A woman travelling on a train's quiet carriage refused for 16 hours to stop talking on her mobile phone. Lakeysha Beard was speaking loudly on her mobile phone on the journey between Oakland, California, and Portland, Oregon.
Passengers complained to train staff about Beard's talking, but the 39-year-old ignored requests for her to be quiet. Beard is then said to have been involved in a "verbal altercation", resulting in workers for train operator Amtrack calling police to come and remove her.
LiveLeak link.
The train was called to a halt at a crossing just outside Salem, Oregon, where police boarded to remove the talkative traveller. She has now been charged with disorderly conduct.
Speaking after the incident Ms Beard said she felt "disrespected". She admitted to talking on her phone, but saw no reason why she should have been escorted from the train.
10 comments:
16 hours? What kind of a phone has that talk time? There are plenty of ibricks and HTCs that don't have that in standby mode! :)
Disrespected? She's obviously an expert on respecting things like other passengers and quiet on the quiet car.
Yeah, what brand batteries is she using in her cell (phone)?
Lurker111
Maybe she was trying to explain the
Derivative of a position vector valued calculus function to her niece or nephew at Oxford University.
Wonder why that it took them 16 hours... don't they have staff on that train to deal with those situation?
DISRESPECTED!!! Incredible...just like she disrespected the other people in the train car that was designated specially for people seeking quiet!!! Ugh!
Those wondering how she could have talked that long: Amtrak trains have plugs at every seat for charging devices. :)
After a couple of hours, I probably would have opened a window and disposed of her phone for her.
How did I know she would be fat and black before I clicked the link?
No great mystery there, Anonymous. She's a middle aged American named Lakeysha.
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