Woman Kicked Off Train For Talking Loudly On Mobile Phone
TO Oregon, where Lakeysha Beard’s loud talking on her phone has caused other passengers in the “quiet zone” carriage on the Amtrak service to complain. They want her to reduce the volume. They say she has been talking loudly on her mobile for 16 hours – ever since the train left Oakland, California.
A heated exchange results. The train is stopped and police remove Beard.
She says she felt “disrespected” by the entire incident.
Do you agree? Is being forced to listen to one side of a phone conversation played loudly in your ears the height of social wrongness? Or do you have some sympathy for Beard, knowing that ever since trains became hermitically sealed metal tubes, and the chugger-chugger of the steam age ebbed away, any noise in the carriage is magnified?
Posted: 18th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
May 18th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
Mobile phones are the devils own invention. My wife stopped at some motorway services to use a loo. She found a cubicle and locked the door. As she was ‘fulfilling the purpose of her visit’, a voice from the next cubicle said “Hi, I didn’t get a chance to say hello earlier, I was in desperate need of the loo.” So my wife, assuming she had walked past a friend in the toilets, and not wanting the friend to think she hadn’t noticed her at all, said “erm, that’s ok, I was in a bit of a rush myself.” The voice said “So, how are the kids”. My wife replied “Yes, fine thanks”. The voice said “shall we meet for a coffee later”. My wife replied “I’d love to, but I need to get home”. To which the voice replied “Hang-on a minute Sue, there’s some idiot in the next cubicle keeps replying to each question I ask you. I’ll call you back”. My wife says she was back in her car and on the motorway within 3 seconds, with half a toilet roll trailing from her skirt !!!
May 18th, 2011 at 12:06 pm
I am elated at this – I always BOOK the ‘quiet’ zone and there are constant reminders from the train manager that mobile phones are not to be used but there are always people who think this doesn’t apply to them. There is ONE quiet carriage and 10 others!!! So why sit in the only carriage you can’t use your phone in? One woman sitting opposite me was on her phone 3 times and then she got a text. I pointed out that it was a ‘no-mobile’ carriage and she said, snottily “I was only talking to my friend! Huh? Oh that’s OK then. Immediately after our conversation another reminder came over the speaker and she stopped using the phone for the rest of the journey
May 18th, 2011 at 7:52 am
It serves her right. The name “quiet zone” is a giveaway that it will be full of people who want a bit of peace.