Boiled eggs on a train court case

[Iamthewombat]

Does anybody else feel sorry for the woman prosecuted for objecting (quite vigorously, I admit) to somebody eating smelly hard boiled eggs on an early morning train?

www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/city-worker-flew-into-rage-at-commuter-over-boiled-eggs-breakfast-on-train-from-chelmsford-to-a4284821.html

Because I do.

The boiled egg eater is the very definition of a drama queen. According to the story, she had already been told by a different passenger that the smell of her eggs was offensive but carried on regardless.

After being challenged by the woman who was later prosecuted, she pretended that she couldn’t speak English, then told the police about the altercation. Then pointed the other woman out to police when she saw her on the train five days later!

I know who I support, and it’s not the anti-social egg eater. Who apparently had to eat her eggs in a public place ‘because of her diet’.

The abusive fool shouldn’t have yelled at the woman for eating eggs. I have used this train during peak times and it’s usually full of men eating bacon sarnies and other smelly foods in the morning - it’s quite telling about this woman’s intentions that she picked on the ‘foreign’ woman. Probably thought she’d be an easy target.

Agree Sunshine

Eating in public - unless it's a sweet - isn't nice of other people to be forced to watch anyway. When it's strong-smelling stuff, it's even worse.

What if someone had actually vomited - who would be held responsible for any cleaning bills etc?

Dont we normally tell our children off if they fly into a rage with another child instead of going to a parent or teacher??

Crikey, I would think most grown ups could cope with an unpleasing smell without managing to end up in court over it. If the angry woman can't control her temper then she deserved all she got. Loads of things are irritating. Deal with it and move on, much better than getting a conviction for it.

I’m not sure that it’s very different from people eating McDonald’s or Cornish pasties on the train? I see people doing that daily and nobody flies off the handle at them!

How many eggs are we talking here....? Surely a boiled egg is 4 bites at most? So it must have been more than 1 to cause such a rumpus.

On unrelated note 1 - I once had a dream where I created a marketing campaign for boiled eggs and I captioned them as “the eat anywhere snack”. That was clearly wrong.

Unrelated note 2 - conversation was had in the school staff room this
Lunchtime about the smell of egg mayo being a previous morning sickness trigger for one of the staff when she was pregnant.

The police barely act these days so the fact that she’s actually been convicted suggests that there is more to this story, ie the papers might be downplaying the aggression from the woman?

It’s CPS who decide to proceed to prosecution, the police do not choose.

Barely act? Can you tell me why my DH therefore is regularly 3 or 4 hours late home from work? And they’ve run out of units in his area every day this week?

UhareFouxisci what nonsense, there are a whole world of other options for snacking on the go between smelly boiled eggs and ‘flavourless processed crap’. Very few people are going to be offended by someone eating an apple or a handful of almonds or even a yoghurt but the smell of a hard boiled egg when you aren’t eating it yourself is vile!

I wondered if this has been badly reported ?
I thought they must have missed out an important bit.

This Egg-gate should have gone to Judge Rinder or AIBU not a real court.

Burger King fries on the train out of Euston made me gag but I put up with it without causing a scene

A lot of things are annoying on a train. I can’t get worked up about an egg

I do wonder what other details have been omitted from the story because it seems incredible that it went to court.

I’m an egg fan but I like to think I’m also considerate enough to eat my breakfast at home and anything I do snack on during my commute or at my desk is fairly odour free and inoffensive. It just sounds like the whole situation should never have arisen - eating eggs or something smelly in a confined space is selfish but there is no need for rudeness or aggression.

*The egg eater should eat breakfast at home.

The shouty woman shouldn't abuse people.

The whole thing should never have got to court.*

This, especially the last point.

What a total waste of time, money and resources prosecuting this rubbish

I love eggs, but I realise the smell is strong.

So if I take some boiled eggs in the shell on a journey in a plastic bag I wait until I can open the window in order not to inflict my choices on anyone (My DH) else.

One should think of others and a train is not the place for noxious substances.

She should have just shuffled near to egg eating woman and then farted right next to her face and just turned around and said "oh sorry about that, it's my diet"

But I'm childish, can't believe this went to court however. Ridiculous use of public money. She could have just had a reprimand or caution from the police and it be recorded.

One person's ambrosia is another person's nausea-button. Unless you ban all eating then you are always going to have problems.

If someone eating an egg on a train was the worst thing about the journey, then it's a good journey.

I was once on a train next to someone eating eggs out of those horrible styrene boxes.

It stank like something died, was eaten by something even deader and then vomited up.

Egg eating has no place on a train.

The boiled egg woman is a GF. Ridiculous that the other woman got fined and prosecuted.

Both unreasonable in this case

I used to sometimes take a boiled egg into my office (my own office). My boss came in one morning and asked if I had farted!

All the Egg Lady would have to do is get up two to five minutes earlier and eat her fecking eggs at home.Selfish old bag

Both unreasonable and now I want boiled eggs but I’m in bed. If I ate them in bed, I expect to be served divorced papers.

The egg eater was unreasonable, the shouty woman was aggressive to the point of asking egg eater if she wanted to take it outside. She deserved to be prosecuted, disgusting behaviour for a professional middle aged woman.

People on those routes regularly eat on the train in the mornings. I don’t get the extreme comments about the smell of a boiled egg. A cold boiled egg gives of a mildly eggy smell but I just can’t agree that it would smell like someone just took a shit in the carriage. They sell little pots of boiled eggs and spinach in the M&S at Liverpool Street. I’ve sat in carriages with people eating them on more than one occasion and have never been bothered by the smell. I have thought to myself that it’s a fairly uninspiring snack, but it’s not antisocial. Not like those fuckers who sit there eating their McDonald’s chips without offering me any... there’s a special place in hell for them.
Even if the smell did bother me, I would not think I had the right to get aggressive with another passenger or interrogate them about whether they speak English.