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LadyConstanze -> RE: Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police (5/20/2011 5:37:22 AM)
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ORIGINAL: dcnovice
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110518/us_yblog_thelookout/loud-cell-phone-talker-removed-from-quiet-car-by-police
YES!!!!! (Note the five.)
You know 2 things that just puzzle me:
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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.
Which cell phone battery will last for 16 hours? She definitely didn't have an iPhone, ha! And then how can you talk for 16 hours? First of all what do you have to say for freaking 16 hours, 2nd how do you physically do it? I mean without your voice just giving up and you turning hoarse and developing a sore throat?
The "quiet zones" in public trains in a lot of European countries simply have no cell phone reception, so people can't yap on their cells, if I'm doing a longer trip and I want a nap or a bit of peace and quiet, I usually go into those and then check by leaving the quiet car if there are any important missed calls, telling people I am on a train tends to do the trick, people I work with understand I can't talk (you don't talk about confidential client info or the next strategic move in a place where a bunch of people can overhear you), private calls, same thing, I call them mention I am on a train, they understand that I won't be saying much as there are ears around me , so they do the talking. I might do the occasional call with "We're a bit delayed, I'll be there at approximately....."
I found it really funny when people discussed their sex life in public places on cell phones, especially if they try and get a promise out of the other person to not breathe a word to anybody - yeah mate, you just said in front of roughly 50 people that you got an STD, that's a big secret... The other day there was a lot of ranting and raving outside, screaming and yelling almost like a fight but only one voice, so I looked out of the window, on the other side of the road was a guy breaking up with his gf (I assume so, or else the "bloody fucking skanky bitch slut" was really a diseased dog and he was into bestiality) - why on earth she didn't just simply hang the phone up was beyond me, anybody yelling at me like that on the phone would get the mighty hang up.
I find it a bit puzzling that people don't seem to value their privacy, if you're talking on a mobile in public, people can and will overhear you, a lot of my friends don't live nearby, so we stay in contact via the phone or emails, I rather talk to them in private at home than have strangers knowing about what kind of day I had...
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