• remon@ani.social
    7·
    7 days ago

    An entire international high-speed train was delayed for almost 2 hours because Karen got the police called over having too much foam in her beer.

          • remon@ani.social
            1·
            5 days ago

            I was seated near the restaurant wagon on an international train. I had my headphones on and wasn’t aware of what was going on, but suddenly there was a ruckus that got my attention.

            A lady has gotten into an argument with a train employee about the beer to foam ratio in her cup. Apparently there was some name calling involved before I got to listen into the conversation, but she literally called for the manager. Eventually the police was called (which already meant delays for the train) and since it was basically the “border station”, the police told Karen that she had to get off the train if she wants to press charges. And then the strangest thing happened:

            She just said no. She paid for her ticket, she’s not getting off … and the fucking police caved. They held the train and interviewed her on it. Why, I do not know. It seems so insane.

            I was so lucky that I could get out of the train at the station we stopped and get home at a reasonable time … but I never wanted to throw beer at someone’s face that much. Fuck this lady in particularity …

  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
    6·
    7 days ago

    Baltimore Maryland train, some man thought I was so pretty(?) he handed me a $5 bill on his way out of the train. I looked at him like , “WTF?!” wordlessly declined his offering, he looked offended, and he left. That’s the weirdest thing I’ve personally experienced or seen on public transportation but I’ve seen a lot weirder things online. Like a couple months ago that man who fucking STABBED some young lady in the neck & MURDERED her 🤦🏼‍♀️

  • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk
    4·
    7 days ago

    Would have been 2003/04. Waiting for the bus to college. Dude who looked like a farmer with a huge beard asked “is this the stop for town.” I said yes, sat down, didn’t think anything of it. Few minutes later I noticed his bag was moving. No idea what the hell was in it.

  • Toes♀@ani.social
    3·
    7 days ago

    I’ve been on a bus that drove into an active flood.

    That was pretty exciting watching everyone jump on their seat to avoid the water.

  • Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    42·
    7 days ago

    Someone planing out a snuff and CNC porno shoot with some woman threw the phone that is being shot in a former ww2 bunker with nazi uniforms and BD dildos

  • Maven (famous)@piefed.zipEnglish
    108·
    9 days ago

    Idk if this counts as crazy but one day a guy went up to me and said “hey I’m about to smoke meth. Its probably going to smell so you can change seats if you want to.” And then I did and that was basically it.

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
    88·
    9 days ago

    Nothing that crazy I guess, but two events I remember:

    • A small fire broke out next to the tracks and the train driver actually stopped the train and got out to extinguish it

    • A train busker played so loudly and terribly that a group of random passengers got together to shove him out of the train at the next station.

    • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
      421·
      9 days ago

      Someone playing an instrument inside of a train, Jesus that’s obnoxious

      • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
        16·
        9 days ago

        Indeed. Busking on the street is fine, as you can just walk somewhere else if you don’t like it, but on a train you’re trapped with them. Pretty sure it’s illegal here as well.

        • Botunda@lemmy.world
          6·
          8 days ago

          Yeah, you haven’t lived until you’ve had to ride the express A going downtown with a mariachi band at full-tilt.

      • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
        4·
        9 days ago

        There are places where this is common. They hope to get paid (I assume to get them to leave). Sometimes they’re accompanied by pick-pockets who pray on the distracted.

        • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
          4·
          9 days ago

          Assholes, they’re basically extorting people to stop the annoying shit and to get them to fuck off

      • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        Yeah, I hadn’t heard any buskers on the Stockholm metro for years until a few weeks ago when a guy I had seen earlier busking, came onboard again with his weird wooden box with metal strings that is played with two hooked sticks and started playing.

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Not proper public transport, but my dad is an active member of a heritage railroad.

      This railroad rund both steam and diesel trains.

      When it is dry outside they will run a fire watch train after the steam train, basically a tank car with water and a petrol pump, pulled by a diesel locomotive.

      But this day they didn’t run the fire watch train, and I was tagging along with dad as he drove the classic DMU trains.

      We come around a corner and see smoke comming from a farmer’s field, it had caught on fire/smolder from the steam train…

      We stop, obviously, bring our large water can and start working the fire, after a few min the fire department came and we could hand it over to them

  • fiendishplan@lemmy.world
    65·
    9 days ago

    On the NYC subway a guy was taking up two seats, he pulls out a notebook and starts (screaming) reading from it. It was all about some conspiracy that got him kicked out of Columbia University. People started moving away from him. At the next stop a guy gets on the train and says to “hey psycho you really need two seats” the crazy guy slides over freeing up one of the seats and then goes back to yelling.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        7·
        8 days ago

        If you were from, where I was from, you’d be fucking dead.

        It is entirely within Scouts character to just… “yo, knucklehead, scoot over”, and then just put on his headset when the screaming resumes.

        Though, being from Boston, and being exceptionally prideful… that may cause some issues on the NYC subway.

    • Botunda@lemmy.world
      7·
      8 days ago

      Newbie strap-hanger new to The City, a train rolled-up empty and it was cold or hot as fuck, and in my naivety was like, “these idiots aren’t hittin up all the free space!!!”… Yeah, dude taking a shit.

  • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    64·
    9 days ago

    A very intoxicated man explained at length to my friend and me that we should stay in school instead of dropping out to join the military like he did. He wasn’t wrong.

  • TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world
    62·
    9 days ago

    I was sat opposite a woman who had a grocery bag filled to the brim with crisps packets, or so it seemed. She started out just munching on crisps, mouth fully open, shoving her hands in there. She emptied two packs in between two stops (metro). Efficient.

    When she had enough she started rumaging frantically through her bag for a solid 20 seconds, and then triumphantly dug out a can of whipped cream (squirty cream format for my UK friends), opened it, and just emptied the whole thing in her mouth in one go!

    It was in France, of all fucking places.

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
    60·
    8 days ago

    i had a dude walk up to me and say “never just take unsolicited advice”

    possibly the best advice i ever got. total mindfuck though

    • Botunda@lemmy.world
      18·
      8 days ago

      A group of us in NYC and dude rolled up with a rope and declared, “Never leave the house without some rope” and then went on his way.

            • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              3·
              7 days ago

              Welp, that was unintentional, but… apparently our shadow person here… yep, meet Arthur everyone.

              Don’t be shy.

              … he would not like that, if you were shy…

              EDIT: Wow, I thought this comment was in another thread.

              … I’m leaving this here for additional absurdity.

              EDIT 2:

              I found Arthur

                • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  1·
                  7 days ago

                  I thought I was was responding to an entirely different thread in an art comm.

                  The piece is titled “Happy Person Having A Pleasant Conversation In Public”, by Randy Ortiz.

                  … But now, he is Art, Arthur.

  • Nomecks@lemmy.ca
    43·
    8 days ago

    I watched a guy chug a bottle of orange Listerine, ramble incoherently for ten minutes, then proceed to have uncontrollable diarrhea all over the seat before getting off the train.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      8 days ago

      Man, I’ve been homeless and seen some wild shit on busses… fairly regularly…

      That?

      What you’ve just described?

      That’s expectional even to me.

      God damn.

  • Bo7a@piefed.caEnglish
    42·
    9 days ago

    I watched a lady bring a small dead bird in a ziploc onto the Metro in Montreal and then proceed to pluck its feathers onto the floor.

    and we aren’t talking about your game hen or a quail here or something. I’m lalking about a fucking sparrow or something like that.

  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
    37·
    8 days ago

    Back when I was in college I road the bus every day. Nothing even remotely as crazy as most of the comments here describing happened that I witnessed on those hundreds of bus rides There was the dude wearing a parka when the heat index was over 100, or the guy weeping holding a bouquet while heading into a residential area and those are honestly not that interesting because shit happens but I do have one story:

    One fairly quiet bus ride I was seated in some of the sideways seats near the front and a lady seated across from me was reading a newspaper. My eyes are drifting as I’m listening to a podcast and suddenly I realize on the front of the paper this lady is reading is a photo of my dad. I asked her “excuse me, could I look at that paper quickly? That’s a photo of my dad there and I want to see what he’s been up to to get in the paper but hasn’t told me” and it turns out he helped run a Wikipedia edit-a-thon event at a local library to help encourage new contributors.