I hate obnoxious people on trains, but there’s a reason I only make snide remarks to obviously weaker opponents. Because if you yell at them, like this old lady, they might break your face.
A 50-year-old woman told 21-year-old computer programmer Jun Ando to stop playing mobile phone games because the Shinkiba-bound train was supercrowded. (Some older people in Japan also just have a thing about mobile phones—there are sections of some trains where you’re not supposed to use them at all.) He then allegedly told her to shut her face before proceeding to blast it with punches, breaking her jaw. But it gets better!
After Ando was taken off the train and forced into the station’s office by the staff, he punched the woman again. Man, he must’ve been in the middle of a boss fight in Metal Gear Touch or something.
Has anyone ever annoyed you enough with their mobile phone in a crowded space in a way other than talking on it that you wanted to grind their face into cheap hamburger meat with your bare hands? [Japan Today via Alafista via Kotaku]
Turd Fergason
March 31, 2009 at 10:13 AM
@Morgan Breden.
The 21st century??, by the same logic I should be able to use my phone anywhere regardless. Library, doctors waiting rooms, etc. Oh, poor high flying you and your make-or-brake business deal, getting told that your being annoying, guess what, that lady wouldn’t have been the only one to think you were annoying. You should have never got on the bus. Simple.
But the fact of the matter remains. Personal space not only relates to the physical positioning of an individual. It’s audible also. I’m not even in my 30′s and I find myself cursing these “young kids” for their blatant disregard for peoples hearing. Are they that focused on their own little existence that nobody else gets any consideration??? What changed, why do they think it perfectly normal to play their music through the loudspeaker on their phone, in a packed train, in peak hour. I can only assume it’s lack of thinking. And it’s getting worse. I’m starting to feel old. I need a cup of tea.
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