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    Woman says she’s too ‘educated’ to be kicked off New York train

    Loud cell-phone talkers strike again!

    A woman traveling on New York's Metro North train line was recorded by a fellow passenger telling train employees that she is too "well-educated" to be told to quiet down and not use profanity in her cell-phone conversation.

    "Do you know what schools I've been to? How well-educated I am?" she asks the train employee, who is seen explaining to another employee that she asked the passenger to stop using the "F-bomb."

    "I'm sorry do you think I'm a little hoodlum?" she asks, then demands her money back and dares the conductor to stop the train.

    The person who originally uploaded the video to Youtube (who has since removed it) said in the description that the woman "was talking too loud on the train when the conductor politely asked her to keep it down and stop using profanity or to take it to the vestibule." After the altercation, the conductor came on the loudspeaker and reminded people to keep conversations quiet, "especially those people who went to Harvard or Yale or are from Westport."

    Last month, a woman was escorted from a quiet car in an Amtrak train by police after she chatted loudly on her cell phone for most of the 16-hour journey, and then became angry when passengers asked her to stop.

     

    25 comments

    • silentangel  •  9 mths ago
      Excuse me my name is B.S. and you are???
    • Angela  •  11 mths ago
      I work in an industry where I too have experienced loud mouthed "educated, think they're better than the rest of society". An education from Yale, Harvard or Princeton does not give you the right to behave with such ignorance. Is this the message that you're sending abroad about the graduates from these prestiges universities? That you are all Loud Mouthed ##$%%%#
    • Mary Catherine  •  11 mths ago
      I find it sad, to think that woman had the advantage of an education that I never received, and this is how she used it? I am only a high school graduate, and yet I have manners, and don't think the world owes me anything. The sense of entitlement that some people feel is amazing. What is happening to this country? We all need to learn how to be courteous to each other. Everyone worries about being 'politically correct', but so many seem to think that acting like a conceited ass is allowed!
    • 1eyeopen  •  11 mths ago
      Anyone who curses and claims a head full of knowledge...is just the opposite, what a cocky moron!
    • A Yahoo User  •  11 mths ago
      Education is clearly not the solution.
    • Gson  •  11 mths ago
      Having an education doesn't mean you're "smart"! This type of behaviour comes from not being raised with morals and core values!!!
    • Axeman820  •  11 mths ago
      Apparently this poor soul's education didn't include the finer points of etiquette...somehow her "education" seems like such a waste of time
    • Phillyvegas  •  11 mths ago
      "I'm a very educated person"??? Um, what's your point. lady?? Clearly you have SELECTIVE education because no one taught you nor did you care to EDUCATE yourself on COMMON SENSE manners!

      Elitest idiot!!
    • Mickey  •  11 mths ago
      @ Dave J: Angry much?
      I just think it's funny to see how the more people 'better' themselves, the more they loose common sense and courtesy toward the rest of the world.
    • fridaypenguin  •  11 mths ago
      She's young and stupid. Let life teach her some humility. Sooner or later she will learn she is not as hot as she thinks she is. We all go through that!
      • FrankB 11 mths ago
        she needs to be banned from public transportation for life.
      • Make Lemonade 11 mths ago
        Life is currently teaching her a lesson. lol
        She'll never live this down now that it's posted all over the net.
    • Harry  •  11 mths ago
      Another NY Jerk. Nothing new here.
    • Make Lemonade  •  11 mths ago
      Apparently her expensive education didn't cover manners.
      Using dirty language and fighting in public are not things well educated ladies do.
    • Robert  •  11 mths ago
      Idiot
    • USA-FTW!  •  10 mths ago
      She definitely sounds like Thurston Howell,III from Gilligan's Island!
    • Dave J  •  11 mths ago
      Is there anyone from "fly-over country" that doesn't see this as a typical East Coast Liberal b.....?
      • Beaugrand 11 mths ago
        Rude, stupid woman on a train- nothing political or religious here, just bad manners. Kick the bitch off the train and charge her with disorderly conduct and assault.
      • Nova Realist 11 mths ago
        If it talks like a typical East Coast Liberal b...., you can be assured that is exactly what she is. She will be screaming for Al Sharpton any minute now. Pathetic.
    • O Danny Boy  •  11 mths ago
      Where do you think all the criminals that run our government and financial institutions went to school? "Good" schools don't generally make "good" people it seems.

      I want to know what schools she went to. How come no reporters called the school and asked for their comment on the situation?
    • My_advice  •  11 mths ago
      I think, she should use her own private plane to work and to her parents home. She is very well educated and I am sure she can fly the plane as well....too bad, with her refund from train. she wont be able to buy enough fuel for plane
    • Curtis  •  11 mths ago
      she was smart enough not to touch that woman again. lmao all that education wouldn't of did s-h-it if that woman would of gotten ahold of her
    • 1eyeopen  •  11 mths ago
      Anyone with a cell phone stuck to their face constantly is very insecure and can't stand being alone for long, they need help.
    • A Yahoo User  •  11 mths ago
      These days, who isn't educated? Every idiot goes to college. That's what Bill Clinton wanted. College for everybody! But...they are still the same old retards.
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