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’.

@Dontdisturbmenow, if that woman had just ‘pointed out that the smell was annoying’ like other people had (and the woman DID close her box to limit the smell), then it would be a non issue.

The issue is that she became aggressive and in the face of someone else. She threatened her. That is and will never be acceptable. Even if the other person as a completely and totally selfish arse.

I would say well done to the egg eating woman to stand up to bully.

I flew to London with my boss for meetings when I was 3 m pregnant. I had an aversion to the smell of fresh coffee.

The train from Gatwick to central London was a nightmare for me. Coffee everywhere!!!! Didn’t complain or sick on anyone despite its nauseating smell.

Maybe it was....

All the maybes in the world are irrelevant given verbal assault is illegal and egg eating in public is not.

Not being able to smell stuff without feeling sick must be debilitating as fuck

Is that common?

Oh dear. So many posters are clamouring to point out that eating eggs isn’t illegal and verbally abusing fellow passengers is illegal.

What a shame that in their virtue-signalling fervour they didn’t notice that the question was, “do you feel sorry for the woman who was fined?” and “was the punishment disproportionate?”.

I used to hate the smell of fresh coffee. Noone stopped serving or drinking coffee

Eating hard boiled eggs in a confined space in close proximity to other people is incredibly selfish and anti-social and I can't believe people would defend it just because it's healthy snack! What stupid fuckery is that?

Same can be said for fried chicken, McDonald's and all sorts of other foods that people selfishly eat on public transport without giving a thought to those around them. Two wrongs don't make a right.

And if there's anyone on here who buys the ready peeled hardboiled eggs in a plastic pot - please don't! If ever there was a product that did not need to be wrapped in plastic, surely the hardboiled egg is it?

This country is nuts!

The verbally abusive woman was bonkers. If you don’t like a smell, move to another carriage.

do you feel sorry for the woman who was fined

No

was the punishment disproportionate?

Would need to investigate sentencing standards

I used to hate the smell of fresh coffee. Noone stopped serving or drinking coffee
Irrelevant! You haven’t specifically answered one of OPs specific questions, therefore irrelevant.
I mean, there’s no need for a thread to develop and flow. Answer the question, and no more 🙄😆

Same can be said for fried chicken

Well no.

A) it’s not a healthy snack. B) it’s not sold on the train.

YABU- I don’t feel sorry for the woman who got prosecuted at all.

Someone has just farted in front of me on the train, I heard him do it and it stinks. Honestly I feel like kicking him through the window, but I won't because that is the more wrong thing to do.

She threatened her
She got angry and said words she shouldn't have, but I wouldn't call this threatening.

This stupid women clearly didn't take the hint when others expressed their feelings in a quieter way. Closing it wasn't good enough, she should have put it back in her bag. It's sad that people have to resort to anger to get someone to take notice and then they cry being the victim of threats.

Pathetic!

”do you feel sorry for the woman who was fined?” and “was the punishment disproportionate?”

You were saying her actions were justified 2 pages ago, so which is it?

Both should just grow up - don’t expect to stink out a carriage without pissing people off, and don’t get your blood pressure up so much you yell at strangers.

And if there's anyone on here who buys the ready peeled hardboiled eggs in a plastic pot - please don't! If ever there was a product that did not need to be wrapped in plastic, surely the hardboiled egg is it?

If that's your lunch, how is that more wrong than buying anything else for lunch wrapped in plastic? If you want to stop anywhere selling take away food then fine.

Sweet Jesus, yelling at people and calling them names for entirely legal behaviour is abusive and totally unacceptable.

I can’t believe this site sometimes.

Are you being deliberately obtuse LaurieMarlow? Or trying to be clever?

OBVIOUSLY fried chicken is not a healthy snack. What are you trying to achieve?

If you don’t like a smell, move to another carriage
Oh yeah that one. Same as 'if you don't like the racquet I make at 2 in the morning every weekend move in the middle of the country'

Except the way it's going, there will be nowhere to go where people just care about the welfare of others and everyone will end up doing things that drive others bonkers leading to violence. Great!

Yes that’s wrong / but why can’t people also use common sense and understand that eggs stink?

It's sad that people have to resort to anger to get someone to take notice and then they cry being the victim of threats
Literal definition of victim blaming.
‘Look what you made me do’ Rightio 🙄

Selfish cow. Egg smell makes me gag.

The smell of tea makes my husband gag. Selfish people drinking that on trains.

What one person hates the smell of someone else doesn’t mind but hates the smell of something else. Either ban all food and drink on trains, which would be ridiculous when some journeys are hours long, or people should just stop moaning about a few minutes of a food smell they don’t like

Eggs are stinky though - fatty smelling little globs. Love them though