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’.

I'm baffled as to why it's okay to eat a boiled egg on public transport but not okay to ask someone to not eat it? I'm not condoning the aggression but someone else did ask her not to eat eggs on the train. Why as a nation do we bend over backwards for peoples weird ways? I certainly would be pissed off with someone on a busy weekday morning journey ate a fragrant boiled egg sat next to me. Public transport should really be a food free zone.

It's a bit smelly, but the eggs and smell would be gone in a minute. Can't believe this went to court.

My only input is... I like sour pickled gherkins. With everything. They smell like rotting feet.

People eat all sorts of things on commuter trains in the south east. I'd rather have someone sitting near me quickly eating an egg than a McDonalds, or even a packet of crisps.

Egg woman said this women racially abused her? oh purlease!

Pp said information is Clearly missing from the newspaper article here, but there was another link that was better?

now pp understood - please someone post that link?

because I'm just totally confused as to how this ever got to court.

I dont agree with the boiled egg thing, but it's not an excuse to get aggressive. Plenty of people have pissed me off on public transport but I've never shouted in anyone's face.
I'd also guess there's a lot more to it than the boiled egg eater simply getting a sound telling off.

It isn't reasonable to threaten and yell at someone for eating on a train. I entirely agree with the decision.

I love boiled eggs, and pickled eggs but I'm considerate and wouldn't eat them on a train.
I wonder what the people saying it's fine would say if it was a bag of pork scratchings? Would they be so liberal I wonder?

I still think that the punishment was disproportionate.

Here’s how I think it went: the egg eater was so horrified that anybody would dare to challenge her - what? This is my diet and nobody is telling ME what to do! - that she determined to get revenge on the person who told her - yes, too aggressively - to stop doing it.

So she concocts a cock and bull story about feeling ‘threatened and intimidated’ and because she was asked whether she spoke English, decided to season the complaint with a bit of pretend racism. Then goes crying to the first police officer she sees, and when that doesn’t work, looks out for the other woman for days afterwards to make sure that she is punished.

I find that pretty creepy. At the same time as thinking that the accused woman was a bit heavy handed but was fundamentally saying what everybody else in the carriage was thinking.

If I were eating something in a carriage and another passenger objected, saying it was offensively smelly, I’d apologise and put it away. I wouldn’t carry on regardless because ‘that is my diet’, and I wouldn’t play the victim when a second person challenged me. Oh yes, and nor would I pretend that I couldn’t speak English.

such a prejudiced article showing the pretty egg eater vs the cross aggressive commuter.

if it was a burger the story would be different, people look down on burger eaters

because she was asked whether she spoke English, decided to season the complaint with a bit of pretend racism.

Well that was racism wasn't it.

I expect the pretty egg eater wants to get on the cover of Nuts magazine! 😂

Fgs my parents little car was written off by vandals (windows smashed doors kicked in) police utterly hopeless and couldn’t even be arsed to obtain and watch the car park cctv so how this got them to act I don’t understand

@Iamthewombat

Why are you so overinvested in this?

The smell and taste/texture of hard boiled eggs makes me want to heave just thinking about it! By all means have a sandwich but please not eggs/fish on a hot and crowded train! Walking dead fan girl .Its not just 99 seconds ,its the smell which lingers for more than a minute and a half the smell is abhorrent to me .And yes I should be allowed on public transport ! Maybe people could/should eat their B/F before setting out?!

Abusing and threatening your fellow commuters is a crime known to the law of England.

Eating an egg is not.

Does that help?

Abusing and threatening your fellow commuters is a crime known to the law of England.

Eating an egg is not.

This.

How is asking if she spoke English racist? Assuming everyone does speak English is worse isn’t it?

Charlieiscool and do you think that question was asked out of genuine interest, or do you think it was asked aggressively?

For the poster who asks why I am ‘so over invested in this’: are you hoping that I’m the 50 year old city worker, soliciting the support of Mumsnet?

Sorry to disappoint!

If you knowingly (and in this case, wilfully) give offence in a public place, you should expect to receive offence in return.

Understand the annoyance. It was probably the egg that broke the camel's back on a shitty stressful commute 😂

But bloody hell. Things have been sensationalised surely...

One persons ‘foul’ smell is another persons appetising aroma and to a third person it will be entirely unremarkable. It’s ridiculous this got to court. And commuter trains smell pretty bad at the best of times with people smelling of BO, stale smoke, last nights garlic and grubby clothes.

My DH can’t bear the smell of coffee to the point it can make him heave but that doesn’t mean give him the right to object to other people drinking it in public places.

Abusing and threatening your fellow commuters is a crime known to the law of England.

Eating an egg is not.

Looks like this bears repeating again.

It’s not fucking rocket science.