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What's the strangest/craziest thing you've ever seen on the LIRR??

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this is my story

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I dont' take the train very often, but we were coming back from one of the Billy Joel concerts this past winter and the train was packed out! So packed that if I jumped up, I would've been suspended in mid-air because all of the people would've held me up just by standing there..... I digress.
There is this woman leaning against the pole in the aisle... she looks like she's 10 seconds away from sleep but then she start to fall, like pass out fall. Everyone sort of panics and I scream out (because, I myself am a panic-er) "DR! Is there a DR!" Lo and behold, the guy that I was squishing the entire trip, say "Actually, I'm a Dr and so is my brother over there... BROTHER!" The were like superheros or something they way they jumped to action. After the fact, FH and I were just laughing at my reaction and that we don't think we've ever seen anyone call for a Dr like that in real life.

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People having sex....they got thrown off.

AND...

One time we were on after a hockey game and some kid was yelling about how the Rangers s*cked. This older man got so angry and they went back and forth yelling and finally the older guy (about 60) got up and said he was going to beat the hell out of him if he didn't shut up. The kid mouthed something back and actually yelled so much, getting the older dude so fired up that his FAKE TEETH flew out of his mouth and he caught them in the other hand. It was hilarious!!!!!!! I almost got in the way of this fight, too, because they were jumping all over the place. The kid was yelling in his phone to his friends I guess to "Meet him at Cold Spring Harbor"--where both men had been thrown off the train. Sometimes, to this day, when I call my best friend we'll randomly shout "Yo! Meet me at Cold Spring Harbor for an a*s kicking!"

Ah, rowdy hockey fans on the LIRR

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Fh was on the train home to Stewart Manor, and it was a crowded train, so he was standing in the aisle, drinking a smoothie, in a covered cup, with a straw. The guy sitting under him tells him to go away because "you're going to spill that thing on me" and FH says "no, I'm not going to spill it" and the guy starts screaming at him like "yses you better move, ebcause you're going to spill it on me and you couldn;t afford to replace this suit" FH said "If I spill it, I would gladly pay for dry cleaning, I'm not going to spill it, and you don't know what I can afford".

I don't remeber exact details, but FH was just being really polite and calling him Sir, and the guy eventually called him a little punk, and asked him to take it outside, and was threatening to hit him. Then he called him Long Beach trash (the train split at some point with a long beach train) and was all shocked that FH got off at Steawrt Manor... but anyway, the guy literally went to where the doors are and was trying to start a fight!

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I've been lucky with the crazy/strange stuff. I hear more nightmare stories than I experience mostly because I will move my seat as soon as someone starts their crap.

The funniest thing that ever happened was when I was stuck on a very crowded city bound train with a bunch of 17 year old boys around me. One of them could imitate Forrest Gump perfectly - when I could no longer hold in my laughter, the kid sat next to me and talked to me like that for the whole ride. It was cute.

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Posted by CoopersMom01

I dont' take the train very often, but we were coming back from one of the Billy Joel concerts this past winter and the train was packed out! So packed that if I jumped up, I would've been suspended in mid-air because all of the people would've held me up just by standing there..... I digress.
There is this woman leaning against the pole in the aisle... she looks like she's 10 seconds away from sleep but then she start to fall, like pass out fall. Everyone sort of panics and I scream out (because, I myself am a panic-er) "DR! Is there a DR!" Lo and behold, the guy that I was squishing the entire trip, say "Actually, I'm a Dr and so is my brother over there... BROTHER!" The were like superheros or something they way they jumped to action. After the fact, FH and I were just laughing at my reaction and that we don't think we've ever seen anyone call for a Dr like that in real life.

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I was next to these two teenaged girls who had just gotten a new cell phone and spent the ENTIRE ride trying out new ring tones and laughing hysterically at each one.

It was after a concert and fairly late at night and they were soooo loud. It was really annoying.

But the fun part is about 45 minutes into the ride this guy who had been sitting a couple rows back gets up walks over to them, grabs the cell phone from her hand, opens the door to the next car and throws it into the other car. And then yells "FETCH!"

I swear the whole car held their breath and the girls just turned white as sheets and just got up and moved.

Then the car broke into applause. It was surreal!!

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The toilet exploded on me. This is not a joke and here is the short version.

I almost never use the bathroom on the train but I couldn't hold it. I went in and peed and tried to flush. Didn't flush. Flushed a second time and the entire contents of the toilet came flying up about 6 feet in the air, all down one side of me, the blue crap in the toilet, with my recent deposit. It was the most disgusting thing I have ever experienced and luckily I was only 15 minutes from home.

Moral of the story: when travelling on the LIRR, hold it.

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I have a few.

Two grown professional men, get on the train in a scuffle, then fall down the stairs (it was a double-decker). They were fist fighting at 6AM!! I guess it started on the platform. Then someone broke them up. BUT, the decided to sit across the aisle from each other and keep verbally arguing.
One guy kept calling the other "fat boy". That guy called the other a "f-ing P-word". TOtally antagonizing each other. It was hysterical.

One time I walked on to the train at Hunter's Point and a man was cutting his toe nails.

One lady punch another lady in the face as a herd of people were trying ot get on to the train at Penn.

I have some pretty gross subway stories too.

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Posted by dpli

The toilet exploded on me. This is not a joke and here is the short version.

I almost never use the bathroom on the train but I couldn't hold it. I went in and peed and tried to flush. Didn't flush. Flushed a second time and the entire contents of the toilet came flying up about 6 feet in the air, all down one side of me, the blue crap in the toilet, with my recent deposit. It was the most disgusting thing I have ever experienced and luckily I was only 15 minutes from home.

Moral of the story: when travelling on the LIRR, hold it.

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My worst one was just last week.

I got on the train at Bethpage and it was pretty crowded, but I see a group of seats that were empy. I head over there, wondering why that bunch was empty when I nearly trip over this dude who was crawling on the floor. Some nice guy caught my arm and walked me down the car. He said the guy on the floor was drunk, threw up in those seats and wiped it up. He washed his hands in the TOILET, came back and passed out on the floor when I almost tripped over him.

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hmm, weirdest train experience was in Scotland. I don't even think I can describe it without the thread getting pulled, but lets just say that the highlight was a heroine Junkie thinking my friend was a urinal.

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OMG .. I am literally in tears reading these!

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anyone for "lady in red"? If you remember my story...if not I'll be happy to bump.

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Posted by baghag

My worst one was just last week.

I got on the train at Bethpage and it was pretty crowded, but I see a group of seats that were empy. I head over there, wondering why that bunch was empty when I nearly trip over this dude who was crawling on the floor. Some nice guy caught my arm and walked me down the car. He said the guy on the floor was drunk, threw up in those seats and wiped it up. He washed his hands in the TOILET, came back and passed out on the floor when I almost tripped over him.

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ok, let me find it for you..it was truly the best "story" of the LIRR

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Posted by dpli

The toilet exploded on me. This is not a joke and here is the short version.

I almost never use the bathroom on the train but I couldn't hold it. I went in and peed and tried to flush. Didn't flush. Flushed a second time and the entire contents of the toilet came flying up about 6 feet in the air, all down one side of me, the blue crap in the toilet, with my recent deposit. It was the most disgusting thing I have ever experienced and luckily I was only 15 minutes from home.

Moral of the story: when travelling on the LIRR, hold it.

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a man took off his shoes and was clipping his toe nails.

this didnt happen on the LIRR, but I was in penn station waiting for a subway and this man and woman were sitting on a bench and he was popping zits on her face.