View Full Version : Crazy people on city transit


lopt
May 2nd, 2007, 10:53 PM
Have you met any of them?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e93P_HlG0j8

LordMandeep
May 3rd, 2007, 12:15 AM
well there was a lady who was asking for money, so everyone ignored here. Then everyone on the train notice she was blind and like 4 people helped her.

TalB
May 3rd, 2007, 12:45 AM
Every now and then I see a group of homeless on the subway saying that we have the give them money everytime they sing.

Manila-X
May 3rd, 2007, 06:20 AM
I saw alot of bums when riding on an LA Metro bus. Some of them are Vietnam War vets.

Xusein
May 3rd, 2007, 06:22 AM
There was almost a fight between two bums on the bus I took today :lol:

Manila-X
May 3rd, 2007, 06:25 AM
In HK, we never have these kinds of problems. Unless you run into the HK BUS UNCLE :D

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hkskyline
May 3rd, 2007, 07:27 AM
'Bus Uncle' is not crazy. He just had an overreaction.

Manila-X
May 3rd, 2007, 07:32 AM
'Bus Uncle' is not crazy. He just had an overreaction.

I still find it crazy. I wouldn't behave like that on public transportation.

Westsidelife
May 3rd, 2007, 07:40 AM
Here in Los Angeles:

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hkskyline
May 3rd, 2007, 07:48 AM
I still find it crazy. I wouldn't behave like that on public transportation.

I don't think an incident like that is representative of the total population. Besides, this video has been edited left, right, and centre by others to exploit the publicity. It's just another overhyped media frenzy. I believe there was an RTHK documentary on the psychology behind this incident and why the media started feeding on it.

westender
May 3rd, 2007, 02:59 PM
I once took a bus to a Sydney beachside suburb. The trip home was rather interesting. Unlike other beachside suburbs that are home to the more wealthier. Most of the passengers seemed to be a bunch of alchoholic middle aged adults obviously living on pensions. This woman boarded the bus and sat right in front of me and I knew she was going to be basket case the way she stared at me as she sat down. She started yelling out obsanities and pointing me out to other passengers on the bus. For some reason she described me as being Greek in some nasty way, which I am not. Her attention then turned to a guy sitting on the other side of the bus. The crazy woman got off after a few stops and everybody who was sane enough sat with gob smacked looks on their faces.

Westender.

fooddude
May 4th, 2007, 03:48 AM
SF transit is not only filled with crazy people, but smells I never knew existed befor moving here. That, and fecal or bile icing on seats and handrails you got to look out for.

..Maybe its got something to do with the high pop of bums ;)

ranny fash
May 4th, 2007, 04:00 AM
people screaming and shouting on buses? happens all the time. bus stations are the best places for witnessing complete nutters going mental at high volume.

Xelebes
May 4th, 2007, 04:11 AM
Eh, we've had passengers kill other passengers and a few bus drivers have been attacked - some of them seriously wounded.

Two biggest profile cases in this city involved four youths flipping out on a 35 year old oil rigger and killing him right on the bus. Another one someone totally goes spastic on someone in the morning commute and knifes him right when they leave the bus.

ch1le
May 4th, 2007, 06:51 PM
we have some crazy people. There is one notorious lady who rides on Trolleybuses and threatens to kill everyone :D Time and time again....

zachus22
May 5th, 2007, 01:03 AM
I think that Bus Uncle video was semi-fabricated...I don't read Chinese characters well and I can't speak Cantonese, but I would bet that either we're not getting the whole story or some major editing was done to the video. Maybe both.

And that crazy advocate of Jesus on the LA train was hilarious. I loved when she started clapping. Kind of disturbing though:lol:

Vanman
May 5th, 2007, 02:23 AM
In downtown Vancouver in the entrance to Waterfront station I remeber this cracked out lady who was greeting cruise ship passengers by screaming at the top of her lungs while simultaneously doing what looked like lord of the dance on meth.

Shukie
May 5th, 2007, 03:24 AM
SF transit is not only filled with crazy people, but smells I never knew existed befor moving here. That, and fecal or bile icing on seats and handrails you got to look out for.

..Maybe its got something to do with the high pop of bums ;)

:eek: I'm never getting on a train or bus in San Fransisco, should I ever go there.

eusebius
May 5th, 2007, 03:52 AM
There was this war veteran from Atjeh, Indonesia on my bus many times. He would get on the bus at 'Bronbeek' and when seeing a bush or hedge or whatever, he would shout 'There's one!!' and would perform some military exercise.

fooddude
May 5th, 2007, 04:46 AM
:eek: I'm never getting on a train or bus in San Fransisco, should I ever go there.

el oh el...i was just overexagerating...only see fecal matter a few times, not every day, haha.

Anyways, mass transit is always the best way to see the city and its people; so I advise you to use metro in SF when visiting, or any city for that matter :)

gladisimo
May 5th, 2007, 11:26 AM
el oh el...i was just overexagerating...only see fecal matter a few times, not every day, haha.

Anyways, mass transit is always the best way to see the city and its people; so I advise you to use metro in SF when visiting, or any city for that matter :)

There's at least one crazy person on every BART train :cheers:

I see crazy people once in a while on BART. And the smell thing is not so bad, unless you happen to be next to a bum (I think they're bums) and then it does smell a bit.

ranny fash
May 5th, 2007, 05:10 PM
There was this war veteran from Atjeh, Indonesia on my bus many times. He would get on the bus at 'Bronbeek' and when seeing a bush or hedge or whatever, he would shout 'There's one!!' and would perform some military exercise.

haha

PotatoGuy
May 6th, 2007, 09:01 AM
There are always really weird ppl on buses in OC and in Riverside, I cant really speak for LA transportation cause Ive ridden it like 3 times in my life, but OC and Riverside public trans. is full of really really weird ppl, it is honestly no wonder that ppl stay away from public trans. around here (im not saying its a good thing)

HKG
May 10th, 2007, 04:29 PM
don't just laugh,they might need help,give them your sympathy!

Taylorhoge
May 10th, 2007, 04:51 PM
There was almost a fight between two bums on the bus I took today :lol:

Alot of that happens in New York I was on the train today comming uptown on a 6 and then these two bums come up to my freinds and I and offered to have a fistfight between them and then we would give them money to whoever would win the fight everyone on the train was looking at us and we told them no.They still went at it anyways....:lol: :lol:

sydney_lad
May 10th, 2007, 06:48 PM
don't just laugh,they might need help,give them your sympathy!

Don't worry, they're never going to know about it.

They don't have any money to access the internet.

trainrover
May 10th, 2007, 11:07 PM
The ugly blob in the foreground with its anus snearing up, up and away! at its share of the wagon appears to be the nuttier one of the two . . .

Chicagoago
May 11th, 2007, 07:02 PM
Some kid opened fire on a bus in Chicago yesterday - killed a 16 year old high school student and injured 4 other students. CRAZY! I've never heard of anyone opening fire on a bus in Chicago since I moved here.....

The kid who was murdered was apparently well liked, wasn't part of a gang, and was taking college prep classes in anticipation of attending a university in a few years. So sad.

PresidentBjork
May 13th, 2007, 01:39 AM
I used to ride London transport a lot and to be honest you didn't meet that many crazy people. But there's always that weird old guy who smells like piss sitting in the corner, and he must sit on every seat once because they all smell like piss!

cphdude
May 14th, 2007, 09:34 AM
I really cant remember that many crazieshere in Copenhagen. Only one guy who was drunk and wanted to fight his imageary friend. So he was kicked off. Other then that, and the few odd people, everything has always seamed pretty okay....