Yet another rant thread, good read though.

[VKCOMMO]

Ok. This happened about 10 mins ago.

I'm sitting on the train with a few friends, all ticket buyers, there is 5 of talking up a 5 seater booth (blue mountains NSW train) and out of no where this 40ish year old guy comes up to us and starts hurling abuse at us because we were talking up seats (there were 3 free ones about 1 metre away) and says that cause were kids and didn't pay for tickets that we dot deserve to be seated on public transport.

Then he gives me shit for drinking coke and starts telling me
it will kill me. I tell him that I don't care if it will because I'm
thirsty.

That's not working for him. He starts to tell
us that we all need excersize, I understand that I maybe be a bit overweight but to be told that by a stranger is over the top. My friend and his girlfriend (both quite skinny) ask do they need to get some excersize, he tell them that they need to eat.

I decided to but in and ask him to "leave us alone, and that we don't have to sit here and take his shit".

So he is silent. Just standing there. He's there for about another 4 minutes while we are ignoring him. I ask him if there is anything else he needs before we call the cops for him harassing us and he
starts up with his shit about us not deserving seats. And wants us to stand while he is seated.

We tell him that he is wasting his time and can find a seat somewhere else.


My question to you is firstly have you ever seen/done this or been a victim of
it and do you think it's acceptable?? And also do you think that people that have bought train tickets (not free school passes) deserve a seat on a train, that also has Many empty seats??

[I drive a VL Commodore]

Old people.

[levymetal]

[SV62NV]

If someone who was not an elderly person started raging at me to give them my seat i'd tell them to get ****ed.
Its never happened to me but i've seen it happen to other people on the train, selfish pricks.

[TVR-190]

shoulda just made his day by threatening to glass him or run him over when you get off the train, your a young drunk hoon after all.

[VN_chris]

Should have just got up and cracked him and asked him if he "knows who he is messing with" and "who runs this town?" dident work on teachers but it might work on strangers

[Jesterarts]

I told a fat chick she couldn't sit next to me on the train because she wouldn't fit the other day.

Wasn't trying to insult her, just pointing out the facts.

(Her arse width) > width of seat = me being sat on.

She didn't take too kindly to my comments.

But yeah, the whold 'Elderly people deserving a seat more than me' thing doesn't fly with me.

I pay for a ticket, i get up at 5am to travel 1.5 hours to word and get home at 7pm, I pay my taxes and I have sore feet and back problems too.

Though I will give up my seat to anyone who has the guts to simply ask.

Deathstaring me is not going to work, asking will.

If your case, i think you did the right thing just ignoring him and telling him to move on.

[dbarnes]

Should have just got up and cracked him and asked him if he "knows who he is messing with" and "who runs this town?" dident work on teachers but it might work on strangers

to be honest i reckon he'd be less scared if u said something stupid like that lol

[ClairBear]

I told a fat chick she couldn't sit next to me on the train because she wouldn't fit the other day.

BAHAHAHAHAHA. Gold. Haven't we all been there? Watching a very obese person walk down an aisle towards you and start hoping they don't wedge themselves next to you?

[pow3rslave]

"who runs this town?"

i thought it was Jay-Z. at least according to the song i heard the other day.
but yeah, you should have totally smashed him, that'd be a stacks cool thing to do. also bash people who look at you funny, or at all.
i bashed some c**t at the station because he was thinking about looking at me. i could tell.
i'm so hard.

[Calaber]

Old people.

Fair go - he said he was only "40ish or so".

Just when does someone become "old" in your opinion?

As for the OP, you will find plenty of "older" people than yourselves will carry on like this because they think the world owes them a living.

I would have told him to f*** off.

I had a similar experience with an old (and I do mean old - 70+ for a guess,) drunk years ago who had a go at me because I was sitting down and he wanted me to move. He carried on like an old tart, saying "I've got the heart of a lion" (yeah, and the brain of a flea). This idiot raved on, embarrassing me for a couple of minutes. Naturally, the whole carriage load of passengers was watching.

I stood up (I'm over 6'5" tall) looked down at him and told him to go and sit down. After a few minutes he finally moved away. Drunken old shit.

I've also seen a bloke complain to a guard because he had a reserved seat and another group was sitting in the same group of seats (but not his seat) and had reversed the backrest so that they were facing each other. He wanted the seat turned back so that he faced the direction of travel.

Bloody guard was on his side and made them turn the seat back. I thought reserving a seat just ensured you a seat would be available - I did'nt think it guaranteed you the right to determine which way it faced.

[mz81vs]

Lol he was probably drunk. Or on drugs. Or mental. I wouldn't worry about it.

[mz81vs]

Although at a club once i did have a drunk and mentally challenged woman try to attack me coz she said i stole her baby. Lol wtf it was kind of scary though.

[VN_chris]

i thought it was Jay-Z. at least according to the song i heard the other day.
but yeah, you should have totally smashed him, that'd be a stacks cool thing to do. also bash people who look at you funny, or at all.
i bashed some c**t at the station because he was thinking about looking at me. i could tell.
i'm so hard.

lol best bet in any strange situation is to write say or do the crazyest or dumbest thing that comes into your head, brings out the funny responses of other crazys.

[VKCOMMO]

I saw him when I got to central an. Had a go at him. You know. The whole 9 yards. Why do you think you have the right to harass strangers. He said that he was just pointing out out problems. Yada yada yada. He said he will get the sack if he didn't 'try to help. I asked him what his job is and he said that it wasn't relevant. I ended telling him that those kids that I was with alphas been kicked out of home and told that they aren't loved by their parents. And he didn't make it any easier. And to end it I told him that I'm 19 and a youth worker. And because of me those kids are not on the street drinking and taking drugs but that they are safe in a refuge. And that I'm 19. Lol

[VKCOMMO]

Lol he was probably drunk. Or on drugs. Or mental. I wouldn't worry about it.

100% sober. I'm thinking just a nutter

[Tim Smtih]

Though I will give up my seat to anyone who has the guts to simply ask.

Same, manners and kind words don't take too much effort and more often than not will go a long way. I really really don't respond at all well to threats and stand over tactics, i'm perfectly capable and willing to put someone in hospital. Do yourself a favour, don't hassle people you don't know, they may crazy.

[SV62NV]

The 15 yr olds who think they are king dick at the station crack me up. smoking and talking about getting smashed and oh i mite go do her on the weekend.

Btw this is mainly in Broadmeadows i see this, very weird place.

[nemesis_adrasteia]

Same, manners and kind words don't take too much effort and more often than not will go a long way. I really really don't respond at all well to threats and stand over tactics, i'm perfectly capable and willing to put someone in hospital. Do yourself a favour, don't hassle people you don't know, they may crazy.

yeah man i know what you mean, never know whos just gunna snap... *twitch*

[VKCOMMO]

yeah man i know what you mean, never know whos just gunna snap... *twitch*

we were talking for a but befire i really started to get the shits and wanted him under a train, so i could sorta sus out the situation before i started the loud yelling and the waving of the hands and the people 20 platforms away could hear.

if he was an off the wall nutter with a hunting knife in his granny bag (one of those rolling shooping trolleys) then i would have just told him that he had upset my friends and had no right to say that, but for someone to believe that im 19 and a youth worker, he must be a nutter..

[acarmody]

I usually read a book on the train so I don't see the death stares I get. But if some lady asks me really nicely, then I will stand. I will always give my seat to a disabled, elderly, or pregnant person without reservation. But healthy young ladies or men can shut the hell up, drink a glass of cement and harden the hell up.

And going on above about fat people sitting next to you, yeah that sucks, can't tell if your going to be assimilated or not.

[VN_chris]

Perfect. Just perfect. Because I'm 15 and wear Canterbury track pants I carry a shank. Police think I do anyway. The amount of times I've just been walking and a cop has asked to search me. I ask why and he said because he has 'seen me around'.

Haha wat a champ, dont take anyhting i say seriousley because its mostly idiocy. I've been searched on the train on the way to the gym and had my hands checked for paint marks because i was identified as having "commited acts of vandalism" and when im pulled over they look me up in their computer and go "ah ha! this guy again" and search my whole car for stolen gear. You get used to it.

[VKCOMMO]

yer, im used to it now, i was making a statement to the cops about an assault a wee bit back and isaw in the soft interview room (couches and what not) tere is a massive poster saying does your son go out dressed like this:

it had like hoodie, bag, track pants, big fat markers, books, taggs on the bag, gloves.. it was so stereotypical.

at the bottom it said:
if he does than he is a tagger.. lol..

[cracker]

tell him too go away, or just lose your shit and yell and scream at him, people around the age of about 40-50 hate being called old, move on "OLD MAN"
had abloke try and fight me at local football, put my hand on his sholder and said im not going to hit an old man, go away didnt take to kindly too it

[Silver_VS_II]

lol probably the same guy who you drive past with p plates on doing the speed limit with your stereo on and windows down and he looks and points at you and shakes his head. hate those guys who shake there head like your an idiot p plater doing something wrong