Chinese tolerance - what if a woman talked on the phone for 16 hours here?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110518/us_yblog_thelookout/loud-cell-phone-talker-removed-from-quiet-car-by-police

"A woman who was escorted off an Amtrak train by police this weekend after she allegedly refused to stop talking loudly on her cell-phone has the Internet cheering her fate.

Civilians and quiet-car champions are supporting her ejection for violating policy at high volume during the 16-hour journey. It doesn't help her cause that she became belligerent when confronted about it by one of her fellow passengers"

"She had not stopped talking since the train pulled out of Oakland, California, 16 hours before it reached Salem, Oregon, when a passenger confronted her about the talking. That's when Beard got "aggressive," KATU reports, and conductors stopped the train so that police could remove her and charge her with disorderly conduct."


I read this story this morning as my fellow co-workers cell phones blasted around me and the loudest woman I've ever heard started another conversation on her phone behind me. I think people are usually pretty passive about confronting people are annoyed- but if this continued for 16 straight hours in China do you think anyone would say enough is enough? Reading about police escorting her off the train certainly made me smile  

Basically, I'm curious to hear if any of you have ever heard someone actually snap at someone because they were being stupid and disrespectful to the people around them .

I wanna know what cellphone she was using to get 16 hours of continuous talk time.

According to one version of this story it was thanks to the convenient cell phone chargers next to the seat. I'm a pretty big fan of Amtrak- totally unreliable form of transportation but so comfortable once you're on board

When I was ill once I completely lost the plot in Aberdeen. There was  three or four children sitting listening to phone music at incredible volume. I asked them to turn it off! They laughed at me!

I was ill and angry.

I grabbed the phone and threw it out of the window. 

Still feel a little bad about it! But their shocked faces where more than worth it 

Memnoch87, I did that in class once. Got into trouble over it, but I still think it was worth it.

I don't think I spend 16 hours a month on the phone, and I use mine quite a bit. I can remember (a long time ago) telling one person, "Mobile phones are for people who pretend to be something they're not. Real people don't need them." Don't know if I was right then and wrong now or not.

What I don't understand is why it took 16 hours for someone to complain.  AND why the conductor didn't do his job and kick her out of the quiet compartment. 

Actually I think people were complaining for awhile- and train staff repeatedly told her not to talk on her phone (sorry if that isn't obvious in the link, I read two different versions of this story online).

This was from the original article I read:

"Lakeysha Beard was charged with disorderly conduct after police said she got into a verbal altercation with passengers on the train. The other passengers complained she refused to put down her cellphone, even after train staff made repeated announcements for passengers to not use cellphones, according to police.
When a passenger confronted her about her loud talking, police said Beard got aggressive. She had reportedly been talking non-stop on the phone since getting on the train in Oakland, Calif."

It seemed like they were complaining to the staff- who continued to run announcements- that didn't seem to do anything- and then a passenger confronted her and things escalated.

I loved reading about your cellphone throwing stories, they definitely made me smile! Little victories for the common man in our fight against the insensitive jerks of the world.  加油！

When I was ill once I completely lost the plot in Aberdeen. There was  three or four children sitting listening to phone music at incredible volume. I asked them to turn it off! They laughed at me!

I was ill and angry.

I grabbed the phone and threw it out of the window. 

Still feel a little bad about it! But their shocked faces where more than worth it 

hahaha

awesome

Memnoch87, I did that in class once. Got into trouble over it, but I still think it was worth it.

I don't think I spend 16 hours a month on the phone, and I use mine quite a bit. I can remember (a long time ago) telling one person, "Mobile phones are for people who pretend to be something they're not. Real people don't need them." Don't know if I was right then and wrong now or not.

You aren't Stan are you?

The amount of people who feel that they are soooooooo much more important than us is very large. Go into any movie theater in America and your bound to see someone texting on their mobile phone or even holding a very long conversation. I think the Chinese may be more tolerant and not complain when someone is so obnoxious as this lady was. What their breaking level is is hard to say. I tend to be patient with rude people but 16 hours is just well beyond my limit (not to mention sanity) that I would allow.

nope, not Stan Dingneckdeepinsloughwater. Just seems that way sometimes.