Al Della Fave, a spokesman for the Port Authority Police Department, said the couple told officers they were unhappy with their jobs in Times Square, and were making idle chatter, unaware that anyone was listening in. They were not charged.

"It was an inappropriate comment," Della Fave said.


fark you, Dell Fave. It was inappropriate to suspend the the entire train service for 20 minutes when one of the most popular video games of all time is actually a murder simulator based in NYC where you can actually have a grenade battle with infinite SWAT people anywhere in the city.

Lighten the fark up people. At most, pull the couple off and let the trains continue.

hmm. so when i'm sitting in a train station or airport, it would be a bad idea to tell people that i'm actually not merely listening to music on the ipad, but that i'm also plotting tactical entry scenarios and lanes of retreat?

Pick up that inappropriate comment, citizen.

Live in fear. Be a paranoid busy body and eavesdrop on strangers. Bonus : You get attention by alerting everyone.
People that phone in false alarmist bullsh*t should die with a grenade up their ass.

If eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so, it seems, is the occasional transit delay.

Dafuq? It's like that whole not sacrificing liberty for security thing is all-out ignored by Americans these days :(

Would have been just fine in Chattanooga, though

What do you mean, just say nothing. I want idiots to tell me this kind of stuff. Hell, even if they're crazy and poses no threat, it's still fun to watch the cops drag him off.

I'll say what I goddamn like. This is still America, you motherfarking nazis. A grenade would cause a panic and hurt a few dozen people, but the rest will likely ignore it or view it as a publicity stunt.

doglover: Al Della Fave, a spokesman for the Port Authority Police Department, said the couple told officers they were unhappy with their jobs in Times Square, and were making idle chatter, unaware that anyone was listening in. They were not charged.

"It was an inappropriate comment," Della Fave said.


fark you, Dell Fave. It was inappropriate to suspend the the entire train service for 20 minutes when one of the most popular video games of all time is actually a murder simulator based in NYC where you can actually have a grenade battle with infinite SWAT people anywhere in the city.

Lighten the fark up people. At most, pull the couple off and let the trains continue.

What game is that?

Imagine, if instead of using grenades someone let loose a couple velociraptors in Times Square.

But what I should have said...was nothing.

wildcardjack: [imgs.xkcd.com image 600x407]

Imagine, if instead of using grenades someone let loose a couple velociraptors in Times Square.

How did you get a picture of my house?

Are you a wizard?

Pro tip(s): Never talk to anybody, never make sudden movements, don't dress weird or have weird hair, avoid going outdoors if at all possible.

I wish I were joking.

What a fine world we have created.

Apparently, you need to have fecal matter caked to your beard in order to not be hauled off in cuffs.

(winces) I do this sort of thing all the time. I do try not to vocalize it as much as I used to.

"Isn't it beautiful, Tom?"
"It's a bad choke point if someone wanted to lay an ambush from there, there or there..."
"STOP IT"

"What a beautiful bridge!"
"It's sort of tough"
"What do you mean?"
"Tough to climb the way the pilings are made. If I wanted to drop it, you'd have to hope for access up top, or I'd have to rappel down from the top, swing under and place some cutting charges there and there, and if you wanted to drop the next train over the side you might also want to add something like a heaving charge on a delay to tilt the rail bed ..."
"Stop. Just stop"

"Tom, why don't you just read instead of wandering the concourse?"
"Those guys"
"What?"
"See those guys? The six over there. They're in civilian clothes. But they're all Army NCOs and that guy's an officer, and they're practicing doing sweeps of the concourse"
"WHAT?"
"Watch the officer. Ok, he's got them together and they're trying to look civilian but they'll all line up and stand at parade rest while he's talking - there they go - now watch - those two stop while the other four move forward..."
"What are you going to do?"
"Go follow them. It ought to be fun"

Weaver95: hmm. so when i'm sitting in a train station or airport, it would be a bad idea to tell people that i'm actually not merely listening to music on the ipad, but that i'm also plotting tactical entry scenarios and lanes of retreat?

FTA: "Transit riders are constantly reminded, "If you see something, say something," and Della Fave said the passenger did the right thing."

erewhon: (winces) I do this sort of thing all the time. I do try not to vocalize it as much as I used to.

"Isn't it beautiful, Tom?"
"It's a bad choke point if someone wanted to lay an ambush from there, there or there..."
"STOP IT"

"What a beautiful bridge!"
"It's sort of tough"
"What do you mean?"
"Tough to climb the way the pilings are made. If I wanted to drop it, you'd have to hope for access up top, or I'd have to rappel down from the top, swing under and place some cutting charges there and there, and if you wanted to drop the next train over the side you might also want to add something like a heaving charge on a delay to tilt the rail bed ..."
"Stop. Just stop"

"Tom, why don't you just read instead of wandering the concourse?"
"Those guys"
"What?"
"See those guys? The six over there. They're in civilian clothes. But they're all Army NCOs and that guy's an officer, and they're practicing doing sweeps of the concourse"
"WHAT?"
"Watch the officer. Ok, he's got them together and they're trying to look civilian but they'll all line up and stand at parade rest while he's talking - there they go - now watch - those two stop while the other four move forward..."
"What are you going to do?"
"Go follow them. It ought to be fun"

You are/were in the military I assume?

AbbeySomeone: People that phone in false alarmist bullsh*t should die with a grenade up their ass.

In times Square.

Mildot: What do you mean, just say nothing. I want idiots to tell me this kind of stuff. Hell, even if they're crazy and poses no threat, it's still fun to watch the cops drag him off.
QFT. Better safe than sorry.

They just started running ads on NJ radio that feature "regular" people having a conversation that goes like this:

Moron1: Gee wiz, someone left an unattended package over there.

Moron2: OH NOES we should report it, but who do we call?

Moron3: I wish there was an easy way to give the transit police tips without having to do anything more then fiddle with my phone

Ominous Narrator: Now there is a way to help out big brother, If you see an unattended box or backpack, even just a shifty looking brown person who might be a mooslim terrorist, or if the minorities in the seats around you are just plain scary, then text you tip to 55555 and the transit police will be sure to overreact in the least effective way possible.

Remember kids, you get double Cadre Points for reporting a family member.

Remember, it's your duty to The Fatherland.

Helpful identification chart for you.

just left /rail/ trainsmag, rrforums and TO....hoping to for a change in subject on Fark

HEY NEW NS HERITAGE UNIT ANNOUNCED
FARKYEAH

wildcardjack: [imgs.xkcd.com image 600x407]

Imagine, if instead of using grenades someone let loose a couple velociraptors in Times Square.

I think the better question is: why is he bothering to size up houses against a completely unrealistic depiction of velociraptors, since he's usually so careful about being better than a mere pleb?

erewhon: (winces) I do this sort of thing all the time. I do try not to vocalize it as much as I used to.

"Isn't it beautiful, Tom?"
"It's a bad choke point if someone wanted to lay an ambush from there, there or there..."
"STOP IT"

"What a beautiful bridge!"
"It's sort of tough"
"What do you mean?"
"Tough to climb the way the pilings are made. If I wanted to drop it, you'd have to hope for access up top, or I'd have to rappel down from the top, swing under and place some cutting charges there and there, and if you wanted to drop the next train over the side you might also want to add something like a heaving charge on a delay to tilt the rail bed ..."
"Stop. Just stop"

"Tom, why don't you just read instead of wandering the concourse?"
"Those guys"
"What?"
"See those guys? The six over there. They're in civilian clothes. But they're all Army NCOs and that guy's an officer, and they're practicing doing sweeps of the concourse"
"WHAT?"
"Watch the officer. Ok, he's got them together and they're trying to look civilian but they'll all line up and stand at parade rest while he's talking - there they go - now watch - those two stop while the other four move forward..."
"What are you going to do?"
"Go follow them. It ought to be fun"


GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!

wildcardjack: Imagine, if instead of using grenades someone let loose a couple velociraptors in Times Square.

One of the levels in Super Scribblenauts has a beach party and your objective is to create two party supplies. I wrote velociraptor and after it killed a seagull and a nearby party guest I lost. True story.

Look, I'm all for free speech, but if you want to check the trains after some dude makes an offhand comment, I don't think that's a hanging offense.

Now, if they had been charged for that speech, I would have...

Al Della Fave, a spokesman for the Port Authority Police Department, said the couple told officers they were unhappy with their jobs in Times Square, and were making idle chatter, unaware that anyone was listening in. They were not charged.

Oh.

fluffy2097:
You are/were in the military I assume?

Yup. Been 22 years out and still got the mild form of the situational awareness bug. It's a running joke in the family.

/Son, where would you put shooters in this scene?
//Um, there, there and maybe a trap in the alley there to catch the stampede?
///That's my boy.

wildcardjack: [imgs.xkcd.com image 600x407]

Imagine, if instead of using grenades someone let loose a couple velociraptors in Times Square.

lol thats awesome

Heh. A friend and I who used to go dancing a lot (and who also both played a ton of CounterStrike) would always talk about finding good "sniper spots" in the clubs. Of course this was just a euphemism for finding a place where you had the best view to scope out chicks.

If you were to take a female friend to a coffee shop or diner, and tried to reenact the big O scene from 'when harry met sally', you'd be tased, arrested, and dropped in some hole for months.

What a weird thing to be thinking about. I always wonder about what kind of slave clothes women will have to wear when the lizard people take over.

fusillade762: Heh. A friend and I who used to go dancing a lot (and who also both played a ton of CounterStrike) would always talk about finding good "sniper spots" in the clubs. Of course this was just a euphemism for finding a place where you had the best view to scope out chicks.

sure it wasn't a euphemism for a place to blow each other?

/jk
/nttawwt

I call bullshiat.

People don't interact on the New York subway.

Mock26: doglover: Al Della Fave, a spokesman for the Port Authority Police Department, said the couple told officers they were unhappy with their jobs in Times Square, and were making idle chatter, unaware that anyone was listening in. They were not charged.

"It was an inappropriate comment," Della Fave said.


fark you, Dell Fave. It was inappropriate to suspend the the entire train service for 20 minutes when one of the most popular video games of all time is actually a murder simulator based in NYC where you can actually have a grenade battle with infinite SWAT people anywhere in the city.

Lighten the fark up people. At most, pull the couple off and let the trains continue.

What game is that?

Probably GTA IV:

"Grand Theft Auto IV is a 2008 open world action-adventure video game published by Rockstar Games, and developed by UK game developer Rockstar North. It has been released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 video game consoles, and for the Windows operating system. The game involves a separate timeline and world than its predecessors, starting the fourth "era" in the Grand Theft Auto series, and is set in fictional Liberty City, based heavily on modern day New York City." -Wikipedia

Bondith: I call bullshiat.

People don't interact on the New York subway.

Well considering this did happen in NJ.......

What kind of terrorists would actually openly discuss their plans?

erewhon: fluffy2097:
You are/were in the military I assume?

Yup. Been 22 years out and still got the mild form of the situational awareness bug. It's a running joke in the family.

/Son, where would you put shooters in this scene?
//Um, there, there and maybe a trap in the alley there to catch the stampede?
///That's my boy.

You make me want to join the marines, sir.

Weaver95: hmm. so when i'm sitting in a train station or airport, it would be a bad idea to tell people that i'm actually not merely listening to music on the ipad, but that i'm also plotting tactical entry scenarios and lanes of retreat?

Generally, when I'm listening to music or whatever, I'm plotting tactical entry and etc., but I'd never admit to either one.

I've still got my winning Taking Down Disneyland with Fewer than Twenty People scenario copyrighted, but it should be in public domain by the end of the decade.

As I drive down the highway to pass the time I always start imagining buildings being hit by artillery/bombs/alien death beams.

Has any act of terrorism ever been stopped because people chatted casually about it in their commute?

F42: Has any act of terrorism ever been stopped because people chatted casually about it in their commute?

Has any act of terrorism ever been STARTED because people casually chatted about it in their commute?

So now on top of my fellow commuters being loud cell phone talkers, smashing their bags and backpacks into you, taking up extra seats idiots, I now have to be concerned that they are busybodies?

I know a lot of you hate the traffic jams of rush hour, but I'd rather deal with that than deal with mass transit.

TobiasStauhf:
You make me want to join the marines, sir.

Ew.

/Army, '80-'90.
//there's no pursuit problem that can't be resolved by the judicious placement of a wp grenade duct taped to a claymore
///warrant, look, I believe...they're doing the safety dance!

fredklein: Probably GTA IV:

Exactly.

You can even mod it to look EXACTLY like the real thing.

Times Square Mod

Just step out of the car, and lob a few rockets down towards the nearest car and suddenly it's like the climax of the movie Heat with cops and helicopters and machine guns everwhere until you either die or use the cheat code to lose the stars.

I have the game right here on my PS3 for years.

How could talking about something like that shut down the whole train system when all it takes is $20 on Steam and in under 30 minutes you can be lobbing grenades into a virtual replica of times square and engaging LEOs and civilians with an arsenal of weaponry big enough for Rambo? Just have an officer on the platform pull the couple aside and find out what's what while the train keeps on truckin'

No one but my dad asks me questions like that, when I am lost in thought about other matters.

Here are a couple of answers:

"I'm worried my dog is gay."

"There will never be lasting peace in the Middle East."

"Did you know J. Edgar Hoover wore makeup and dresses and asked to be called 'Mary'"?

What he should have said...."mind your own business, Arsehole" and then finished with I was thinking about gutting you real slow and letting you bleed out on this floor here.

Reason #8724 why I will never report suspicious behavior.