16 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
16 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
#116 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/18/11 at 5:32pm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110518/us_yblog_thelookout/loud-cell-phone-talker-removed-from-quiet-car-by-police
Reality show pitch:
"America's got (Cell Phone) Talent!"
AP: Thousands line up at Yankee Stadium to audition, talking VERY LOUDLY and for VERY long hours, to display a prowess heretofore untapped for Reality Show Ratings. Thousands of Ear PLugs distributed.....
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#216 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/18/11 at 5:49pm
I just posted this on the Main board in the thread about self entitled people.
I can’t believe this woman went on for 16 hours before they got her off. I wouldn’t have lasted an hour in the car with her. There would have been blood.
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#216 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/18/11 at 6:11pmDid she use the john during this time?
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#316 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/18/11 at 8:23pmI'll reiterate what Anderson Cooper said: Who the hell can talk non stop for 16 hours?
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
#416 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/18/11 at 8:49pm^It's a special skill that only the loudest, most obnoxious people tend to have. Just like no one has cell service in the subway tunnels EXCEPT that one loud person. One of these days, I'm going to ask who their service provider is.
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Wanting life but never knowing how
#516 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/18/11 at 9:03pmLeave my mom alone! We had a lot to talk about!
#616 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/18/11 at 9:26pmHaving seen her, she apparently has an insatiable appetite for many, many, many things.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#716 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:34pmI would kill to have a cell phone that has a 16 hour battery.
#816 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:41pm
"Leave my mom alone!"
OMG Jordan, I think we might be long lost sisters!
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#916 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:53pm
I would kill to have a cell phone that has a 16 hour battery.
I was thinking the same thing but don't some trains have sockets for laptops, phones, etc?
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winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#1016 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/19/11 at 1:40amI take Amtrak a lot, and on every train that I have been on there are sockets against the wall of each seat for laptops, phones etc.
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WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#1116 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/19/11 at 9:42amWas there no train crew?
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#1216 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/19/11 at 10:41amNope. It was a ghost train!
#1316 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/19/11 at 10:49am
I love the quiet car! But it isnt always quiet.
WOSQ, it's my experience that conductor's rarely want to bother (I actually think some are afraid to confront riders) and some even talk as loudly as they want on the quiet car. I take NJ Transit almost every day and it can be trying. Luckily there's usually someone more annoyed than me that confronts the talker...but I have on occasion.
I've seen someone yell at another for talking and then proceed to take a phone call. People are aholes. And dont get me started on the paper flippers or the ones that cant bother to mute their laptops.
Amtrak is usually better, but took it to Philly last week and it was very crowded so some people didnt realize they were on the quiet car...which I can sort of understand. When the people behind me continued to chat, I politely told them it was the quiet car and they apologized and shut up. The conductor, on the other hand, chatted with every person as he took their ticket, particularly the navy guy who sat next to me. I was flabbergasted and complained to Amtrak.
But 16 hours?! That's amazing! I'm sure I'd have been arrested. If someone doesnt shut up I just pretend like I'm in the conversation and ask questions about what the other person said!
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#1416 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/19/11 at 10:54am
I love the quiet car! But it isnt always quiet.
WOSQ, it's my experience that conductor's rarely want to bother (I actually think some are afraid to confront riders) and some even talk as loudly as they want on the quiet car. I take NJ Transit almost every day and it can be trying. Luckily there's usually someone more annoyed than me that confronts the talker...but I have on occasion.
I've seen someone yell at another for talking and then proceed to take a phone call. People are aholes. And dont get me started on the paper flippers or the ones that cant bother to mute their laptops.
Amtrak is usually better, but took it to Philly last week and it was very crowded so some people didnt realize they were on the quiet car...which I can sort of understand. When the people behind me continued to chat, I politely told them it was the quiet car and they apologized and shut up. The conductor, on the other hand, chatted with every person as he took their ticket, particularly the navy guy who sat next to me. I was flabbergasted and complained to Amtrak.
But 16 hours?! That's amazing! I'm sure I'd have been arrested. If someone doesnt shut up I just pretend like I'm in the conversation and ask questions about what the other person said!
"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
Tom1071
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/1/04
#1516 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/19/11 at 11:18am
"And dont get me started on the paper flippers..."
OMG, doodlenyc! I hate the paper flippers! I thought it was just me. I thought I was being overly particular.
I wish there were designated quiet cars on subway trains during the morning commuting hours. This morning on my way to work on the subway I had a paper flipper sitting across from me and next to him some woman was reading a book out loud to her 2 kids who could have given 2 sh!+s what it was about. They weren't even paying attention.
It's going to be a disaster when people will eventually be able to get cellphone reception underground in the tunnels. It bad enought now on the elevated train lines. There is always some a$$h0le talking loudly on a cellphone.
I just thank God that those push-to-talk cellphones seem to be a thing of the past. I remember a few years ago when it seemed that every ghetto loud mouth had one of those and you could hear both sides of their conversation.
Updated On: 5/19/11 at 11:18 AM
nygrl232
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/08
#1616 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/19/11 at 12:24pmThe acoustics in a plane and train making people talking audibly/loudly seem sharper, or something. It's very distinct. And very arrrrgh.
#1716 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/20/11 at 3:45pm
I can't believe people let her do it for 16hrs.
Once on a train from Paris to Brussels in the "no-cellphone" car, a guy got on his cellphone, and I walked up pointing to the no cell-phone sign and when he didn't get off the phone I started singing loudly....he was off in seconds
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TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#1816 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/20/11 at 4:03pm
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#1916 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/20/11 at 4:30pmI love you Elphaba! That was a stroke of genius!
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#2016 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/21/11 at 2:22pmMom, I just hate cellphones on trains.....and wait til they allow them on planes...I'll go crazy!
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#2116 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/21/11 at 3:31pmMy friend, who rides the Bronx express bus into Manhattan every day, has a cell-phone jammer. They're apparently illegal in the US; I think he orders his from England.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
spike3
Leading Actor Joined: 5/17/11
#2216 hr. cell ph. talker taken off an Amtrak train. Yay.
Posted: 5/21/11 at 4:13pmof course they are illegal here "civil rights" you know. I would love to get my hands on one of those jammers. Oh the fun I would have screwing with their calls! on the Long Island Railroad one time, a guy speaking very loud on his phone in an already crowded car. I asked him politely to please lower his voice. He shot me a dirty look, and told the person on the other end "I gotta go some a**h*** asked me to keep it down. That is why I just want to slam their heads!
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