As a regular commuter to work, BBM has some pet peeves when it comes to fellow travellers on public transport. Whether it’s young ‘uns listening to music without headphones on, people in front of you who pause when they get to the bottom of an escalator, or women who shift uncomfortably and cover themselves up when you stare at their cleavage – there really are some annoying people out there.
But top of the tree in the list of annoying gits on buses and trains are those people who use bags to take up an extra seat when others are forced to stand. It’s tempting to ask these people to shift the bag, but there’s a good reason we don’t – 50 per cent of the people who use public transport are
psychotic mental cases.
And that fact was proven yet again last month in New York when a 45-year-old woman asked another passenger to move her bag so she could sit down, and ended up being assaulted and bitten by a frothing nutjob.
“The suspect became enraged pushing the victim, scratching her on the chest, pulling her hair and biting her on her forearm causing a laceration and bleeding,” the NYPD said in a statement. The rabid suspect fled the train when it stopped at a station but not before the victim snapped a picture of her attacker baring her teeth, which police shared with the public to track her down.
Ironically, the incident came a few weeks after the New York transport authority launched a campaign called “Courtesy Counts, Manners Make a Better Ride”. It urges commuters to extend kindnesses by removing packages from seats, refraining from hogging space by sitting with your legs wide apart, and not standing by doors that block the flow of passengers. In other words, “stop being idiots, people.”

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