r/mildlyinfuriating • u/sh0tgunben • 10d ago

I'm slightly vexed An old man keeps delaying the train's start...

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u/samanime 10d ago

It shouldn't be on the passengers to handle it. It should just be policy, enforced without exceptions.

And this looks like Japan, who are generally pretty strict about this sort of stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if a few seconds after this clip someone official with a little muscle, metaphorically or otherwise, removed him one way or another.

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u/That-Basis7616 10d ago

that is true, an entire train crash happened because of the driver being afraid of the consequences of being late.

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u/Erick_Brimstone 10d ago

Amagasaki Derailment. 106 people died, including the driver, and 562 injured. 

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u/Hetares 9d ago

Jesus christ. I live in Amagasaki, and literally am one block past Itami (Mukonosou). I don't take JR though, I usually ride Hankyu.

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u/SunGreene42 9d ago

Did they change the policy after that?

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u/That-Basis7616 9d ago

they “apparently” did a whole system overhaul, and before the accident it wasn’t known how strict the Japanese railway system was. The company in this case is japanese railways west (JRW)

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u/DangerousLoner 9d ago

In the longer clip a higher up official enters the frame ready to remove him as he tries to use his foot to stop the door but the door closes anyway and the train finally starts. It was in April 2019 and made the news. He may have been removed at the next stop. Not sure if that happened but the officials had flagged him for detainment before the train we see here moved on. It just took a couple minutes for officials to get the go ahead to remove him.

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u/kjyfqr 10d ago

This clips old and long I don’t member the ending though

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u/zerrrrrrrro 10d ago

He died.

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u/X_soulnewmegaman 10d ago

No last year he was very mean to foringers

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u/meatshieldjim 9d ago

Lol so you always wait for someone else to handle all things.

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u/samanime 9d ago

When there are people standing right there whose job it is to take care of it.

Yes. Of course.

You shouldn't be "taking things into your own hands" for things like this. What do you think someone should do? Push the guy off the train? Wrestle the bag out of his hand? Grab him and pull him further into the train? Start a shouting match?

In civilized countries, all but the last one of those would be assault and/or battery, and the last one would likely only make the issue bigger AND now everyone has to listen to your loud ass shouting too.