Charged For A 16Hr Phone Convo
May 19th, 2011 | by Mobile Data Group |A US woman was taken off a train by police and charged after she spoke too loudly on her mobile phone … for 16 hours.
Lakeysha Beard was charged with disorderly conduct after she had an argument in a carriage of an Amtrak train with passengers who asked her to be quiet, US media reports said.
The 39-year-old was on the phone throughout the train’s journey from Oakland, California, to Salem, Oregon, on Sunday, local television station KATU reported.
Ms Beard later told the station that she did not understand why everyone was complaining and felt “disrespected” by how she was treated.
Social etiquette expert Jodi Blackwood told KATU some people forgot about basic courtesy when they used their mobile phones.
“What does that say to them? It says that you’re only thinking of yourself and that you are only aware of what you need and what you are doing and you are a less considerate person,” she said.
Alex Travers, a Sydney etiquette expert at social coaching company A Matter of Style said in March that people had “forgotten about sharing the environment and what that means”.
Ms Travers said part of the problem was commuters’ lack of respect for public transport.