Topic: Woman feels 'disrespected' after being kicked off train

[rickl]

PORTLAND, Ore. – A woman who got pulled of an Amtrak train by police after passengers complained she was speaking too loudly on a cell phone said she felt “disrespected” by the entire incident.
 
Lakeysha Beard of Tigard was charged with disorderly conduct after police said she got into a “verbal altercation” with train passengers on Sunday. Passengers complained she refused to put down her cell phone and conductors had to stop the train in Salem, where police got involved.
 
Beard told KATU she was indeed talking on her phone, but said she didn’t understand why she had to be escorted off the train.
 
She made the comments during a brief phone interview. Beard declined a more extensive on-camera interview, saying she didn’t feel well.
 
An Amtrak official said a number of passengers complained Beard was being disrespectful during her prolonged phone conversations on the train. Salem police reported she had been on the phone non-stop since the train pulled out of Oakland, Calif. 16 hours earlier.
 
While this is an extreme example, social etiquette expert and instructor Jodi Blackwood said too many people don’t exercise basic courtesy when it comes to using their phones.
 
She said when people speak too loudly and have personal conversations in public places they don’t always realize the message they’re sending.
 
“What does that say to them? It says that you’re only thinking of yourself and that you are only aware of what you need and what you are doing and you are a less considerate person,” Blackwood said.
 
Amtrak does have a policy that riders can’t use cell phones in designated “quiet cars,” like the one in which Beard was riding.

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To repeat:

Salem police reported she had been on the phone non-stop since the train pulled out of Oakland, Calif. 16 hours earlier.

How did people survive before the invention of cell phones?

/hat tip Transterrestrial Musings

[Pandora]

WTF did this reprobate have to say that took 16 hours anyway?  On a "quiet car" no less?

Oblivion, to the max.

[LadyVirginia]

"It says that you’re only thinking of yourself and that you are only aware of what you need and what you are doing and you are a less considerate person"

I don't think people like this care about what it says about them.


I've noticed that there's a certain kind of person who likes to use the word "disrespected".

[rickl]

I remember one time when I was in a shopping mall.  I was walking directly behind a young woman who was having a screaming argument with her boyfriend on a cell phone.  Heads were turning towards her left and right.  She was utterly oblivious to the attention.  

I would have been embarrassed as hell and would have ducked outside and found a secluded place if I was involved in such an argument.

[IronDioPriest]

"Lakeysha".

The problem begins right there.

[charlesoakwood]

“What does that say to them? It says that you’re only thinking of yourself and that you are only aware of what you need and what you are doing and you are a less considerate person,” Blackwood said.

All people of privilege defined, congress worms also.

[Glock32]

"Lakeysha".

The problem begins right there.

Before I even read that far, I knew the name would be something like that. The earlier part where she complained of being "disrespected" was a solid indicator of things to come.

[John Florida]

Screw her the big mouthed bitch needs a slap in the mouth. Rude crude ill raised and should be retrained to behave in the real world.

[Sectionhand]

"Lakeysha".

The problem begins right there.

When I first saw the word "direspected" I knew that a name like "Lakeysha" was going to be involved . I'll bet she has some sisters at home named "Neuralgia" , "Nephritis" and "Saliva" !

[OLJingoist]

Wait until she wakes up today and realizes her feelings are hurt.
It's gonna take 2 pints of ben & jerry's just to be able to get up. After all I gots to call down to the lawyer and get my money.

[ToddF]

Nice welfare check that pays for a cell phone, with unlimited minutes.

[Glock32]

Nice welfare check that pays for a cell phone, with unlimited minutes.

No, it's her "paycheck". I remember several years ago being down at the county vital records office to get my official notarized (and not by U.K. Lelee) birth certificate for a passport, which happened to share an outer waiting room with whatever office handled welfare. It was a procession of loud, mouthy professional welfare recipients angrily demanding to know why there was a delay with their "paycheck". They literally called it their paycheck, and not just one or two of them, but practically all of them.

So all y'all should consider putting in some overtime this week, because Lakeysha need her paycheck.

[Libertas]

Yeah, this Oblivion looks like the soft-talking type, huh?

 

Ms. Entitlement thinks she can do as she pleases and the rules (and especially other people) don't matter a damn to her!

What do you want to bet all she gets is a short probation and maybe some community service?

Also, how much you want to bet she violates her probation?

This POS won't ever change, she's 100% Oblivion!

[BigAlSouth]

I really detest that word: Disrespected

Like there is some Constitutional right against being disrespected. Or offended.

[Libertas]

An Oblivion's existence is by definition disrespectful to the rest of humankind!

[Predator Don]

I really detest that word: Disrespected

Like there is some Constitutional right against being disrespected. Or offended.

I hate the term.....Plus, you cannot "disrespect" something that has earned no respect.

[johnnycab23513]

She reminds me of a discriptive phrase from my Navy days; Rude. Crude and Socially Unacceptable.

[Pandora]

She reminds me of a discriptive phrase from my Navy days; Rude. Crude and Socially Unacceptable.

That's just what my brother used to say of me.

[Damn_Lucky]

STFU and get of the DAMN phone.

[Janny]

"Lakeysha".

The problem begins right there.

When I first saw the word "direspected" I knew that a name like "Lakeysha" was going to be involved . I'll bet she has some sisters at home named "Neuralgia" , "Nephritis" and "Saliva" !

Don't forget Chlamydia!