Police stop train after complaints about passenger talking on phone

SalemKatu ^ | May 15, 2011 | John Tierney

[School of Rational Thought]

I put in quite a lot of time on Amtrak while I was long distance commuting. There are few things more annoying than someone in the seat behind you who won’t stop talking on their cell phone. It’s one thing to make a quick call home to say you are late, or something of that kind. It’s quite another to talk nonstop as this woman was evidently doing.

Talking on the phone, or more importantly being seen and heard talking on the phone, is central to Amish culture. With the talk of spending billions on high speed trains, it would be worthwhile to take a strategy of making trains an elegant alternative to buses and airplanes. Sadly, the US is oriented toward the lowest common denominator.

[Greysard]

I spent 2+Hours in Hell listening to them

On the other hand, you got a free preview of the future of transportation in this country, democrat version.

[JoeFromCA]

Interesting to contemplate how she paid for her ticket, her cell phone, all the food necessary to maintain that figure, etc. Just askin’, but I’ll bet it’s not by working for a living.

[Tamatoa]

I was on the train from Oakland to Salem 2 months ago and it stopped and kicked out some guys who were making too much noise disturbing the passengers who were sleeping. Do not mess with the conductor on a train it is a federal offense.

[downtownconservative]

I didn’t know Lakesha was an Amish name...

[patriot08]

I knew instantly it had to be one of those Amish again.

[JPG]

Lakeysha Stoltzfus

[Tigerized]

“...it had to be one of those Amish again.”

Hey! It’s an Amish thing! You wouldn’t understand!

[SuziQ]

The other passengers shouldn’t have confronted her. They should have just gone to get the Conductor so he could do his job.

[A Strict Constructionist]

Looks like some of the cell phone users outside of our hospital. They can be heard for a half a block or more at times. Thank God were not a psych hospital.

[Eye of Unk]

Real trains should have a modern day version of a phone booth, basically in effect there should be on such trains as these that are of the type with the lounge cars and such cubicles with sound suppression panels that any cell phone user can use with some privacy, and to not annoy fellow passengers.

But from I see of this it was called for, pun intended.

[Englishman]

Because their prices are totally outrageous. Cheaper to fly on southwest or drive.

[Englishman]

Because their prices are totally outrageous. Cheaper to fly on southwest or drive.

[Englishman]

Because their prices are totally outrageous. Cheaper to fly on southwest or drive.