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Twasn't snow that felled the trains that are red; twas a ciggie-smokin' woman that caused the dread
By adamg on Fri, 01/06/2017 - 9:12am
The T had to hold a train from Braintree at JFK/UMass so Transit Police could remove a woman who refused to put out her cigarette, filling her car with the smell of smoke.
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OMFG
Capital idea! Hold up a morning rush hour train so a disturbed woman smoking a cigarette can be removed. No no no no no no no....it can't wait until South Station, DTX, Park! Hell....she may well have gotten off at Broadway or Andrew. And God knows what else she'd be capable of!
In my day as a yout, we'd just harass her until she put out the cig... then again smoking was accepted practice indoors, even workplaces and schools.
Up until maybe 10 or so years ago you could LEGALLY drink alcohol, from booze to open containers of beer, on the London Underground. It was common to see people of all ages, especially youts, with open containers of beer. Now, England has become more Americanized and ban-happy. Today, I think they ban more things than we do.
Where Are You Right Now?
May I come over with a wet wool coat on, stick ourselves in a phone booth with alternating cold and hot blasts of air and let me blow a few dozen puffs of Chesterfield at your face all with the understanding that I may have a gun on me and that I think dragons are controlling my future? I'm sure you are game for that.
chesterfields?
Chesterfields still exist?
True Romance Reference
I try to drop in a movie reference from time to time, especially since the reference was made by someone being held against their will like the passengers this morning.
Irony in your handle perhaps in that President Reagan used to do ads for Chesterfield:
http://forgottenhistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/chesterfield2...
oh
I was thinking Donald Fagen's "the nightfly" (song from 1982)
♪ I've got plenty of java... ♪
♪ And Chesterfield kiiiiings ♪
that and my grandma used to smoke Chesterfield Kings..
Guess what
Either hold up that train to get the person who is doing something wrong off of it ... or ...
Hold up the train for a medical emergency when the instant Beijing bad air day she creates results in respiratory distress of a working person who will then lose a day of productive activity.
Everything nowadays has to be
Everything nowadays has to be treated like an emergency. It's how the public safety bureaucrats justify their budgets.
bravo
Bravo on the headline. Doesn't seem like the easiest headline to rhyme.
272 section 43
Just checked out the MBTA website which states that you can be issued a citation for smoking and imprisoned for ten days so my question is was she arrested?
OMG!
Capital idea! Hold up a morning rush hour train so a disturbed woman smoking a cigarette can be removed. No no no no no no no....it can't wait until South Station, DTX, Park! Hell....she may well have gotten off at Broadway ir Andrew. And God knows what else she'd be capable of!
In my day as a yout, we'd just harass her until she put out the cig... then again smoking was accepted practice indoors, even workplaces and schools.
Up until maybe 10 or so years ago you could LEGALLY drink alcohol, from booze to open containers of beer, on the London Underground. It was common to see people of all ages, especially youts, with open containers of beer. Now, England has become more Americanized and ban-happy. Today, I think they ban more things than we do.
Oh, for the love of God
If you spent time reading the tweet rather than typing the comment twice, you would have seen the context. This is clearly antisocial behavior. In the over 30 years I have been riding the T, yes, people have smoked on the platform (never allowed, but less frowned upon years back), but even the pack a day crew knows you don't smoke on the train itself. This woman clearly suffers from mental health and/or substance abuse issues.
Stopping the train a few minutes to deal with this is nothing. They land airplanes mid flight for things like this. I was once flying from the Baltics to Dublin when the head flight attendant threatened the guys behind me with this, and that was for smoking in the toilets.
Could be worse
Someone decided to take a deuce on the NY (2) train this morning. Yes I know nobody cares in Boston about the MTA but a cigarette would've been much more pleasant to deal with this morning. I still feel squeamish.
Did you read the link
She was doing that too.
"Using the bathroom on train"
Since when to T trains have bathrooms?
/sarcasm
wait so
... someone ... er, had a movement... on a 2 train?
that's just good planning.
The irony escaped me until I left the comment
I'll tell you guys, the T has its (many) issues but I would take it over the MTA any day. Fights and shoving matches are a daily occurrence, over packed trains, the one thing I haven't noticed is the extreme amount of delays the T has. That, and NY's express system (imagine a train that ran from Alewife, to Harvard, to Park, Downtown, etc, with none of the 'lesser' stops in between).
i know the feeling
I use mexico city's public transit, and every time i go home, using the T is just...oh its just Sound of Music Twirling On A Mountainside kind of luxury.
Plus, being from the midwest where subways dont exist and bus service stops promptly at 7pm..
Sometimes you all dont know how good you actually have it.