Strangest looking passenger you have seen

[GatwickDepress]

I wouldn't mock those, my trans friends get so much stick from strangers (and one was ASSAULTED on a bus earlier this week)

I hope your friend is okay following the assault. It's disgusting how some people act towards certain individuals, and even worse if they think it's somehow an appropriate or justified response, as I've found out.

Ed Miliband is the strangest looking passenger I've seen.

He gets the train?! I thought he caught the daily shuttle from Planet Zog!

 

[krus_aragon]

On the 1548 from Kings Cross to Selby yesterday there was a passenger who was coloured gold from head to toe. His head and body was painted gold. He had a gold suit on, together with a gold bowler hat with a model of a dove fixed to it.

While I haven't seen any on board a train, there are a few individuals that dress up like that to busk in Cardiff: they stand perfectly still an a soapbox, but when someone puts some money in their tin they "wake up" and move for a few seconds as if they were a mechanical robot (complete with bird warbler for sound effects).

 

[Sheepy1209]

I wouldn't mock those, my trans friends get so much stick from strangers (and one was ASSAULTED on a bus earlier this week)

This reminds me of a journey on a Blackpool bus a while back; the driver was a transvestite, and spoke in a very lady-like manner to passengers. But when a (female) colleague got on he chatted away in a deep masculine voice.

This being Blackpool it didn't seem odd at all - indeed I thought it was great how ordinary it all seemed. Besides, he was a good driver....


[Edit: re train passengers - it's not unusual to get stag/hen parties heading for town - I've certainly been the minority non-Elvis on a Preston-Blackpool service]

 

[BradNufc]

On a Oxford to Didcot Parkway I saw a women that had no shoes and rotting feet getting of at didcot then got on a train to BTM.

 

[atomicdanny]

Not sure if it counts I've seen a bunch of Klingons get on the train at Charing Cross one before!

 

[fairysdad]

Yes indeed, my first port of call would hardly be the Lost Property number, and although this would be theoretically a police matter, I'd always hesitate with 999 where one may not be in immediate danger?

<ot> This is why I keep the non-emergency numbers for the local police and the BTP in my phone; although I've only rung them twice, one of the times I think they transferred me to the emergency line so now I'll probably ring that/those numbers instead and they can decide if it's an emergency or not (it's just annoying that of all the numbers I have (off the top of my head I've got Devon & Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset, the Met police and the BTP) only the Dorset one isn't a 'premium' rate number...) </ot>

 

[Eagle]

Doesn't Dorset use 101 now?

 

[MacRae13]

so I can stretch my legs out into the aisle

Have you never thought you might be creating a hazard for the blind or partially sighted?

 

[Muzer]

Have you never thought you might be creating a hazard for the blind or partially sighted?

Have you never thought about the possibility of moving your legs whenever someone comes by/when at stations when people are more likely to do so?

 

[tamesidedepot]

On a Pacer on the Hope Valley line at the end of July I had the pleasure of travelling with a stag party. One guy in a pink mankini who had to jump off at each station and run to the other end of the train. Presume he was the stag. Another in the group was dressed like an 80s George Michael. It was interesting.

 

[Starmill]

On a Pacer on the Hope Valley line at the end of July I had the pleasure of travelling with a stag party. One guy in a pink mankini who had to jump off at each station and run to the other end of the train. Presume he was the stag.

Ugh! I bet the guard enjoyed that! NOT.

 

[MacRae13]

Have you never thought about the possibility of moving your legs whenever someone comes by

All the time, but if they're approaching from behind I wouldn't be able to see them as I don't have eyes in the back of my head. And I've still to meet someone who does.

when at stations when people are more likely to do so?

Ah yes, more likely. What about when less likely but still happens?

But don't let the details get in the way of that one time you cause someone who's blind or partially to go flat on their face.

 

[NorthernSpirit]

Getting off a cross-country service to go to a music festival, I saw a couple of people apparently dressed entirely in yellow/black hazard tape. As they went past the window down the platform, I overheard a couple in their 50s...
Him: "Ooh look"
Her: "Aah, bless!"

They must have wanted to look like the interior of the former Hacienda nightclub in Manchester if they were dressed in yellow and black hazard tape.

 

[321446]

All the time, but if they're approaching from behind I wouldn't be able to see them as I don't have eyes in the back of my head. And I've still to meet someone who does.



Ah yes, more likely. What about when less likely but still happens?

But don't let the details get in the way of that one time you cause someone who's blind or partially to go flat on their face.

In 30 years of using trains I've never managed to injure someone by stretching my legs out, I always manage to move them even when they appear Ninja like from behind me. But don't let those facts prevent you from getting on your high horse for nothing. Is the view nice from up there?

 

[GodAtum]

I find commuting dull and like to spice it up with a colorful shirt lol

 

[Aldaniti]

The teenager sitting opposite my first class reserved seat with his feet on my seat, and the reaction on his face, when I kicked his feet off my seat, and rubbed his face in my soiled seat and called him all the names I could think of from my oil and gas industry vocabulary followed by my throwing him off the train. To say that he squirmed and was near to tears and had no idea how to react gave me much pleasure. My only sadness was that afterwards I regretted that I hadn't used more of my vocabulary to express my feelings and that I hadn't kicked his backside with my soiled shoes when ejecting him from the train.

When the train "manager" or whatever they are called these days came to inspect my ticket I told him of what had happened and advised him to check the CTTV coverage of what had happened.

To be honest, I get very Pee-ed off with how some people behave on trains. People who sit in an aisle seat to prevent someone sitting next to them or put their belongings in the seat next to them to stop people sitting with them. I now get great pleasure in asking these people if they have paid for 2 seats, and I love their reaction when the whole carriage hears of their atrocious behavior. I ask them if they are too ill or infirm to put their luggage in the overhead luggage trays and if I, a 60 year old man can assist them so I can sit next to them. I love to tell them "yes be embarrassed - it's what your selfish attitude deserves". "go on so I can continue your being embarrassed by your self-centred attitude, and I really love rubbing it in by continuously asking if they are happy with me sitting next to them.

Yes I am a bit of a "B" in my dotage.

I tend to sit in aisle seats as I have a weaker bladder than most and my reasoning when selecting such a seat on a busy train is so that I don't disturb the person sat next to me when getting up to go to the loo. Would I suffer from one of your outbusts as well? :roll:

 

[Wyvern]

On a more peaceful note:

New York Times

 

[MP33]

On my train there is fellow who only travels one or two stops. I know him, personally as he went to the same school as me and left a year before me. If you saw him today, you would think, he looks a bit weird. If you had seen him a few years ago, you would have noticed how he now looks a lot more normal.

When I was at school, after all his year had left in mid June after completing all their exams. His parents made him turn up every day until the summer holidays at the end of July with all his school books and in full school uniform. I do not know what the school did with him all day.

 

[GodAtum]

I did an experiment on Friday and wore my Jedi robes to work. I sat in my usual seat in 1st class and got a lot of strange looks from fellow passengers lol.

 

[ATW Alex 101]

On a late service from Leicester to Nottingham some guy of West Indies/Carribean descent got on at Loughborough clearly very drunk and started playing his guitar and singing trying to get everyone to join in!

Also another one on my London-Pembroke Dock trip in August, took my seat in First Class and some weird bloke sat opposite me took a look at my McDonald's then a look at me and just sat there and curled his lip at me, he kept doing it and I just smiled every time. He sat there like a girl that's not got her pony with his arms crossed giving me evils then when the guard came just after Reading he asked if he could move, giving me a dirty look, and the guard said yes as long as it isn't reserved and then got his bags off the rack but stayed in his seat until Swansea! What an utterly weird man!

 

[NLC1072]

As for strange clothing choices I've seen... there are two semi-druidic/hermit-like people, each with a long wooden staff, a long overcoat and rather nice walking boots, who I've seen on a particular London Overground service (more than once).

Various people in animal and banana-shaped onesies - not overly unusual but a lot of them at once can be a little overwhelming for logical thought.

There are several train and indeed station staff I know who will wear fleecy scarves and hats in even the very warmest weather, on trains and stations which are not particularly cold in summer!

They've come through my work station a few times before
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Yes indeed, my first port of call would hardly be the Lost Property number, and although this would be theoretically a police matter, I'd always hesitate with 999 where one may not be in immediate danger?

In that case I'd ring 101. That's the police non emergency number that puts you through to the nearest local police hub/regional control centre.

 

[Mugby]

Also another one on my London-Pembroke Dock trip in August, took my seat in First Class and some weird bloke sat opposite me took a look at my McDonald's then a look at me and just sat there and curled his lip at me, he kept doing it and I just smiled every time.

To be fair, I'm not entirely surprised considering some of the vile stinking muck served up by McDonalds!

 

[ATW Alex 101]

SOME of the vile stinking muck. McMuffin, hashbrown and coffee isn't muck to me :P

 

[CC 72100]

To respond to the title of the thread - some residents of Bordeaux reported a lama on the tram....

Serge the llama rides tram after being 'abducted' by revellers in Bordeaux
Circus animal becomes Facebook sensation and sparks online spoofs after pictures of his 'night out' emerge

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/serge-llama-tram-abducted-bordeaux

I'm pretty sure Serge is the most popular 'creature' in the whole country at the moment!

 

[Marcus1980]

Somebody on the train going to work today who claimed to be 15, travelling on a child ticket. When asked for his DOB by the conductor, he then was asked for ID but had none. With that the driver mentioned charging him a fine, then tried getting it out of him that's he's a bit older, but did not work. He then took the ticket off him.

The thing is, the guy was clearly not 15 and looked a bit odd also!.

 

[Deerfold]

Somebody on the train going to work today who claimed to be 15, travelling on a child ticket. When asked for his DOB by the conductor, he then was asked for ID but had none. With that the driver mentioned charging him a fine, then tried getting it out of him that's he's a bit older, but did not work. He then took the ticket off him.

The thing is, the guy was clearly not 15 and looked a bit odd also!.

This was the strangest looking passenger you've ever seen?

Shame you've provided no description other than "looked a bit odd".

 

[Toad]

The teenager sitting opposite my first class reserved seat with his feet on my seat, and the reaction on his face, when I kicked his feet off my seat, and rubbed his face in my soiled seat and called him all the names I could think of from my oil and gas industry vocabulary followed by my throwing him off the train. To say that he squirmed and was near to tears and had no idea how to react gave me much pleasure. My only sadness was that afterwards I regretted that I hadn't used more of my vocabulary to express my feelings and that I hadn't kicked his backside with my soiled shoes when ejecting him from the train.

When the train "manager" or whatever they are called these days came to inspect my ticket I told him of what had happened and advised him to check the CTTV coverage of what had happened.

To be honest, I get very Pee-ed off with how some people behave on trains. People who sit in an aisle seat to prevent someone sitting next to them or put their belongings in the seat next to them to stop people sitting with them. I now get great pleasure in asking these people if they have paid for 2 seats, and I love their reaction when the whole carriage hears of their atrocious behavior. I ask them if they are too ill or infirm to put their luggage in the overhead luggage trays and if I, a 60 year old man can assist them so I can sit next to them. I love to tell them "yes be embarrassed - it's what your selfish attitude deserves". "go on so I can continue your being embarrassed by your self-centred attitude, and I really love rubbing it in by continuously asking if they are happy with me sitting next to them.

Yes I am a bit of a "B" in my dotage.

Think we will all be reading about how a 60 year old man was beaten badly up and is recovering in hospital (maybe) !!!!

Gets very peed off when someone sits in a aisle seat !!!!! Is this a joke

 

[Buttsy]

Waiting for a York train at Scarborough once, I did see a transvestite get off the incoming service. (S)He looked around the 55 mark and wasn't very convincing.

 

[Marcus1980]

This was the strangest looking passenger you've ever seen?

Shame you've provided no description other than "looked a bit odd".

Hair like a cotton wool ball for starters. Also clearly trying to commit theft and thinks the conductors are stupid, more the shame on him. Gate staff hardly even look at the display on the barrier when they put the ticket though.

Haven't seen any other passengers worthy of mentioning.

 

[Deerfold]

Hair like a cotton wool ball for starters.

And for finishers it seems too. Is it a secret what he looked like?

Also clearly trying to commit theft

Can't see any evidence of that. Fare dodging, perhaps even fraud, but not theft.

and thinks the conductors are stupid, more the shame on him. Gate staff hardly even look at the display on the barrier when they put the ticket though.

How close to the barrier are these staff?

Haven't seen any other passengers worthy of mentioning.

Perhaps just as well...