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    Image of PontiusPirate PontiusPirate
    10/09/09

    In reply to Bus Seat Fistfight: More Transit Mayhem Policed By YouTube
    They're just excited for Fleet Week.
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    Image of FriendlyFloyd FriendlyFloyd
    10/08/09

    In reply to Bus Seat Fistfight: More Transit Mayhem Policed By YouTube
    It's like Chun Li vs. Balrog...

    Chun Li would win because Balrog was a charge character with no legit air defense.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    10/08/09

    In reply to Bus Seat Fistfight: More Transit Mayhem Policed By YouTube
    Sometimes I long for the old days, when these kinds of altercations were often just diversions to cover pickpockets or train robbers and whenever they'd occur, everyone would avert their eyes, get off at the next stop and wait for another bus.

    Nowadays and maybe it's just the parent in me, but if I were to witness such a fight, I don't know that I could film while keeping an eye out for a gun.
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    Image of RedLineRage RedLineRage
    10/08/09

    In reply to Bus Seat Fistfight: More Transit Mayhem Policed By YouTube
    I am totally in LOVE with the hipster who makes them stop. She was awesome.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/08/09

    In reply to Bus Seat Fistfight: More Transit Mayhem Policed By YouTube
    I'm reminded of recent conversation about how women should be running the financial world because they're much more conservative and socialated (big deal, I made up a word).
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    10/08/09

    In reply to Bus Seat Fistfight: More Transit Mayhem Policed By YouTube
    Unclear what really started this- we only have one side- but having lived in SF for many years, some Chinese-born women, especially older ones, are as aggressive as linebackers, they will plow you out of the way on a crowded bus. This woman was younger, but native Chinese have no problem jostling strangers on transit, and that may not have sat well with the African-American girl , if she were bumped without apology when the other lady went for the free seat. Don't know the story of course, but Chinese-born people in Sf sometimes have different ideas about "personal space" on mass transit. Seen it a lot, and wonder if that's part of this incident.
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/08/09

    @Baroness: "Personal space" doesn't exist on the 30.
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    10/08/09

    @Baroness: If you think the Chinese-born of SF have aggressive ideas about personal space, try the Hong Kong subway: more contact than most rugby scrums.
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    10/08/09

    @Cynical Media Bitch: Hate to sound like I'm going on with stereotypes here but: on a crowded SF Chinatown streetcorner once, a guy tripped over the protruding leg of a woman's old-fashioned metal shopping cart, and you could hear his knee crack as it hit the sidewalk.

    As I was helping the poor man up, the woman started screaming at him in Chinese- like, how dare you trip over my cart, idiot! was what I got as they argued in Chinese. It seems like they can be quite rough with each other in the public thrum sometimes.
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    10/08/09

    @Baroness: Dare I say "Forget it, Jake" ?
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    Image of OneViewHere OneViewHere
    10/08/09

    In reply to Bus Seat Fistfight: More Transit Mayhem Policed By YouTube
    This is what people mean when they say "I will take you down....I will take you down to Chinatown!". -It means you will get your ass beat by a tough old Chinese lady.
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    Image of Dave J. Dave J.
    10/08/09

    In reply to Bus Seat Fistfight: More Transit Mayhem Policed By YouTube
    Ha, this is the best part (from the translation over @ youtube):

    Old Man#2(1:26): Hit that bitch.
    Old Man#3(1:33): Beat that bitch ass.
    Old Lady#2(1:37): Don't fight no more.
    Old Man#2((1:59): Beat the fuck out of her till she is scared.
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    10/08/09

    In reply to Bus Seat Fistfight: More Transit Mayhem Policed By YouTube
    I kept hoping this was a John Woo Hong Kong-era movie, and that the quiet lady sitting in the orange jacket was going to jump up, pull dual handguns (and a dove) out of her backpack, and cap somebody.
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    Image of mr_mr mr_mr
    10/08/09

    In reply to Bus Seat Fistfight: More Transit Mayhem Policed By YouTube
    Things I realized from this video:

    - I will never understand Chinese/Mandarin
    - Not all black people can lay a beatdown
    - I still never, ever want to ride public transit in SF
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    Maxichamp promoted this comment mr_mr was starred mr_mr was unstarred
    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    10/08/09

    @mr_mr: That's because they're speaking Cantonese, not Mandarin.
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    Image of mr_mr mr_mr
    10/08/09

    @Maxichamp: touché
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    Image of breadpudding breadpudding
    10/08/09

    In reply to Bus Seat Fistfight: More Transit Mayhem Policed By YouTube
    I would be lying if I said I did not get a kick out of this.

    That black woman was so typical with the finger in the face, trying to push the other person so they will react first all the while talking all kinds of trash. Of course, she lands up throwing the first punch. What a surprise.

    Well - she messed with the wrong woman. That Chinese lady was scrappy.

    You know, I read an article a few years back in the New York Times about Chinese immigrant high school students in Queens who routinely are beat up on the subway by black and Latino punks. It made me so sad. (Of course if it happened the other way even once we would never hear the end of it).

    I wish they had this woman to help them out.
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    Image of procrastinator, esq. procrastinator, esq.
    10/08/09

    @breadpudding: Jesus, are you an awful person. I long for the days when commenters had to be approved in advance by Gawker.
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    Image of secretagentman secretagentman
    10/08/09

    @breadpudding: Human fail. Now as a 'typical' homo I will put my Judy Live at the Paladium record on and lipsynch while being sarcastic and witty, before my big march tomorrow trying to take away the sanctity of your marriage.
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    Image of lionel-mandrake lionel-mandrake
    10/08/09

    In reply to Bus Seat Fistfight: More Transit Mayhem Policed By YouTube
    Even if it there weren't the deterrent of getting a secret Kung Fu beatdown from an old Chinese lady, the, let's say, pungent nature of Chinese groceries would keep me the hell away.
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    Image of Artie Fufkin Artie Fufkin
    10/08/09

    In reply to Bus Seat Fistfight: More Transit Mayhem Policed By YouTube
    Reminded me of this.
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    Image of Gonkette Gonkette
    10/08/09

    @Artie Fufkin: Damn! Kareem's got some sessy legs in that one.
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    Image of Meiyou Wenti Meiyou Wenti
    10/08/09

    In reply to Bus Seat Fistfight: More Transit Mayhem Policed By YouTube
    Rule number one in San Francisco: Never fuck with old Chinese ladies.
    Rule number two: Chinese in San Francisco really don't like anyone that does not speak Cantonese.
    Rule number three: Never, never ride the bus.
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    Cynical Media Bitch promoted this comment Meiyou Wenti was starred Meiyou Wenti was unstarred
    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    10/08/09

    @Meiyou Wenti: Rule #3 only applies to the 30. And the 45. And the 14. And the 22. And the 38. And the 49. And the Metro, during rush hour.
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/08/09

    @Cynical Media Bitch: I would include the 1 as well.
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    10/08/09

    @Conchie Birdie: Nah, sorry, but the 1 is only third-tier for risk. It's just crowded at rush hour; otherwise, it's as safe as the 12 or the 33. For second-tier danger, you need the 5, the 24, the 31, the 33, the 48, or the 66.
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    10/08/09

    @Cynical Media Bitch: This is why I stick to the train. Screw MUNI buses. The only danger riding the train gets you close to is getting hit by one.
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    10/08/09

    @Airvault: Stay out of its way and you won't get hit. 45 tons over overpriced Italian engineering can't stop on a dime, and I have yet to see anything on rails that can dodge out of the way.

    Seriously, though I've run into dangerous situations on every Muni Metro line except the T, and that's because I have yet to ride it. Something about self-preservation, I guess?

    Those little old ladies waiting at Powell Street with their pink plastic bags will shove you in front of an LRV, if you don't treat them with respect.
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    10/08/09

    @Cynical Media Bitch: Good advice. I just moved here from the valley so everyone's giving me riding tips.
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    Image of heywhat heywhat
    10/08/09

    In reply to Bus Seat Fistfight: More Transit Mayhem Policed By YouTube
    Wow. That Chinese lady totally opened up a can of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" style whoop ass. Are there a lot of racial problems in San Francisco?
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    Image of JohanPaladin JohanPaladin
    10/08/09

    @heywhat: I think that conventional racist wisdom is that "asian people" and "black people" don't like one another. They said it on an early season of Lost, but then Jin and Michael became friends, so... mixed messages.
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/08/09

    @heywhat: It isn't necessarily an "out in the open" problem, but I do think there's a sense of "you stay in your place, I stay in mine" kind of attitude.
    All I have to say is you have to be real stupid to go up against a Chinese woman on the 30 bus in Chinatown.
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    10/08/09

    @heywhat: No more than any other city where public transit is crowded. We just have a rainbow mix of hate.
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    Image of heywhat heywhat
    10/08/09

    @Conchie Birdie: Yeah, I live in the South and we always get called out for having race relation problems. But liberal, progressive states and cities (i.e. Boston, San Fran, Philadelphia, etc.) have just as many problems as we do.
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    10/08/09

    @heywhat: Every city, every ethnic group, has a certain percentage of assholes. It's just that they stick out a little more in some places than others, I guess.
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