# Little shits on a train **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 26, 2011, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404 "2011-12-26T06:35:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404/61 "2011-12-27T13:56:09Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > My go to for even grown men that pull this shit on me is to very calmly say with a big smile, “Go right ahead and hit me. You and I both know that the minute you hit a woman is the minute every single man within 100 yards is going to run over and beat the ever-loving shit out of you. So, go ahead, hit me. It’ll be worth it to see you get killed by every single guy around us right now.” They _always_ pause, reflect, then walk away. Post-feminism? ---
**Author:** ![FlyByNight512](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/82dd89/32.png) [@FlyByNight512](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyByNight512)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404/62 "2011-12-27T16:21:42Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Post-feminism? When it comes to personal safety? Hell yeah. When you’re facing an opponent who is several inches taller, half again as heavy, and twice as strong, there’s no such thing as fighting dirty. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404/63 "2011-12-27T16:25:21Z")
> [@FlyByNight512](#): > > When it comes to personal safety? Hell yeah. When you’re facing an opponent who is several inches taller, half again as heavy, and twice as strong, there’s no such thing as fighting dirty. Shit, I’d tell an attacker that I’d come back from the dead to haunt him if I thought it’d help; it doesn’t mean I believe in zombies or ghosts. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404/64 "2011-12-27T16:34:10Z")
> [@FlyByNight512](#): > > When it comes to personal safety? Hell yeah. When you’re facing an opponent who is several inches taller, half again as heavy, and twice as strong, there’s no such thing as fighting dirty. Well, this isn’t _quite_ true. While there is such a thing as fighting dirty, fighting dirty is not a bad thing. Ain’t no rules in a street fight. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404/65 "2011-12-27T17:03:09Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > A propos of nothing: first read the title as “little shits in the rain” I thought the OP was going to be about the sequel to “Snakes On A Plane”. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404/66 "2011-12-27T18:07:58Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > And those little shits haven’t learned that sometimes, it’s a bad idea to try to pick a fight. Sometimes, you pick a fight with someone who looks very meek, but who is, in fact, much tougher and faster and stronger than you are. …Or Bernie Goetz. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404/67 "2011-12-27T19:53:26Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > Anyway, there was also a notorious train shitter in London, i.e.a man who actually got on trains and shitted on them. Often in front of people (one was a friend of mine). I know he was eventually caught, but for some reason Google won’t accept me typing london, train and shitting or shitter or even shit into my search results - it changes them all to variations on shut - and I only have moderate safe search on. Try “shat”? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404/68 "2011-12-27T21:01:07Z")
> [@Bloodless\_Turnip](#): > > Not meaning to threadjack here, but…really? > > A shithole? > > \*I’ve never been to SF. Yes, a shithole. At times, a wondeful shithole, but a shithole none-the-less. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404/69 "2011-12-27T21:05:53Z")
> [@FlyByNight512](#): > > The guy continued to tell them to knock it off, that their behavior was unacceptable, and there was no reason for them to behave that way. He spoke in a normal tone of voice and didn’t swear, as far as I could tell. The older kid jumped in on it and asked if he had a fuckin’ problem, and if so, if he ‘wanted to go’. Five minutes into the exchange, the four kids started throwing pieces of trash at the guy. I did not want to be in the middle of that, so I got up and moved. So did three or four other people in that seating area. > > That train is equipped with intercoms in the handicapped seating area for the wheelchair-bound to let the driver know when they need extra time to disembark. I walked to the nearest one - maybe fifteen feet from the little shits - hit the button, and loudly told the driver that he was within a hair of having a fight in the back of his train, and could security please meet us at the next stop? > > . You did fine. But think of this- what would have happened if _all_ the adults had stood up and told the little fuckers to **STOP IT!** _en masse?_ ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404/70 "2011-12-28T01:14:30Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > My go to for even grown men that pull this shit on me is to very calmly say with a big smile, "Go right ahead and hit me. You and I both know that the minute you hit a woman. Alternate Verbose Response: Look son, you can’t win here. If I kick your ass, you look like a pussy in front of your friends. If you kick my ass, a lot men are going to come running to kick you ass for doing it. Then you’ll go to jail, where you can tell them that the reason you’re there is for beating up a woman. I’m sure that will go over well and there’s no chance at all some guy will kick your ass again for it, if he doesn’t decide to do something else with your ass. If you know what I mean. Watch him go :eek: ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404/71 "2011-12-28T03:47:53Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Alternate Verbose Response: Look son, you can’t win here. If I kick your ass, you look like a pussy in front of your friends. If you kick my ass, a lot men are going to come running to kick you ass for doing it. Then you’ll go to jail, where you can tell them that the reason you’re there is for beating up a woman. I’m sure that will go over well and there’s no chance at all some guy will kick your ass again for it, if he doesn’t decide to do something else with your ass. If you know what I mean. > > Watch him go :eek: Yeah, this will work really well. If you happen to live in a made-for-TV movie. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404/72 "2011-12-28T04:14:13Z")
I used a variant with a large young man when I worked in Security. I kick your ass, you got beat up by an old man in front of your friends. You kick my ass, congratulations, you beat up an old man _and_ you’re going to jail. Sounds like a good plan. He changed his mind. ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404/73 "2011-12-28T04:50:52Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I used a variant with a large young man when I worked in Security. > > I kick your ass, you got beat up by an old man in front of your friends. You kick my ass, congratulations, you beat up an old man _and_ you’re going to jail. Sounds like a good plan. > > He changed his mind. Yeah, but what about the butt-rape? Didn’t you mention how he would get his ass reamed by all the noble badasses in jail who would take umbrage with his beating an old man? You left out the most compelling part of your little fantasy. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404/74 "2011-12-28T05:03:10Z")
> [@splatterpunk](#): > > Yeah, but what about the butt-rape? Didn’t you mention how he would get his ass reamed by all the noble badasses in jail who would take umbrage with his beating an old man? > > You left out the most compelling part of your little fantasy. **Punk** , honey, if you’d rather just try to beat up anyone that threatens you, go for it. Some of us have found that a well placed story works much better. ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404/75 "2011-12-28T05:13:19Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > **Punk** , honey, if you’d rather just try to beat up anyone that threatens you, go for it. Some of us have found that a well placed story works much better. When come back, bring intellect. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404/76 "2011-12-28T05:15:10Z")
> [@splatterpunk](#): > > When come back, bring intellect. Snerk, teenagers, what are you going to do? ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404/77 "2011-12-28T05:23:28Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Snerk, teenagers, what are you going to do? Why are you posting in this thread? Don’t you have babies to drown? ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404/78 "2011-12-28T05:38:40Z")
> [@splatterpunk](#): > > Why are you posting in this thread? Don’t you have babies to drown? Yeah I can see where you get your information. Good luck with that. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404/79 "2011-12-28T05:47:47Z")
> [@splatterpunk](#): > > Why are you posting in this thread? Don’t you have babies to drown? does your mommy know you’re up this late? ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404/80 "2011-12-28T05:57:19Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > does your mommy know you’re up this late? No. She’s dead. She hasn’t known much of anything for years. Did you actually shoot a load when you posted that? 'Cuz it’s like really lame and played out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-shits-on-a-train/607404.md?page=5)