Subway Ride. Preservation/Cowardice/Racism all before 9. Your Play?

IndieMatty · #1 05-06-2005, 10:37 AM

This is 100% true and happened to me today on the 2/3 Subway line in Manhattan. This is not an ordinary occurrence, but does fit in a bit with this weeks ootia topics.

After a heavy night of drinking last night, I caught a pretty late subway down from my 93rd ST stop all the way to Wall St. As I am reading about the Yankees piss poor play and Isaiah Thomas' felatio of Maurice Cheeks, a young urban woman's purse landed on my shoe. As I groggily looked up from my paper---said woman is attacking her boyfriend, crying, screaming "you gonna disrespect me?" "Seven years, you [censored]" an older man who seems to know some restraining technique grabs the young women by the waist. The woman continues to scream as the boyfriend says "see I could [censored] you up right now, but I'm not." pretty much egging her on. Saying stuff like, "Oh you gonna [censored] me up? You strapped?" and more...

Things sort of calm down after a few minutes as the woman sits down. Now the boyfriend continues with "go to work, go to work, that’s right - go to work" (part of the argument was that she works, he doesn't)..she gets up and lunges. He pulls a varitek (sans catcher mit) and pretty much hits her in the shoulder face area (maybe more of a mush).

Now if this was a white dude in a suit. I'm pushing him and restraining him, while I get a cop at the next station. Since this guy was straight out of Compton. (Seriously, red bandana, white shirt, sweats, many tats, scar on the left side of the forearm) all I could do was step between them and restrain the girl with my left arm (which hurts like a bitch right now). Another dude escorted him off at the next stop as other women calmed the girl down. Pretty [censored] up morning.

Rate my play? Did I display Racism? Or was it Self-preservation? What would you do?

wh1t3bread · #2 05-06-2005, 10:46 AM

My standard play on a NYC subway is to MYOB. That said, I would have got up and walked to the next subway car.

purnell · #3 05-06-2005, 11:07 AM

"My standard play on a NYC subway is to MYOB. That said, I would have got up and walked to the next subway car."

Winner. Danger = Run away, unless you have something at stake.

spacemonkey57 · #4 05-06-2005, 12:35 PM

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I vote this. You never know who's got a gun or knife. It sounds crappy, but I don't want to get killed/injured over something like this.

chaas4747 · #5 05-06-2005, 10:48 AM

I think you did everything you could do. There is no reason to get stabbed or shot before 10:00 am. I see not hint of racism in any of your post.

jack spade23 · #6 05-06-2005, 10:50 AM

If its a black yuppie, would you do the same? Nah, you would kick his ass.

wh1t3bread · #7 05-06-2005, 10:52 AM

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If its a black yuppie, would you do the same? Nah, you would kick his ass.

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Exactly. If this was a white dude with a bandana, scars, and tats you would have done the same. No racism.

IndieMatty · #8 05-06-2005, 10:54 AM

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If its a black yuppie, would you do the same? Nah, you would kick his ass.

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[censored] I didn't think of that.

jba · #9 05-06-2005, 01:28 PM

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likewise if it's a big white biker dude in alabama, I assume you also puss out; this isn't racism.

MoreWineII · #10 05-06-2005, 10:53 AM

I wouldn't say racism, maybe a little bit of prejudice. Which is okay, we all have that to a degree, I think, whether we admit it or not.

Honestly though, I think if it would have been a white guy with a bandana, a bunch of prison tats, some knife scars, etc etc. you probably would have felt the same way. Am I wrong? What about had it been a clean-cut black man in a nice business suit?

So maybe it has nothing to do with skin color and everything to do with the appearance of the villian.