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A few weeks ago on the 1 train a guy sitting next to me ate an entire value meal from McDonalds in about 5 minutes, including an apple pie. I wasnt thinking he was an animal, but I WAS thinking "dang that smells good, I wonder if he'd give me a fry?". The older lady was wrong for opening her mouth, and the younger women were wrong for blowing it out of proportion and assaulting her. It had to be the A train...just because of the crazy situation. A = crazy train!
Eating on the train is not right, but insulting those girls by calling
them animals is asking for trouble. I don't care what race or how
ghetto those girls are, if you call someone an animal, no one will
listen to what you said after that, no matter how right you are.
She could've ask them nicely not to eat on the train, whether they
listen to her request is questionable, but it would probably not
escalating into a fight. I don't like people eating full meal next to me,
too. but I'm not going to call them names and ended up getting beat
up or worse. Both side are kind of confrontational to me.
I'm white myself and I couldn't hear exactly what was going on so I am a bit confused, but it seems like that white lady just opened her mouth and said something rude to the girl that was eating. It didn't seem like the girl was bothering her, but I don't understand why the fight continued. Was the white lady still talking smack or something? Why did they block her and get in her face? White lady was being dumb, but they made themselves look like very typical idiots for bringing it to the level that they did. I'm sure they aren't high achieving NYU grads or anything of the sort if they actually got this worked up about it. I have had rude things said to me and I DO argue back, but I don't touch people or anything. When the black girl got stupid and got in her face the black girl was invading her safety zone and totally deserved to get hit.
A few weeks ago on the 1 train a guy sitting next to me ate an entire value meal from McDonalds in about 5 minutes, including an apple pie. I wasnt thinking he was an animal, but I WAS thinking "dang that smells good, I wonder if he'd give me a fry?". The older lady was wrong for opening her mouth, and the younger women were wrong for blowing it out of proportion and assaulting her. It had to be the A train...just because of the crazy situation. A = crazy train!
Of course it had to be the A TRAIN. Iy runs through the most ghetto area of the city.
Having watched the video a few times now - I feel terrible for the older lady - I cant for the life of me figure out why she opened her mouth? I'm sure the stink of the food was overpowering, and probably shocking to see - BUT those two girls got up, and stood menacingly over the lady - despite the efforts of the guy sitting next to the older lady - when that girl with the "love Pink" bag chest bumped the older lady - the older lady pushed her away - classic move - the girl can now swing on the older lady cause the older lady pushed her - the chest bump is HS schoolyard dirty fighting 101 - And when the girl threw the pasta and totally freaked out, the other passengers in the train were rightfully yelling to calm down, but you could hear her shrieking. Shrieking? I haven't heard shrieking since I spent the night in delivery room! The other girl not eating also looked like she wanted to fight - When the whole thing started, you can see her perching on the chair just waiting to pounce.
This video is a terrible thing to watch. For shame.
While I don't condone what both parties did, I don't feel that it's easy to judge that the girls were deliberately looking for a fight. In the beginning, they were just trying to defend themselves verbally, from the middle-aged woman who bothered them, called them "animals," then apparently threatened to contact the police on them (this was before the fight, when the girl was eating food, because one of the girls said, "We're not going to jail. You're going to jail.")
Maybe the girls stood up because their stop was coming up and they were preparing to leave.
At the 2:25 mark, where the girl bumped into the woman, looked like a complete accident to me: The train had stopped and when it started moving again, one of the girls accidently bumped into her friend, who then accidently bumped into the women, who then pushed the girl off of her, probably interpreting it as being done on purpose. Then, the other girl said to the woman, "Don't touch her!"
I'm just saying that I think it escalated into a fist fight due to a misinterpretation of an accident.
Last edited by s06; 03-20-2011 at 09:35 PM..
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Eating on the train is not right, but insulting those girls by calling
them animals is asking for trouble. I don't care what race or how
ghetto those girls are, if you call someone an animal, no one will
listen to what you said after that, no matter how right you are.
She could've ask them nicely not to eat on the train, whether they
listen to her request is questionable, but it would probably not
escalating into a fight. I don't like people eating full meal next to me,
too. but I'm not going to call them names and ended up getting beat
up or worse. Both side are kind of confrontational to me.
Agreed.
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