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Brawl over spaghetti in NYC subway ignites debate
Tampa Bay Online ^ | March 24, 2011 | Chris Hawley (Associated Press)

Posted on 03/24/2011 10:01:49 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

NEW YORK (AP) -- The city's subway riders can handle panhandlers, rats and tuneless street musicians. But eating spaghetti in a crowded subway car? Well, that's just going too far.

An Internet video that shows New Yorkers brawling over a passenger's right to nosh noodles on the subway has ignited a debate about what people should and shouldn't do in the nation's largest mass transit system.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: New York
KEYWORDS: baa; baaing; crazy; fight; hiss; hissing; lol; maniacs; nyc; papawasarollingstone; rats; saxophone; spaghetti; subway
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To: chris_bdba
Hateful aren't we?

I didn't denigrate you. I pointed out that 6 billion people don't have to change their life for you.

Take a sip of juice and bite of candy bar, but leave the damn bowl of spaghetti at home.

I do carry juice box wth me but with a no eating policy I assumed this was forbidden too?

If you are discreet if course not.

My point was that perhap this person was carrying their dinner home with them when they may have felt bad and went a head and ate?

Bull crap and you know it.

Rules are for EVERYBODY or nobody. You included.

61 posted on 03/24/2011 4:11:14 PM PDT by Eaker (The problem with the internet, you're never sure the accuracy of the quotes. ~ Abraham Lincoln, 1865)
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To: chris_bdba
Well because when one is having low blodd sugar they need carbs to bring it up and there just aren’t many in any of the items you mentioned that would be why.

Here is the crux of the problem. You not only want your way; to eat wherever you want, but you want to eat whatever you want whenever you want and damn everyone else.

62 posted on 03/24/2011 4:23:10 PM PDT by Eaker (The problem with the internet, you're never sure the accuracy of the quotes. ~ Abraham Lincoln, 1865)
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To: Constitution Day

hahahahahaha lol


63 posted on 03/24/2011 5:56:05 PM PDT by visualops (Proud Air Force Mom)
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To: Eaker

I am not hateful but you sure should look in a mirror once in a while. I hve no idea why you have targeted me for your rant but I can assure you that it is not bullcrap at all. I have spent my fair share of time in the ER close to death from low blood sugar and I know I am not the only one in the world with this problem.You can stoke out when it gets beow 20 I can still be walking and talking at that point.People like you have no idea and by your attitude about it don’t really care much. I follow the rules but if it comes to living or dying I won’t die for them.


64 posted on 03/24/2011 8:52:51 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Eaker

Yes most places make allowances like that for type 1 diabetics because they need that sort of flexibilty.You’ve probably never been around a child or adult that suffers from brittle type 1,rght?


65 posted on 03/24/2011 8:55:43 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Eaker

I never asked anyone to change their life for me where did you get that from?Yes you have went out of your way saying nasty things to me in this thread and calling me “you people” I assume you mean that becuase I have disablity and ask that I not be forced to die because people like you insist things be your way.No spagetti would not be my choice to carry around but if I had it with me transporting it home and started to feel bad yes I’d eat some because when I am suffering it is an imediate need and not something that can wait 20 minutes to take care.


66 posted on 03/24/2011 9:03:05 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: GSWarrior
Well, you are certainly passionate about this subject.

You would be to, if you had your best pair of dress slacks destroyed by a self-centered, inconsiderate rider who spilled mustard on the seat. Yellow mustard does not show up well on yellow seats, so it's fairly easy to sit on a . So, you sit on it, ride for 20 minutes before you can get off and go to the washroom and try to wash it out - but by then the wool has absorbed the stain.

$80 plus destroyed because someone is arrogant enough to insist that the rules that EVERYRONE else has to abide to, somehow are not applicable to them. You see, we unwashed minions have to show them consideration - and we should be grateful that these arrogant over-lords BLESS us with their inconsiderate, arrogant and obnoxious behavior. You see, people like you are just better than the rest of us.

I guess I'm not a member of the Elite.

67 posted on 03/25/2011 6:26:24 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: chris_bdba

“You people” refers to those who condone bad behavior in others because it benefits them. You know this but prefer to lie.

You are convinced that you are a martyr and that the entirety of NY should have to bend to your malady and I simply called BS. You have lied about what transpired on the subway and tried to twist it to fit your skewed idea of your importance.

Because you are sick you have decided for everyone else that great fat pigs can sling spaghetti at will on the subway and all of NY has to live with it. The person WASN”T a diabetic that just happened to have spaghetti and went into shock so he had to eat. He was an asshole who only cared about himself and said screw everybody else. Quit lying about the circumstances and quit condoning his bad behavior!

If you move to DC please call first and tell them that they must change their laws to suit YOU.

You can have this thread as I am disgusted.


68 posted on 03/25/2011 6:52:39 AM PDT by Eaker (The problem with the internet, you're never sure the accuracy of the quotes. ~ Abraham Lincoln, 1865)
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To: Hodar
You see, people like you are just better than the rest of us.

I am glad you realize this fact.

69 posted on 03/25/2011 9:15:08 AM PDT by GSWarrior (To activate this tagline, please contact the board administrator.)
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To: Eaker

I have no clue what set you off to being such an a hole here but I think perhaps you should re read everything that I said becuase I did NOT say a single thing you have flipped out over.I said originally that MAYBE not that anyone was and went on to describe what would’ve happend with ME.I did not LIE and I would like it if you showed me exactly where I did because I’ve read it 3 times and it IS NOT THERE.IMHO your behavior here says more about you than it does about me.I have not lied once here but you have continiually teisted what I said into what you wanted it to be to unload on me.I am not a martyr I am a surviver inspite of people like you.No I’ve reread many times and never does the “You people” even come close to what you have said it did....you said “You people” in referance to someone with a peanut allergy meaning their disabilty.You may be surprised to know that they don’t have to change the rules for me because most of them would allow me to do what I needed to do unless someone lke you or the passanger in the video stopped me from it.


70 posted on 03/25/2011 11:10:29 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Publius Valerius

I have no idea?I will tell you that most metro lines that I have rode on I’ve made the people aware of my problem just incase I did pass out which doesn’t happen often and usually when I’ve been on them I am not alone.I do carry juicebox and crackers with me for emergencies and have never been stopped if the person in charge knows or is told generally it’s more do I need to call an ambulace reaction because 99.9% of the people in the world understand that it is an emergecy situation and that time counts.I never once said that spagetti would be bad I may just.....and maybe they did too to challenge those who are so blind to obeying that they just don’t care if someone died as long as they obeyed.Then someone said something silly about not eating in Church....hmmmm perhaps he’s never been around a brittle type 1 diabetic who ate in church?I don’t ask that the world change for me I ask that I be allowed to stay living in the world aroud me that’s all.....


71 posted on 03/25/2011 11:20:35 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: chris_bdba

Blah blah blah, excuse bad behavior if you want to, I don’t.

You lied about this person’s intent when they ate the spaghetti.

You want to be able to do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it and don’t care if people make the subway car a pigsty as long as YOU get your way.

This is clear as a bell.


72 posted on 03/25/2011 11:39:42 AM PDT by Eaker (The problem with the internet, you're never sure the accuracy of the quotes. ~ Abraham Lincoln, 1865)
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To: Eaker

What is your problem? I’ve asked for you to quote where I said any of these things you keep accusing me of but insted of doing that since you can’t PROVE YOUR LIES you fling more? Knock it off or I’m assuming you are harrasing me?


73 posted on 03/25/2011 12:07:15 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Eaker

From my first post #7:
“Why would anyone get upset with someone else eating? Did they ever consider that they might need to eat? A ban on eating would mean that someone with diabetes could very well be in a dangrous condition by the time they were able to get off of the train and be unable to take care of themselves.” Show me where I lied? WHERE?


74 posted on 03/25/2011 12:09:39 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: chris_bdba
My point was that perhap this person was carrying their dinner home with them when they may have felt bad and went a head and ate?

This is your post# 37 which is obviously bull crap, you knew it was a lie when you wrote it.

75 posted on 03/25/2011 12:16:27 PM PDT by Eaker (The problem with the internet, you're never sure the accuracy of the quotes. ~ Abraham Lincoln, 1865)
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To: chris_bdba
Knock it off or I’m assuming you are harrasing me?

What are you talking about??!!??

I am responding to you!

It is spelled harassing and it apparently doesn't mean what you think it does. Perhaps you should look it up in the dictionary with the correct spelling.

76 posted on 03/25/2011 12:20:02 PM PDT by Eaker (The problem with the internet, you're never sure the accuracy of the quotes. ~ Abraham Lincoln, 1865)
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To: Eaker

Leave me alone I posted what my quote was and you once again TWIST what I said.I asked you to stop harassing me and you take a typo and once again ridicule? LEAVE ME ALONE!


77 posted on 03/25/2011 1:35:47 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Eaker

There is no lie there but why do you keep harassing me after I have asked more than once for you to stop? It is not free speech to ridicule someone for their disabilty nor is it free speech to accuse someone of lying when they are not. Now leave me alone.


78 posted on 03/25/2011 1:44:08 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: chris_bdba
QUIT POSTING TO ME IF YOU DON'T WANT ME TO POST BACK!
79 posted on 03/25/2011 2:15:56 PM PDT by Eaker (The problem with the internet, you're never sure the accuracy of the quotes. ~ Abraham Lincoln, 1865)
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To: Eaker

I asked nicely several times no I’ve requested your ISP info to follow through with this now please leave me alone.


80 posted on 03/25/2011 2:21:22 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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