Rail Rage

[Anonymous]

LOL!! Sounds pretty mundane to me...

Try riding NJT for a few months, you'll see a LOT worse than a little spitting. For example, a drunk whipping it out and watering down the car (passengers included), a 16 year old girl doing a strip tease for her boyfriend, and everyone else and a female passenger doing the "Jerry Springer" thing, taking off her top, to avoid paying her fare...

And those are just a few of the tales of the Naked City...

Oh, and if I recall correctly, last year a group of three adults, a married couple and the brother in law were arrested on the LIRR for having a threesome in full view of the other passengers.

LC

[Anonymous]

I have only seen one case of Rail Rage if you want to call it that. I was riding home on P392 or the Amtrak Illini from Carbondale to Chicago, Illinois. In the cafe car they sell alcoholic beverages and this passenger got unruly after having quite a few. Needless to say they stopped the train in the next town had him get off at a crossing there with that towns cop waiting for him. The name of the town skips my name as this was about 5 years ago.

Brad

[Anonymous]

OK, we're all familiar with air rage, but what about on trains? Does anybody have any stories about passengers on a train getting out of hand?

I thought of starting this thread after picking up the latest issue of The Railway Magazine (what British people read instead of Trains). There was a section talking about the huge problem in Britain of passengers spitting at railway staff. This problem is so big that on some railways' staff have been given DNA collection kits! (Yes, really!) They consist of latex gloves, cotton swabs and a plastic bag to put the evidence in. Witnesses to the spitting are also asked to sign the bag. The sample in then taken in for analysis and entered into the national DNA database to find a match. It's kept on file in case the person does it again.

I can only hope that this doesn't become a problem over here, but with all the terrorist scares you never know what could happen.