This is NSFW (google the initials if you don’t know what it means).
A big tip of the hat to our friends at Creative Loafing who, unlike me, have enough class to not actually put up the video.
Let’s hope the person at La Quinta Inn was right.
BTW, the crazy girl would be more likely to carry a gun than the grandmother she went schizophrenic on — so Thomas is probably right about keeping guns off MARTA. But then, well, judge for yourself.
BTW2: Yeah, I know and appreciate that the crazy one probably would have gun regardless of the law. That’s why I didn’t change the title of this post.
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Yes, we could use a tycoon the likes of Henry Flagler.
http://overseasrailroad.railfan.net/dream.htm
Talk about a tycoon?
Big oil and big railroads
I still wish I had a way to get to Atlanta by rail. I am convinced that lots of folks would go back and forth and make good use of the service.
The car service on the Shinkansen is great. Food, drinks and this and that. You can bring all of your own party supplies as well.
I took a train from Tokyo to, well, I don’t know the name of the place I was going but everyone on the train was going to the same place, a spring flower festival. Many on the train had adult beverages and snacks and food and were having a real party.
Here are some photos to where we were going.
http://savannahnow.com/node/474018
The rail service in Japan does a lot for commerce all over the country. They advertise ski, spa, sight seeing destinations at almost all of the stations. Indeed, I (with the help of my girlfriend) book ski trips, spa trips, other pleasure trips as well as business trips with accommodations at the stations.
As a regular rider of MARTA for a number of years, I found it necessary to use the intercom to contract the train operator on one occasion involving much less egregious intimidation of another passenger. MARTA police were waiting when the train stopped at the next station and removed the miscreant. The most dismaying aspect of the vidoe is that it appeared nobody did anything earlier/soon after it started.
Y’all went around the block on this one, Dave Bearse brought it back home.
MARTA works for me on airport runs or any stop on the line in between. I will continue to use MARTA and if I saw a ‘crazy girl’ scenario here’s what I would do:
Note the ID # of the train car and quietly get out of the car with the commotion, moving toward the FRONT of the train. Once in the car with the OPERATOR, use the intercom to report the incident, giving the car ID #, if possible.
Yeah, I know you are not supposed to move from car to car, but that is what I would do.
The MARTA police are pretty stout, they will respond.
I have noticed an increase in panhandling onboard MARTA, that needs to be STOPPED.
Gate crashers declined since the new faregates are installed, but I still see folks ‘piggy-backing’ in behind farepayers.
A successful, safe MARTA is ABSOLUTELY
CRITICAL to the region. This video reinforces a largely incorrect notion that MARTA is unsafe.
We can see that ‘crazy girl’ is under warrant, this type of behaviour is both unusual and quickly resolved.
I am extremely disappointed in everyone. NO ONE has pointed out the REAL crime here. Anyone? Anyone? The miscreant in the video did a PUBLIC performance of a COPYRIGHTED work: “Superman Dat Hoe” by Soulja Boy. You people feel sorry for the old lady? What about the RIAA? What about Soulja? Did anyone stop to think about Soulja? You think those gold chains pay for themselves? Shame on all of you.
Spacey Sez: Too bad the ATL is stone cold broke. If anyone ever needed a PR crisis management team, the best money can buy, it would be Shirley about right now. This thing’s going viral fast.
What? C’mon! Let’s bring back Dallas Austin and his jiving “Come to Atlanta” tunes. We’ve got all the money in the world to shove to any PR effort anyone wants!
C’mon, Spacey! Support your fellow liberal Democrat female leader!
I ride MARTA every day from North Springs to Five Points. Done so for over three years without ever fearing for my safety.
From time to time, there are people who you’d wish were not on board. MARTA should have one cop on every train all the time but they don’t.
Otherwise, the biggest hassles are the poor condition of the trains, the inevitable delays resulting from the shoddy trains and rotten management in general.
And MSBassSinger is a fool.
How does DC Metro stay so much cleaner and better than MARTA?
Figure that out and do the same thing.
when i was in athens in the early to mid 90’s it seemed like that stat was always 1/2 the state population was w/in an hour of atl…but i may not be remembering correctly???
As one who has lived in and out of metro Atlanta, I can tell you, Atlanta is, overall, a drain on the state.
You’ve got to be kidding, right? Without Atlanta, Georgia would be Alabama or, worse, Mississippi. With comments like that, I can’t even take anything else you have to say seriously.
And, by the way, on the video, where in the hell are they going that the train never seems to make a stop?
I wonder if that video was staged?
It is taped, almost professional quality, perfect angle, and ‘crazy girl’ did not put her freak on the videographer.
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