Woman feels 'disrespected' after being kicked off train-Loud on cellphone 16 hrs

[RamboLiberal]

PORTLAND, Ore. – A woman who got pulled of an Amtrak train by police after passengers complained she was speaking too loudly on a cell phone said she felt “disrespected” by the entire incident.

Lakeysha Beard of Tigard was charged with disorderly conduct after police said she got into a “verbal altercation” with train passengers on Sunday. Passengers complained she refused to put down her cell phone and conductors had to stop the train in Salem, where police got involved.

Beard told KATU she was indeed talking on her phone, but said she didn’t understand why she had to be escorted off the train.

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An Amtrak official said a number of passengers complained Beard was being disrespectful during her prolonged phone conversations on the train. Salem police reported she had been on the phone non-stop since the train pulled out of Oakland, Calif. 16 hours earlier.

http://www.katu.com/news/local/121962009.html

On edit she was riding in quiet car where cell phones not supposed to be used.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

1. Why did they stop the train

to throw her off?

[RamboLiberal]

3. Yep to throw her off

[A-Schwarzenegger]

5. Why did they stop the train?

[RamboLiberal]

10. Oh some days I'm slow - this is one of them

You got me!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

12. .

:)

[Drale]

2. Theres not much I hate more

then someone having a loud conversation on a cell phone in public.

[Staph]

8. My favorite technique for dealing with loud cell-phoners

is to listen to their conversation, obviously and intently. They freak out and usually quiet down and walk away. That works particularly well in airports, but I suspect that if you turned around in your seat to listen to this fool, she would have hung up the phone.

[drmeow]

22. Get out a notepad

and, looking very serious, start taking notes

[MedicalAdmin]

103. A good and simple idea.

Thanks for that.

[demosincebirth]

27. ...or a loud cell phone conversation in Mandarin

[Abq_Sarah]

32. I really dislike

Annoying people who whine about being "disrespected" when absolutely zero respect is owed to them.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

57. I just had to sit next to one of those for an hour while waiting for a rental car

In which the woman was loudly and crudely accusing another woman of having performed a sex act on her boyfriend and repeating the said conversation verbatim to at least half a dozen other people and referring heavily to the official Snoop Dog canonical list of synonyms for woman of ill repute.

[Blue_Tires]

76. "Whaddaya say, babygirl? This is your chance to get even with that BF of yours..."

You feel me?:evilgrin:

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

85. yeah... don't think so

It is hard to be attracted to a woman who had just been repeating "I told her that muh dick" over and over again for an hour.

[LiberalEsto]

96. Why didn't the other woman just hang up?

Obviously they are 2 morons who deserve one another.

[Blue_Tires]

73. Loud, annoying obnoxious ringtones make me want to stab something

and they can NEVER answer it on the first ring -- They stand around for 30 seconds before they realize "OH! That's my phone ringing!"

No, numbnuts, all fifty people here have stolen your unique "Air Raid Horn" sound effect ringtone...:rant:

[queenjane]

100. Worst and most offensive ringtone EVER:

A male voice bellowing "Good morning, Muthafucka!" I had the pleasure of hearing this about every 20 seconds one morning in a car dealership service dept waiting room. The phone's owner just laughed and answered the phone, usually with another obscenity. He announced to all of us that it was his 40th(!) birthday (methinks he should have had a little more, um, maturity), and all his friends were calling him with good wishes. Everyone else in that waiting room was dumbstruck and horrified. Just my luck that he was also waiting for the work shuttle, so I got to hear this for an extra 15 minutes on the ride, until his battery FINALLY died.

[roguevalley]

80. I sat on a train for seven hours with a woman who spoke nonstop

and I mean nonstop for the whole time. The level of her voice wasn't loud but it was relentless and I THOUGHT I WOULD DIE! I am with the train.

[Sonoman]

4. I would have smashed the phone and paid the fine.

No kidding.

I don't allow cellphone use of any kind in my stores.

Sonoman

[RamboLiberal]

7. Curious what kind of store you run?

[Drale]

9. Cell phone store.

:rofl:

[Blue-Jay]

20. LOL.

[Common Sense Party]

11. An AT&T store?

[gratuitous]

30. Don't damage personal property

Snatch it away and toss it out the window.

But yeah, why don't folks like that ever have their battery die? You're on a bus, a train, or in a public place, and it's astonishing how strong their little batteries are. I get on the phone for a minute and a half twice a week, and the battery dies halfway through the second call.

[CrispyQ]

59. ~lol

But yeah, why don't folks like that ever have their battery die? You're on a bus, a train, or in a public place, and it's astonishing how strong their little batteries are. I get on the phone for a minute and a half twice a week, and the battery dies halfway through the second call.

:rofl:

[madinmaryland]

65. Amtrak has electrical outlets that you can use to recharge your phones. Typically

a duplex 120V outlet every other row along the window seats.

[Cid_B]

89. Uh huh...

... I'm sure you just go around all day snatching phones from obnoxious people and smashing them... :eyes:

[LiberalEsto]

97. Like John Belushi in Animal House

with the guitar

[KansDem]

6. "...she had been on the phone non-stop since the train pulled out of Oakland...16 hours earlier"

Man, that's one helluva battery! :wow:

[damntexdem]

14. And there were undoubtedly passengers contemplating assault on that battery.

;-)

[KansDem]

18. LOL!!!

:rofl:

[blondeatlast]

70. I must be tired, I have tears coming out of my eyes I'm laughing so hard!

:rofl:

[geardaddy]

107. At least they're coming out of your eyes

and not somewhere else.

:hide:

[demosincebirth]

25. They have AC plugs on Amtrak.

[KansDem]

35. oh...

x(

[MissB]

that line has plug-ins

[MissB]

58. that line has plug-ins

[arbusto_baboso]

13. What about the complete and utter disrespect she showed her fellow passengers?

Oh, I forgot. It's all about HER and her toddler's conscience.

[htuttle]

Hello!??? What?!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYLMk8xplqw

:rofl:

(from Trigger Happy TV)


on edit: Wow, this auto-duped three times when I posted it! That's even better!

[htuttle]

15. Hello!??? What?!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYLMk8xplqw

:rofl:

(from Trigger Happy TV)

[B-Stupid]

36. lol, I loved that show

[sufrommich]

47. That is the first thing I thought of. lol. nt

[htuttle]

16. Hello!??? What?!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYLMk8xplqw

:rofl:

(from Trigger Happy TV)

[Nevernose]

17. I would have put my kid in the seat in front of her.

And then sat behind her. And then conversed. Y'all think a two year old kicking the seat is bad? Try a fifteen year old girl talking about shoes. I'll see that lady's 16 hours, and then raise her another 16, and if people aren't very careful around me, I will say to my daughter, loudly, "I don't know why everyone thinks Glee is so good. Vampire Diaries is much better." Then the woman would throw herself off the train. :)

[Darth_Kitten]

69. Now there's crafty parenting!

:evilgrin:

[blondeatlast]

72. You need to hire that stuff out, NN! nt

[brewens]

19. What part of STFU do you not understand lady? I had to complain

about a co-worker recently. We have strict no cell rules at work and she was actually one of the offenders that caused the bosses to have to get nasty about it.

Occasionally it's just her and I riding back from a blood drive together. Cells are allowed while traveling but having her yammering non stop to her friends or her mom all the way is too much to take. I would rather talk or listen to music.

Like the warnings about cell phone use that she ignored before, any hints from me were totally futile. I had to complain to my supervisor and it will really piss her off. It's either cool it on the phone, or I pull rank as driver and crank the tunes anyway.

[msanthrope]

21. I take Amtrak frequently--you don't fuck with the quiet car. Ever.

Recently I took my daughter on the train to Florida--and when the conductor turned down the lights at 9 pm, you should have seen the look I got from the passenger I got behind me, when I told her she had to use headphones to watch her R-rated movie....conductor came along and offered her a choice. Headphones, or closing the computer.

[Glimmer of Hope]

56. I love the quiet car; If you try to fuck with it, the conductor or a passenger

will set you straight.

[Stevenmarc]

23. The stupider the person the more they seem to have to say on a cell phone.

[demosincebirth]

24. How did I know?

[Iggo]

26. Man, it's taking 16 hours for that page to load.

Why are news websites the slowest?

[TreasonousBastard]

28. She was in a "quiet car" so...

why the fuck did it take 16 hours to throw her dead ass off the train?

[Raine]

29. She was "disrespected" ?? What about the lack of respect for her fellow passengers!!!

:wtf: She's lucky she was only taken off the train and someone didn't shove the phone up her ass. :mad:

[begin_within]

87. +1

[JoeyTrib]

31. It's time to reintroduce the phone booth.

Start putting little glass enclosures in trains, office buildings, stadiums and stores. People can bring their phones and stand inside the glass.

[Phentex]

37. They would enjoy that. Better to velcro them to the bottom of the train...

and let them yell into their cellphones. ;)

[JoeyTrib]

38. Three words: sound proof booth

Velcro has to be replaced.

[Phentex]

40. but it's far less expensive and takes up less space...

.

[JoeyTrib]

44. More lawsuits from cell phone users hitting their noses on the train tracks.

Little booth. Best way to go.

[geardaddy]

108. Even better. Air -proof booth.

[surrealAmerican]

49. I agree.

There are people who will want to talk at length on the phone. Why not give them somewhere to do so where they won't be bothering anyone else?

[JoeyTrib]

51. Pretty logical.

Beats putting a box around the caller's head.

[kentauros]

60. How about a Cone of Silence?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gcKHBgZ_QKU#t=40s

[JoeyTrib]

61. "Maybe if we just act casual, no one will notice."

:rofl:

[kentauros]

62. And later on he's trying to get it open with his shoe!

So, put that on the cell-phoner's head, then tell them you can't unlock it, or it's stuck. Take off one of your steel-toed boots and start whacking it to get it open :P

You know that show was written and created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry? :D They'd have known what to have done with this cell-(ab)user...

[roguevalley]

82. frankly, its time for people to grow up and care about something

besides their own selfish bs. She is a person who will never feel anyone else's point of view. Its about her. I taught first graders with more class.

[blondeatlast]

71. I was thinking the same thing last week; it really makes a lot of sense. nt

[JoeyTrib]

74. I went to the doctor's last week for an ankle sprain

And I had to listen to this women on her cell go on and on about the property she owned and how she was going to up the price of rent on her tenants. I cleared my throat and pointed to the sign in the doc's office saying no cell phones, but this fine specimen of humanity kept on with her drivel. That's when I thought that the old custom of having phone booth's was an idea whose time to return had come. I figured it would prevent a murder in the future. Had the doc not called me in when he did, I'd be in jail by now.

[juajen]

91. Take out a pad and pencil and start writing down everything she

says, or pretend to, and loudly ask her for her name and address. A agree with the poster who said to get very interested in her conversation. Even whisper to the person sitting next to you, who is probably annoyed as hell too. I also hate it when I go out to dinner and someone is using a cell phone. Many times this is a real estate agent talking about houses while she has a quiet cup of coffee or tea. Wish my meal was quiet. Of course, it could be anyone, but they certainly do not come in to dine.

[athenasatanjesus]

79. Rude people won't notice it.

People who are inconsiderate of others often ignore the simplest courtesies.

[hlthe2b]

33. Yeah for the beleagured passengers....

How often have I wanted to do the same? sigh...

[no_hypocrisy]

34. 16 hours non-stop? What kind of a plan does she have and who's her carrier?

[WinkyDink]

39. Fifteen and a half hours too late, IMO.

[sufrommich]

41. How. In. The. Hell. does one talk on the phone for 16 hours?

What could anyone have to talk about for 16 hours?

[WinkyDink]

42. Inanely.

[sufrommich]

48. Perfect answer. nt

[petronius]

43. If you really want an answer, there are a couple dozen Amtrak passengers

who are now able to tell you - in excruciating detail, I bet... :)

[Recovered Repug]

81. Can you hear me know? Can you hear me know?

Can you hear me know? Hey, someone's got to do it.

[Luciferous]

45. She felt disrespected?! And who talks on the phone for 16 hours?!

I don't think I've ever talked on the phone for more than an hour, but then again I hate talking on the phone.

[KurtNYC]

64. control freaks

I sat through about 3 hours worth on a train ride. As if a cell phone is some kind of remote control device.

[REP]

46. I think what she meant to say is that she feels she was treated disrespectfully

Either that, or she got dissed and now she's gonna pop some caps in some asses.

[Odin2005]

50. What a self-centered POS.

[DaveJ]

52. Not that it matters, but...

I've never been annoyed by people talking on their cellphone. But hey people are different.

I also wish we could have music at work, but my coworkers say they can't concentrate unless they are in total silence.

Strangely, I'm more annoyed by very normal things that almost everyone does without realizing it, like getting into an elevator before others get out, standing in the middle of an isle at a grocery store without moving, normal stuff that people do who have no idea they are getting in the way.

But I'm not saying anyone's better or worse. Everyone deserves respect.

[Saboburns]

63. Me neither

I fail to understand the absolute hatred many folks hold for someone talking on the phone. I mean look at some of the posts in this thread alone, there's some outright hatred, hatred at someone talking on a phone. DU'ers calling for violence towards someone for talking on the phone. Talking on the phone.......think about that.

I just don't get it.

[JanMichael]

67. Bad call. I had a very loud kid (around 20yrs old) yapping every 5 minutes...

...for 2 fucking hours. BEHIND me (Ie. the seat BEHIND me)on AMTRAK. Talk talk talk LOUD 2 seconds after a phone ring. Talk LOUD for that call then wait for the next. Every conversation was about a girl or a party or how tired he was from traveling from party to school and party and what he had for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, how he farted, how he slobbered when he was asleep, that a bird flew by the window, etcetera. INANE driveling loud for 2 HOURS! In a nice booming baritone I might add.

I finally got up to go to the food car and turned back and looked at him like - "I fucking HATE you - SHUT UP". I also said "Hey nice quiet ride so far? eh?". Sullen facial reply.

That FINALLY seemed to work. He shut the fuck up.

[roguevalley]

83. consider it fingernails on a chalkboard. and there are people on

this list who can't understand how you can't understand. :) Different strokes. Fingernails on a chalkboard describes it for me.

[bigwillq]

78. Me neither

The cell phone stuff doesn't bother me.

[MindPilot]

101. Man I am so with you on that!

People who have to stand right in the middle of the aisle while they decide what to buy, or walk very slowly in the middle of whereever; they seem like the people who just always occupy a lot of space. They have an uncanny ability to stay in front of you no matter how you try to get around them.

[DaveJ]

110. I've been in Chicago too long...

I'm not sure if this is exclusive to my part of the country, but people are incredibly aloof to how selfish they appear (to me anyway).

Forget talking loud on the phone. People here race to get ahead of one another whether it is on the sidewalk, getting onto a train, elevator, or whatever. I mean they aren't proving themselves better just by cutting, IMO.

I'm told it is because they are fast people, but it seems to me they are just trying to cut in front of one another, like to get the best seat. They would never admit it though. And they seem to still think they are good nice normal people. And I'm sure they are relative to one another. But when I see someone rushing to get onto a train (that doesn't leave for 5 minutes), I move out of the way... that's my instinct, not to get in front of them like it's some kind of race. I might race intellectually but not physically, that doesn't prove anything.

Maybe I'm just schizo but all these people who think they are nice, and who are seen as nice by others, don't seem so nice to me. But I still respect them.

[TK421]

53. Don't you just love self-centered assholes who want everyone else around them

to know what they're talking about on these fucking cell phones?

This country has become so fucking dependent on these fucking things...not a day goes by I don't see some asshole wandering around aimlessly ( sometimes, right into traffic ) with a fucking cell-phone attached to their head...just chatting and chatting and chatting away, and not a worry in the fucking world, or a clue as to their surroundings

Fucking asshole...I am GLAD she got tossed off!

[Diclotican]

54. RamboLiberal

RamboLiberal

16 hour on a phone???????? Dam she must have a lot to say.. My records when it come to phone communications, is maybe 15-30 minutes, and that was becouse I had to ask for some advices from back home...

My record in the other end, was a 18 second talk with my brother - Who I asked where to pick him up, and ask how he was that day.. He have never been a happy phone talker, and neiter have I...

Diclotican

[Liberal_in_LA]

55. I hate loud cell phone talkers

[Iris]

66. huh. Interesting. Maybe she meant she felt "disrespectful"??? n/t

[Vinnie From Indy]

68. Good!

Lakeysha is obviously an asshole and deserved to get booted.

[McCamy Taylor]

75. 16 hours? It's a wonder they did not kill her.

[blondeatlast]

77. That's why we have public disturbance laws; to keep decent people

from doing ugly things to indecent people.

[-..__...]

84. Reminds me of a scene from the movie "Ghost".

"I'm Henry the 8th I am. Henry the 8th I am I am. I got married to the widow next door. She's been married seven times before".

[mistertrickster]

86. Although illegal, it would be fairly simple to manufacture a device that

would jam signals for cell phones.

Wonder if anybody's thought of that . . .

[MedicalAdmin]

104. Here ya go. There's a hack for anything.

http://hacknmod.com/hack/a-diy-mini-rf-cell-phone-jammer/

[Buns_of_Fire]

109. Sure. There are even commercial models available...

...that'll allow emergency, EMS, and police-type calls to pass through without interference. But the commercial models aren't all that cheap, and yes, the FCC does frown on their usage -- but I'd love to see them allow an exception in places like restaurants and movie theaters or within 20 feet of my presence...

[begin_within]

88. I would have organized about 8 passengers with the loudest voices to congregate around her and

talk loudly into their cellphones (without them being on) for about an hour until she went crazy and jumped off the train herself. There is strength in numbers.

[GoneOffShore]

90. Anderson Cooper has a comment

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/category/the-ridiculist/

[livetohike]

92. How does a cell phone battery last for 16 hours?

I must have a problem with mine, because I have to charge it up if I've been using the phone for one hour straight :shrug:.

[blondeatlast]

94. It's pointed out upthread that there are electrical outlets available. nt

[livetohike]

98. Thanks! I missed that

:hi:

[blondeatlast]

106. I wondered about the same thing; I wanted to get the phone she had! nt

[felix_numinous]

93. Amtrak should have a phone car, like a lounge

rather than a silent car. I think the noisy ones should have to leave rather than people who are polite to each other. This makes more sense to me....

[Octafish]

95. She's lucky they stopped the train first.

That's what they wouldn't do for me, listening to "Higher Ground" on maximum volume through my WalkMan back in the day on the Northwest Line...

[Roland99]

99. That's some damn good battery life!

Must be the Jack Bauer cell phone!

[LeftishBrit]

102. Well, rules are rules. If this was the quiet car, and she was offending persistently, then she can't

complain about being thrown off.

[WatsonT]

105. Well now she knows how the other passengers felt

Respect ain't a one-way street lady.