over the seat before getting off the train.
Back when I was in college I road the bus every day. Nothing even remotely as crazy as most of the comments here describing happened that I witnessed on those hundreds of bus rides
There was the dude wearing a parka when the heat index was over 100, or the guy weeping holding a bouquet while heading into a residential area and those are honestly not that interesting because shit happens but I do have one story:
One fairly quiet bus ride I was seated in some of the sideways seats near the front and a lady seated across from me was reading a newspaper. My eyes are drifting as I'm listening to a podcast and suddenly I realize on the front of the paper this lady is reading is a photo of my dad. I asked her "excuse me, could I look at that paper quickly? That's a photo of my dad there and I want to see what he's been up to to get in the paper but hasn't told me" and it turns out he helped run a Wikipedia edit-a-thon event at a local library to help encourage new contributors.
i had a co-worker like this. she got fired for sexual harassment. would come in every weekend and loudly tell people about the hot guy that fucked her ass in detail.
In addition to some junkie/alkie shenanigans I saw an immigrant started praying on his Muslim mat in front of the train doors. Dude started raving when someone stepped on his mat trying to get out. I remember everyone just looking around confused over the idiocy of it all
Not my story, but it’s so good I have to share it: my classmate told me about how she was on a bus and some guy was arguing with the bus driver about fare or something, and the bus driver just gets up, takes off his bus driver vest thing, and fucking walks off the job! She said everyone on the bus was like WTF. Then when she left the bus and went to another bus stop to try to get home the driver was also just waiting at that stop, because obviously he drove the bus there and had no other way to get anywhere 😂
Once an old guy asked me to hold the door for him when the train stops so he can stand up and get out. I did but he took very long to stand up so I instinctively went to help him, the door closed and the train went on. So we both excited at the next stop and wanted to get the train back. It was the worst possible stop because the walk was crazy long and the old guy crazy slow. Me being way too helpful, I walked with him and he told me about how his family never visits him anymore and all kinds of trouble in his life, while one train after the other passed by. Eventually we arrived on the other side, got back to the original stop and exited. I escorted him to a taxi. He was very thankful for the adventure and I was a few hours late to work.
I try to be but it was honestly overwhelming since I’m actually not a very social person, especially not back then. Luckily he was talking most of the time. It was a learning experience for me and I’m glad I did it.
Waiting for a matatu and one dude starts beating the shit out of another. Two separate times.
Cool dude gets on near Bakersfield, sits next to me, drinks a 12 pack and tells me how he murdered people in prison.
Various people smoking crack, meth, and fety on trains and buses
Dude gets asked to turn his music down, goes on escalating and frankly impressive rant for 10 minutes about how he’s going to cut the guys head clean off with his machete
Various guys jacking off
Various rants against every race
Spent 90% of my life taking public transit and I love it. Big public transit fan and I wish people would intermingle more in general.
But, if you talk loudly or listen to music on the tinny speakers on your phone, you are the scum of the earth in my eyes. I’d rather have a dude strung out on heroin on the train than you, absolutely no hint of sarcasm.
It’s a fair point, but I think I gained some empathy and perspective on my own problems. Maybe it does something dark to a person but I’m definitely fairly confident.
I get to look at my phone and read interesting things/do Duolingo. The stress of a car would be similar or worse I think.
Some tweaker was huffing compressed air cans, but the kind that have the bittering agent to discourage people from huffing. The stuff got into the air and was very unpleasant for everyone. I had to get off at the next stop and wait for another train, I couldn't breathe.
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.
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
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.
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.
Santacon and elf con crossed tracks at a train stop. For some reason there was also a train full of clowns and a few mime artists all on the same train.
some guy sat across from me and started screaming at me how beautiful my boots were and what a removed i was. then went into this long story about how he'd be rich like me if his bitch mom hadn't stolen his dad's money. then he went on about his dreadlocks being beautiful and perfect and he'll cut anyone who calls it cultural appropriation.
nobody had said a word to this guy, he just went off for one stop then got off to change cars probably to go tell the same weird nutbag rant to the next subway car.
I saw a guy jump off a bridge when I was driving by. He didn't break the ice and was laying in the middle of the river for quite some time as first responders had to get down the icy/snowy cliffs.
I find it funny how men will call women emotional but then we get ol yam tits and his pedo gooner squad with that angry ass hobbit and they have thinner skin than a pudding cup. Going into bitch-ass screeching queen of hearts mode whenever someone hints at them being exactly what they are.
Saw a guy on the SF Muni simultaneously solving two Rubik’s cubes, one in each hand. By the time he got off at the next station he was done with both of them.
It's my first day heading to work after moving to a new apartment. I get on the bus around 7 AM. My guide dog (Guide Dog 1 from a previous post) is under my seat with her head poking out a bit into the aisle.
A few stops down route and this drunk lady gets on and sits right next to me. I'm a little annoyed but it's public transit and a lack of personal space is par for the course.
"Oh, a doggy," she slurs in Spanish, attempting to pet my dog's head. Unfortunately she misses and starts petting my leg instead. I jump up and relocate to another seat, but not before telling the woman "Please don't touch my dog, and don't touch me either." The rest of the ride she's groping the air in the general direction of my dog.
Some other anecdotes in no particular order:
Someone in the back of the bus screaming "It's my birthday WOOOOOOOO!"
A lady ranting at the driver to stop for a good 20 minutes because she has to pee
A smelly bum falling asleep on my shoulder
I have to mention a time where I was probably the strange one: after the lockdowns ended but while masking was still common, I would wear a full respirator with face shield, basically a gas mask, while on the bus. My rationale is that a normal paper or cloth mask stops the wearers germs from getting out but doesn't do so well at stopping them from getting in. I can't see who is or isn't wearing a mask, so I'm going to wear something that WILL protect me against the non maskers.
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Oh and the time my bus got cut off by another bus and the driver got out and started yelling at the other driver. I was already within walking distance of my destination, so I just noped off the bus before it could escalate.
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same bus as the drunk dog petter, this guy would get on at the stop after mine. I called him Mr. Bucket because he always carried this large white plastic bucket that smelled absolutely foul.
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I get on a bus (different city) while wearing a lanyard with a name badge on it. I forget to slip the lanyard under my shirt, and this lady leans in and grabs the lanyard to examine the card.
Her: "You're from [name of place on the lanyard]?"
A dude approached me letting me know he was the Blue Elf, he was dressed in a childish vibrant flat colors, but nothing too out of the ordinary. He told me he was an artist traveling for an exchange and that he was known for giving away blue puzzle pieces, of which he gave me one. Said goodbye a couple of stops later. He left me utterly confounded. Once home, I looked it up on the Internet and confirmed all his story…
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.
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.
Somebody jumped in front of the train. I only caught it out of the corner of my eye and I thought it was a suitcase at first. I couldn't fathom that it could be a person. I actually got on the train but when it didn't move it dawned on me what had happened and then someone else confirmed it. Everyone just stared at each other in disbelief and then we all silently excited and went on about our way. Fuck, I completely forgot about that.
Weirdly, when I finally got to my destination there was a nun on a stretcher being rolled out of the building by EMTs. Strange day.
I used to ride the CTA blue line into downtown Chicago for work. One of the other commuters who I saw regularly was as guy with a large patchwork hat that he clearly made himself. He also called a folding sign that looked like it was made of thin pieces of plywood. He'd be sitting and reading the newspaper when I got on, but when the train was getting close to down town he'd calmly fold up his paper and start getting himself worked up. By the time we got to Clark and Lake, the big transfer station, he'd be incredibly animated and ranting about God and the devil. He'd sprint off through the crowd the moment the doors opened
Guy had a baseball bat with nails on the crowded greenline in Boston. Pretty sure it was used for holding multiple plastic bags on his shoulder, but it was still kinda freaky
dude huffin paint out of a paper bag on a full morning commute
dude was trippin balls and everyone gave him space so it was something to behold, it was one of those bus rides that had a 15-20 minute space on the freeway so there wasn't any making him leave. Everyone kept an eye on him as he passed up and down the isle.
It was something so far out, I recorded it on my phone
Public transport and living in a apartment made me really dislike people. Its enough with one weirdo to destroy a good nights sleep or a public transport journey for everyone.
Some humans are pretty much animals and just do what they want without any thoughts about others.
On a trip to San Francisco, the quintessential "gay mecca" of the USA I was on a bus making my way over towards Haight area (then planning to go visit Castro street aka the actual gayest part of San Francisco) there were a group of men on the bus going on a bigoted rant specifically about homosexual men ruining the country and going to hell and all that fun stuff on the LGBTQ+ agenda.
Like, I'd expect to hear that kind of stuff in the middle of Oklahoma's rural hellscape (sans the bus part). But in San Francisco of all places?
Those people purposefully bait confrontation. They go to where they know they are of the unpopular opinion, and loudly and obnoxiously escalate their bigotry until there’s confrontation.
Test this by calmly approaching them and asking what they feel they will accomplish with this- and see how quickly one of the “onlookers” whips out a recording device.
I think its probably just refusing to be quiet about their opinions. That comes off as being confrontative, simply because they dont self censor themselves around people they know will be upset.
Its simular to here on Lemmy when people get called trolls for stating an unpopular opinion. They just dont self censor.
people like that are everywhere. they are probably your friends and neighbors.
most of my girlfriends who claim to be liberal progressives were rabidly racist or anti-lgbt. because i was their boyfriend they could 'tell me how they really felt' while they lied through their teeth in public to other people. the hypocracy was mind-blowing, but it's incredibly common for people to do this.
One morning when I got on the Stockholm metro there was a guy, bombed out of his mind, he had tossed his jacket in the middle of the floor, and was messing about with bottle caps with water and syringes.
No one made a sound (this is normal in the Stockholm rush hour), and I reached out through the SL app chat feature to inform the security center about the situation
I told them that a poor guy on the train clearly needed help, didn't speculate, but informed them about what I could see, told them what train it concerned and where on the train the guy was and gave a description of him.
Two stops later two security guards boarded the train and quickly lead him out, no screaming or disruption at all.
I don't know what happened to the guy after that, but I was careful to stay neutral yet concerned for the guy's health, and I hope he finally got the help he needed if not wanted at the time and is doing much better now.
I took the Bart in San Francisco every day for a decade, definitely saw some things. Saw a guy take a shit between the cars. Saw someone flip off the rails and kick someone in the head.
The one I remember the most was during a busy morning commute, I had my headphones on and I see this older guy pushing through people to follow this younger woman. She kept moving up and down the train to get away from him. After seeing this a few times, I stepped in front of him and told him "I don't know what's going on, but she clearly doesn't want to be near you, so you gotta leave her alone". He snapped at me screaming that it was his daughter and I need to stay the fuck out of their family situation. Myself and a few others blocked him, and he got off at the next stop. When I asked the woman if she was okay, she said she had no relation to the guy and had never seen him. Scary stuff all around. Im assuming he was mentally ill and had some previous drama about losing his daughter, and something triggered in his brain when he saw that woman. I thought for sure I was gonna get stabbed that day, and if the train wasn't so crowded I think things would've ended a lot differently.
I had a similar thing on a bus once, all the seats were full so there was a line of people standing down the middle aisle of the bus. There was an old homeless dude on one side and a young woman on the other side, and he was hassling her and kept reaching across the aisle and touching her, which she obviously didn't want. The guy standing up nearest to them kept stopping the guy and sort of swatting his hand away whenever he tried. Then the bus stopped and the guy turned to the guy behind him and was like "This is my stop, you got this?" and then the next guy moved forward and started telling the guy off and swatting his hand away.
After that it just kept moving like a production line of us telling this creeper off and pushing his hand away. It didn't seem to matter if those of us in the line were men or women, he was just really obsessed with this one person. So at least five people in front of me did it, then I did it, then the guy behind me took over when I had to leave. I have no idea how long it went on for lol.
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.
Guy gets on bus, sits down, starts playing music from his phone's speaker. Plays "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off," while simultaneously launching into a recitation of the Lord's Prayer on repeat.
I have been sitting in a tram that emergency breake'd. It was all seriously fast: Ring of the warning bell (like an overgrown alarm clock) towards the driver of the car, and next thing was that I was leaning over an old lady sitting in the opposite side. They accellerated like a snail on dope, but breaking was applying ACME Insta Stop.
Yep, they did indeed sand. But I never expected this antique fuc-er to stop on a stamp like that. I'm glad it was still slow at that point, or it would have been a big problem.
Some random novice nun recognized that I am an IT guy so she asked me whether it is really possible that it was God who made her computer crash while she was writing her homework essay about some saint that she was obsessed about.
On my once a year trip on mass transit, someone came on, so hammered/high they proceeded to vomit up the thickest, most gooey, florescent yellow-green puke I have ever seen. They did this 2 or 3 times before getting off and stumbling home.
I have no idea what was in their stomach, but it for sure wanted out. I just felt for the poor soul having to clean it up.
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 ...
Back when I was a teenager, some old hippie went on an entirely unprompted rant about not killing flies to me and my friends for what seemed like the entirety of our 30 minute bus ride. He said killing harmful bugs is necessary but flies are just looking for nitrogen so don't kill them.
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.
One of the first times I took the path train (it's a light rail in NJ/NYC. Basically another subway line). I sit down, and an older guy in a suit sits down next to me. He's got like a box in a plastic bag in his lap. No big deal.
This was in like 2002. He didn't have a cell phone or earphones. Just sitting quietly, waiting for the train to leave.
He started to giggle. Little chuckles. And then escalated to full laughs. It rises and rises until he's like cackling. And then he calms down, reverses all the way through giggles and back to silence. Never said a word.
I don't know what was in the box. I didn't ask. I assume he just got away with a killer heist.
One time I got on the bus and there was a big sketchy-looking dude, definitely on something, sitting at the back laughing hysterically. Out of common sense I kept my distance at first, but I was kind of looking at him out of the corner of my eye to see what was going on, and I saw he was reading a book. This guy was literally almost rolling on the floor laughing, and I decided I have to find out what this book is.
Being a... not very large person myself this was sketchy, but he seemed to be oblivious to everything else around him so I sat opposite kind of close to see what book this jacked-up crackhead was losing his shit over. It was Bridget Jones' Diary. I still haven't read it but I think that's a good recommendation.
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 🤦🏼♀️
And people wonder why a lot of folks are uncomfortable on public transportation.
I was excited to ride on public transportation for the first time and immediately people were doing drugs right next to me and babbling incoherently. Yep, no, I'm good.
I took the tram to go to school for 10 years and have maybe a handful of weird incidents to show for it. This is an issue with the culture surrounding public transit. If it gets seen as the mode of transportation which only gets used by those icky poor people and weirdoes it is no wonder that the weirdoes are overrepresented, especially in the US where the only place with a tram system of note is NYC which already has a high amount of weird people living in it, even if only due to the huge number of people living there to begin with.
I was on the escalator coming up out of one of Washington D.C.'s Metro stations when the guy ahead of me reached the top, stepped to the side, then squatted down and pissed his pants.
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.
Maybe not the "craziest", but I remember being a kid and on the NYC subway, a bunch of dudes were just like... doing "steet performance" stuff... like on the subway... like they'd while moving from one subway cart to another subway cart (is that what it's called, idk the terminology), like through the train connection thing while the subway was in motion, like a group of 4-5 guys, one went around, begging for money, which I thought at the time was a robbery, like, for context, I was around 8-12 at the time, I literally just came to this country, I was just so "wtf" about the whole situation. Like what the fuck was that. Like... I don't wanna be racist about this... but I'm Asian, and those dudes were not, so you know... me being a kid, I got even more scared about it. I just kinda leaned on my mom sitting right next to me and like hugged cuz I felt so scared.
No it wasn't really a robbery, but like... I was just so fucking confused at the time. What the fuck what that? Then like 10 minutes later, they moved to a different subway cart. It felt like 30 minutes to me lol. And like I don't think we ever were at a stop, since I think this was like those segments where it takes forever between 2 stops, probably the manhattan bridge section of the D train or N train, which takes forever.
Like can you imagine being a kid and a bunch of dudes are causing a scene for some reason you don't understand?
Also I remember this other time where I'm sure it was the D line, and like I went on this subway cart where it was empty. Like you know NYC always crowded af and no seats, and I always hated standing as a kid. So my mom and I picked this subway car that was apparantly empty. So then the doors close behind us and then we noticed a smell, then we notices some homeless looking dude on the other corner of the subway cart. And like the smell was coming from the homeless dude. (No offense to homeless people btw, but I'm describing this memory from a kid-me's perspective so keep that in mind) So it got really uncomfortable in there, but the doors closed and train already got moving. But the next stop was like 10 minutes away (one of the sections where they skip like 3 stops on the express track), so we just had to bear with the dumpster like smell and also the potential danger of dude just waking up and attacking us.
I thought about just hopping between the carts using the doorway thing (if you know what I'm talking about), but there was a sign warning not to move through doors while train is moving and my mom said no, its too dangerous, so we just stayed in that cart for 10 agonizing minutes.
Actually, current-me might've been actually been more freaked out by it since I have germophobia now. That's why I kinda hate public transit nowadays.
I think it was the segment between 36th st to Atlantic-Pacific (now known as Atlantic-Barclays) where like they skip right through a few stops. Forgot which direction it was.
Sometime around 2010-2014.
But hey, drunk-looking maybe-homeless dude got himself a full home for himself in the subway xD.
Like what the hell, what was that, do people just like make themself smell bad and hoard an entire subway cart? lmao
Nothing crazy really. I ride the train that's also a connection to one of the biggest asylum centres for immigrants, so of course, because foreign people scary, there's loads of extra security.
The only few times I've actually seen something they were needed for, it was never the immigrants. Once I saw a white guy wailing on someone who looked foreign, took a good while for security to actually step in and do something.
A different time, some guy was just being a nuisance and didn't want to get on or off the train or something. Two of these security people got involved, both a lot bigger than the guy, but they struggled a lot to get him down and cuffed. The guy almost got up and fled a few times.
So that got me really feeling confident in this security... (/s of course)
I've seen people pooping on the bus stop from inside the bus, but luckily I haven't had anyone do it inside the actual bus yet.
Also one time our city decided to close all the train station bathrooms to stop people from OD-ing in them. But this of course also stopped people from going to the bathroom, so people just started pissing on the floor outside the locked doors. They're open again now.
Yeah I saw it on the El. Poor dude just pulled his pants down and fucking went. Cleared out the train car at the next stop. That's what you get when you take the late night trains.
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
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
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.
Nothing that crazy I guess, but two events I remember:
A small fire broke out next to the tracks and the train driver actually stopped the train and got out to extinguish it
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
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.
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.
A very intoxicated man explained at length to my friend and me that we should stay in school instead of dropping out to join the military like he did. He wasn't wrong.
I was sat opposite a woman who had a grocery bag filled to the brim with crisps packets, or so it seemed. She started out just munching on crisps, mouth fully open, shoving her hands in there. She emptied two packs in between two stops (metro). Efficient.
When she had enough she started rumaging frantically through her bag for a solid 20 seconds, and then triumphantly dug out a can of whipped cream (squirty cream format for my UK friends), opened it, and just emptied the whole thing in her mouth in one go!
It was in France, of all fucking places.
Pregante? What is that? Is that how babby formed?
No that's pragnent
Gregnant.
Those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head
No she did not seem interested in me.
pregananant
Breakfast of champions.
Bulking up on carbs before robbing the Louve maybe? Need a lot of calories for that much running
Continental breakfast of champions
i had a dude walk up to me and say "never just take unsolicited advice"
possibly the best advice i ever got. total mindfuck though
A group of us in NYC and dude rolled up with a rope and declared, "Never leave the house without some rope" and then went on his way.
Could've been a firefighter. They'll tear your ass apart in the fire academy if you don't have your rope on you, at all times. Now that I think about it, you wouldn't believe the stuff I keep in my car at all times now.
BDSM enthusiast is another possibility. Never know when you'll run into someone who wants to be tied up.
They must have felt so vindicated by Boondock Saints.
I NEED MY TOOLS!
Probably just another Big Rope stunt.
Thats fucking amazing.
That's the IRL / performance art equivalent of "ceci n'est pas une pipe."
I had forgotten about that painting. Lol thanks for reminding me, that's a great comparison.
Uh, this is not a reminder to stare at art.
Please do not stare at art.
Art get very nervous when you stare at them.
Welp, that was unintentional, but... apparently our shadow person here... yep, meet Arthur everyone.
Don't be shy.
... he would not like that, if you were shy...
EDIT: Wow, I thought this comment was in another thread.
... I'm leaving this here for additional absurdity.
EDIT 2:
::: spoiler I found Arthur
:::
Lmao, love it.
Hi Arthur.
I thought I was was responding to an entirely different thread in an art comm.
The piece is titled "Happy Person Having A Pleasant Conversation In Public", by Randy Ortiz.
... But now, he is Art, Arthur.
So do you follow his unsolicited advice of not following his advice? Or do you not follow it, by following it?
I watched a lady bring a small dead bird in a ziploc onto the Metro in Montreal and then proceed to pluck its feathers onto the floor.
and we aren't talking about your game hen or a quail here or something. I'm lalking about a fucking sparrow or something like that.
Tough life if you got to prep dinner on the metro.
Wile walking to the bus my dog picked up a dead bird off the ground and was just carrying it like the good little 'triever she was until I noticed and removed it.
What the fuck? Craziest thing I've seen in the montréal metro was like, a rat.
I watched a guy chug a bottle of orange Listerine, ramble incoherently for ten minutes, then proceed to have uncontrollable diarrhea all over the seat before getting off the train.
Man, I've been homeless and seen some wild shit on busses... fairly regularly...
That?
What you've just described?
That's expectional even to me.
God damn.
Back when I was in college I road the bus every day. Nothing even remotely as crazy as most of the comments here describing happened that I witnessed on those hundreds of bus rides There was the dude wearing a parka when the heat index was over 100, or the guy weeping holding a bouquet while heading into a residential area and those are honestly not that interesting because shit happens but I do have one story:
One fairly quiet bus ride I was seated in some of the sideways seats near the front and a lady seated across from me was reading a newspaper. My eyes are drifting as I'm listening to a podcast and suddenly I realize on the front of the paper this lady is reading is a photo of my dad. I asked her "excuse me, could I look at that paper quickly? That's a photo of my dad there and I want to see what he's been up to to get in the paper but hasn't told me" and it turns out he helped run a Wikipedia edit-a-thon event at a local library to help encourage new contributors.
That's a wild way to find out. Lol
As a Wikipedia contributor myself I thank your dad 👍
In Halifax, two teenage girls talking on the bus. One girl was describing how her boyfriend fucks her. Very graphic.
People pay to hear that
i had a co-worker like this. she got fired for sexual harassment. would come in every weekend and loudly tell people about the hot guy that fucked her ass in detail.
Too many people in the world need to share everything about themselves with the public. I don't get it.
a massive insecurity complex that forms a endless need for validation from other people.
people like that have zero ability to self-validate their choices, so they need to broadcast every choice to others to tell them how great it is.
That makes sense.
That’s just Rita, Sue & Bob Too.
In addition to some junkie/alkie shenanigans I saw an immigrant started praying on his Muslim mat in front of the train doors. Dude started raving when someone stepped on his mat trying to get out. I remember everyone just looking around confused over the idiocy of it all
Not my story, but it’s so good I have to share it: my classmate told me about how she was on a bus and some guy was arguing with the bus driver about fare or something, and the bus driver just gets up, takes off his bus driver vest thing, and fucking walks off the job! She said everyone on the bus was like WTF. Then when she left the bus and went to another bus stop to try to get home the driver was also just waiting at that stop, because obviously he drove the bus there and had no other way to get anywhere 😂
Once an old guy asked me to hold the door for him when the train stops so he can stand up and get out. I did but he took very long to stand up so I instinctively went to help him, the door closed and the train went on. So we both excited at the next stop and wanted to get the train back. It was the worst possible stop because the walk was crazy long and the old guy crazy slow. Me being way too helpful, I walked with him and he told me about how his family never visits him anymore and all kinds of trouble in his life, while one train after the other passed by. Eventually we arrived on the other side, got back to the original stop and exited. I escorted him to a taxi. He was very thankful for the adventure and I was a few hours late to work.
Aww, you are a kind and good person, and I'm glad that you're in this world with me.
I try to be but it was honestly overwhelming since I’m actually not a very social person, especially not back then. Luckily he was talking most of the time. It was a learning experience for me and I’m glad I did it.
Work can wait, people in need cannot. You did the right thing. Thanks for talking about it here.
Waiting for a matatu and one dude starts beating the shit out of another. Two separate times.
Cool dude gets on near Bakersfield, sits next to me, drinks a 12 pack and tells me how he murdered people in prison.
Various people smoking crack, meth, and fety on trains and buses
Dude gets asked to turn his music down, goes on escalating and frankly impressive rant for 10 minutes about how he’s going to cut the guys head clean off with his machete
Various guys jacking off
Various rants against every race
Spent 90% of my life taking public transit and I love it. Big public transit fan and I wish people would intermingle more in general.
But, if you talk loudly or listen to music on the tinny speakers on your phone, you are the scum of the earth in my eyes. I’d rather have a dude strung out on heroin on the train than you, absolutely no hint of sarcasm.
You love it? God, I would become so depressed.
where's your whimsy?
It’s a fair point, but I think I gained some empathy and perspective on my own problems. Maybe it does something dark to a person but I’m definitely fairly confident.
I get to look at my phone and read interesting things/do Duolingo. The stress of a car would be similar or worse I think.
Humanity is interesting, warts and all
Sounds like a very good way of seeing it.
I try to not be sad about this world but often fail.
I find that driving through traffic leaves me very depressed and often angry. I'd like a few more options for my depression at least.
Some people are not built for coliving on the same planet.
Some tweaker was huffing compressed air cans, but the kind that have the bittering agent to discourage people from huffing. The stuff got into the air and was very unpleasant for everyone. I had to get off at the next stop and wait for another train, I couldn't breathe.
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.
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.
While I generally oppose police brutality, I think this is a good case for it.
Santacon and elf con crossed tracks at a train stop. For some reason there was also a train full of clowns and a few mime artists all on the same train.
I’ve had to administer noloxone twice on the subway (once was on the platform)
some guy sat across from me and started screaming at me how beautiful my boots were and what a removed i was. then went into this long story about how he'd be rich like me if his bitch mom hadn't stolen his dad's money. then he went on about his dreadlocks being beautiful and perfect and he'll cut anyone who calls it cultural appropriation.
nobody had said a word to this guy, he just went off for one stop then got off to change cars probably to go tell the same weird nutbag rant to the next subway car.
I don't know if you are aware, but your instance seems to have censored your post. It says beautiful my boots were and what a removed I was
that's because my instance is gay and doesn't like bad words for gay people
A woman jumped while I was waiting for the train at my home station. It wasn't pretty...
I'm so sorry you had to see that.
I saw a guy jump off a bridge when I was driving by. He didn't break the ice and was laying in the middle of the river for quite some time as first responders had to get down the icy/snowy cliffs.
Someone called the bus driver a girl for being sensitive so he called the police on them.
I find it funny how men will call women emotional but then we get ol yam tits and his pedo gooner squad with that angry ass hobbit and they have thinner skin than a pudding cup. Going into bitch-ass screeching queen of hearts mode whenever someone hints at them being exactly what they are.
A singing and commentating bus driver! :-)
Saw a guy on the SF Muni simultaneously solving two Rubik’s cubes, one in each hand. By the time he got off at the next station he was done with both of them.
A drunk man in an Elvis costume, singing to old ladies and grabbing their hands. They loved it.
hoo boy have I got a story for you!
It's my first day heading to work after moving to a new apartment. I get on the bus around 7 AM. My guide dog (Guide Dog 1 from a previous post) is under my seat with her head poking out a bit into the aisle.
A few stops down route and this drunk lady gets on and sits right next to me. I'm a little annoyed but it's public transit and a lack of personal space is par for the course.
"Oh, a doggy," she slurs in Spanish, attempting to pet my dog's head. Unfortunately she misses and starts petting my leg instead. I jump up and relocate to another seat, but not before telling the woman "Please don't touch my dog, and don't touch me either." The rest of the ride she's groping the air in the general direction of my dog.
Some other anecdotes in no particular order:
I have to mention a time where I was probably the strange one: after the lockdowns ended but while masking was still common, I would wear a full respirator with face shield, basically a gas mask, while on the bus. My rationale is that a normal paper or cloth mask stops the wearers germs from getting out but doesn't do so well at stopping them from getting in. I can't see who is or isn't wearing a mask, so I'm going to wear something that WILL protect me against the non maskers.
EDIT:
Oh and the time my bus got cut off by another bus and the driver got out and started yelling at the other driver. I was already within walking distance of my destination, so I just noped off the bus before it could escalate.
EDIT 2:
same bus as the drunk dog petter, this guy would get on at the stop after mine. I called him Mr. Bucket because he always carried this large white plastic bucket that smelled absolutely foul.
EDIT 3:
I get on a bus (different city) while wearing a lanyard with a name badge on it. I forget to slip the lanyard under my shirt, and this lady leans in and grabs the lanyard to examine the card.
Her: "You're from [name of place on the lanyard]?"
Me, unable to lie at this point: "...yes".
Yeah, if you ride public transport enough you get a lot of stories. While I do not encourage it, I do look back fondly on some of it.
A dude approached me letting me know he was the Blue Elf, he was dressed in a childish vibrant flat colors, but nothing too out of the ordinary. He told me he was an artist traveling for an exchange and that he was known for giving away blue puzzle pieces, of which he gave me one. Said goodbye a couple of stops later. He left me utterly confounded. Once home, I looked it up on the Internet and confirmed all his story…
I don't believe this one. Links, or it didn't happen.
Yeah! I want to see this!
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....
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
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.
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!!
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 🦠
Not just water, but holy water. At least now u know ur not a vampire either!
Always good to see a silver lining 😉
A drunk squaddie explaining social security and taxes to his fellow squaddies in a broad Glaswegian accent.
Although I suppose the craziest thing was getting out of King's Cross while it was on fire, on a train that wasn't supposed to stop.
Somebody jumped in front of the train. I only caught it out of the corner of my eye and I thought it was a suitcase at first. I couldn't fathom that it could be a person. I actually got on the train but when it didn't move it dawned on me what had happened and then someone else confirmed it. Everyone just stared at each other in disbelief and then we all silently excited and went on about our way. Fuck, I completely forgot about that.
Weirdly, when I finally got to my destination there was a nun on a stretcher being rolled out of the building by EMTs. Strange day.
I used to ride the CTA blue line into downtown Chicago for work. One of the other commuters who I saw regularly was as guy with a large patchwork hat that he clearly made himself. He also called a folding sign that looked like it was made of thin pieces of plywood. He'd be sitting and reading the newspaper when I got on, but when the train was getting close to down town he'd calmly fold up his paper and start getting himself worked up. By the time we got to Clark and Lake, the big transfer station, he'd be incredibly animated and ranting about God and the devil. He'd sprint off through the crowd the moment the doors opened
I stared at my wife's cleavage while riding the train once. Otherwise it's all been pretty chill.
And this woman knows she's your wife, right?
Pretty sure! 🤣
Married for 20 years.
hopped on the local metro transport at like 6am. I sit down and try to not make eye contact with anyone and the smell hits me first.
dude like two seats down is passed the fuck out, dick in hand, legs stretched out, and he's just shitting all over himself and the seat.
security comes over and tries to wake him up. they get loud and kinda rough with the guy. no response. they check for pulse. he ded. he big ded.
dude must have died mid stroke at some point in the morning commute and his bowels released soon after.
drugs are bad m'kay.
Fucking hell man, what a way to go.
man died doing what he loved most.
drugs.
Guy had a baseball bat with nails on the crowded greenline in Boston. Pretty sure it was used for holding multiple plastic bags on his shoulder, but it was still kinda freaky
Me thinks that bat was duel purpose.
Your post is dual purpose.
New bindle mode unlocked.
I love the old internet with wacky shit like this just poppin on to your radar
dude huffin paint out of a paper bag on a full morning commute
dude was trippin balls and everyone gave him space so it was something to behold, it was one of those bus rides that had a 15-20 minute space on the freeway so there wasn't any making him leave. Everyone kept an eye on him as he passed up and down the isle.
It was something so far out, I recorded it on my phone
Public transport and living in a apartment made me really dislike people. Its enough with one weirdo to destroy a good nights sleep or a public transport journey for everyone.
Some humans are pretty much animals and just do what they want without any thoughts about others.
I absolutely go off on people in public transit over that stuff.
I think we should... But good people usually keep quiet about it. They dont want to confront the assholes...
Good on you if you do.
On a trip to San Francisco, the quintessential "gay mecca" of the USA I was on a bus making my way over towards Haight area (then planning to go visit Castro street aka the actual gayest part of San Francisco) there were a group of men on the bus going on a bigoted rant specifically about homosexual men ruining the country and going to hell and all that fun stuff on the LGBTQ+ agenda.
Like, I'd expect to hear that kind of stuff in the middle of Oklahoma's rural hellscape (sans the bus part). But in San Francisco of all places?
Those people purposefully bait confrontation. They go to where they know they are of the unpopular opinion, and loudly and obnoxiously escalate their bigotry until there’s confrontation.
Test this by calmly approaching them and asking what they feel they will accomplish with this- and see how quickly one of the “onlookers” whips out a recording device.
I think its probably just refusing to be quiet about their opinions. That comes off as being confrontative, simply because they dont self censor themselves around people they know will be upset.
Its simular to here on Lemmy when people get called trolls for stating an unpopular opinion. They just dont self censor.
people like that are everywhere. they are probably your friends and neighbors.
most of my girlfriends who claim to be liberal progressives were rabidly racist or anti-lgbt. because i was their boyfriend they could 'tell me how they really felt' while they lied through their teeth in public to other people. the hypocracy was mind-blowing, but it's incredibly common for people to do this.
Dated a good share of raging liberals and none were racist or anti lgbt. Have you considered maybe you just attract racists and anti lgbt people?
One morning when I got on the Stockholm metro there was a guy, bombed out of his mind, he had tossed his jacket in the middle of the floor, and was messing about with bottle caps with water and syringes.
No one made a sound (this is normal in the Stockholm rush hour), and I reached out through the SL app chat feature to inform the security center about the situation
I told them that a poor guy on the train clearly needed help, didn't speculate, but informed them about what I could see, told them what train it concerned and where on the train the guy was and gave a description of him.
Two stops later two security guards boarded the train and quickly lead him out, no screaming or disruption at all.
I don't know what happened to the guy after that, but I was careful to stay neutral yet concerned for the guy's health, and I hope he finally got the help he needed if not wanted at the time and is doing much better now.
I took the Bart in San Francisco every day for a decade, definitely saw some things. Saw a guy take a shit between the cars. Saw someone flip off the rails and kick someone in the head.
The one I remember the most was during a busy morning commute, I had my headphones on and I see this older guy pushing through people to follow this younger woman. She kept moving up and down the train to get away from him. After seeing this a few times, I stepped in front of him and told him "I don't know what's going on, but she clearly doesn't want to be near you, so you gotta leave her alone". He snapped at me screaming that it was his daughter and I need to stay the fuck out of their family situation. Myself and a few others blocked him, and he got off at the next stop. When I asked the woman if she was okay, she said she had no relation to the guy and had never seen him. Scary stuff all around. Im assuming he was mentally ill and had some previous drama about losing his daughter, and something triggered in his brain when he saw that woman. I thought for sure I was gonna get stabbed that day, and if the train wasn't so crowded I think things would've ended a lot differently.
I had a similar thing on a bus once, all the seats were full so there was a line of people standing down the middle aisle of the bus. There was an old homeless dude on one side and a young woman on the other side, and he was hassling her and kept reaching across the aisle and touching her, which she obviously didn't want. The guy standing up nearest to them kept stopping the guy and sort of swatting his hand away whenever he tried. Then the bus stopped and the guy turned to the guy behind him and was like "This is my stop, you got this?" and then the next guy moved forward and started telling the guy off and swatting his hand away.
After that it just kept moving like a production line of us telling this creeper off and pushing his hand away. It didn't seem to matter if those of us in the line were men or women, he was just really obsessed with this one person. So at least five people in front of me did it, then I did it, then the guy behind me took over when I had to leave. I have no idea how long it went on for lol.
Two things come to mind:
Lol I love seeing/hearing what people bring on the metro. Gotta do what you gotta do, I don't fault anyone, it's just fun to know about or see.
Ah so it's not just an American thing.
This particular blue wizard. Not my image, but he's a well known person that you can find image of him online.
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?
Guy gets on bus, sits down, starts playing music from his phone's speaker. Plays "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off," while simultaneously launching into a recitation of the Lord's Prayer on repeat.
We Don't Have to...
I have been sitting in a tram that emergency breake'd. It was all seriously fast: Ring of the warning bell (like an overgrown alarm clock) towards the driver of the car, and next thing was that I was leaning over an old lady sitting in the opposite side. They accellerated like a snail on dope, but breaking was applying ACME Insta Stop.
A lot of trams carry sand that they can put on the rails to get more grip when they need to break really fast. That might be what happened there
Yep, they did indeed sand. But I never expected this antique fuc-er to stop on a stamp like that. I'm glad it was still slow at that point, or it would have been a big problem.
Does that cause a lot of damage, either to the rails or the … tram bits?
It is far worse to not use sand, then the wheels will lock up and slide for longer, developing flat spots which will destroy the rails they run on
No, I don't think so. There is cleanup required on the rails of course, but it's used fairly regularly in some places I think when the tracks are wet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_(locomotive)
The bus being on time.
Some random novice nun recognized that I am an IT guy so she asked me whether it is really possible that it was God who made her computer crash while she was writing her homework essay about some saint that she was obsessed about.
How did you answer?
God's ways are inscrutable 😎
By laws of internet, I summon you to reply
On my once a year trip on mass transit, someone came on, so hammered/high they proceeded to vomit up the thickest, most gooey, florescent yellow-green puke I have ever seen. They did this 2 or 3 times before getting off and stumbling home.
I have no idea what was in their stomach, but it for sure wanted out. I just felt for the poor soul having to clean it up.
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
Back when I was a teenager, some old hippie went on an entirely unprompted rant about not killing flies to me and my friends for what seemed like the entirety of our 30 minute bus ride. He said killing harmful bugs is necessary but flies are just looking for nitrogen so don't kill them.
Lol, decades in Munich public transport, the best question would be what I haven't seen. Seriously.
... Yeah
One of the first times I took the path train (it's a light rail in NJ/NYC. Basically another subway line). I sit down, and an older guy in a suit sits down next to me. He's got like a box in a plastic bag in his lap. No big deal.
This was in like 2002. He didn't have a cell phone or earphones. Just sitting quietly, waiting for the train to leave.
He started to giggle. Little chuckles. And then escalated to full laughs. It rises and rises until he's like cackling. And then he calms down, reverses all the way through giggles and back to silence. Never said a word.
I don't know what was in the box. I didn't ask. I assume he just got away with a killer heist.
It was a piece of string
One time I got on the bus and there was a big sketchy-looking dude, definitely on something, sitting at the back laughing hysterically. Out of common sense I kept my distance at first, but I was kind of looking at him out of the corner of my eye to see what was going on, and I saw he was reading a book. This guy was literally almost rolling on the floor laughing, and I decided I have to find out what this book is.
Being a... not very large person myself this was sketchy, but he seemed to be oblivious to everything else around him so I sat opposite kind of close to see what book this jacked-up crackhead was losing his shit over. It was Bridget Jones' Diary. I still haven't read it but I think that's a good recommendation.
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 🤦🏼♀️
And people wonder why a lot of folks are uncomfortable on public transportation.
I was excited to ride on public transportation for the first time and immediately people were doing drugs right next to me and babbling incoherently. Yep, no, I'm good.
I took the tram to go to school for 10 years and have maybe a handful of weird incidents to show for it. This is an issue with the culture surrounding public transit. If it gets seen as the mode of transportation which only gets used by those icky poor people and weirdoes it is no wonder that the weirdoes are overrepresented, especially in the US where the only place with a tram system of note is NYC which already has a high amount of weird people living in it, even if only due to the huge number of people living there to begin with.
The nice thing about being blind is that I don't see any of that and can just pretend it isn't happening. The smells are unavoidable though.
I was on the escalator coming up out of one of Washington D.C.'s Metro stations when the guy ahead of me reached the top, stepped to the side, then squatted down and pissed his pants.
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.
Maybe not the "craziest", but I remember being a kid and on the NYC subway, a bunch of dudes were just like... doing "steet performance" stuff... like on the subway... like they'd while moving from one subway cart to another subway cart (is that what it's called, idk the terminology), like through the train connection thing while the subway was in motion, like a group of 4-5 guys, one went around, begging for money, which I thought at the time was a robbery, like, for context, I was around 8-12 at the time, I literally just came to this country, I was just so "wtf" about the whole situation. Like what the fuck was that. Like... I don't wanna be racist about this... but I'm Asian, and those dudes were not, so you know... me being a kid, I got even more scared about it. I just kinda leaned on my mom sitting right next to me and like hugged cuz I felt so scared.
No it wasn't really a robbery, but like... I was just so fucking confused at the time. What the fuck what that? Then like 10 minutes later, they moved to a different subway cart. It felt like 30 minutes to me lol. And like I don't think we ever were at a stop, since I think this was like those segments where it takes forever between 2 stops, probably the manhattan bridge section of the D train or N train, which takes forever.
Like can you imagine being a kid and a bunch of dudes are causing a scene for some reason you don't understand?
Also I remember this other time where I'm sure it was the D line, and like I went on this subway cart where it was empty. Like you know NYC always crowded af and no seats, and I always hated standing as a kid. So my mom and I picked this subway car that was apparantly empty. So then the doors close behind us and then we noticed a smell, then we notices some homeless looking dude on the other corner of the subway cart. And like the smell was coming from the homeless dude. (No offense to homeless people btw, but I'm describing this memory from a kid-me's perspective so keep that in mind) So it got really uncomfortable in there, but the doors closed and train already got moving. But the next stop was like 10 minutes away (one of the sections where they skip like 3 stops on the express track), so we just had to bear with the dumpster like smell and also the potential danger of dude just waking up and attacking us.
I thought about just hopping between the carts using the doorway thing (if you know what I'm talking about), but there was a sign warning not to move through doors while train is moving and my mom said no, its too dangerous, so we just stayed in that cart for 10 agonizing minutes.
Actually, current-me might've been actually been more freaked out by it since I have germophobia now. That's why I kinda hate public transit nowadays.
Yeah, that is always a bad sign. Not sure if we were on the same train but the same thing happened to me and it was the D!
Lol.
I think it was the segment between 36th st to Atlantic-Pacific (now known as Atlantic-Barclays) where like they skip right through a few stops. Forgot which direction it was.
Sometime around 2010-2014.
But hey, drunk-looking maybe-homeless dude got himself a full home for himself in the subway xD.
Like what the hell, what was that, do people just like make themself smell bad and hoard an entire subway cart? lmao
Nothing crazy really. I ride the train that's also a connection to one of the biggest asylum centres for immigrants, so of course, because foreign people scary, there's loads of extra security.
The only few times I've actually seen something they were needed for, it was never the immigrants. Once I saw a white guy wailing on someone who looked foreign, took a good while for security to actually step in and do something.
A different time, some guy was just being a nuisance and didn't want to get on or off the train or something. Two of these security people got involved, both a lot bigger than the guy, but they struggled a lot to get him down and cuffed. The guy almost got up and fled a few times.
So that got me really feeling confident in this security... (/s of course)
Drugs is nothing. Vomit is nothing. I watched a dude drop a duce and thought now that's something.
I've seen people pooping on the bus stop from inside the bus, but luckily I haven't had anyone do it inside the actual bus yet.
Also one time our city decided to close all the train station bathrooms to stop people from OD-ing in them. But this of course also stopped people from going to the bathroom, so people just started pissing on the floor outside the locked doors. They're open again now.
Yeah I saw it on the El. Poor dude just pulled his pants down and fucking went. Cleared out the train car at the next stop. That's what you get when you take the late night trains.
All the people still refusing to do anything but drive massive empty cars by themselves when directly adjacent to and around mass transit.
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
Entire thread and not one mention of human poop?
why would that bother you? i see shit and piss on a daily basis on my subway. it's not a big deal.
does seeing rats/pigeons on the subway also offend you?
I jooed.on at my.stop and then get.off at my stop and that was it...weird shit huh!
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