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.
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Nothing that crazy I guess, but two events I remember:
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A small fire broke out next to the tracks and the train driver actually stopped the train and got out to extinguish it
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A train busker played so loudly and terribly that a group of random passengers got together to shove him out of the train at the next station.
Someone playing an instrument inside of a train, Jesus that’s obnoxious
Indeed. Busking on the street is fine, as you can just walk somewhere else if you don’t like it, but on a train you’re trapped with them. Pretty sure it’s illegal here as well.
Yeah, you haven’t lived until you’ve had to ride the express A going downtown with a mariachi band at full-tilt.
There are places where this is common. They hope to get paid (I assume to get them to leave). Sometimes they’re accompanied by pick-pockets who pray on the distracted.
Assholes, they’re basically extorting people to stop the annoying shit and to get them to fuck off
Yeah, I hadn’t heard any buskers on the Stockholm metro for years until a few weeks ago when a guy I had seen earlier busking, came onboard again with his weird wooden box with metal strings that is played with two hooked sticks and started playing.
Not proper public transport, but my dad is an active member of a heritage railroad.
This railroad rund both steam and diesel trains.
When it is dry outside they will run a fire watch train after the steam train, basically a tank car with water and a petrol pump, pulled by a diesel locomotive.
But this day they didn’t run the fire watch train, and I was tagging along with dad as he drove the classic DMU trains.
We come around a corner and see smoke comming from a farmer’s field, it had caught on fire/smolder from the steam train…
We stop, obviously, bring our large water can and start working the fire, after a few min the fire department came and we could hand it over to them
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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.
Maybe she was pregante
Pregante? What is that? Is that how babby formed?
No that’s pragnent
Gregnant.
- perginat
- pargent
- bregant
- prengan
- pergert
Those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head
Or just really hungry for trash
No she did not seem interested in me.
pregananant
Breakfast of champions.
Continental breakfast of champions
On the NYC subway a guy was taking up two seats, he pulls out a notebook and starts (screaming) reading from it. It was all about some conspiracy that got him kicked out of Columbia University. People started moving away from him. At the next stop a guy gets on the train and says to “hey psycho you really need two seats” the crazy guy slides over freeing up one of the seats and then goes back to yelling.
“hey psycho you really need two seats” Read this in the TF2 Scout character’s voice
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.
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.
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.
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 😂
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.
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.
I bumped into a friend who is cop in the British Transport Police at a station while he was working. While I was there somehow a happy-drunk guy fell between a train and the platform and got stuck. That’s not the crazy part.
The crazy part is the four separate people who all ended up getting arrested because they attacked my friend and the other responders trying to free the stuck man - physically kicking and trying to drag them away - because he/they wouldn’t order the train to leave the station and it was making them late. Four separate people, all apparently sober, all absolute psychopaths who would happily see someone mangled by a train so they wouldn’t be inconvenienced, and so utterly convinced of their righteousness that they were prepared to physically attack police officers and paramedics.
I was later told this is pretty normal when there’s a “one under”: aside from the person who fell getting injured or dying, the biggest immediate problem is a handful of narcissistic cunts who interpret the whole thing as some kind of personal insult. It really shook me that anyone could be like that.
What the fuck?
This is the second highest comment in the thread and it’s so bizarre that I don’t think I need to bother thinking of something to contribute myself.
So, trying to kill someone who falls onto the tracks is normal? Someone should study this
The topic here is public transportation, but look at how many behave on the roads with their personnal cars, ready to cause accidents just to not be slowed
or the fact that millions die on the roads each year, and no one gives a damn unless they are their own family members…
This is like the weirdest IRL trolley problem, but the consequences of the decision are 1 death vs. several people running late or being mildly inconvenienced.
#Utilitarian at all cost *💪🏼 *unless it’s me getting mangled
Imagining a fully automated dystopian future where decisions are always predetermined and based on greater good rules. Billionaires can’t grasp why we’re so ungrateful for the better world they’ve created, so clearly it must be further proof we don’t know what’s best for us.
While I generally oppose police brutality, I think this is a good case for it.
I think in that case the Transport Police should ask them to leave the station building, or get physically moved out without warning. If they refuse, you can set the rest of the train on them, stating that they delay is now due to the person not leaving the train/platform, rather than the passenger being stuck.
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.
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