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’.

What a waste of time.

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. Who eats hard boiled eggs on a train. But aggression like this is unjustified. The egg eater should have been told by staff to get rid of the eggs, and the shouty woman should have been moved to a different carriage. Problem solved.

It's public transport, better the smell of eggs than BO.

Both of them are entitled but the egg eater especially so

Very few people are going to be offended by someone eating an apple or a handful of almonds or even a yoghurt

Given how few people would eat an apple quietly it does offend me!

If you read the account in the link it says that the complaining woman was cleared of a racially aggravated public order offence. Thats why it went to court, the egg eater accused the complainer of racism.

Boiled eggs really do stink. I always have to air out the kitchen after I've made some. I can't stand the smell to hang around. Frankly, boiled eggs smell of rancid farts, and I wouldn't want to smell that in an enclosed space on public transport.

One word. Durian. Banned on public transport in many countries. And in several parts of America, Washington DC for instance, eating or drinking ANYTHING at all on transit systems is banned. I don't remember many signs when I visited, though this may have changed, but it was another passenger who pointed this out to me (politely but firmly) when I opened my bottle of drink on the train, not realising.

In the UK there have been times when I've had to eat on trains otherwise I wouldn't have made the meeting/family event/plane/connecting train or whatever, but I've always tried to go for the least strong-smelling option. These days though I'm even paranoid about coffee and chocolate bars.

And as someone who's small, I honestly don't think tall people on a crowded train even realise that when they're tucking into their pork pie or whatever, my nose is pretty much parallel with their hands. And in some cases their armpits. Equally unpleasant.

Seriously! If you cant cope with the smell of an egg for the 99 seconds it takes to eat it then you shouldn't be allowed on public transports. An egg is a healthy snack food, sold precooked and peeled to be eaten on the go. Yeah, but they are, by their very nature, sulfurus and so they bloody stink! IN a confined area like a train I can imagine they would be absolutely revolting to a lot of people.

They are one of those foodstuffs that everyone bar the person eating them can smell. I don't care how healthy how pre-packed and convenient they are. If you are not eating them they bloody well stink!

@Iamthewombat

The woman who went batshit over it is the very essence of a drama queen.

Any boiled egg eater in a closed space is inconsiderate, but what an over-reaction.

Me and DH went on a train to Birmingham the other week, and smelt someone's disgusting shitty vile foul farts. We felt sick to our stomach.

Have to say, we were somewhat relieved to discover it was a man eating egg sandwiches.

Lunchtime about the smell of egg mayo being a previous morning sickness trigger for one of the staff when she was pregnant.
Chocolate and coffee were two of my worst triggers. I could smell a chocolate bar half open from the other side of the railway carriage.

It wouldn't justify me attacking someone.

the shouty woman was aggressive to the point of asking egg eater if she wanted to take it outside.

Maybe she meant take the egg outside? That would have been my defence, Your Honour....

Reminds me of PC Ventress and his eggs in Heartbeat!! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

first world problems

And yet Gazza can snog your face off and he's just being a lad!! Especially if you're a 'fat lass'

Can we just stop now... I think I've had enough institutionalised misogyny for one lifetime!

Eating eggs in public is not illegal. Shouting in someone’s face to intimidate them is.

I don't have a problem with the smell of people eating eggs. Or oranges. Or bananas. Or fish. But the foul stench of coffee makes me want to gag, and every other fucking person is waving around a container of the devil's vomit. Would it be reasonable of me to have a go at half the carriage? I presume you think not. So leave the poor woman with mild inoffensive egg alone. (And before you ask, no I happen to not have ever eaten egg on a train, but this reaction tempts me to)

Seriously! If you cant cope with the smell of an egg for the 99 seconds it takes to eat it then you shouldn't be allowed on public transports.

Agree! And I don’t like the smell of eggs.

Sorry but how does a cold boiled egg smell THAT bad? People eat Burger King, McDonalds, Chinese all the time on crowded commuter trains home.

I mean obviously there is an unspoken social norm that you don't eat egg or tuna on a train.

I'll admit I haven't read the article.

YAallBU. Eating eggs on a train is an absolute tradition, have none of you even read Famous Five? Hard boiled eggs, salt in a twist of paper, picnic basket, ginger beer?! No wonder this country is going to the dogs

I just hope these people were paying their own legal fees because it's utterly ridiculous.

I can agree with eggs smelling bad but when it comes to bananas, oranges and cucumbers like people are saying, you are taking the piss and then every single food becomes unsuitable for public consumption- which makes me side with the egg eater. I think those who are so sensitive to food smells should campaign for no food to be eaten on public transport because as long as food consumption is allowed to eat on public transport people are perfectly entitled to eat anything they like.

I am always amazed by how obsessed the British are with avoiding the smell of food.

Imagine getting this upset over an EGG ffs.

All food smells. I cant believe this case was taken seriously. Surely on public transport you accept you put up with other peoples smells, sights and sounds to some extent?