Cars & Transportation Bogans on Public Transport - Time to Make a Stand

[Stan Darsh]

There is a difference between confidence, and picking someone and throwing them to the ground. I would certainly say something to the initial pusher – of course I wouldn't just take it – but I wouldn't fight fire with fire.

Plus as each day goes by you have more chance of someone filming you or calling the cops or suing you or whatever. Better not to take the risk, by not using violence at all

The confidence thing wasn't in relation to the retaliation I was talking about people in society just lacking confidence in general. The rag doll thing I mentioned because it seems excessive but was really inconsequential in terms of damage. But certainly it does take a level of confidence to grab a bloke.

I grew up in a shit area and if someone stood over you and you didn't breath fire you were done for. It's an adjustment to my adult good salary life now.

 

[chunkylover53]

Can't believe people are having a go at the OP.

"can you move to the left mate" is a completely normal way to ask for someone to move out of the way on an escalator.

Since when is it ok for someone to hurl abuse another person and start laying hands on them? Because he asked him to move? Spare me.

If I was in the same situation I probably wouldn't have grabbed him as I couldn't fight myself out of a wet paper bag but I fully support people who stand up to these wannabe thugs.

 

[Messenger]

Yeah, you're a bitch if you just ignore a guy after he pushes you for seemingly nothing.

I don't know I still have many ape parts in me, I can't take disrespect on the chin otherwise I won't get the nice branch and ape chicks won't come to me.

Stuff is a bit sanitised, the bloke that got ragged only got a crinkled shirt, no biggie. I see people hesitant to address shit that is irritating them on a daily basis. Seems like there's an erosion of confidence in western society.

You've got every move Steven Seagal was ever in, haven't you.

Cos that's how big boys roll.

 

[Gasometer]

The rule in London Tube is to stand to the right.

In Australia we say 'yeh.........nah'

Anyhow with knifings and head stompings it's better to leave it be rather than dead trying to solve the lack of manners of the world.

 

[Sydney Bloods]

normal person would have just walked around someone standing on the right.
although i did enjoy how much the OP was full on up for a scrap and calls the other person involved a bogan.

 

[Brad Goodman]

I can't believe some people actually think it's ok to stand on the wrong side of the escalator.

If you do you're a campaigner, no doubt about it.

 

[Catfish Alley]

I can't believe some people actually think it's ok to stand on the wrong side of the escalator.

If you do you're a campaigner, no doubt about it.

Sure. But manhandling somebody over it is a little extreme. Strange situation really. I can't imagine a reasonable person would push him just for being asked to move aside. Either the guy standing there was psycho, the OP embellished or the OP said something a bit more than "can you move, mate".

 

[Sydney Bloods]

I can't believe some people actually think it's ok to stand on the wrong side of the escalator.

If you do you're a campaigner, no doubt about it.

sick em rex:

 

[Stan Darsh]

You've got every move Steven Seagal was ever in, haven't you.

Cos that's how big boys roll.

Yeah cuz, composure under extreme pressure makes it exponentially easier to put 4 or 5 on their arse.

 

[teknodeejay]

It's not fear or cowardice, it's being the bigger person and not stooping to the rock ape's level. Retaliating or using physical force doesn't "teach them a lesson", it just breeds ill-feeling and resentment.

Never even knew there even were "overtaking lanes" on escalators in the first place....

Cannot be taken seriously when Lord Bendtner the greatest player ever is your avatar.

 

[teknodeejay]

Before Ruck Machine

After Ruck Machine

 

[Glacier]

I astonished by the amount of keyboard warriors who have responded to this thread. A bogan starts a physical altercation and gets put in his place and you have the audacity to call into question my actions????? Very sad reflection of the ingrained fear and cowardice in today's society.

With all due respect, what a stupid comment
To me it seems like you may have given a guy a mouthful yourself because he wasnt moving quick enough and then tried to be a hero because he may have answered you back
Much different than the poor kid oon the bus a few days back
Then you come on here and expect us all to tell you what a hero you are
Maybe you should stay off the escalators and find some stairs to walk up in the future

 

[Silent Alarm]

Sydney is the worst city for all kinds of implied social etiquette. People walk either direction either side and don't skip out the way, it's carnage on escalators with no semblance of keeping a side open... this city actually does alright in those stakes I think; I think it's a pretty good place for people looking after one another, quite often you'll see people helping out women with prams or holding doors open. Just little things. Brings back the faith

 

[Feerits Elf]

Sydney bad, Melbourne good

Got it

 

[Damon_3388]

I grew up in a shit area and if someone stood over you and you didn't breath fire you were done for. It's an adjustment to my adult good salary life now.

How were you "done for"? What real meaning does this "power struggle" have in the real world? Who really cares and what does it matter who comes out on top in these situations? Only idiots really care about and pay respect to the outcomes of these sort of things IMO.

 

[Stan Darsh]

How were you "done for"? What real meaning does this "power struggle" have in the real world? Who really cares and what does it matter who comes out on top in these situations? Only idiots really care about and pay respect to the outcomes of these sort of things IMO.

That's what I mean. In the real world you don't need to have your guard up cos someone might nick ya. Just hard acclimatising to different cultures without falling to old habits.

 

[JuddsABlue]

after this thread I cant really imagine a scenario where I dont get in a fight the next time I use an escalator

 

[pekay-norwest]

Maybe you were rude, that's subjective. If he pushed you, the line is drawn.

I'd probably follow your lead and snot him a few years back, but I have mellowed a fair bit in recent times. My first thought these days is what can happen if I DO swing a punch....could my punch, or subsequent action, kill this person? Leave his wife a widow? Kids orphans? To be honest, I'd have avoided a shed load of trouble in my 20s if I thought things through like I do now. I guess what I'm saying is, I choose not to use violence unless it is absolutely imperative. Which, most times, it isn't.

Either way, you did what you did, learn from it, whether you do it again or approach it differently.

 

[DrVanNostrand]

Since when is calling someone "mate" condescending? It's not. Would you prefer to be called "champ" instead?

 

[Simple Jack]

Since when is calling someone "mate" condensing? It's not. Would you prefer to be called "champ" instead?

Good post, sport.

 

[treefingers]

Since when is calling someone "mate" condensing? It's not. Would you prefer to be called "champ" instead?

This. Mate in most contexts is definitely not condescending, not to me anyway. Champ, buddy, chief, etc all are but mate is as Australian as it gets.

 

[Xtreme]

What I hate is when people near train or bus stops give you the dirtiest look when you say you don't smoke after they try to ask for a lighter or something.

 

[JuddsABlue]

What I hate is when people near train or bus stops give you the dirtiest look when you say you don't smoke after they try to ask for a lighter or something.

I get it, because you're not answering the question correctly

It's a simple yes or no

Answering with "I don't smoke" it can come off as kind of having a dig at them given smokers feel more and more separated from the gen pop

 

[Xtreme]

I get it, because you're not answering the question correctly

It's a simple yes or no

Answering with "I don't smoke" it can come off as kind of having a dig at them given smokers feel more and more separated from the gen pop

I usually say no.... and give I don't smoke as the reason. I get your point of view as the reason why they might be thumbing their nose at me.... but honestly it's their own lives... I don't go on an old person smoking gives you lung cancer style rant.

Same thing when people ask for change to use a pay phone - I rarely carry around coins as it is, if I say I have none.. I genuinely have none.
Also some people that try to use my phone in order to make a call (or "steal" it). I do carry around a smart phone device, but it has no sim card - it's purely an mp3 playing device for me.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Since when is calling someone "mate" condescending? It's not. Would you prefer to be called "champ" instead?

I can't believe you haven't heard people say things like "get ******, mate", "you're a ******* idiot, mate" etc.