Re: I See A Pattern

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What the hell, indeed.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:06 AM
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"If I look like an ass, I look like an ass," he said Friday, after sharing his commute with a Post reporter. "I can't change who I am."

The first step to a cure is recognizing you have a problem.


Posted by: mike d | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:07 AM
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From the comments it sounds like he just goes around trolling for fights, especially with women, and is probably sauced when he does.


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:10 AM
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How much you willing to be he never picks on someone likely to knock fuck out of him?


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:12 AM
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Gah. How much you willing to bet, I mean.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:13 AM
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How much you willing to be he never picks on someone likely to knock fuck out of him?

Just because you're a sociopathic asshole doesn't mean you have to be stupid.


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:13 AM
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"I can't change who I am."

Funny how I only ever seem to hear that phrase uttered by assholes. I'm not asking you to change who you are, fuckwit, I'm just asking you to not act like who you really are in public.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:14 AM
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re: 7

Yeah, it's up there with 'I speak my mind' and 'I don't suffer fools gladly' as the universal sign of an asshole.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:19 AM
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All y'all can suffer fools gladly if you want to, but why?


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:21 AM
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His fans could chip in to have him enforce a non-smoking
on the platform policy while he's waiting for the train.


Posted by: Econolicious aka Anonymous D | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:21 AM
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I'd love to punch that guy.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:22 AM
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Loathsome.


Posted by: Timothy Burke | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:27 AM
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Asshole admits to being asshole in supreme asshole move


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:28 AM
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I'd love to punch that guy.

In the comments someone says that once he did mess with the wrong guy and got knocked down, only to have someone tell the guy who knocked him down to take it easy on the "old man."


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:28 AM
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And people wonder why I'd rather drive to work than take mass transit (which we don't have anyway). Sheesh.


Posted by: Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:38 AM
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so does he say he's voting for giuliani, or is it going to be a surprise endorsement?


Posted by: kid bitzer | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:43 AM
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15: It's a good thing no one ever gets angry while driving on streets and causes the media to come up with a cutesy name for the phenomenon.


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:44 AM
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6 is the harshest grammar critique this site has seen yet.


Posted by: joeo | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:51 AM
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Where's Bernhard Goetz when you need him?


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:51 AM
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Running for office?


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:57 AM
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This situation calls for a Feminazi crusade against bullying assholes. We can dump coffee on the heads of guys like this, the jerks that tell women to "smile", and the subway gropers/flashers.

Who's with me?


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:58 AM
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We can dump coffee on the heads of guys like this, the jerks that tell women to "smile", and the subway gropers/flashers.

I think the second group would be receptive to reasoned dialogue, but with the other two groups, yeah, boot to the head.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 11:59 AM
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18 very very funny.


Posted by: kid bitzer | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 12:00 PM
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21: Oh, B, you're so cute when you're angry!


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 12:05 PM
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I think the second group would be receptive to reasoned dialogue

Okay, you go ahead and form the "reasoned dialogue" group. Me, I don't have time to reward the "smile" assholes with reasoned dialogue; I want to just dump coffee on them.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 12:07 PM
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You know, you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.


Posted by: Martin Wisse | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 12:12 PM
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Who the hell wants flies?


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 12:14 PM
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13: the accompanying picture is so great


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 12:15 PM
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Someone buy him a free plane ticket. See what happens when he does this at the airport.


Posted by: rm | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 12:27 PM
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does he say he's voting for giuliani

Vote for, hell. Clifford would fit right in a Giuliani Administration.


Posted by: Populuxe | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 12:33 PM
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I love my train line. Someone pulled crap like that, the conductor would remove him at the next stop. At least the conductors on the ones I usually am on.


Posted by: Di Kotimy | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 12:52 PM
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C'mon, give the guy a break. The women in the coffee-pouring incident were "hefty girls."

They weren't just noisy or clumsy, they were hefty. You would've done the same thing.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 1:19 PM
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8 plus "I just say the things that everyone is thinking, difference is, I'm brave enough to say it" is exactly right.

Rudeness for 'politeness' is the new fucking for virginity.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 1:38 PM
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I'm not a lawyer, but this part sounds very weird.

None of the charges stick - a point prosecutors from Nassau County, Queens and Manhattan concede - because the victims never show up in court, he notes proudly.

All you lawyers here, how often does that happen? Half the time for some minor assholeish crime, I could believe is totally normal, maybe three quarters of the time, but 10 out of 10 times?
Especially when it's followed in the article by this, just a few paragraphs later.
"I want quiet on this train," he bellowed at DeCurtis, she said. "He had his finger right up against my nose. He's a scary guy."
"I know you, I know where you live," he allegedly told DeCurtis. "I know you have a 5-year-old daughter. I know where she goes to school."

I find it hard to believe that a random asshole on the train would be so nuts as to stalk the woman home (but maybe he's just seen her on the train with her mother or guessed or overheard the kid's age, that's more believable). But if what this woman said is true, it's a realistic but really fucked-up explanation for why the victims don't show up in court.


Posted by: Cyrus | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 1:53 PM
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17: I am, when driving, serene to the point of docile. I am the embodiment of calm. We Southerners are like that, unable to get too worked up when the tractor tops out at 20mph anyway.


Posted by: Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 1:58 PM
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8 plus "I just say the things that everyone is thinking, difference is, I'm brave enough to say it" is exactly right.

And the thing is, there's no way to dispute these people's claims. Everything you say can be used to further support their point of view. It's like the idea of "false consciousness" in reverse.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 2:53 PM
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And people wonder why I'd rather drive to work than take mass transit

Why the hell has the train company not even considered banning this man? - Mass transit is privately owned isn't it? Letting him on is just bad for business.


Posted by: Lucy | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 6:41 PM
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Have you ever been trapped on a bus or train with someone loudly droning into their cell phone the whole time? This guy has obviously taken things too far, but as Chris Rock once said about another man with impulse control problems: "I'm not sayin' he shoulda done it... but I understand."


Posted by: Gaijin Biker | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 6:50 PM
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Speaking of assholes: good going Cheney!


Posted by: Not Prince Hamlet | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 6:53 PM
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39: The photo for this story combined with this implies an alternate interpretation.


Posted by: feldspar | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 10:54 PM
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Mass transit is privately owned isn't it?

Not usually, and not this one.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 10-16-07 10:57 PM
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He sounds like a nutter. It also looks from the photo that he likes to take the seat nearest the door, with the most legroom, too. The best revenge over people like him is too ensure that you take "his" seat. It makes 'em apoplectic. I saw a woman on the Metro North berate some guy for dropping litter once (can't remember how that was resolved but "you might behave like that in oregon" was shouted), and heard the conductor ask over the intercom that "nobody apply nail polish on the train" but no violence.


Posted by: billyfrombelfast | Link to this comment | 10-17-07 11:33 AM
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