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Video: "Very Well-Educated Person" Flips Out On Metro-North Train
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Ben Yakas
Published Jun 16, 2011
Modified Sep 23, 2011
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Published Jun 16, 2011
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In this instant classic video, a self-described "very well-educated person" chews out the train conductor for doing her job. It's such fun when very well-educated people throw tantrums! According to the person who uploaded the video to YouTube, the woman had been talking too loudly on the train when the conductor "politely asked her to keep it down and stop using profanity or to take it to the vestibule." This is where the video picks up, with the "educated" woman getting more and more irate over the perceived insult:
Ultimately, the well-educated star of the video asks the conductor: "Please repeat to me the words I was being profane with...do you know how well educated I am?" (Well-educated enough to speak in unnecessarily complicated sentences?) She then demands they stop the train for her, and it all comes to a head when she declares: "I'm not a crazy person, I'm a very well-educated person." And the Supreme Court has ROUNDLY rejected prior restraint!
We give a lot of credit to the conductor, who keeps her cool during the whole interaction, and doesn't raise her voice once. Best of all, according to the video's uploader there was an announcement on the train a minute later, asking all passengers to please not use profanity on the train, "especially those people who went to Harvard or Yale or are from Westport." Pshaw, as if the Crimson elite would deign to follow such commands.
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Ben Yakas
Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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