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Not To Be Outdone…..

Posted by
on October 19th, 2007 at 10:50 am

As I wrote about here, we had one idiot lose their life due to their own stupidity. However not to be outdone, we have yet another idiot who has died at the hands of a rail or subway car. This time our idiot was a 23 year old man who was surfing an uptown C train Monday night.

The idiot in question decided to grab the frame of an uptown C train at the 145th St. station. He was hit by a tunnel catwalk handle as the train entered the tunnel between the 145th St. & 155th St. train stations. The force of the blow threw him into a metal railing & concrete. Overall he suffered bruising on his body to go along with severe head trauma. He was pronounced dead on the scene.

This man deserved to die. He clearly had no care for himself, his friends, his family, & other passengers when he decided to latch on to that C train. Why should anyway mourn this loss? I know I won’t! Such a point of view might be considered mean spirited. However can you blame me or anyone for feeling this way? Common sense should tell us that surfing is meant for the beach, not the subway!  Sorry if I choose to have common sense & not participate in an activity that I have a strong chance of dying from!

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Sorry…..

Posted by
on October 18th, 2007 at 3:08 pm

I would like to apologize for the downtime this site experienced a few days ago. My web host had a billing snafu with their software & my account. Due to this snafu, my account was incorrectly shut off. The issue has been corrected so I can now catch up on transit related news from the last few days.

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Question Of The Week 10/15/07 – 10/21/07

Posted by
on October 15th, 2007 at 4:16 pm

I have finished updating Eye On Transit today. The update includes the results of last week’s dual “Question Of The Week”, updated poll archive page, & this week’s question(s). Like last week, I have decided to have 2 questions serve as this week’s “Question Of The Week”. This week’s questions focus on cell phone use in the NYC subway. As always the polls are open until 11:59 p.m. EST on Sunday so get your votes in now by clicking here!

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Idiot Dies While Trying To Entertain His Family

Posted by
on October 15th, 2007 at 4:12 pm

While I was on the 1010 Wins, I came across an article about an idiot who died at the Metro North’s Riverside station in Connecticut. While some might find it offensive, I am calling the man an idiot because that is what he clearly was. The man who has yet to be named while relatives are informed about his death, died yesterday afternoon.

The man was trying to entertain his family while waiting for a train at the station. His idea of entertainment involved placing a penny on the track to show his wife & 3 daughters how it would be flattened by a train. According to the MTA Sgt. John Rizzitelli, the man jumped onto the tracks to place the penny down. As his family tried to help him back up, a Stamford to Grand Central bound express train struck him. The train was reported to be traveling 75 mph. The man died instantly after being hit.

I hate to say it but this is not a tragedy. The word tragedy should not involve deaths that occurred due to blatant stupidity. I would expect this sort of idiocy from a kid or a teenager. However I am baffled that an adult with a wife & kids would be so stupid! How could you be so foolish & engage in an experiment like this? What makes it worse is that you engaged in this experiment in front of your kids! We all know how kids tend to follow their parents lead yet he still went through with it anyway!

So now his wife is now a widow & his 3 daughters no longer have a father & for what, a stupid experiment meant to serve as entertainment? People like him should have never been allowed to reproduce! I feel sorry that those kids will be scarred for life due to their father being a thoughtless bastard!

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Idiot LIRR Vigilante

Posted by
on October 15th, 2007 at 3:59 pm

I would like to take this time & thank my sister for sending me a tip for this blog. She e-mailed me a short time ago from work & shared a link to a story on 1010 Wins about a Long Island Railroad (LIRR) vigilante. She assumed I would want to blog about it & she was 100% on her assumption!

John Clifford is a former NYPD officer turned lawyer who has some serious issues! He is obsessed with tormenting Long Island Railroad riders who he feels make his commute from Long Beach to Penn Station a nightmare. The man dubbed as a “train terrorist” by his friends has admitted to punching a woman in the head, pouring coffee on another woman, interrupting cell phone conversations, yelling, & more… during his commute or while at Penn Station.

Mr. Clifford is already a well known character due to his actions. He has been arrested or issued a summons a total of 8 times by the MTA Police since March 2003.  He feels his actions are justified due to the fact he finds these commuters rude.  However Gerry Bringmann of the Long Island Railroad Commuter’s Council strongly disagrees. He lables Mr. Clifford as a “vigilante whose aggressive actions should not be tolerated.”

So far none of the charges have stuck due to the victims not showing up in court. Hopefully this changes next month as Mr. Clifford has a scheduled court date. This latest court date stems from an incident in March where he smacked a woman & yelled at a man on his train.

What would Mr. Clifford like to see? He would like to see the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) introduce at least one quiet car per train. He would like to have this car introduced so that riders who wish to not hear cell phone conversations or loud talking could ride in peace.

Well you know what Mr. Clifford, fuck you! I apologize for my underage readers but I’m pissed off right now. Who does this guy think he is? When will idiots like this learn that any form of public transportation is not your quiet oasis. Mass transit was not created so people can have a peaceful & quiet journey to their destination. The purpose of mass transit is to take many passengers from Point A to Point B as efficiently as possible.

Unfortunately idiots like Mr. Clifford feel that mass transit was created for them to ride in peace & tranquility. I find it absolutely idiotic that we have people in our society who think this way. While I’m not encouraging people to throw parties inside any form of mass transit, I do feel that noise is just a part of the process which one must accept. If you want peace & tranquility while getting to your destination, drive!

As far as this idiot goes, can someone explain to me why he is not banned from riding the Long Island Railroad (LIRR)? The man is openly admitting that he will continue to partake in these vigilante actions. Why let this situation get more out of control than it already is? It is a shame that the victims did not show up to help get this guy thrown in jail.

I am a man who does not support hitting a woman unless your life is truly in danger. I know for a fact that this man’s life was not in danger at any point when he decided to smack one woman & punch another because they annoyed him. This man is not someone we need in our streets. I seriously think he should be mentally evaluated & thrown into some sort of prison afterwards. I would like to think that supporters of a quiet car do not support this man’s actions! If so, you should be banned as well!

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