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’.

@Oldishusernewname

YA all BU! 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.

You mean 'LASHINGS of ginger beer' dahhhling!

And don't forget Lieutenant Columbo! Famous for eating hard boiled eggs! (He would often pull one out of his raincoat pocket when he was mooching around a crime scene!) 🥚🥚🥚

So let's let this straight, the majority of rape accusations don't get as far as a court case, but the CPS felt this case of egg-related assault should go all the way to trial? No wonder the country's in such a state.

As a seasoned commuter, people fart on trains and cough and sneeze all over you. Late trains home are full of people slurping Maccy D's. Can't get worked up about eggs, people applying make up or nail varnish or any of the rest of it in comparison with the farts, coughs, sneezes - and worst of all, SNIFFING.

Shouldn't eat things like that on the train, however could be travelling from a nightshift - although doesn't say that.

Absolutely no excuse to shout in someone's face though!

Yes I feel sorry for her! Eating eggs on a train is simply not on, the smell is awful! The woman knew she was annoying people as another commuter had words with her previously about it so why keep doing it unless she was trying to provoke a reaction? It reminds me of a colleague of mine from years ago who always sat at his desk to eat his lunch instead of using our canteen which was on the same floor. Everyday he ate a hot tuna and Stilton cheese melt which used to stink the office out!

Wasn't this a Samuel L Jackson film?

takes hours to air the room out

Stop being bloody dramatic. It's an egg, not chloroform.

Maybe I should take the dozens of smelly people on buses that I encounter each week to court.

God give me strength...you couldn’t make it up

it doesn't matter how offensive you find a smell - you don't have the right to be abusive to someone. In order to be found guilty she must have been pretty aggressive and (I assume) there must have been some evidence of this.

Serves her right. I can't stand spicy food but I don't get all up in people's faces if they choose to eat it.

You are allowed to eat there but you are not allowed to abuse people. Maybe people will be more mindful of the way they speak to others in the future because of this.

I absolutely hate smelly food especially when its eaten on public transport, I can remember being on a bus having morning sickness and ignorant people eating smelly food but the egg eater certainly didn't deserve to be abused and threatened? I'm sure most of us here would say something but not be threatening.

Egg eater got £750 compensation!
That’s my financial future sorted.
I get verbally abused about once a week on the bus to the tube.

Food that tastes of something will also smell of something, unless the only taste is salt.

Well, that's nonsense, isn't it. Chilis have a very strong taste but barely smell. For example.

They even sell egg sandwiches from the refreshment cart of a lot of trains. The aggressor was being an asshole.

What if you dont like the way someone 'looks'? Should you be allowed to abuse them?

NO, you do NOT have the right to abuse someone based upon their smell, looks, sound, or any other reason!

Boiled eggs don't smell though.

What? Of course its acceptable to eat eggs on trains, a lot of things smell bad! Personally, chicken or cheese and onion crisps make me gip.

One day last summer I took an El in Chicago and a women and her partner at the far end of my carriage had a massive fight. Eventually he got up to leave the train after several stations of very slurred and loud interaction between the pair of them. She ordered him to stay and hear the rest of her opinions about him, but he kept moving toward the door when the train drew into the next station. So she threw a wrapped burger half way down the carriage at him, and nailed him but sadly it exploded over several other passengers too.

Hard boiled egg haterz - things could be worse.

Eggs in no way should be eaten on trains. They smell disgusting. Equally McDonald’s with egg in etc. I don’t like bananas, but the smell of those doesn’t make me want to heave.

What is it with brits and any food that has any kind of smell at all?

I'm Latina and it just isn't a thing where I come from. It's always baffled me, and I grew up here.

Chilis have a very strong taste but barely smell.

Decent chillis absolutely smell.

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

Yes! Thank you! I'm glad someone else said it.

Disgraceful. How was this decision made in court?

I just want to point out that if the incident happened when the train was just past Stratford (as the article says) then there was literally five minutes until it reached its final destination. Which I think makes both parties more unreasonable - the woman who had already had a complaint about her food could have waited five minutes to eat in a less confined space despite her 'diet', but also it was a very big drama to make over smelling some egg for five minutes.