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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Near beat down at Ajax GO

This story happened yesterday. DF takes it from here:
At Ajax there is an escalator and stairs going up. When you get to the top of the escalator, there is about a 6 foot space before there are doors to take you outside to the platform. There are signs on the windows surrounding the escalator asking people not to stand there and block the traffic of the escalators.
Today it was cold out and there were 3 women standing at the top. I actually brushed one as I walked by because, let's face it, they are in the way!
So Im standing in the blob on the platform waiting for the train and suddenly there is some yelling and screaming going on. From what I could tell, someone came up the escalator and ran into one of the women standing at the top. One lady was yelling at the other that she "pushed her mom". Some guy actually got in between the two of them and broke up the cat fight. It was pretty funny. One woman was yelling to "call the police!! call the police!!" LOL
The train comes in, they split up and continue yelling at each other across the platform. One woman was saying how the other chick had better not board the train because if she did she was going to hit the emergency strip. The lady said to go ahead because she was getting on the damn train! A few people piped up and said not to push the trip and inconvenience a whole train load of people. Luckily she did not press the emergency trip. If she did, I might have smacked her upside the head myself, with my iPad. See attached video:

6 comments:

James said...

It's not that cold even. Imagine if we had proper January weather. If they just wore a tuque and gloves and they would be fine. And it's a major safety issue to stand at the top of a moving escalator so the lady got what she deserved.

Squiggles said...

Oh how I wished I could have seen that! And I wished that all the inconvienced people — let's face it, when a 2 person escalator has become a 1 or a 1.5 person tunnel to get out of the damn door, you are inconvienced — will do something about the lurkers.

On a side note: I am at the point of walking into these people myself. This morning they were lined up at the top on BOTH sides. If there weren't people coming up behind me, I would have.

It is time GO gets rid of the doors. Especially in the winter. Teach these yahoos a lesson.

lswgirl13 said...

What idiots!

It's the same thing on the stairs at my station, people stand inside along both sides. So if you need the handrail, well, you're SOL.

Grrrrr, I'm beginning to hate all people.

Kelly said...

People do this at Clarkson all of the time, it can get annoying when it slows down everyone at the top of the stairs trying to get onto the platform. I figure, if you get 'brushed' or even 'pushed' it is your own fault for standing there and something you'll have to put up with. It's not that cold but I still see so many people with short jackets, no gloves, nothing to cover their head/ears. Silly...

Anonymous said...

What about the people so stupid they stand in the space where the doors swing open so if you intend to open the door to go out, you can't. Unless you hit them with it. Which is what I do.

I figure if you're dumb enough to stand where a door swings open, you deserve it.

Zjack said...

You see people standing in your way. I see a lot of 'accidental' shoves or gropes, depending on my mood.

(Jokes, people...)