Williamsburg, NY – A local frequent straphanger — has started a campaign against the worst behavior underground, using a sharp wit and a fast camera phone shutter.
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Williamsburg resident Tom Sibley has snapped and received photo submissions of people partaking in some obnoxious subway behavior: clipping their nails, putting their feet on the pole, searching in front of a turnstile for a MetroCard or just lying drunk on a platform.
The best — or worst, depending on how you look at it — are immortalized on with a snarky headline and write-up from Sibley, 26.
The man, who works for a reality-TV show by day and as a standup at night, said his in-box gets flooded with photos from riders.
“Someone will take a picture of something really annoying, or maybe even really rancid, and write, ‘I thought of you!’ in the e-mail,” he said. “That took some getting used to.”
Some of the stuff he’s seen, he said, “will make your hair curl.”
Contributors have caught a man trimming his nails, a kid eating chicken wings and leaving scraps on the floor and — tops on the ick list — a man vomiting between two other riders.
The blog began with basic bad behavior, mostly of riders on the L line, which Sibley rides daily.
But as it got more attention, now about 75 percent of his posts are from rider submissions – though he still takes his own shots.
ive been in an elevator and someone was clipping their fingernails.
dont people know this is a private procedure.
what so private about cutting your nails? do you tie your shoes in private also?
If you can use a tissue to blow your nose in public, why can’t you clip your nails in public? If you can cough in public, why can’t you cronicly sniffle in public?
Who sets the rules?
My son once threw up on the train. He was 3. i was mortified.
Finally somebody iS doing this already. Its about time this should be taking care of…
At least they should clip their nails into a tissue, not just on the floor
Tops on my most annoying list are the people that blare music through their cheap earpods while I am trying to sleep or study or otherwise concentrate. There should be a law about minimum audibility standards from ear pods!
I’m afraid once they start with the wrong person it will end in violence.
#2 and #3, you both need to learn some ethics.
Actually the Talmud dicsuused nail cutting in public and I believe the halacha is that one may do so and throw the cliipins on the floor.
speaking of which…it takes a lot of nerve
for those folks that have a need to blow their noses in public, for instances like oh lets say a deli or … like in shul while your concentrating and all of a sudden you hearing blowing and iam not talking about a gentle litte insignifgant blow or what No iam talking serious non stop blowing that would put our baal tokah to shame So please out teir have rachmunis if you have to just remove yourself to a private loaction
and spare us of your talent…
I travel the subway daily and agree that the described behaviors are abhorrent. However, equally annoying is someone taking a photograph without permission. The photo that accompanies your article, whether taken by Mr. Sibley or by your staff, is most definitely an invasion of privacy and totally inconsiderate.
where can the pictures be seen?
Blowing one’s nose is not in the same category of clipping one’s nails. If someone has to blow his nose he should do so as delicately as possible, but clipping nails is a real no no.
is biting your nails any better, im sure iv seen that happen everyewhere including on the train.
just a warning, putting it out there- if you’re going to look at the photos in the link, there are some INCREDIBLY INAPPROPRIATE images on there.
The sound of the clipper grates on your ears and the person couldn’t care less where their dead nails fly. It’s really gross and in my experience it’s always been Asians — so maybe that is the norm back in their country and its a real culture gap.
Looking at the pictures makes me really happy I don’t live in New York.