Train Passenger Feels Disrespected After She Talked 16 STRAIGHT HOURS in Quiet Car & Was Told to Shut Up (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 3:40 PM
A woman who talked non-stop for 16 hours on the QUIET CAR of an Amtrak train told reporters she felt disrespected when she was asked to get off her phone.
She threatened the passengers when they told her to get off the phone.
KOMO reported:
A woman who was pulled of an Amtrak train by police after passengers complained she was speaking too loudly on a cell phone said she felt “disrespected” by the entire incident.
Lakeysha Beard of Tigard was accused of disorderly conduct after police said she got into a “verbal altercation” with train passengers on Sunday. Passengers had complained she refused to put down her cell phone. Conductors stopped the train in Salem, where police got involved.
Beard told KATU she was indeed talking on her phone, but said she didn’t understand why she had to be escorted off the train.
She made the comments during a brief phone interview. Beard declined a more extensive on-camera interview, saying she didn’t feel well.
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Published May 23, 2012 at 4:57 am - 65 Comments
Oldpuppymax commented:
An ignorant, inconsiderate, loud-mouthed, fat, black female??? Seems IMPOSSIBLE, doesn’t it!
TiminPhx commented:
I was not surprised when I clicked on the link. Be honest, were you?
Joe Camel commented:
OOOPs…too much McDonald’s there lady(?)
Try doing some walking instead of talking…just saying….
Ceroth commented:
And people wonder why the hell I want to leave Portland and Oregon. The limp wristed actions of the people who live in this city are going to make this creature a victim when she is the bully and the other passengers are the victims.
Studious Citizen commented:
Wow, 16 hours of talk time?
regularguy commented:
We’re sorry Ms. Beard, we didn’t mean “shut up.” We meant STFU, and yes, you’re being disrespected.
Joel commented:
Barrack will not be pleased.
STL Hawkeye commented:
I heard this train got an extra 20 mph faster when Lakeysha got off!
Reaganite Republican commented:
What could she possibly have to talk about for 16 hrs, please
Nano commented:
She should have grown a tomato plant in her window and got in on the Pigford reparations thingy so she could have flown first class instead of doing the take the train thing.
The Oracle commented:
That’s a lot of battery life for a cell phone.
Doc54 commented:
Awww…..she said she felt too sick to be interviewed. How does she think we feel after having to look at her digusting fat ass……..BARFFFFF !!!
Mueller commented:
16 effin hours!!!!??
What?She got the number of EVERYBODY in the ghetto.
NeoKong commented:
Holy cow.
They’re lucky they didn’t crack an axle.
AuntieMadder commented:
Seven of the first 14 comments posted to this story are about Miss Blabsalot being fat and/or black. Is this Idiot Day at GP or something?
Indigo Red commented:
And none of this include the inconvenience caused all the people who had to wait for the train to clear the crossings while the police got the woman off the train.
FreePioneer commented:
I think the police acted stupidly
gus commented:
I see a CELL PHONE SUMMIT at the White House is her future.
Stop bein’ haters.
Rock commented:
The new civility of the digital world, Have Phone well blabber on any matter.
gbock commented:
90% of Amtrak riders are black, 95% of the workers on Amtrak are black.As a white passenger the staff is rude. It sucks! Way too expensive and way too slow. I will NEVER ride Amtrak again. Greyhound and Trailways are the same. Try I95coach.com if your in NYC. $30 from NYC to Miami. They do it in a third of the time at a fifth of the cost. China town to China town.Chinese kick our ass when it comes to efficiency. You want to know why? Because we have Blacks in our society who feel they are owed everything. Take, take , take all the time. Why don’t Blacks TIP?
Nano commented:
@auntiemadder
Guess what she self identified deal with it.
Chisum commented:
It seems to me that Lakeysha should show some self respect before she demands respect from others.
She seems to suffer from the delusion that the world revolves around her.
valerie commented:
The sad part about this incident is that this rude, loud, tiresome woman will be totally convinced that this is all about her skin color, and not her volume.
This is why nobody wants the rules about cell phone on planes changed.
befuddled commented:
it’s not like for 16 hours the other passengers kept her on a forced diet,while reminding her that michelle obama want’s her to make smarter eating choices.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
90% of Amtrak riders are black,…
Last time I rode the Southwest Chief, it didn’t seem that way to me.
chicago commented:
another result of affirmative action! she’s entitled to be loud and proud! don’t mess with her talk time.
Larkin commented:
What are the chances that phone is supplied by her local government welfare office?
befuddled commented:
only in America can you threaten others because you were disrespectful. i don’t see a beer summit in her future. i do see diabetes.
catwoman368 commented:
Neokong #14 you beat me to it, only I was just thinkin COW!! When she was talkin was she eatin to? It has nothing to do with color, but good grief she is hittin 275- 300 and that is OBESE. When obama care hits us I dont want to pay for her poundage. I feel for the people that had to listen to dat. I know I am droppin the gees.
jerrylud commented:
i smell lawsuit she saids she was to sick for interview hmmmmmmmmmmmm lawyer lawyer lawyer
Andreas K. commented:
I’ve never seen anything like that happen in Japan and Japan is certainly denser “populated” with cell phones than the US. Especially in Tokyo, which is full of phone masts. They have “no cell phones” and “please be quiet” signs there and the vast majority of the train riders complies and those who don’t usually don’t make such a ruckus.
Then again, that’s Japan… where people don’t start looting, pillaging and raping after an earthquare and tsunami.
Listen up commented:
Amtrak will have to pay this loud mouth because Amtrak disrespected her. Now if she were white she would be paying Amtrak…no wait…if she were white this would not have happened.
John Scotus commented:
I’ve been through exactly the same situation. For more than 18 hours, the man simply would not shut up. All through the night he loudly talked to his girlfriend. At daybreak, he finally fell asleep with his head in her lap. Everyone in the train car wanted to kill him.
“Disrespected”? Sure, I’ll buy that. People like this do not deserve respect.
bobbymike commented:
The Democratic Party base right there. God help the USA!
8 My Foot commented:
This lazy pig did this on purpose. White passengers, White conductors, White police officers. It’s clearly a perfect example of racism, for which she will sue and win. It won’t even make it to court. Amtrack will fall all over themselves trying to give her money.
I took a bus ride from Houston to Dallas back in ’05. This idiot woman waited until everyone was asleep to get on her cell phone and start talking loudly. She was sitting across from me, and I was trying to sleep. I sat up and looked at her and said “Do you mind, I’m trying to sleep”. She just kept talking, ignoring me. Finally her battery died. She forgot to charge it before she left home. Would you believe she started asking around to see if anyone had a battery she could borrow?
kato commented:
Another one who hasn’t been housebroken.
Anyone who uses public transportation knows there’s an epidemic of this infantile behavior. But we’ve got all sorts of laws that protect it and almost guarantees that it happens. This one will probably sue and win. And it won’t be because of the content of her character, but because of the color of her skin.
Molon Lobe commented:
Just another indication of what has become of manners and respect in the USA. This woman should be Obama’s public spokesman.
kansas commented:
No way she stopped eating long enough to talk for 16 hours.
kansas commented:
What? Someone named Lakeysha is black? Shocked I tells ya. Shocked.
mcnorman commented:
The ACLU will be on this shortly.
Sal Goldstein commented:
Typical black animal behavior…we Jews are taught respect at a young age.
el polacko commented:
lakeysha, huh? no need to elaborate…the name says it all.
MUBulldog commented:
From the same race that parks in NO Parking area in front of the Walmart and then thinks you’re “dissing” them when you give them the disgusted look
Allen West commented:
Not that I’m saying you all are racist…but damn, you all are racist.
#1AMERICAN commented:
looks like someone had too many happy meals as a kid
daryl commented:
Any wonder why Amtrack needs subsidizing should be cleared up by that photo.
And how the hell does she afford a cell phone??? Unless of course, she not paying
for it
Mama Lion commented:
#22 May 18, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Chisum commented:
It seems to me that Lakeysha should show some self respect before she demands respect from others.
She seems to suffer from the delusion that the world revolves around her.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
If I were the size of the sun, I would think the world revolves around me too.
Sorry…..could not resist. I won’t quit my day job.
dreadpiratk commented:
See, when you point out the obvious fact that violence, misogyny, rudeness and entitlement are rampant in the black ‘culture’ you’re a racist and need to just shut up. I guess that charge keeps them from having to take a good look at themselves in the mirror. Too bad because black peoples lives will never improve until they do. When will they learn that playing the race card endlessly is only hurting them?
joe commented:
This gal knows the meaning of food stamps, free cheese, cerals and all those fat, greasy entitlements provided by gov. Calling her a pig would be disrespectul to real barn yard animals. Thank goodness this model of a porky only comes with two tits instead of 10 as a real sow does. Ten welfare babies in stead of…… This porky only knows one thing, exploit her race to the fullest and dare any white comments. Strangely I feel the days are at hand when white people are fed up of black attitudes. Read in the news this morning of the black woman who cooked, microwaved, her 28 day old baby to get back at her drug crazed free loading boyfriend.
whraglyn commented:
#25 May 18, 2011 at 5:46 pm
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
’90% of Amtrak riders are black,…’
Last time I rode the Southwest Chief, it didn’t seem that way to me.
Of course it didn’t, Jacques; not all that many Blacks interested in rolling through days of Midwest/Great Plains farm country filled with white folk with lotsa guns, too-rocky mountains with no 110th floor observation platforms, and boring deserts filled with… Oh, No! even _more_ ‘white’ in all that sandy desert, just to get to Chicano-ruled LA, now do they?
Let’s check on race proportionality in the BosWash Corridor and the I-95 Corridor, where the overwhelming majority of travelers on some routes can be Black.
Oh yeah, Jacques, are you among the fewer than 1% of all Blacks I have served who have tipped me AT ALL, let alone ‘well’, over the TWENTY FOUR YEARS in which I have made my very good living entirely on tips?
In my rather long-term and rather varied experience, folks of Black African ancestry have a FAR lower tip rate than the famously tightwad Brits, Germans, Australians, East Asians, Nordics, Russians, Slavs, Hispanics, Indians, Pakistanis, Iranians, and more.
ANYONE living on tips, even my Black friends who live on tips, will tell you that BLacks as a group are FAR less likely to tip AT ALL than ANY other possible categorization grouping but for that of ‘No Tip’ itself.
Jacques, you and yours can stay all snuggly comfy in your suppositions gleaned from biased info you got from media and education Obots, but the real practical knowledge we who really LIVE and WORK will always trump any opinions of your ‘experts’ governmental, educational, or professional.
Cheers!
Bunni commented:
That’s all they know how to do. Everyone of these entitlement minded moochers yap on their cell phones in public 24/7. They should just have them surgically implanted into their fat heads….blah blah blah, they talk SO LOUD, you get a massive headache. I have actually gotten off of busses before my stop, I couldn’t take it any more. THEY DO IT ON PURPOSE, to cause trouble.
Nothing racist about it, it’s just the facts…..and like they love to do when we point out FACTS, they cry “rrrraaacccccist” waaaaaa, waaaaa, STFU already, asshats. Gonna get worse folks, as it has been the last 2 years. Buy ear plugs, headphones and nose plugs too.
WilliamT commented:
I note all of these people who have apparently never accomplished anything in their lives that requires some hard work, concentration, dedication, persistence, and effort on their part—not educated, not well spoken, full of bad attitude, self-centered, lacking in respect or consideration for others, rude and loud, trash talking, not well dressed—not talking about quality here, but about being clean and neat and not being dressed in leopard spotted orange spandex, or having some body part hanging out, people who are probably not working, either (and guess who is paying for them to continue enjoying the work-free lifestyle that they have been accustomed to?)—who are always so concerned that they not be “disrespected.”
What is there to “respect” about them? That they are taking up space and breathing?
Christine commented:
The United States has certainly become an ugly place. I’m not sure if there’s much difference between the inconsiderate and rude behaviour of this woman on the train, and the meanspirited bigotry of most commenters here. It breaks my heart to see it. I haven’t lived in the US for 30 years, but this is not the US I grew up being proud of. Congratulations people. You have ALL ruined a once great nation with your pettiness, selfishness and finger pointing. If America is in the toilet, just look in the mirror to see the reason why. Disgusting!
whraglyn commented:
#53 May 19, 2011 at 11:11 am
Christine commented:
‘The United States has certainly become an ugly place. I’m not sure if there’s much difference between the inconsiderate and rude behaviour of this woman on the train, and the meanspirited bigotry of most commenters here. It breaks my heart to see it. I haven’t lived in the US for 30 years, but this is not the US I grew up being proud of. Congratulations people. You have ALL ruined a once great nation with your pettiness, selfishness and finger pointing. If America is in the toilet, just look in the mirror to see the reason why. Disgusting!’
Hey, Christine, have you noted what proportion of all these ‘bigoted’ posts refer to direct experience, as does mine?
Have you noted how many of these ‘bigoted’ posters refer specifically to the _behavior_, not the _race_, of the scum to which we refer?
Finally, Dear Christine, do you live among the sort to which we refer?
If not, _why_ not, Christine?
IF these posts are all motivated by ‘bigotry’, and there is no reason for such posts _but_ that of ‘bigotry’, then why do you not live among the sort to whom we refer?
WHEN, Christine, will you put your morality where your mouth is, and come _live_ here again, and use your idealism to show all we ‘bigots’ just how wrong we are by _Moving To A Black Ghetto_ in any large American city?
BTW, Christine, just why _did_ you leave 30 years ago when the nation was great? Why did you not stay and help keep us great?
Why do you no more than sit on foreign sidelines and armchair quarterback our problems?
Sorry, Ma’am, missed your answer on that one…
Cheers!
No Man commented:
I imagine she paid for two seats . . .
No Man commented:
#3 Christine,
America is unliveable . . .
Why don’t you take Lakeysha over to wherever you prefer to inhabit.
medulla oblongata commented:
#22
#47 beat me to it. She probably has a great enough gravitational field for the earth to revolve around her.
Christine commented:
To No Man: no thanks. I’d rather not have her or any of the rest of you around me.
For the record, I’ve encountered rude cell phone people, but I can’t recall any that were black. (And yes, we have blacks here.)
This woman’s behaviour was atrocious. So is the behaviour of most commenters here.
To whraglyn: I left, quite reluctantly at the time, because I fell in love with and married someone in another country. In the early years, I held out hope that we would one day return to live in the US. Now, wild horses couldn’t drag me back there. Really, you all need to take a big step back and look at yourselves objectively. Not the other person’s behaviour, but your own. Her being a jerk doesn’t excuse your being a jerk. Her behaviour reflects on her; yours on you.
Maybe you can’t change the behaviour of this woman on the phone, but you can change yourself. And when you do that, it changes everything.
Good luck. I really think the US is too far gone to pull back, but I really hope I’m wrong.
whraglyn commented:
#58 May 19, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Christine commented:
‘To No Man: no thanks. I’d rather not have her or any of the rest of you around me.
For the record, I’ve encountered rude cell phone people, but I can’t recall any that were black. (And yes, we have blacks here.)
This woman’s behaviour was atrocious. So is the behaviour of most commenters here.
To whraglyn: I left, quite reluctantly at the time, because I fell in love with and married someone in another country. In the early years, I held out hope that we would one day return to live in the US. Now, wild horses couldn’t drag me back there. Really, you all need to take a big step back and look at yourselves objectively. Not the other person’s behaviour, but your own. Her being a jerk doesn’t excuse your being a jerk. Her behaviour reflects on her; yours on you.
Maybe you can’t change the behaviour of this woman on the phone, but you can change yourself. And when you do that, it changes everything.
Good luck. I really think the US is too far gone to pull back, but I really hope I’m wrong.’
Forgive me, Ma’am, despite reading your reply thrice, it is fairly evident you have answered not one of my questions to you.
Erm, in _which_ foreign country did you say you live?…
Cheers!