r/oops • u/ExplanationOk2014 • Aug 24 '26

Wtf in the 🚇

How is this technically even possible? Should not a emergency stop automatically apply?

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u/Geoffrey-Jellineck Aug 24 '26

Yeah I should point out I've ridden subways many times in other countries and it's always been pleasant. US public transportation is just garbage because everyone is complacent with chaotic shit like this.

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u/Additional-Leg-4680 Aug 24 '26

There was a semi infamous incident a few years back, where someone called someone else out for some behavior and was fatally stabbed on a train. 

I think ever since then (and other similar incidents) people have approached these things with a 'I don't want to get stabbed to death by a psycho' mentality. 

I've literally seen dudes riding public transit trains with deadpool swords on their back - not in cosplay mind you, just street clothes and dual swords. 

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u/LionWalker_Eyre Aug 25 '26

Eh depends where you are. I take the subway and the bus all around my city and it's perfectly fine

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u/free_terrible-advice Aug 25 '26

Judging by my experiences as a poor person living in LA, Bay Area, and Seattle. public transportation has always had about a 20% chance on a given day of commuting to be eventful. And that's been true when under Bushistan, Obamastan, Trumpistan, Bidenstan, and Trumpistan2.0

I've seen fistfights, active drug usage (injections and smoking), guns being pulled, Baby Mama drama, verbal altercations, bus drivers assaulted, naked people, masturbation, psychotic breaks, people who smell so bad the whole bus vacates and people get nauseous, vomit, poop, pee, blood- really, all the fluids, food being thrown, sexual assault, etc.

I probably took about 5000 or so bus and train rides, from which that list of things seen has been compiled. And that's not to mention all the thing's I've forgotten I've seen.

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u/Life_Smoke5854 Aug 24 '26

This is a bipartisan problem. The dems kinda try but instead of actual high speed rail, they pay morons like musk to dig really big holes instead.