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BART Keeps Cell Service Despite Protests
Okian Warrior writes "After taking heat from the ACLU and being hacked by Anonymous for shutting down cellphone service to four stations last week, BART kept cell service on during Monday's protests. Officials at Bay Area Rapid Transit decided Monday that cutting cellphone service to thwart another planned protest would cause more trouble than the protests themselves. Instead, four stations were temporarily closed, creating a chaotic rush-hour commute."
Do people REALLY need to be on their cell phones on the subway, anyway?
One of the things I like best about the DC Metro is the incredibly spotty cell phone reception. You have NO IDEA how gratifying it is when someone who's been loudly talking on their cell phone for the past three above-ground stations FINALLY gets off as we go underground.
No one wants to hear your music on the train, which is why radios and boom boxes are banned. Equally, no one wants to hear you struggle to be heard on your cell phone over the roar of the train.
Cutting off cell service? Why? Because people never protested or rioted before the existence of cell phones?
Can someone explain the logic?
The logic is that today's protestors don't know how to organize with old technologies because they're a bunch of spoiled brats whining - I Can't Tweet, my life is RUINED! Bring in the ACLU, my Constitutional rights to be an asshat have been trampled.
They probably also voted for Obama.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
You're a real patriot aren't you? Go suck on Rick Perry's corndog you fucking amerikkan. Better yet, if you're such a bible-thumping, flag-waving piece of shit, ship yourself off to Iraq and get your ass blown up by a roadside bomb. Go ahead, do it for your country amerikkkan.
I'd rather be an Egyptian than one of you sorry sons of bitches any day. At least they don't sit on their fat, overfed asses and let their own country go down the fucking toilet, they stand up and fight. Scum like you, on the other hand, are perfectly happy not only to allow your so-called freedoms to be taken away from you, you actually argue in _favor_ of the people who are taking them. Scum like you.
> considering that the stations they closed had protestors on the tracks, blocking trains from leaving.
Easy problem. Toot Toot, chugga chugga. They WILL get out of the way because even a douchebag hipster knows who wins train vs meatsack. It is an attitude problem, nobody has the balls to make the choo choo go anymore so a few idiots can bring civilization to a halt.
What idiots. They leave the cell phone repeaters on and stop the trains. Hello! What is the primary purpose of BART? Phones or trains/buses?
Democrat delenda est