dude huffin paint out of a paper bag on a full morning commute

dude was trippin balls and everyone gave him space so it was something to behold, it was one of those bus rides that had a 15-20 minute space on the freeway so there wasn't any making him leave. Everyone kept an eye on him as he passed up and down the isle.

It was something so far out, I recorded it on my phone

hopped on the local metro transport at like 6am. I sit down and try to not make eye contact with anyone and the smell hits me first.

dude like two seats down is passed the fuck out, dick in hand, legs stretched out, and he's just shitting all over himself and the seat.

security comes over and tries to wake him up. they get loud and kinda rough with the guy. no response. they check for pulse. he ded. he big ded.

dude must have died mid stroke at some point in the morning commute and his bowels released soon after.

drugs are bad m'kay.

Public transport and living in a apartment made me really dislike people. Its enough with one weirdo to destroy a good nights sleep or a public transport journey for everyone.

Some humans are pretty much animals and just do what they want without any thoughts about others.

Guy had a baseball bat with nails on the crowded greenline in Boston. Pretty sure it was used for holding multiple plastic bags on his shoulder, but it was still kinda freaky

On a trip to San Francisco, the quintessential "gay mecca" of the USA I was on a bus making my way over towards Haight area (then planning to go visit Castro street aka the actual gayest part of San Francisco) there were a group of men on the bus going on a bigoted rant specifically about homosexual men ruining the country and going to hell and all that fun stuff on the LGBTQ+ agenda.

Like, I'd expect to hear that kind of stuff in the middle of Oklahoma's rural hellscape (sans the bus part). But in San Francisco of all places?

One morning when I got on the Stockholm metro there was a guy, bombed out of his mind, he had tossed his jacket in the middle of the floor, and was messing about with bottle caps with water and syringes.

No one made a sound (this is normal in the Stockholm rush hour), and I reached out through the SL app chat feature to inform the security center about the situation

I told them that a poor guy on the train clearly needed help, didn't speculate, but informed them about what I could see, told them what train it concerned and where on the train the guy was and gave a description of him.

Two stops later two security guards boarded the train and quickly lead him out, no screaming or disruption at all.

I don't know what happened to the guy after that, but I was careful to stay neutral yet concerned for the guy's health, and I hope he finally got the help he needed if not wanted at the time and is doing much better now.

I took the Bart in San Francisco every day for a decade, definitely saw some things. Saw a guy take a shit between the cars. Saw someone flip off the rails and kick someone in the head.

The one I remember the most was during a busy morning commute, I had my headphones on and I see this older guy pushing through people to follow this younger woman. She kept moving up and down the train to get away from him. After seeing this a few times, I stepped in front of him and told him "I don't know what's going on, but she clearly doesn't want to be near you, so you gotta leave her alone". He snapped at me screaming that it was his daughter and I need to stay the fuck out of their family situation. Myself and a few others blocked him, and he got off at the next stop. When I asked the woman if she was okay, she said she had no relation to the guy and had never seen him. Scary stuff all around. Im assuming he was mentally ill and had some previous drama about losing his daughter, and something triggered in his brain when he saw that woman. I thought for sure I was gonna get stabbed that day, and if the train wasn't so crowded I think things would've ended a lot differently.

This particular blue wizard. Not my image, but he's a well known person that you can find image of him online.

Two things come to mind:

• Subway rolls up with an empty car and I was like, "these fools aren't on this sweet-ass empty car!!?!?"... yeah, dude taking a shit.
• Another being on the A Train, express, and stuck with mariachi band at full-tilt in a convenient 10-15min gap between stops.
• And one time we were the entertainment! Had to get the tree back to the apt, dragged that shit onto the train.

The bus being on time.

I have been sitting in a tram that emergency breake'd. It was all seriously fast: Ring of the warning bell (like an overgrown alarm clock) towards the driver of the car, and next thing was that I was leaning over an old lady sitting in the opposite side. They accellerated like a snail on dope, but breaking was applying ACME Insta Stop.

Guy gets on bus, sits down, starts playing music from his phone's speaker. Plays "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off," while simultaneously launching into a recitation of the Lord's Prayer on repeat.

We Don't Have to...

On my once a year trip on mass transit, someone came on, so hammered/high they proceeded to vomit up the thickest, most gooey, florescent yellow-green puke I have ever seen. They did this 2 or 3 times before getting off and stumbling home.

I have no idea what was in their stomach, but it for sure wanted out. I just felt for the poor soul having to clean it up.

The one that stands out is someone on a call in a packed bus who started shouting "I didn't tell no one you got raped in prison!" into the phone repeatedly.

They made themselves a liar. Felt bad for whoever was on the other side of the line.

Some random novice nun recognized that I am an IT guy so she asked me whether it is really possible that it was God who made her computer crash while she was writing her homework essay about some saint that she was obsessed about.

An entire international high-speed train was delayed for almost 2 hours because Karen got the police called over having too much foam in her beer.

Back when I was a teenager, some old hippie went on an entirely unprompted rant about not killing flies to me and my friends for what seemed like the entirety of our 30 minute bus ride. He said killing harmful bugs is necessary but flies are just looking for nitrogen so don't kill them.

Lol, decades in Munich public transport, the best question would be what I haven't seen. Seriously.

• people talking to themselves, lots of them
• people talking to strangers with the wildest stories, then turn the attention to you if you don't recognize it in time
• people screaming around they'll kill, blow up, whatever everyone
• people fighting with each other, holding up the public transport running out and back in
• oh and Italians standing at the rails pissing on Italian wiesn weekend. Of course their backs to the street. So front to the rails. Or the other way around, doesn't matter anyway.

... Yeah

One of the first times I took the path train (it's a light rail in NJ/NYC. Basically another subway line). I sit down, and an older guy in a suit sits down next to me. He's got like a box in a plastic bag in his lap. No big deal.

This was in like 2002. He didn't have a cell phone or earphones. Just sitting quietly, waiting for the train to leave.

He started to giggle. Little chuckles. And then escalated to full laughs. It rises and rises until he's like cackling. And then he calms down, reverses all the way through giggles and back to silence. Never said a word.

I don't know what was in the box. I didn't ask. I assume he just got away with a killer heist.

Baltimore Maryland train, some man thought I was so pretty(?) he handed me a $5 bill on his way out of the train. I looked at him like , "WTF?!" wordlessly declined his offering, he looked offended, and he left. That's the weirdest thing I've personally experienced or seen on public transportation but I've seen a lot weirder things online. Like a couple months ago that man who fucking STABBED some young lady in the neck & MURDERED her 🤦🏼‍♀️