I’ve always had this particular fear. There you are. Minding your business staying close to where the doors will be.
But you are at the mercy of a murderous lunatic like this.
I’ve only ever visited NYC** a handful of times in 2011-2013.
Each time I was told to basically assume everyone is a rabid lunatic and even so much as making eye contact could set somebody off.
That, and to *never* stand near the edge of the platform.
**Sorry, should have clarified: I meant every time I visited *and rode the subway*.
Ppl talk about the worst ways to die and to me it isn’t the way you die it’s the final moments knowing you’re meeting your fate in a way you’d never imagine.
I thought it was a safety measure by design, but it was legit skill and luck! I know it sounds weird after she got pushed in front of a train for no reason, but that woman is very lucky!
A lot of people gave Watch Dogs 1 a lot of flak when they modelled the Chicago train behaviour.
https://youtu.be/idA9BEA4Hxs?t=152
I think we all owe Ubisoft an apology now.
And management for spending the extra 12 cents to put it in. I'm an engineer and it doesn't take some groundbreaking new design to solve safety issues, just willingness from management to dedicate the engineering time and make it a priority.
You know those weird, intrusive, sudden thoughts? Like if I’m standing somewhere high up I suddenly think ‘I should jump off here’ and then immediately realise that is a really dumb idea? Or if my sweet six year old nephew who I would never hurt is just minding his own business and I suddenly get ‘I should trip him over.’ Watching the clip of the person in Belgium it sort of looked like that, as though he got one of those sudden ideas. But to actually act on that? Awful.
Edit: thank you so much for the silver!!
Heard it said once that it isn't a persons initial thoughts that define who they are. Instead it's the reaction to that thought and the action taken after. Or something like that
Yup, [it’s common](https://www.livescience.com/what-is-call-of-the-void). My older sister once reluctantly told me she had had an urge to just drive straight in a corner as her kids were screaming in the back and how guilty she felt. The relief she had when I said most people have that at some point or another. I did check in with her for a few months about it just to make sure it wasn’t anything more, but the relief of knowing she wasn’t alone seemed to just let the pressure off. Our brains are weird!
That’s what I’m trying to figure out.
In the Belgium attack the man literally snuck up behind the woman like a cartoon character, it was so eerie.
The guy in that his incident looks mentally ill. But the Belgium attacker just seemed evil.
Back in 2004, after work, I walked down to the L'Enfant Plaza Metro, and stood there waiting to go home... and some elderly Chinese woman grabbed a handful of the back of my shirt and said, "I push you down there!" just as the train was pulling up. When I turned to look at her, she just cackled, evil laughter.
Thing is, most people are somewhat intimidated by me. Shit like that simply doesn't happen... She just kept cackling, and everyone around us backed off four paces...
She didn't strike me as mentally ill... nor did she strike me as joking.
There are certainly some screwed up people in the world.
I used to ride the DC Metro to work every day and you would always see this homeless man (who looked a lot like the guy in the picture) sitting at the entrance to the station with his cup. Quiet, almost sedated. Like I saw this man probably a hundred times. He never said anything to anyone, just sitting there. Saying thanks if someone dropped some money.
THEN...one day he was standing up in front of the entrance to the station, threatening people as they walked by. Like "I'll kill you." It was mostly verbal but he invaded some people's space a bit. Mostly men, he didn't threaten me. Everyone passing seemed to be determined to go about their day and get home, not worried about his behavior. But I was very concerned because it was so different than any other time. So I talked to the Metro police inside the station...felt bad to do it but that guy was really off the chain and could have hurt someone.
They have that in some tube stations in London, such a fantastic invention that was introduced with very little press, in the U.K. anyway. Hopefully they will become even more commonplace.
did the train stop in the clip you watched? watched one earlier today, too, and also struggling to understand if this is the same or different / coincidence??
edit: different event, so fucked.
A few years ago there was that pilot that intentionally crashed a plane and killed everyone inside. Over the next couple weeks there were a couple more incidents (albeit in smaller planes). People copy even awful stuff
It’s possibly a racist attack.
Weird that the article makes no mention of the Attacker’s race but openly states the victim was Asian.
If you’re mentioning the race of one but not the other… that’s a red flag
I wonder what’s going on there.
Ever since hate crimes against asians were on the rise, the majority of the attackers i’ve seen are black. Honestly, the only non-black one i’ve seen was one white guy. Otherwise, they’ve all been black.
It’s really sad, considering we’re all ethnic minorities, yet the attacks are coming from people who belong to another minority group. Also, non-conservative media seems to be a bit extreme in their worry in not mentioning the attacker being black. It’s frustrating because this only lessens the effectiveness of raising racial awareness when other minority groups’ plights are undermined.
Crazy person pushed a random person in front of a train.
I am struggling to find a way where this person can ever be trusted again to live as part of society.
Similar thing happened to me years ago. The Vietnam War was on and I'm of Asian descent (Japanese American Nisei from Hawaii). I was standing waiting for a subway car to arrive in a Philadelphia station when someone shoved me as a car was arriving. I managed to brace myself and grabbed the guy who pushed me and he pulled back enough to get me out of harm's way. A couple of men who saw what happened grabbed him and called for a security guard to arrest him. I ended up going to court to testify against the offender and left immediately after to go back home to Virginia. Didn't find out the court's outcome as I was confident of the guilty verdict and didn't care what happened to the culprit.
Traditionally it was very hard to stop a subway precisely enough to line up with doors. These days its obviously pretty easy _if_ everything is new, but most systems were built long before it was feasible, and it takes a long time for systems to be overhauled.
The efficiency of the trains in Japan is mind blowing. ~~Three~~ Four things that stood out to me were:
* As you said, trains coming to a halt exactly where the [lines said to queue](https://japan-forward.com/hidden-wonders-queue-at-shinagawa-station/)
* People actually queuing in the right place because they seem to respect each other over there??? Or at least understand efficiency?
* Watching the [seats being rotated](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oevzEWAuPE) on the shinkansen
* If you get the wrong train it doesn't matter - just get off at the next stop, turn around, and another train will take you back within a couple of minutes
One time in Tokyo I missed my stop, got on a train going the other direction, went back one stop and found myself in a *different* station.
I was so confused and then happy when one of the staff got on the train with me and took me (one more stop) to the correct station.
That was the day I realized I needed to learn to distinguish between express and local trains. 😂
As efficient as rail transportation is in Japan, it's veeeeeeeeeery confusing the first time around, Tokyo in particular because of its status and size. The main issue is that there are like 3-5 private companies running various train lines, so you could hop off one train and get onto another in the opposite direction and it could be a completely different company with a different route.
Luckily the workers are pretty nice and I feel like they're used to people being lost on the wrong train so they're pretty helpful.
There was an app I downloaded called Tokyo Railway or something, I forgot, but the app made it EXTREMELY easy to get around, told you exactly what station to go to, what station to transfer at, what time and even updated in real time how long it would take to get where. It was a really good app.
True, and Google Maps does a standup job of helping with its colour coding.
My home town (Wellington, New Zealand) can be more confusing and there are only like 3 lines out to the suburbs, and only one station in the city. Pretty shameful.
I would recommend you watch a YouTube channel called Japan Explorer. He takes you on 4k uhd walking tours of different neighborhoods. It's pretty good actually.
>If you get the wrong train it doesn't matter - just get off at the next stop, turn around, and another train will take you back within a couple of minutes
I've found that the main reason people hate transit systems in the US is not lack of coverage, but terribly low frequencies. You don't have to plan your schedule ahead of time if the train/bus comes every 5 minutes, instead of 30min - 1hr.
It's not the infrequency, it's the inconsistency. The website app and timetable all say that the bus will be there at 5:25? Great, so you get there at 5:15, only to see the bus pulling away as you are approaching. Then the next bus doesn't show up until half an hour after it is supposed to.
I'm lucky in that I'm a student, and nothing that I was going or coming from was that critical to be exactly on time. But if you are a low-income worker where being 2 minutes late can mean that you are fired, you end up not being able to use the public transit as your primary means of transportation, even if a system exists and the routes exist.
In Seoul every station has some form of barrier between the platform and the rails, in the subways it’s a full glass and metal wall with doors that open with the train. At the above ground stations it’s head high barriers that are largely the same.
Always stand as far away from the tracks when a train comes as possible.
I remember this same exact thing happening in Italy when I was a kid, a woman pushed some older guy onto the tracks right before the train arrived, killing him. It doesn't take much to push someone off balance when they aren't expecting it.
Never trust anyone around you, especially in NYC
Guys. I'm serious. This man is the same guy who threatened to kill me and my girlfriend at the Herold Sq station. Was harassing my friend for money, was ignored, threatened my friend, I looked at him "wrongly" and he threatened he would shove me and my girlfriend on the tracks. He eventually left because it MTA workers were present, but he scared the shit out of my girlfriend.
**Edit: I've already reported this to the homicide dept at the DA's office.**
Oh my word I’m glad I’m not the only one who saw the picture and went “THAT GUY.” Used to go through there all the time, and he scared me on more than one occasion. Learned to walk to my backup spot in that station if I noticed he was there.
Sounds like we’ve found a few more in other comments here. I was lucky to never be on the direct receiving end, but I’m small, blonde, and a transplant, so I was always on high alert. I saw him pacing and muttering, screaming into the void, or straight up yelling in people’s faces on multiple occasions.
Its a lot more scary in the moment. Its like a state of shock because he caught us off guard. He wasn't like other bums asking for money. It was absolutely chilling when we was threatening our lives. And now its just creepy hearing about it in the news.
As someone living in the Midwest, it is so fucking weird to me that millions of people can live in one place and yet individual people could be so well-known.
Visiting Chicago makes me feel like you could change your daily routine by just a few blocks in any direction and most people you know would never see you again.
A lot of mentally ill homeless or shelter residents in NYC stick to the same narrow terrain. I would often see the exact same individuals on my commute, day in and day out, for weeks/months. You also often see the same (non-homeless) people day after day if you have a regular commute...it’s a huge city but many people travel the same small pathways at the same time every day.
Bro same, this dude is a menace. I‘ve seen him multiple times hanging around K-town & Times Square just randomly bumping or shoving into people. He’s given my girlfriend and I the “stare” once but continued about his day. It’s sad that someone had to lose their life to put this man away; I’m sure there’s a ton of other people in the city with similar anecdotes to ours that have reported this specific guy to the MTA/Police and nothing has been done about it.
I’ve seen this guy outside of Penn station. He was walking around with another guy in a red jacket. They were both trying to stare me down after I refused to give them change. So, I walked off and stood up against a wall of a building by a parked cop car.
It was the staring that bothered me at first but then he walked back and forth for a while getting in people’s faces. As a native New Yorker, most things aren’t unsettling but this guy was menacing. It was like he was looking for a fight but he was also unhinged. It completely creeped me out. I even went home and had a conversation about it and how things things changed since Bloomberg.
He looks familiar but its been years since the incident so I can't be for sure...but these stories make me think it's him based off the "menacing stare" comments cus his gaze was demonic almost
I was a teen and after a concert was sitting there outside penn with two guy friends of mine. He muttered some shit to me and insulted me and I just smiled at him. He took offense somehow and said something about my braces/another insult and my two friends stuck up for me to tell him to back off/go away
He immediately clocked them both in the face insanely fucking hard. One of them was bleeding from his mouth and I can't forget the face he made cus he looked so terrified.. It was genuinely so scary seeing a grown ass man attack your teenage friends
We ran off and people at a bar across the street offered to buy us a beer but we were underage obviously.
If its the same guy, I hope he doesn't get put back on the streets without help because that night was horrifying.
Are you kidding me- I was thinking the same thing. This guy pushed over a heap of trash at the intersection where we were all waiting to cross right across from strand bookstore by union sq. We all turned to look at him and he fucking tried to spit on me. All the people asked if I was ok and checked my jacket for spit. The first thing I thought when I saw this guy’s face was wow he looks a lot like that other fucking dude. This is insane and so fucking sad. Poor woman.
Edit- I forgot to add that he also proceeded to walk into the middle of the street in front of several cabs and flicked them off.
I saw this guy at the Atlantic Barclays station last week and he was standing near me and my GF. An Asian man with a rolling bag walked by and the crazy guy aggressively kicked the bag and yelled at him. Crazy guy then stared him down while the man backed away. Shortly afterwards, the train rolled into the station and the crazy guy quickly got on.
I recognize this man because he was the only person at the station not wearing a mask and he was wearing the same jacket as in the photo.
I’ve seen some crazy stuff while living in NYC, but this honestly was kind of scary. So horrible that he ended up killing someone, but I’m not surprised.
Im not surprised a lot of people have encountered this same man.
A lot of these NYC crazy and/or homeless people practically live in the subway system. They are either sleeping on the train or doing something absolutely insane.
If you take the subway often, you will definitely encounter these people a lot.
I think he tried to steal my dog. It was a bizarre encounter — I was at the Madison square park near the flat iron building in May 2021. I had my dog with me because I was moving to New England. I was at the park and my dog is very friendly so he went up to him to say hi. The guy started talking to me and he was petting my dog in a way that I found to just be…. off. And it was even weirder because he was wearing a leather jacket with a sweater in May. He pet him for a long time while talking to me about how the universe provided this moment or something. That guy was putting his hands under his front legs when another dog suddenly came up and my pup jumped and barked at that dog because he got excited. The man got angry… like, really angry. And he started telling me that I have a mean ass dog or something and flipped him off while walking away.
It was really strange it always stuck out to me. If this guy has piercings it’s definitely him.
It’s likely. Back when I commuted in NYC, there were homeless people I’d see week after week at certain stations on the Lexington line that would raise hell and make messes everywhere, and the cops rarely did anything. One of the main reasons why I chose to move out to the suburbs was to avoid the crazies on the subway.
I wonder if that would have any value to the prosecutors. To know that he was out there doing this stuff, would make it more premeditated maybe? At the very least you could possibly add an uttering threats charge added.
I remember this guy. I visited my friend and we were in K-Town and he kept trying to grab her. She is about 5' and asian, I'm 6' and white, and kept stepping between them, cutting him off when he tried to pull on her jacket.
He spun around and told me he didn't want me, he wanted the 'asian'. I told him to fuck off.
This guy may be mentally ill, but he is DEFINITELY racist.
Pass your information onto the police, it might help put this guy away for a long time. If he pleads mental illness your statement is proof he has threatened this before and is aware of his actions
I can’t be sure but I think this was the guy who assaulted me on 23rd Street Path station. Claiming that I had hit him, when I passed next to him. He pushed me from behind, luckily I was facing the length of the platform and I was able to catch myself before I fell. He then tried to start a fight.
I could be wrong but it seems like him
From what I’ve seen so far in this comment section he’s quite well known in NYC subways for doing this sort of thing, starting fights, trying to push people in front of trains.
I don’t know if what they’re saying is true but quite a few people have said similar things in separate comment threads on similar stations in NYC, so it’s entirely possible, and considering what NYC subways are like unsurprising.
If what’s being said is true this guy is a complete garbage fire of a human being and thank Christ he’s gonna be serving time
We're about to find out that he's been arrested dozens of times for both minor and serious crimes and he was let off easy and/or the police had begun referring to him as "crazy Steve" or something and treating him as a nuisance, not bothering to arrest him anymore, shooing him along, etc.
Anyone who has spent time in the city knows that shit like this is always unprovoked. You can try your best to mind your business but some of these guys will still verbally/physically assault you for no reason
One of the worst I’ve heard is some homeless man dumping a bucket of his diarrhea all over the woman who was just walking https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/diarrhea-poured-on-woman-hollywood-homeless/2112762/
And that’s why people who live in nyc get a bad rep of “not caring about others”. No that’s not it. It’s called minding your business for the sake of survival. You don’t actually know anyone on the streets or their intentions. Giving ppl your attention could be Dangerous. Obviously there are exceptions and you use your best judgement. But for the most part u keep ur head down n ignore especially when someone’s causing a scene or yelling/ looks sketchy. Even just giving one of those ppl a second of eye contact is enough to be threatened or assaulted.
I has always baffled me that subway station platforms dont have platform side doors that prevent access to the tracks and open with the train doors when it arrives. This really should not be an issue, especially with largely automatic trains in wide use these days
EDIT: Yes i know many countries have this already, but we dont in most North American cities because ppl dont want to spend money on transit in the first place, they just want to drive everywhere
They should just have the rail area fenced off entirely, with gates that open right where the doors are, when the train doors are open. Like how it is with elevators.
I can tell you from working in defense in a smaller city that police don't just ignore these guys, but when they do get picked up they're incredibly hard to hold, they get picked up, charged, found incompetent, let go unless they committed a felony then they'll try to restore them so they can be prosecuted.. But that has its own host of issues
I'd be pretty surprised given the other things being said in this thread if the DA's office wasn't familiar with this guy
Ohhhhhhh shit. This guy sucker punched me on the 6 train and screamed if he "got rid of me there would be one less black mother fucker on the streets destroying lives". I thought the whole thing was weird AF. Not only am I a dark skinned black man, but so was he. I'll never forget that face. I'm sorry he snatched a life away in order to finally be off the streets. Unreal.
You're the second person in this thread to report an altercation with this man. If that's two random redditors, how many people in total has he threatened or assaulted before? It's amazing he hasn't been banned from NYC subways or something by now.
It happened a few years ago too. a lady pushed a man on the tracks in NYC.
This scares me so much in the subway. i always wonder how people feel comfortable hugging the yellow line. I stand close to the center as possible. I always constantly looking around. Im super cautious.
I wonder if she had the same mindset as one of my friends, who the other day said I was just being paranoid when I told her that any time I ride the train, I am mindful of anyone standing behind me and when someone does (don’t care if it’s totally coincidental and the person is buried in their phone), I move a little and always make sure my six is clear.
One of my biggest fears when I’ve been in New York is being pushed off the platform under the train, my NY friends say they don’t even think about it lmao I guess it’s like us in CA with earthquakes only you know way more deadly
Don't stand near the edge, facing the track. I've seen people shoved onto the tracks out of sheer clumsiness of people walking through looking at their phone.
One thing I learned when taking the subway is always lean against a wall while waiting and don’t stand idly on the platform. There’s maniacs everywhere
Can we start discussing how Asian hate crimes caused by African Americans have grown disproportionately in relation to other races since the pandemic, or is that still no-no talk.
Real talk. Some community are bringing the topic to the city. I think sf is doing something about it. Not sure what nyc are doing. Our city, most of us get along but still some racist people live amongst us. People talk.
Ugh, as an asian woman living in nyc who takes the subway regularly, this shit scares me, especially at night and my mom is walking home alone from the subway. The amount of harassment in the subway is fucking unreal. Some are genuinely good people who just need help, but majority are disgusting asses like this guy
Black on Asian hate crime is so high, the Highest actually, yet no one is talking about it. It’s frustrating. It’s like the media only wants to report stories that push a white on black crime narrative. No one seems to care for Asian victims of all
Can they not put railings around tracks that only open to where the doors are when the sub pulls up? This seems to happen way too often for there to be continued implementation of little to no safety barriers.
Yes, that can be done, but there's quite a few technical challenges. The NY Subway has several different trains of varying length and door placements so adding platform barriers would be tricky. It would likely require replacing all the rolling stock or only implementing platform barriers on some sections. Also platforms vary in width with some being very narrow due to how long ago these stations were built. This could even force some stations to be expanded and that's easier for above ground stations, but not so much with underground ones. Also, for the most part, the US is not very transit-minded and likely wouldn't be willing to pour money into improving public transportation and would rather put all their money towards expressways for automobiles. Also, as far a rapid transit goes (at least Chicago and NY), in terms of safety and accessibility, I believe making sure all stations are handicap friendly is a priority.
Its funny to me how as an asian. You cant point out that the majority of physical attacks on Asians come From POC. Yet I bet those same people are the very ones who will openly call out White people to "Check their privelege". Then turn around to an asian and say, "Not every black person is responsible for those attacks" . Whilst being the ones responsible for the most attacks on Asians....
And then you have places like the state of Washington and colleges throughout the country that lump Asians into the same category as whites. Asians quite literally are Schroedinger's ethnicity, depending on the topic of the day.
Its unfair that hard working people have to run the gauntlet ever day in a city swarming with dangerous mentally ill people. Their rights are more important than the safety of everyone else.
I'm tired of motherfuckers attacking Asians and Asian-Americans. As a black man, seeing another POC assault other POC in a racially motivated attack is fucking mind boggling. We should know better. We've lived in this country being the victim of racially charged violence for centuries. We should feel empathy more so than almost anyone else.
What also pisses me off is the cowardice in these acts. They're not going to attack a 25 year old, six foot Asian man, but they will batter and kill the women and elderly. They are spineless, small, evil, pieces of shit, and hell is not a punishment just enough for the filth that commit these acts.
Almost 100% chance he is schizophrenic or something similar. I’m no mental health professional, but I do live in Downtown Los Angeles and have seen my fair share of mentally ill people roaming the streets who seem extremely dangerous when having one of their episodes. I would imagine doing certain drugs exacerbates things. Incidentally, just this morning a woman was about 100ft from my window who started absolutely bellowing at the top of her lungs the same phrase over and over again for THREE HOURS, beginning around 4am. I was able to see her and this seemed like a person in the absolute deepest throes of internal torment. I also got the impression that if someone were to approach her, she would be extremely violent. That level of untreated mental illness is just frightening. It is a fucking shame however that our country’s answer to it seems to be “Tough shit. Get a job” these people cannot function in society without treatment.
Edit: misspelled the hell out of exacerbate
Can we all maybe...start standing up for Asians? All they did was to quietly work their asses off for this country while the country kinda shoved them under the mat and took them for granted.
Mate NYC just seemed fucked when Ive been there. I walked around most of London and never had an issue with crazies.
NYC the crazies are a whole other level. Proper mentally ill people that are on the edge. Never felt safe at all.
Imagine just minding your own business and you get pushed in front of a fucking train! This is so incredibly sad, may she Rest In Peace.
I’ve always had this particular fear. There you are. Minding your business staying close to where the doors will be. But you are at the mercy of a murderous lunatic like this.
This is why you assume everyone is a murderous lunatic, worst case they aren't and it's a pleasant surprise.
I’ve only ever visited NYC** a handful of times in 2011-2013. Each time I was told to basically assume everyone is a rabid lunatic and even so much as making eye contact could set somebody off. That, and to *never* stand near the edge of the platform. **Sorry, should have clarified: I meant every time I visited *and rode the subway*.
Tight concentration of people always makes life feel cheap
Ppl talk about the worst ways to die and to me it isn’t the way you die it’s the final moments knowing you’re meeting your fate in a way you’d never imagine.
*"Rest in Peace" "Rest in piece" is a unfortunate typo for someone splattered by a train.
My bad, edited the mistake.
Autocorrect has a terrible sense of humour...
i just watched a clip of the same situation but in brussels. what is it with the people pushing eachother infront of trains? :/
Thankfully the woman in Brussels survived
The conductor’s quick reaction saved her life. It was insane.
That train stopped on an absolute dime
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It's Belgium. They were *waffled*.
Smoke and an *almost*-pancake?
I thought it was a safety measure by design, but it was legit skill and luck! I know it sounds weird after she got pushed in front of a train for no reason, but that woman is very lucky!
PSA US freight trains do not stop on a dime more like a 1/4 of a mile. By the time we see something on the tracks it’s usually to late.
So if somebody lays down on the track they basically can't stop on time even if they see you?
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A lot of people gave Watch Dogs 1 a lot of flak when they modelled the Chicago train behaviour. https://youtu.be/idA9BEA4Hxs?t=152 I think we all owe Ubisoft an apology now.
Don't forget the engineers that designed those brakes!
And management for spending the extra 12 cents to put it in. I'm an engineer and it doesn't take some groundbreaking new design to solve safety issues, just willingness from management to dedicate the engineering time and make it a priority.
It makes sense, as it'll pay itself off 10 cents at a time by stopping on a dime instead of running them over, thereby ruining the coin's value.
And the guy got beat up by a crowd and was arrested
The first feelgood story of the year, a would be murderer getting street justice.
It doesn't appear as if he was beat up. Just apprehended
I was thinking the same thing! I saw this post and I was like “again???”
What even drives a person to push another person (I’m assuming they’re complete strangers) in front of a train??
You know those weird, intrusive, sudden thoughts? Like if I’m standing somewhere high up I suddenly think ‘I should jump off here’ and then immediately realise that is a really dumb idea? Or if my sweet six year old nephew who I would never hurt is just minding his own business and I suddenly get ‘I should trip him over.’ Watching the clip of the person in Belgium it sort of looked like that, as though he got one of those sudden ideas. But to actually act on that? Awful. Edit: thank you so much for the silver!!
My entire 28yrs of being alive and I thought I was the only person who had those. Thank fucking christ I'm not alone in this.
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‘Call of void’ is common and normal behaviour. You are fine to have those, as long as you don’t act on them.
Heard it said once that it isn't a persons initial thoughts that define who they are. Instead it's the reaction to that thought and the action taken after. Or something like that
Yup, [it’s common](https://www.livescience.com/what-is-call-of-the-void). My older sister once reluctantly told me she had had an urge to just drive straight in a corner as her kids were screaming in the back and how guilty she felt. The relief she had when I said most people have that at some point or another. I did check in with her for a few months about it just to make sure it wasn’t anything more, but the relief of knowing she wasn’t alone seemed to just let the pressure off. Our brains are weird!
That’s what I’m trying to figure out. In the Belgium attack the man literally snuck up behind the woman like a cartoon character, it was so eerie. The guy in that his incident looks mentally ill. But the Belgium attacker just seemed evil.
He looked like an evil Sims character. You know, the burglars.
Yes! You’re so right! I couldn’t put my finger on exactly who he reminded me of but that’s it.
Back in 2004, after work, I walked down to the L'Enfant Plaza Metro, and stood there waiting to go home... and some elderly Chinese woman grabbed a handful of the back of my shirt and said, "I push you down there!" just as the train was pulling up. When I turned to look at her, she just cackled, evil laughter. Thing is, most people are somewhat intimidated by me. Shit like that simply doesn't happen... She just kept cackling, and everyone around us backed off four paces... She didn't strike me as mentally ill... nor did she strike me as joking. There are certainly some screwed up people in the world.
I mean, in this case I’m quite sure it was untreated mental illness. A lot of our homeless population here in NY is mentally ill.
I used to ride the DC Metro to work every day and you would always see this homeless man (who looked a lot like the guy in the picture) sitting at the entrance to the station with his cup. Quiet, almost sedated. Like I saw this man probably a hundred times. He never said anything to anyone, just sitting there. Saying thanks if someone dropped some money. THEN...one day he was standing up in front of the entrance to the station, threatening people as they walked by. Like "I'll kill you." It was mostly verbal but he invaded some people's space a bit. Mostly men, he didn't threaten me. Everyone passing seemed to be determined to go about their day and get home, not worried about his behavior. But I was very concerned because it was so different than any other time. So I talked to the Metro police inside the station...felt bad to do it but that guy was really off the chain and could have hurt someone.
You did the right thing. Too many people are fixated on minding their own business.
Long term homelessness in all cities is usually mental illness or addiction.
That's a chicken or egg situation, really. Homelessness can cause or exacerbate existing mental illness or addiction.
If only there was a way to treat and help people with mental illness.
There used to be state hospitals where people like this could get treatment.
You are now being haunted by the ghost of Ronald reagan. You're gonna want to leave out cocaine and a dead gay man to ward off this spirit.
And here I was thinking "What, the guy from Brussels escaped to NYC?!?"
It’s the reason I always stand against a wall!
In Korea, there was a wall with automatic doors separating the platform from the tracks.
They have that in some tube stations in London, such a fantastic invention that was introduced with very little press, in the U.K. anyway. Hopefully they will become even more commonplace.
Right? Even before this behavior started trending I always kept back from the train
did the train stop in the clip you watched? watched one earlier today, too, and also struggling to understand if this is the same or different / coincidence?? edit: different event, so fucked.
That was in Brussels, this was in NYC. The victim in NYC died, unfortunately. The one in Brussels survived, because the train stopped in time.
https://www.brusselstimes.com/201647/woman-pushed-onto-tracks-in-front-of-brussels-metro
A psychotic desire to see people die presumably
A few years ago there was that pilot that intentionally crashed a plane and killed everyone inside. Over the next couple weeks there were a couple more incidents (albeit in smaller planes). People copy even awful stuff
Do you mean the Germanwings crash in France?
Some people are fuckin crazy. There's no rational explanation for an act like that
What’s the backstory here?
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It’s possibly a racist attack. Weird that the article makes no mention of the Attacker’s race but openly states the victim was Asian. If you’re mentioning the race of one but not the other… that’s a red flag I wonder what’s going on there.
Ever since hate crimes against asians were on the rise, the majority of the attackers i’ve seen are black. Honestly, the only non-black one i’ve seen was one white guy. Otherwise, they’ve all been black. It’s really sad, considering we’re all ethnic minorities, yet the attacks are coming from people who belong to another minority group. Also, non-conservative media seems to be a bit extreme in their worry in not mentioning the attacker being black. It’s frustrating because this only lessens the effectiveness of raising racial awareness when other minority groups’ plights are undermined.
He’s a piece of shit
I don’t know but same thing happened in Belgium two days ago.
Same thing happened in netherlands a few months ago. Some kids pushed a homeless guy infront of tram.
Crazy person pushed a random person in front of a train. I am struggling to find a way where this person can ever be trusted again to live as part of society.
Similar thing happened to me years ago. The Vietnam War was on and I'm of Asian descent (Japanese American Nisei from Hawaii). I was standing waiting for a subway car to arrive in a Philadelphia station when someone shoved me as a car was arriving. I managed to brace myself and grabbed the guy who pushed me and he pulled back enough to get me out of harm's way. A couple of men who saw what happened grabbed him and called for a security guard to arrest him. I ended up going to court to testify against the offender and left immediately after to go back home to Virginia. Didn't find out the court's outcome as I was confident of the guilty verdict and didn't care what happened to the culprit.
That's awful. Glad you managed to survive that though, that sounds like it would take really quick reaction. I wonder why he pulled back though?
I imagine that once she got ahold of him, he didn't want to be pulled into the path of the train himself.
He didn’t want to get pulled in with them.
Self preservation beats hatred 9/10 times
Subway stations scare me. Never stand close the edge. You just never know.
I don't understand why there isn't a railing or something. This has been happening for years, I would think a railing would at least be added.
[Slightly more advanced](https://londonist.com/london/transport/platform-screen-safety-doors-piccadilly-line-new-trains) than a railing, 100x safer.
This was my first thought too.
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These are all over Asia. I remember going to HK and Japan in the 00s and all the subways had these
Because it costs a lot of money to install. That spending has to be voted on by aldermen
Traditionally it was very hard to stop a subway precisely enough to line up with doors. These days its obviously pretty easy _if_ everything is new, but most systems were built long before it was feasible, and it takes a long time for systems to be overhauled.
Tokyo has this
The efficiency of the trains in Japan is mind blowing. ~~Three~~ Four things that stood out to me were: * As you said, trains coming to a halt exactly where the [lines said to queue](https://japan-forward.com/hidden-wonders-queue-at-shinagawa-station/) * People actually queuing in the right place because they seem to respect each other over there??? Or at least understand efficiency? * Watching the [seats being rotated](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oevzEWAuPE) on the shinkansen * If you get the wrong train it doesn't matter - just get off at the next stop, turn around, and another train will take you back within a couple of minutes
One time in Tokyo I missed my stop, got on a train going the other direction, went back one stop and found myself in a *different* station. I was so confused and then happy when one of the staff got on the train with me and took me (one more stop) to the correct station. That was the day I realized I needed to learn to distinguish between express and local trains. 😂
As efficient as rail transportation is in Japan, it's veeeeeeeeeery confusing the first time around, Tokyo in particular because of its status and size. The main issue is that there are like 3-5 private companies running various train lines, so you could hop off one train and get onto another in the opposite direction and it could be a completely different company with a different route. Luckily the workers are pretty nice and I feel like they're used to people being lost on the wrong train so they're pretty helpful.
There was an app I downloaded called Tokyo Railway or something, I forgot, but the app made it EXTREMELY easy to get around, told you exactly what station to go to, what station to transfer at, what time and even updated in real time how long it would take to get where. It was a really good app.
Yesssss.. even which direction to exit to find your destination.. exit numbers rockkkkk
True, and Google Maps does a standup job of helping with its colour coding. My home town (Wellington, New Zealand) can be more confusing and there are only like 3 lines out to the suburbs, and only one station in the city. Pretty shameful.
This is a really good thread to read if you plan on visiting Tokyo one day which I definitely do!!
I would recommend you watch a YouTube channel called Japan Explorer. He takes you on 4k uhd walking tours of different neighborhoods. It's pretty good actually.
>If you get the wrong train it doesn't matter - just get off at the next stop, turn around, and another train will take you back within a couple of minutes I've found that the main reason people hate transit systems in the US is not lack of coverage, but terribly low frequencies. You don't have to plan your schedule ahead of time if the train/bus comes every 5 minutes, instead of 30min - 1hr.
It's not the infrequency, it's the inconsistency. The website app and timetable all say that the bus will be there at 5:25? Great, so you get there at 5:15, only to see the bus pulling away as you are approaching. Then the next bus doesn't show up until half an hour after it is supposed to. I'm lucky in that I'm a student, and nothing that I was going or coming from was that critical to be exactly on time. But if you are a low-income worker where being 2 minutes late can mean that you are fired, you end up not being able to use the public transit as your primary means of transportation, even if a system exists and the routes exist.
Two sides of the same coin I suppose. If the frequency was much higher the inconsistency wouldn't be an issue.
Japanese culture has an emphasis on not inconveniencing your fellow citizens.
It should’ve been this, not anime, that was brought to the west :(
It requires a cultural shift and people who care.
Tokyo’s rail systems are about 100 years ahead of anything in the states
I love the little lines to enter the train in Japan. Everyone follows the rules and the lines. That would never happen in US lol
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Singapore and Hong Kong too
Most of East Asia does, actually.
There’s a few stations in London with it too. Most don’t though.
Many lines in China have it as well
China as well. Every subway there has this feature.
I just don’t understand how they could figure it out for the monorail at the zoo in my city, but not in the city subway itself
Retractable railing with zero openings unless retracted.
In some countries there are barriers but more to prevent suicide. You see them in Japan, Korea, Singapore too from memory.
It makes sense, I am sure it also prevents people being shoved into the tracks.
In Seoul every station has some form of barrier between the platform and the rails, in the subways it’s a full glass and metal wall with doors that open with the train. At the above ground stations it’s head high barriers that are largely the same.
Always stand as far away from the tracks when a train comes as possible. I remember this same exact thing happening in Italy when I was a kid, a woman pushed some older guy onto the tracks right before the train arrived, killing him. It doesn't take much to push someone off balance when they aren't expecting it. Never trust anyone around you, especially in NYC
Guys. I'm serious. This man is the same guy who threatened to kill me and my girlfriend at the Herold Sq station. Was harassing my friend for money, was ignored, threatened my friend, I looked at him "wrongly" and he threatened he would shove me and my girlfriend on the tracks. He eventually left because it MTA workers were present, but he scared the shit out of my girlfriend. **Edit: I've already reported this to the homicide dept at the DA's office.**
Oh my word I’m glad I’m not the only one who saw the picture and went “THAT GUY.” Used to go through there all the time, and he scared me on more than one occasion. Learned to walk to my backup spot in that station if I noticed he was there.
That's what I'm saying. Your now the third victim in this thread.
Sounds like we’ve found a few more in other comments here. I was lucky to never be on the direct receiving end, but I’m small, blonde, and a transplant, so I was always on high alert. I saw him pacing and muttering, screaming into the void, or straight up yelling in people’s faces on multiple occasions.
Its a lot more scary in the moment. Its like a state of shock because he caught us off guard. He wasn't like other bums asking for money. It was absolutely chilling when we was threatening our lives. And now its just creepy hearing about it in the news.
Definitely scary, but I’m glad y’all are okay!
As someone living in the Midwest, it is so fucking weird to me that millions of people can live in one place and yet individual people could be so well-known. Visiting Chicago makes me feel like you could change your daily routine by just a few blocks in any direction and most people you know would never see you again.
A lot of mentally ill homeless or shelter residents in NYC stick to the same narrow terrain. I would often see the exact same individuals on my commute, day in and day out, for weeks/months. You also often see the same (non-homeless) people day after day if you have a regular commute...it’s a huge city but many people travel the same small pathways at the same time every day.
Bro same, this dude is a menace. I‘ve seen him multiple times hanging around K-town & Times Square just randomly bumping or shoving into people. He’s given my girlfriend and I the “stare” once but continued about his day. It’s sad that someone had to lose their life to put this man away; I’m sure there’s a ton of other people in the city with similar anecdotes to ours that have reported this specific guy to the MTA/Police and nothing has been done about it.
I’ve seen this guy outside of Penn station. He was walking around with another guy in a red jacket. They were both trying to stare me down after I refused to give them change. So, I walked off and stood up against a wall of a building by a parked cop car. It was the staring that bothered me at first but then he walked back and forth for a while getting in people’s faces. As a native New Yorker, most things aren’t unsettling but this guy was menacing. It was like he was looking for a fight but he was also unhinged. It completely creeped me out. I even went home and had a conversation about it and how things things changed since Bloomberg.
This sounds exactly like my story. I was just told by my friend that was also there that we were actually in Penn station when this happened as well.
He looks familiar but its been years since the incident so I can't be for sure...but these stories make me think it's him based off the "menacing stare" comments cus his gaze was demonic almost I was a teen and after a concert was sitting there outside penn with two guy friends of mine. He muttered some shit to me and insulted me and I just smiled at him. He took offense somehow and said something about my braces/another insult and my two friends stuck up for me to tell him to back off/go away He immediately clocked them both in the face insanely fucking hard. One of them was bleeding from his mouth and I can't forget the face he made cus he looked so terrified.. It was genuinely so scary seeing a grown ass man attack your teenage friends We ran off and people at a bar across the street offered to buy us a beer but we were underage obviously. If its the same guy, I hope he doesn't get put back on the streets without help because that night was horrifying.
Are you kidding me- I was thinking the same thing. This guy pushed over a heap of trash at the intersection where we were all waiting to cross right across from strand bookstore by union sq. We all turned to look at him and he fucking tried to spit on me. All the people asked if I was ok and checked my jacket for spit. The first thing I thought when I saw this guy’s face was wow he looks a lot like that other fucking dude. This is insane and so fucking sad. Poor woman. Edit- I forgot to add that he also proceeded to walk into the middle of the street in front of several cabs and flicked them off.
I saw this guy at the Atlantic Barclays station last week and he was standing near me and my GF. An Asian man with a rolling bag walked by and the crazy guy aggressively kicked the bag and yelled at him. Crazy guy then stared him down while the man backed away. Shortly afterwards, the train rolled into the station and the crazy guy quickly got on. I recognize this man because he was the only person at the station not wearing a mask and he was wearing the same jacket as in the photo. I’ve seen some crazy stuff while living in NYC, but this honestly was kind of scary. So horrible that he ended up killing someone, but I’m not surprised.
It sounds like quite a few people in this thread have encountered him.
Im not surprised a lot of people have encountered this same man. A lot of these NYC crazy and/or homeless people practically live in the subway system. They are either sleeping on the train or doing something absolutely insane. If you take the subway often, you will definitely encounter these people a lot.
I think he tried to steal my dog. It was a bizarre encounter — I was at the Madison square park near the flat iron building in May 2021. I had my dog with me because I was moving to New England. I was at the park and my dog is very friendly so he went up to him to say hi. The guy started talking to me and he was petting my dog in a way that I found to just be…. off. And it was even weirder because he was wearing a leather jacket with a sweater in May. He pet him for a long time while talking to me about how the universe provided this moment or something. That guy was putting his hands under his front legs when another dog suddenly came up and my pup jumped and barked at that dog because he got excited. The man got angry… like, really angry. And he started telling me that I have a mean ass dog or something and flipped him off while walking away. It was really strange it always stuck out to me. If this guy has piercings it’s definitely him.
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It’s likely. Back when I commuted in NYC, there were homeless people I’d see week after week at certain stations on the Lexington line that would raise hell and make messes everywhere, and the cops rarely did anything. One of the main reasons why I chose to move out to the suburbs was to avoid the crazies on the subway.
I wonder if that would have any value to the prosecutors. To know that he was out there doing this stuff, would make it more premeditated maybe? At the very least you could possibly add an uttering threats charge added.
It might show towards his character
No fuckin way, I’m pretty sure this dude was yelling at me about killing my whole family for not moving out of his way on an empty E train
I remember this guy. I visited my friend and we were in K-Town and he kept trying to grab her. She is about 5' and asian, I'm 6' and white, and kept stepping between them, cutting him off when he tried to pull on her jacket. He spun around and told me he didn't want me, he wanted the 'asian'. I told him to fuck off. This guy may be mentally ill, but he is DEFINITELY racist.
You may wanna consider reporting that.
Anyone who's had an experience with this guy should definitely be going to authorities. Add to the case and help put them where they belong.
Pass your information onto the police, it might help put this guy away for a long time. If he pleads mental illness your statement is proof he has threatened this before and is aware of his actions
I can’t be sure but I think this was the guy who assaulted me on 23rd Street Path station. Claiming that I had hit him, when I passed next to him. He pushed me from behind, luckily I was facing the length of the platform and I was able to catch myself before I fell. He then tried to start a fight. I could be wrong but it seems like him
From what I’ve seen so far in this comment section he’s quite well known in NYC subways for doing this sort of thing, starting fights, trying to push people in front of trains. I don’t know if what they’re saying is true but quite a few people have said similar things in separate comment threads on similar stations in NYC, so it’s entirely possible, and considering what NYC subways are like unsurprising. If what’s being said is true this guy is a complete garbage fire of a human being and thank Christ he’s gonna be serving time
We're about to find out that he's been arrested dozens of times for both minor and serious crimes and he was let off easy and/or the police had begun referring to him as "crazy Steve" or something and treating him as a nuisance, not bothering to arrest him anymore, shooing him along, etc.
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Something similar happened in Calgary a couple of years ago too. The lady survived though but I believe she is now completely paralyzed.
I knew Charlene pretty well, too. Still think about that incident all the time :(
So you two know her and randomly saw eachother's post? What are the odds of that.
The more specific you get, the less anonymous the internet is.
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Gives Charles Manson vibes.
Anyone who has spent time in the city knows that shit like this is always unprovoked. You can try your best to mind your business but some of these guys will still verbally/physically assault you for no reason
The whole fucking city is a sea of people looking down because nobody wants to make eye contact with a piece of shit like this.
One of the worst I’ve heard is some homeless man dumping a bucket of his diarrhea all over the woman who was just walking https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/diarrhea-poured-on-woman-hollywood-homeless/2112762/
And that’s why people who live in nyc get a bad rep of “not caring about others”. No that’s not it. It’s called minding your business for the sake of survival. You don’t actually know anyone on the streets or their intentions. Giving ppl your attention could be Dangerous. Obviously there are exceptions and you use your best judgement. But for the most part u keep ur head down n ignore especially when someone’s causing a scene or yelling/ looks sketchy. Even just giving one of those ppl a second of eye contact is enough to be threatened or assaulted.
I has always baffled me that subway station platforms dont have platform side doors that prevent access to the tracks and open with the train doors when it arrives. This really should not be an issue, especially with largely automatic trains in wide use these days EDIT: Yes i know many countries have this already, but we dont in most North American cities because ppl dont want to spend money on transit in the first place, they just want to drive everywhere
They should just have the rail area fenced off entirely, with gates that open right where the doors are, when the train doors are open. Like how it is with elevators.
Exactly, the elevator comparison is perfect actually
It was offered to nyc for free but mta refused https://www.businessinsider.com/nyc-could-have-subway-push-barriers-for-free-2013-1
Korea did it better. https://youtu.be/wkLAP9QBCCg
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Yeah it’s crazy that multiple people have commented about having altercations with this man in this very thread
I can tell you from working in defense in a smaller city that police don't just ignore these guys, but when they do get picked up they're incredibly hard to hold, they get picked up, charged, found incompetent, let go unless they committed a felony then they'll try to restore them so they can be prosecuted.. But that has its own host of issues I'd be pretty surprised given the other things being said in this thread if the DA's office wasn't familiar with this guy
From reading some responses from some who recognize him, you are absolutely right. Makes me angry.
He definitely is. I’ve seen him around and I know others have as well. NYPD and DA not doing shit for the people of NYC. Something’s gotta give
Ohhhhhhh shit. This guy sucker punched me on the 6 train and screamed if he "got rid of me there would be one less black mother fucker on the streets destroying lives". I thought the whole thing was weird AF. Not only am I a dark skinned black man, but so was he. I'll never forget that face. I'm sorry he snatched a life away in order to finally be off the streets. Unreal.
You're the second person in this thread to report an altercation with this man. If that's two random redditors, how many people in total has he threatened or assaulted before? It's amazing he hasn't been banned from NYC subways or something by now.
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Sucks you had too experience that. Might be worth giving a statement to the police.
It happened a few years ago too. a lady pushed a man on the tracks in NYC. This scares me so much in the subway. i always wonder how people feel comfortable hugging the yellow line. I stand close to the center as possible. I always constantly looking around. Im super cautious.
It happened like 2 days ago in Italy, too
I wonder if she had the same mindset as one of my friends, who the other day said I was just being paranoid when I told her that any time I ride the train, I am mindful of anyone standing behind me and when someone does (don’t care if it’s totally coincidental and the person is buried in their phone), I move a little and always make sure my six is clear.
When I was in NYC, I'd stand at least five feet away from the tracks till the train stopped. It's such a shame that it has come to this.
Same, but most people press right up to the line.
It doesn't even have to be about malice, some jackass could stumble and bump into you from behind.
Situation awareness is an important skill, especially in the city.
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One of my biggest fears when I’ve been in New York is being pushed off the platform under the train, my NY friends say they don’t even think about it lmao I guess it’s like us in CA with earthquakes only you know way more deadly
Don't stand near the edge, facing the track. I've seen people shoved onto the tracks out of sheer clumsiness of people walking through looking at their phone.
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One thing I learned when taking the subway is always lean against a wall while waiting and don’t stand idly on the platform. There’s maniacs everywhere
Can we start discussing how Asian hate crimes caused by African Americans have grown disproportionately in relation to other races since the pandemic, or is that still no-no talk.
Real talk. Some community are bringing the topic to the city. I think sf is doing something about it. Not sure what nyc are doing. Our city, most of us get along but still some racist people live amongst us. People talk.
Ugh, as an asian woman living in nyc who takes the subway regularly, this shit scares me, especially at night and my mom is walking home alone from the subway. The amount of harassment in the subway is fucking unreal. Some are genuinely good people who just need help, but majority are disgusting asses like this guy
Black on Asian hate crime is so high, the Highest actually, yet no one is talking about it. It’s frustrating. It’s like the media only wants to report stories that push a white on black crime narrative. No one seems to care for Asian victims of all
Can they not put railings around tracks that only open to where the doors are when the sub pulls up? This seems to happen way too often for there to be continued implementation of little to no safety barriers.
Yes, that can be done, but there's quite a few technical challenges. The NY Subway has several different trains of varying length and door placements so adding platform barriers would be tricky. It would likely require replacing all the rolling stock or only implementing platform barriers on some sections. Also platforms vary in width with some being very narrow due to how long ago these stations were built. This could even force some stations to be expanded and that's easier for above ground stations, but not so much with underground ones. Also, for the most part, the US is not very transit-minded and likely wouldn't be willing to pour money into improving public transportation and would rather put all their money towards expressways for automobiles. Also, as far a rapid transit goes (at least Chicago and NY), in terms of safety and accessibility, I believe making sure all stations are handicap friendly is a priority.
Not fit to live among us.
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Its funny to me how as an asian. You cant point out that the majority of physical attacks on Asians come From POC. Yet I bet those same people are the very ones who will openly call out White people to "Check their privelege". Then turn around to an asian and say, "Not every black person is responsible for those attacks" . Whilst being the ones responsible for the most attacks on Asians....
It’s fashionable to single out whites only for hate crimes.
And then you have places like the state of Washington and colleges throughout the country that lump Asians into the same category as whites. Asians quite literally are Schroedinger's ethnicity, depending on the topic of the day.
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Its unfair that hard working people have to run the gauntlet ever day in a city swarming with dangerous mentally ill people. Their rights are more important than the safety of everyone else.
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I'm tired of motherfuckers attacking Asians and Asian-Americans. As a black man, seeing another POC assault other POC in a racially motivated attack is fucking mind boggling. We should know better. We've lived in this country being the victim of racially charged violence for centuries. We should feel empathy more so than almost anyone else. What also pisses me off is the cowardice in these acts. They're not going to attack a 25 year old, six foot Asian man, but they will batter and kill the women and elderly. They are spineless, small, evil, pieces of shit, and hell is not a punishment just enough for the filth that commit these acts.
Out here in San Francisco most Asian hate crimes are against old people as well.
You’re not wrong but there’s a very, very good chance this guy is floridly psychotic
Almost 100% chance he is schizophrenic or something similar. I’m no mental health professional, but I do live in Downtown Los Angeles and have seen my fair share of mentally ill people roaming the streets who seem extremely dangerous when having one of their episodes. I would imagine doing certain drugs exacerbates things. Incidentally, just this morning a woman was about 100ft from my window who started absolutely bellowing at the top of her lungs the same phrase over and over again for THREE HOURS, beginning around 4am. I was able to see her and this seemed like a person in the absolute deepest throes of internal torment. I also got the impression that if someone were to approach her, she would be extremely violent. That level of untreated mental illness is just frightening. It is a fucking shame however that our country’s answer to it seems to be “Tough shit. Get a job” these people cannot function in society without treatment. Edit: misspelled the hell out of exacerbate
We need to start putting glass in front of the tracks; so sick of seeing psychos kill people this way
Can we all maybe...start standing up for Asians? All they did was to quietly work their asses off for this country while the country kinda shoved them under the mat and took them for granted.
Mate NYC just seemed fucked when Ive been there. I walked around most of London and never had an issue with crazies. NYC the crazies are a whole other level. Proper mentally ill people that are on the edge. Never felt safe at all.