August 1, 2007
Go Home Already: Teaching Moments
>> "The Smithsonian Institution today replaced Gary M. Beer as chief executive of the museum complex's embattled business unit after an inspector general's report found that he had abused his institution-issued credit card and billed $95,000 in expenditures that were unauthorized or lacked evidence of a business purpose." [WaPo]
>> Video of Marion Barry getting measured for his wax statue at the new Madame Tussauds wax museum. [Reliable Source]
>> Some Orange Red line train passengers are upset that Metro didn't do more to stop a woman who was attacking and beating people on the train. [WTOP]
>> D.C.-based taxicabs are going to be banned from picking up passengers at Washington-Dulles International Airport. [Examiner]
>> Warehouse has signed a "letter of intent" to move its music venue to Columbia Heights, though it's not a done deal yet. [City Desk]
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"We never want a customer to put him or herself in harms way," says Polly Hanson, Metro's Assistant General Manager for Safety, Security and Emergency Management.
Um, aren't they already in harm's way when some mental defective maniac is wailing on them? Had this been an Orange Line train from Huntington, some right-to-carry guy would probably have pistol whipped the loon. At the very least, someone headed to the Pentagon would have put her in a sleeper hold. Of course, then they would have opened themselves up to a lawsuit for violating the maniac's civil rights. I think there's something in teh Bill of Rights about guaranteeing citizens the right to be sociopathic assholes on public transit. Or maybe that was quartering sociopathic maniacs without consent.
A old woman scared the sh*t out of me one time at the Rossyln station. It was during an uncrowded time in off hours, early AM maybe. As the approaching train came out the tunnel and into the station, she threw up her arm Sig Heil Hitler style and started and huffing and puffing something, and very close to the track too. Creeped me out and I definately waited for the next train after she got on.
Speaking of Hitler, I can't tell you how many times schizophrenic and mentally unstable (mostly older african americans, but sometimes youth, sorry- just saying...) have mumbled foul curses and stuff about Nazi white people taking over the city blah blah blah intentionally within earshot of me. (Being blond and fair sets some people off for some reason. Sorry I wish I could tan, but I can't). It's happened at least 6 times now, totally unprovoked, and each time I get the far f*ck away as I can.
Seriously, people, let's get the current Metro lines and their stations correct, before they start adding new ones.
1) According to WTOP, the altercation took place on the Red line, starting at Rockville station, not the Orange line as the headline reports.
2) Monkeyrotica: there would never be some right-to-carry guy on an Orange Line train from Huntington because the Orange line doesn't run anywhere near Huntington. The Yellow line does.
Thanks for the correction, Drew. Ever since that right-to-carry-guy on the Yellow Line put the sleeper hold on me, I've developed a sort of color blindness combined with retrograde anterior amnesia. I did manage to remember to burn all my diabetic wife's belongings BEFORE I went on the revenge spree culminating in my slaying on the mysterious "John G."
I did manage to remember to burn all my diabetic wife's belongings BEFORE I went on the revenge spree culminating in my slaying on the mysterious "John G."
Are you sure you remembered to burn them, or are you just reading your tattoos?
Notice marionberry arrogantly smirking as usual whilst getting measured at Tussaud's. HEY - I thought he was supposed to be put in the Scandals Room!! That's the only place he belongs! Who whined and twisted arms to get him put into a so-called "Spirit of Washington" room alongside historical figures who weren't filmed/taped groping their mistress while sucking on a crack pipe ????
This would have been the perfect situation to execute my "roundhouse kick somebody on the metro" scenario that I always imagined while riding in bored as hell on my way to work.
barry was voted in dummy from above a few comments....
and screw the scared ass white people that dotn know how to talk to anyone that doesnt look like them.
remember, YOU are encrouching on THEIR land and homes. established black neighborhoods. you hear the same things from regular citizens too, not just mentally unstable people..
that is a fact.