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so, apparently this IS real, but thought y'all might wanna have a look at it. It seems that this story is getting lots of press! I couldn't really see much in the photo myself, but it's supposed to be of a guy pleasuring himself on the subway in NYC.
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Good for these women/girls. Sickos like this ought to be caught and publicly revealed... pun intended, I guess. I see potential for character assassination with this technique, tho. I just hope that they give the cops photos of the guys actually.. doing it.
I love this line:
quote:"For a grown man to be exposing himself to children at 7:30 in the morning, it's terrible,"
Wonko "It's much better when they do it during the afternoon rush" the Sane
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quote:Originally posted by WonkoTheSane: Good for these women/girls. Sickos like this ought to be caught and publicly revealed... pun intended, I guess. I see potential for character assassination with this technique, tho. I just hope that they give the cops photos of the guys actually.. doing it.
I love this line:
quote:"For a grown man to be exposing himself to children at 7:30 in the morning, it's terrible,"
Wonko "It's much better when they do it during the afternoon rush" the Sane
I suppose it could just be me, but I did identify what I presumed to be his penis in the first picture, close enough to ""doing it". She still got a good shot though. I bet he thinks twice next time...then again probably not. I can just see her making an appearance on Letterman, photo and all.
As for character assasination, what character are we worried about here? I agree one of the problems with things like this today is the ability to manipulate photos, most pranks are to fakey to be taken seriously, but PS can get people in alot of trouble nowadays.
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For those who don't ride NYC subways as daily transportation, this is considered tame by some standards, seriously. Stuff like this is also the reason I stopped working in manhattan and got a job on long island.
Of course my Girlfriend still rides the subway to work, god help him if this perv ever runs into her and pulls this stunt. She doesn't take this kind of crap.
Weird things I have seen on a NYC Subway:
- Gay couple having rough sex (men not women) late night A train downtown.
- Lesbian couple having sex (69 across the benches) and another couple filiming on a 2 train downtown.
- Pretty much every weekend I go into the city I see a straight couple try to have sex on the subway. The best though was when two MTA officers got on the same car, sat across from them and watched until the next stop when they arrested the couple and removed them fromt he train. This was on an express 5 train uptown so they got a show for a few minutes.
- Man carrying motorcycle in pieces on train (ok his friends helped). N train to Astoria
- Hobo fight because they were working the same car. 4 train uptown
- A man preaching that Satan is good in response to a street preacher getting on an E train and staring his speil.
- An asian lady and an indian lady exchange graphic racial epithets over a steped on foot on a 7 express train.
- Woman doing stripper like pole dance on an L train center pole.
- Man doing stripper like pole dance on downtown 1 train center pole.
- Me trying to do stripper like pole dance while drunk on a 7 local to Queens.
- Man relive a full on vietnam flashback after falling asleep on a 7 local train.
- bag lady crap herself on a CROWDED 7 express train to Manhattan.
- Guy ride a bicycle into a turnstyle at times square station at 3:30 am. His friends were filming him trying to jump a turnstyle with his BMX and he didn't quite make it.
This was all within the course of a year. I think by now you can tell I live near the seven train.
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quote:Originally posted by timbobmc: He looks like a guy I used to work with in Baton Rouge, but all reports say he's in Orlando now.
Maybe he took a vacation?
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quote:Originally posted by SuperMang: Damn, NYC sounds like a real shithole.
Actually it isn't that bad. It's just too crowded. Imagine the entire population of los angeles trying to share the same twinkie and you get the idea of how on top of each other people in NYC are (manhattan mostly, the outer boroughs are actually not that bad).
The problem with the congestion is that there really aren't any places to perform "private acts" so sometimes you have to put up with someone else's eccentricities. This leads to the weird phenomonon of someone being able to completely ignore a fetid, foul smelling, messy bum but then get totally offended when the average joe across the way adjusts his jockeys because, frankly, they were riding up (I'm not defending the subway flasher guy let a court of law decide if he did what he did or not).
The worst are teenage kids who live in the city. Figure if you live in the subirbs and you are 16 and you want to get intimat with your 16 year old boy/girl friend you can wait till your parents are out of town or borrow a car, bascally find someplace private. If you live in a place that has public trans so nobody has a car then that's out, and if you live in an apartment that small, overproced and your parents are never out after dark then that is out, what is left? Public transportation itself. The kids in my neighborhood used to use the busses as rolling motels until they shut down bus service after midnight. Now they take to the subways which run all night. same thing with college kids who have to take on multiple roomates to afford to live in NYC.
Living on top of each other means that eventually you will be caught in an embarassing situation and will have to just make do. The problem is that most people these days don't know how to communicate and feel uncomfortable around other people so you will have whole subway cars filled with people not talking. The funniest way I can sum this up is one day on a crowded 7 train (mets game night) this woman had really bad gas. She kept blowing loudly with an excuse me after each one. Some people laughed, some moved away, but really most people just delt with it because there really wan't any place to go. I'm sure she felt embarrased but she definatly was n't showing it.
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quote:Originally posted by Geeto67: just another day on the subway.
Weird things I have seen on a NYC Subway:
- Woman doing stripper like pole dance on an L train center pole.
- Man doing stripper like pole dance on downtown 1 train center pole.
- Me trying to do stripper like pole dance while drunk on a 7 local to Queens.
LOL. I used to ride the subway home from work late at night in Toronto and the wildest thing I probably ever saw was a guy giving a girl a hickey on her neck. (Yeah, that's not too wild..) There are alot of drunkards and crazies smelling of pee in Toronto but I'm very fortunate to not have witnessed anything too serious. Just a few days ago I was heading home at 4 in the afternoon and there was this dirty drunk hobo with a torn tshirt on and he kept talking loud and claimed to be a member of Hell's Angels and that he proudly killed 3 people before. (It was obvious that he wasn't because he was in rags) A business woman was sitting across from him and actually fell asleep (or she was just resting her eyes) and the guy had the guts to touch her on the leg and strike up a conversation. He was more of a harmless derelict trying to sound intimidating and when he got off the subway, everyone just started laughing at him.
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Geeto, what part of Long Island do you work in? I second the issue of crowding. I used to get sexiled all the time in college, but my roommate did not tolerate boys (not hers) in our apartment at all. Although I never would have gotten jiggy on the subway, the bathroom at Rocky Sullivan's and a doorway of a church around the corner are a different thing entirely.
Yesterday, I had the unsettling experience of a violent panhandler randomly singling out people in my car on the F during AM rush hour. The train stopped, doors open, at Delancey, and he just kept flitting in and out and threatening random people. I was nervous, which is rare for subway incidents for me.
I'd say that on an average week of taking a 4/5 or 2/3 during rush hour, you will get groped inappropriately at least twice. Sexual imposition seems to be a part of riding the subway. Good for everyone who uses a camera phone to expose these guys!
Mine's a SKII- it looks like a camera (with flash, no pun intended) so maybe I should use it as a grope deterrent!
Ana
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Just to bring it back on topic I saw on local news last night that the made an arrest in the case that started this thread. I didn't get to hear the whole story (damn cat) but the clips they showed sure looked like the guy in the photo.
Ana Ng, I work in Carle Place now in one of the office buildings surronding Roosevelt field mall. I traded my 16th floor corner office view of 9th ave and 35th street for a view of a parking lot and old country road.
The violent ones are usually pretty disturbed people nad you had a good reason to be scared. I'm 6'5" and years when I used to work on broadway I had one who took a swing at me just because I was a "big !@$@$#%$ with deep pockets and no love for a man on the skids". My friends think I am nuts for not giving any money out but frankly there are so many beggars you could go broke in three blocks. When I lived in New Orleans they used to come to the door (which is worse) and I had to learn to work up the nerve to tell them no, now I have no problem. I am not a heartless bastard by any means but new york is so expensive to live in I can't afford to spend $7-10 bucks on homelese broken down alcoholics and drug addicts (which is what it would cost if I gave a dollar to everyone of them on my old commute). Once in a while I still give in to it but it isn't often.
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I'm assuming that those two stories in the OP are not the same. One talks about a girl coming back from an interview and the other talks about teenage catholic schoolgirls (phwoar! wotta scorcha!)
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Geeto, I totally agree with you. Unfortunately, it would be impossible to give everyone money. They say it's better to budget for charity and do it that way. So when I get past "how the NFBSK are we going to pay the bills, again?" every month, I'll do that. (ETA: Meaning, in an organized way, via a check to an organization.)
Although the views in NYC are lovely (I've been meaning to post a pic in my blog of my view from Prince Street btw. Sullivan and Thompson), there's something to be said for driving to work. I used to work at the Roosevelt Field mall, and it can be a crowding logistical nightmare around X-mas. But I do envy the lack of Subway. (I'm from Babylon, and I can't reconcile wanting to live on the ((cleanish)) water and living in Park Slope, which is amazing. I wish I could do both!)
Anyway, I will throw the occasional buck at a busker, and once, I think I threw a lady a fiver for playing the one Elton John song I like. I actually see the same panhandlers on the same lines every day, so I can become immune to that.
Ana
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quote:I'm assuming that those two stories in the OP are not the same. One talks about a girl coming back from an interview and the other talks about teenage catholic schoolgirls (phwoar! wotta scorcha!)
The two stories are different but I believe they are the same guy. Channel 9 news (UPN 9) ran the story last night that they caught a serial flasher on the subway, that four women have complained of the same guy. The guy they showed getting into a squad car handcuffed was blonde and looked like the man in the camera phone picture.
Unfortunatly UPN gets their news from fox and searching the fox site for the story is a pain in the arse. I di dread that the person in custody was a restauranter and had previously been arrested in 1994, but it is unknown if it is actually the same guy at this point. Somebody should be able to find an article on this on the web.
Boy, what a way to get famous. Even if he wasn't actually flashing anything the brown stuff is really hitting the electric spinning thing for him.
Ana,
I hear you, park slope is a nice neighborhood. Better than the greenpoint flophouse a friend of mine rents. I drive and have a revese commute so I am rarely stuck in traffic. The subway is a living thing and there are days I do miss it, but it can be a hassle and I don't do hassles.
Personally I don't understand why the "new generation" of subway riders are so uptight about stuff like this. When I was growing up in the 80's NYC was still a shithole, the subways were covered in grafitti, people were violent and rude, and you were likely to get stabbed riding certain lines after dark. It was dangerous. Now that all this money has been spent throughout the late 80's and 90's to revitalize the city all that is left riding the subways are the crazys, homeless and the harmless pervs (there are so many mta officers on the trains these days the only real criminals left are the city offocials in charge of the fare hikes). Hey if some guy want's me to look at his cock from across the train car, fine I'm not phased (so long as he stays where he is), It's better than being stabbed with a sharpened screwdriver which was common until 12 years ago.
Is it illegal...sure, is it wrong morally...sure, is it degrading...sure, is it worth making a big deal over...I'm not so sure. Too bad the media loves crap like this...I'm surprised the Post isn't all over it like white on rice.
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I agree one of the problems with things like this today is the ability to manipulate photos, most pranks are to fakey to be taken seriously, but PS can get people in alot of trouble nowadays.
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