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The lady should sue amtrak for causing her embarrassment and causing her trip to be delayed. Amtrak has no policy against talking on a phone yet they have a women arrested for just that. I think people should be curious in their surroundings but having a women arrested over it is crossing the line.
The article seems to be missing one of the most important facts about the incident: what she was arrested for. Disorderly conduct, was it? Which is not limited to trains, so Amtrak policy or lack thereof isn't altogether to the point.
The article is incorrect. Amtrak has what are called Quiet Cars where it is explicitly forbidden to use your cell phone in *any* way that makes noise. If you talk to another passenger, you are supposed to whisper. There are signs reminding you, and the conductor also mentions it. If she wanted to talk she could've left the Quiet Car.
64.132.218.4 (talk) 21:30, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
She should sue indeed sue the Salem Police for arresting her on nonexistent legal grounds. There ought to be a thorough investigation of this matter with disciplinary action for the rogue law enforcement officers involved. Whether the woman was being annoying and disrespectful is beside the point- her civil liberties were being violated. The police can't arbitrarily arrest someone if no law is being broken, that's the sort of thing that happens in authoritarian police states. She wasn't even violating any of the Company's policies, so there's no case whatsoever for "disorderly conduct". And will someone please explain to me what relevance some crotchety Australian I've never heard of with an axe to grind against "youths" has to an article about an incident that took place in Oregon??!! This article reads like a headline you'd expect to find in The Onion. "Iowa Man tells roommate he's going to McDonald's 'with or without him', commenting on the matter college student from Mozambique says roommates ought to learn to show some respect"
No. She deserved it. If someone goes to a library and shouts to a telephone for 16 hours, it's disorderly conduct. If someone goes to a funeral and bothers other people for 16 hours it's disorderly conduct.
There are places where people are expected to shut the hell up, and if you don't shut up for SIXTEEN HOURS, even after being told to stop, in one of these places, it's most definitely disorderly conduct. Regardles of company policy.
mais pourquoi vous êtes toutes du coté à la police Lakeysha a le droit de parler au téléphone.
mais pourquoi vous êtes toutes du coté à la police Lakeysha a le droit de parler au téléphone.