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I think its isolation had a lot do with the high rate of assault.
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I think its isolation had a lot do with the high rate of assault.
Originally posted by NICK THE PIE MAN
Come on Mead,
you have us curious now!
Spill the beans!
, ok. Sorry about not posting it at the time- i was eating my lunch, and desperately trying *not* to think about it.A couple of days ago, I'm heading back from uni after a late lecture. , I end up at Oats St station (Apologies to eastern staters, who won't know what the feck i'm talking about)at about 9:00pm. Noone else is at the station except a couple of guys about 17, you know the sort, drunk/stoned off their brains, asking me for $1 for a train fare, and ok, yes, they were of indigenous descent.
Anyway, the train comes, and I get on. These two guys get on and sit at the seat in front of me. They're yelling stuff at everyone else in the carriage and so on. Anyway, as we're going past Burswood, a vile smell drifts through the carriage, making everyone gag. Then one of the youths in question yells '"ahh crap, i've gone and s hat myself!" His mate swears at him for a while, then suggests he stand up. "Noo, if I do it'll slop through me pants!" (I haven't bothered to include the expletive between each word) Me and the 5 or 6 other people on the train are sitting absolutely horrified, trying not to breathe, listening in sick fascination as we here an occassional plopping noise. You have to realise I am sitting on the seat directly behind, so I am literally gagging. Someone gets up to leave the carriage, and get a torrent of obscenities in their direction. After the longest three minute train journey of my life we get to Perth station, and they get up to get off. One of them has faeces running down his ankle, out of the legs of his white track pants, which are now not very white. Then a caught site of the large, brown sticky mass on the seat in front of me, it looked to be about the consistency of corn syrup, and the sort of color you'd get if u mixed the two stripes on the Hawthorn jumper together. The air in the carriage had to be smelt to be believed.
As one, all the passengers remaining on the train headed as far away from it as we could.
I'm sorry, this probably doesnt do justice to just how bad it was to be there. The only redeeming feature of the whole horrible incident was seeing a couple of train police get on at Stirling, wander through the train, and do a double take when they found the 'present' left for them in that carriage.
oh jesus Mead top story, i thought i'd seen it all but that's just topped it off. Have had seen some very vile human acts on trains and around stations but this one has just confirmed what i always feared would happen in front of me one day lol that is disgusting. If i hadda been there i woulda rang the Police straight away on my mobile have done it before to people acting like pigs on the transport system.
The Spornstar
Premiership Player
Originally posted by TheFoxhat
Go for a trip on the last train to Broadmeadows ,that's always good for some fun, tripping over the drunks & crackwhores & drug F***** morons.
East Camberwell ,scary you must be joking mAAAAAAAAnnnn
It's scary relative to where it is in Melbourne. It's not so much the station itself, it's the area surrounding it. Not many dodgier places in Melbourne's mid-eastern suburbs.
Redfern Station (in fact all of Redfern) in Sydney is pretty scary.
I'm hearing ya.
I used to catch the train out to Carousel from the Currambine Line and the people that got on and off along that line used to freak me out. I'd hold my breath until they all got off.
In Melbourne, East Ringwood is feral as. I couldn't get off a train without being harassed by some little hoods out there. (One of them, shirtless, tried to hug me....ewwwww)
Originally posted by Mead
That was one sicko story there Mead! Made me think of that scene in the first Austin Powers movie "Christ boy! What did ya eat?!?"
I refuse to take public transport any more, too slow and too many ferals.
For a repeat performance Mead slip a laxative in someone's drink
vanders
Brownlow Medallist
ah, thats gross!!
worst station in melbourne, that ive heard, is Jacarna, and thats somewhere in the northern suburbs i think
Central Station in Sydney is pretty scary at night, so i discovered on Tuesday, sooooooo many weirdos *shudder*
worst station in melbourne, that ive heard, is Jacarna, and thats somewhere in the northern suburbs i think
Central Station in Sydney is pretty scary at night, so i discovered on Tuesday, sooooooo many weirdos *shudder*
Williamstown Station.
We went to Willi one day... with school.. and yeah me and 4 other chicks were waiting for a train with A TEACHER, and these guys were on the other platform yelling all this sh*t over to us. Then they started yelling crap like "give us a head job, we'll pay ya" and chucked 10c and 5c coins over. But having a teacher there didn't stop me from saying what I wanted to say to them.
Mind you I wish I hadn't said half the stuff I did; the chicks there and the teacher won't ever let me hear the end of it.
We went to Willi one day... with school.. and yeah me and 4 other chicks were waiting for a train with A TEACHER, and these guys were on the other platform yelling all this sh*t over to us. Then they started yelling crap like "give us a head job, we'll pay ya" and chucked 10c and 5c coins over. But having a teacher there didn't stop me from saying what I wanted to say to them.
Mind you I wish I hadn't said half the stuff I did; the chicks there and the teacher won't ever let me hear the end of it.
two words: Frankston line
you can't go a day without something disturbing or life threatening happening on that line.
Frankston station is really bad too.
you can't go a day without something disturbing or life threatening happening on that line.
Frankston station is really bad too.
Sounds like the eastern equivalant of the Perth-Armadale line, which is just outstanding, never a dull moment. Mind you, I can also remember taking it at nite a few years back, before they put on all these wussy train guards.
Iirc in 2000 there were actually 390 assaults on trains on the perth-armadale line after 6pm. That means that *every* night of the year, you were effectively guaranteed of seeing someone get attacked if you stayed on the train for long enough. I didn't mind it though... just getting home safe at night felt like winning an olympic medal.
Deestroy
Norm Smith Medallist
Nunna is the station I always goto, never had that much trouble, though you do see plenty of ********s, I can see how there could be plenty of assaults there.
Mocca
Team Captain
Broady line is a doddle. Travelled on it for 20 years, never had an ounce of trouble.
I haven't had trouble on the Broady line either. The closest i came to real trouble was this year after the Collingwood match (the one where we were spanked) I had this ******** behind me who kept asking me the score (he was a Collingwood supporter), i was just sitting on the train minding my own business but he wouldn't shut up. Anyway, as i got up to leave the train at Oak Park station he had another crack, very gutsy efforts as i was getting out of the train. So i went back to give him a spray, he didn't want a bar of it.
I've seen this **** in the Collingwood cheersquad on tv. He looks like a human hamburger, seriously.
If you get off at Ascot Vale it deosn't count my brother in white.
I went to school smack in the middle of Broady, and caught the train from Broady station or Jacana most days for two years. Very dodgy.
2 threatened stabbings.
One attempted stabbing.
Multiple threats of violence.
One broken bottle on friends head.
And my personal favorite, the withdrawing of a handgun on the frickin train.
All directed to me, or mates I went to school with.
Mocca
Team Captain
Yeah, but you have to balance that against the fact that it was you - you probably deserved it.
Generally got off at Essendon, but went to the end of the line often enough to strike trouble when it was around.
Generally got off at Essendon, but went to the end of the line often enough to strike trouble when it was around.
Excellent point.
I am very stabworthy. Wait until I get the Spur's shirt. It will go nicely with blood stains.
Essendon is too bloody busy. Cannot get a seat in the morning.
But, this problem is offset by the sudden and delictable influx of youngish school girls, ready for a day of study at any number of the wonderful establishments in the surrounding areas.
Ohh happy days.
I'm an Oak Park/Glenroy man. I've seen bad things occur, but never really got into much trouble myself.
Once had an approach from a 50-60 year old hooker who stunk like Scotch at Jacana. Didn't catch the train past Glenroy much after that.
Once had an approach from a 50-60 year old hooker who stunk like Scotch at Jacana. Didn't catch the train past Glenroy much after that.
Mocca
Team Captain
You should have just paid her; then you could have got off the train wherever you liked.
Mocca
Team Captain
You see? Everyone's a winner.
Had enough now guys?
Actually... that's what she said too!
Actually... that's what she said too!
