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Why I no longer feel safe on Metro
Washington Post ^ | 4/13/2012

Posted on 04/17/2012 3:31:08 PM PDT by Altura Ct.

“[Expletive] the white man! [Expletive] the white man!”

The man’s yells reverberated through the Metrorail car, breaking the quiet typical of an early-morning ride. I turned down the music on my iPhone. What was that? “[Expletive] the white man!” he screamed again. My fellow Blue Line riders and I looked around uneasily. I couldn’t see the man, but I did note that I seemed to be one of very few white men in the car. Still, I brushed it off. It’s not unusual to encounter crazy behavior while riding Metro. Rarely do things turn serious. As the train arrived at L’Enfant Plaza, I briefly considered switching cars. I didn’t.

I should have.

What happened next is a blur. I remember hearing “Look me in the eyes!” Now the voice was close — too close. I turned. The man had squared up directly in front of me, his face level with mine. I met his rage-filled eyes the moment before he head-butted me. Then his right fist came around in a hook, connecting just above my cheek.

“What are you doing?” was all I could yell, rather lamely, as I shoved him away. He turned his punches toward another victim as other passengers came to our aid. One of them pulled the man’s jacket over his head in a hockey-like maneuver. A woman was pushing the emergency call button. Feeling stunned, I remember wondering: Why isn’t the conductor responding?

So began a series of critical failures by Metro to protect its passengers.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: dcmetro; urban
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1 posted on 04/17/2012 3:31:15 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.
The Metro??? Hell,I wouldn't feel safe anywhere in DC.During daylight!
2 posted on 04/17/2012 3:34:53 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Unlike Mrs Obama,I've Been Proud Of This Country My *Entire* Life!)
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To: Altura Ct.

“Admittedly, we put ourselves in danger by following him”, uhhh, a little white on black vigilante justice there? Haven’t you heard of what can happen when “whites” follow a black man?


3 posted on 04/17/2012 3:36:19 PM PDT by punditwannabe
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To: Altura Ct.

Sounds as though he may have had Van Jones on his train.


4 posted on 04/17/2012 3:36:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Altura Ct.

Well, how can this possibly be? I thought voting for Odumbo would unite the races and it will all be fluffy rabbits and rainbows?


5 posted on 04/17/2012 3:36:56 PM PDT by max americana
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To: Altura Ct.
The man’s yells reverberated through the Metrorail car, breaking the quiet typical of an early-morning ride. I turned down the music on my iPhone.
Dude, it is called "Situational Awareness"/

I met his rage-filled eyes the moment before he head-butted me. Then his right fist came around in a hook, connecting just above my cheek. "What are you doing?” was all I could yell, rather lamely, as I shoved him away.
Dude II. Beat the snot out of this nutcase. "Shoving him away" is like "Or I will taunt you a second time".

Don't block my exit during a fire, or mess with my family and I am generally a wuss. Something like this however . . .

6 posted on 04/17/2012 3:38:57 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: Altura Ct.

When seconds count, dot, dot, dot


7 posted on 04/17/2012 3:40:13 PM PDT by mark3681
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To: BenLurkin

Are we sure it wasn’t Holder?


8 posted on 04/17/2012 3:44:16 PM PDT by sjmjax (Politicans are like bananas - they start out green, turn yellow, then rot.)
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To: Altura Ct.

I will never step a foot in DC, NY city ,Chicago, NJ or California. I would never take public transit. Nothing there for me. Too many other nice safe places to visit.


9 posted on 04/17/2012 3:45:03 PM PDT by therut
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To: max americana
fluffy rabbits and rainbows

you forgot skittles....there were also supposed to be skittles. i think it was the unicorn that was supposed to poop skittles, actually. in any case.....definitely skittles.

;)

10 posted on 04/17/2012 3:45:48 PM PDT by ZinGirl
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To: Altura Ct.

I will never step a foot in DC, NY city ,Chicago, NJ or California. I would never take public transit. Nothing there for me. Too many other nice safe places to visit.


11 posted on 04/17/2012 3:46:00 PM PDT by therut
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To: Altura Ct.

I will never step a foot in DC, NY city ,Chicago, NJ or California. I would never take public transit. Nothing there for me. Too many other nice safe places to visit.


12 posted on 04/17/2012 3:46:22 PM PDT by therut
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To: Altura Ct.

It’s going to be a very tough summer.

Write to your congressthing and insist on CCW reciprocity in DC. It’s the one place that Congress actually has authority over CCW, unlike their phony 50-state reciprocity bill.

Anybody going to DC needs CCW like, yesterday.


13 posted on 04/17/2012 3:49:07 PM PDT by Jim Noble ("The Germans: At your feet, or at your throat" - Winston Churchill)
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To: Altura Ct.

So I wonder if this DCer would ever possibly attribute this attack to a madman who is a racist and violent? Nah, most likely not. He instead will complain about the ‘system’ didn’t protect him and others. He did not respond to this attack with anything other than the silly words...”why did you do that?”....

This violent attacker would have been stopped in his tracks if someone had either punched him back or simply shot him


14 posted on 04/17/2012 3:51:52 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Altura Ct.

I’ve been menaced by groups of black teens in the metro stations who seem to take great pleasure in frightening old women. The problem is this old woman isn’t playing.

99% of the metro employees that you see are black and frankly, they have no interest helping some whitey.

It has come to that.


15 posted on 04/17/2012 3:54:26 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Nifster

Odds are the author is a government trough feeder. Probale, too, that he is a Libtard and a hoplophobe.

Such are the rightful prey of the Urban Ferals.


16 posted on 04/17/2012 3:57:06 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
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To: therut

You aren’t safe on the Metro and if you drive they have camera’s everywhere to steal your money, and call it a traffic violation.

Your first thought is the correct one. Stay out of DC. By no means be caught in Anacostia or far Northeast.


17 posted on 04/17/2012 4:04:54 PM PDT by Venturer
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As the train arrived at L’Enfant Plaza, I briefly considered switching cars. I didn’t...... So began a series of critical failures by Metro to protect its passengers.

no... YOU failed to protect yourself you dumb sh!t you!!! you went back to you complacent sheeple sleep even after the wolf howled so don't go blaming it on the metro this time you mutt you

18 posted on 04/17/2012 4:05:35 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Altura Ct.

And so it begins.


19 posted on 04/17/2012 4:07:54 PM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: Altura Ct.

And another libtard slowly comes to terms with his failed ideologies...


20 posted on 04/17/2012 4:13:23 PM PDT by tickedoffnow (No more...)
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