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[camilla o.]

I keep telling Jacki O all the crazy stuff I see on the light rail and Phoenix bus system and she told me to make a thread. In the 7 years I lived in Boston I saw a few things on the T but nothing compared to the weird, random stuff that happens on the light rail. This thread is for all your public transit adventures, please contribute.

I'll start with some of the notables from last year:

-an older man applying wart medicine to the various warts covering his hands.

-this older man got on the train and brushed against this seated 30 something man while trying to get to an open seat. The seating man, who I will henceforth call "crazy eyes," took super offense to this and said something that I couldn't exactly hear. Other dude said something back to crazy eyes, and then threw his cup of water into crazy eyes' face. Crazy eyes started laughing, and then punched other dude in the face. Other dude falls onto this 2 person seat containing a girl, maybe 16, with what I assumed was her little brother, he looked all about 3. I was sitting directly behind them. The girl's trying to shield her brother while crazy dudes pounds on other guy on top of her. Soon someone else on the train jumps up and pulls crazy eyes off of other dude, but then crazy eyes turns on the good samaritan and starts trying to fight him. In this time other dude has gotten up and rained blood from his face onto the girl and her brother, as well as all the seats and the floor of our part of the train. The train is moving this whole time. Finally it stops and other dude darts out while crazy eyes is yelling, "whose next? who wants to take me? Back it up, man, back up your talk!" The driver says over the intercom, "the police have been called, exit the train." Crazy eyes says, "I'll leave when I want to leave!" and slowly walks backwards off of the train, trying to make crazy eyes at anyone who dares look him in the face. After he gets off the doors close and the train keeps moving. I watched the blood and water mixture on the floor swish back and forth for another 10 stops before getting off. No one came to clean up the blood.

[camilla o.]

-A really overweight, dirty homeless woman who was using a piece of twine as a belt stood up to get off at her stop and her makeshift belt failed, sending her ginormous jeans to her knees before she was able to catch them. I got a most disturbing site of her backside, but I'm sure the businessman seated about 2 feet away from her front will be scarred for life.

here's one from the bus...

I was at the bus stop waiting to go back to the pool and these three homeless dudes were sitting behind me. First they talked about how 9/11 was caused by the government. "Didn't you see the planes! They had no windows! It was an inside job! They were trying to get the gold! And what did they find under the twin towers? One block of gold! It was all for nothing." Then the really drunk third one who hadn't said anything other than a random "I want milk!" earlier starts talking about how he could take one of the other ones in a fight. So then the two of them decide to go fight. The not fighting bum makes them go into the parking lot so they aren't close to me. He tells me they are crazy but they really won't fight. I glance at the parking lot and guess what, they are actually fighting. The years of sun, alcohol, and homelessness has left their fighting skills less than impressive but they still sluggishly went at it They came back to the bus stop and said now they were brothers again. When the bus came they all said bye to me.

[Jacki O.]

YES

i love these stories!

i bet crazy eyes supports Brewer!


tell the story about the guy pooping! or the lady that flashed everyone!!

phoenix public transportation at its best!

[camilla o.]

oh, I should mention that the lady who dropped her pants didn't have any underwear on either.

[donald]

one time I was on the light rail and Camilla was there.



true story

[MikeyWretch]

Dont get me started!

[camilla o.]

one time I was on the light rail and Camilla was there.



true story

dammmit, donald, that was my next adventure!

[Jacki O.]

i was on a date with a dude (once!) and we got on the light rail after dinner with our leftover pizza to go to a bar and we sat across from this gentleman who was drawing, he showed us all his drawings and they were very good. i forgot what his name was but it was like Wolf Feather or something to that nature.

my date told him a bad sex joke and wolf feather got a little angry at us for being white and told us he was a very good fighter.

we offered him our left over pizza and then he was our friend for the rest of the trip.

[weener]

Once I was waiting for the light rail with a friend and this weird guy wearing his shirt inside out started talking to us. I sometimes like to spin made-up stories to strangers who talk to me, so I told him that we had moved here from Montana, where we had owned a dental floss farm that we had to sell because of the economy. I was able to convince him that dental floss grew on bushes, which BLEW HIS MIND.

[MikeyWretch]

[Tony]

y'all need to keep a lid on these stories if you want people to embrace public transportation.

[chalupacabra]

y'all need to keep a lid on these stories if you want people to embrace public transportation.

Stories like this are WHY I embrace public transportation.

[Jacki O.]

y'all need to keep a lid on these stories if you want people to embrace public transportation.

hey it's quirky! people can get a taste of phx culture on the light rail!

[MikeyWretch]

[differently biotic]

I have way too many and most involve a driver.