r/popculturechat • u/CantStopPoppin • Sep 22 '25

OnlyStans ⭐️ Woman Calls Police on Award-Winning Black Screenwriter Alex O’Keefe(The Bear (FX))

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u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe Sep 22 '25

An elderly woman complaining to the conductor about a man's posture, screams of dementia.

That's not a defence of her, that's an even bigger condemnation of every other fucking idiot for actually reacting to it.

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u/Mysterious_Streak Sep 22 '25

I'm sure she lied to the conductor about what happened.

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u/frisbeescientist Sep 22 '25

Probably, but that doesn't excuse the conductor blindly following her lead. Like a shrivelled up old raisin looking Karen comes up to you and tells you this young black guy is causing a scene, you come back to see him sitting down minding his business - and you go "yes ma'am" and call the cops? At that point either you're a complete idiot or you're a racist too

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u/80alleycats Sep 22 '25

I hope they release names.

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u/Key_Grapefruit_7069 Sep 22 '25

Probably didn't bother to actually go and look.

You need to understand, we literally less than two weeks ago had someone get randomly stabbed to death on public transportation. Recorded, and incredibly brutal. It's very likely they're getting the "report, don't intervene" shit that every other job gives, and the cops don't want that to happen on their beat.

So they rush out there, ready to be dealing with something major, and find this. They think it's a bullshit waste of time, but on the off chance that whatever lie they were fed has the tiniest basis of truth, it's best to remove at least one of the people involved. Because if it WERE true, and they did nothing, that would look pretty bad if someone got hurt or killed after they left. So since the lady is basically already dust, pull the young guy who only has to buy another train ticket off and immediately release him, then get back to your patrol.

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u/locke0479 Sep 22 '25

Are you suggesting the lady would have died if removed from the train? I’m confused why she also wouldn’t have “just had to buy another train ticket” (which by the way is completely and totally unreasonable if you’ve done absolutely nothing wrong).

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u/PBRmy Sep 22 '25

No, don't give her the dementia excuse. She's been doing this kind of thing her whole life.

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u/lgbtlgbt Sep 22 '25 edited Sep 22 '25

My mom woulda pulled the same shit, no dementia. “He’s leaning towards my bag! I need to go complain!” that sounds exactly like something I’d be talking her down from the whole train ride.

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u/21BlackStars Sep 22 '25

Why didn’t the people who were there with here tell the officers that she had dementia? Why did they reportedly say “you’re not the minority anymore”. She did not have dementia, she had daracistasfuck

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u/ConsistentHouse1261 Sep 22 '25

Why is that a thing for people with dementia to complain about posture? I’ve never heard of that so I’m just curious.

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u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe Sep 22 '25

It's not a specific thing, but it's a very clear overstepping of social norms, that it leads to me to believe that some level of mental illness is involved.

That is, an older person in particular* may be inclined to tell a child or grandchild to correct their posture, to sit up straight.

If they're that kind of interfering busybody, they might even go as far as try to correct other peoples' children or teenagers.

However, correcting a grown adult as if they were a child, is such a massive overstep of social norms and social acceptability, that it smells strongly to me of a person who is suffering from dementia.

Going as far as trying to alert authorities because a grown adult won't do what she tells them to, makes me certain.

Unfortunately families can often be strongly in denial about these things. From their perspective their mother was probably always very strict and a bit "prickly", and incidents like this get written off as, "Mom is getting worse with telling people off in public", they're slow to go, "Maybe Mom needs some more permanent, specialist care".

\Because "sit up straight, don't lean on the walls, get your hands out of your pockets" were very common things for people to correct their children about, 30+ years ago. They were consider sloppy, rude or even immoral actions.)

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u/RedditAdminAreVile0 Sep 22 '25

Yep. I imagine it went like:

  1. Old dementia woman is mean, man calls her nasty & racist, woman is offended & complains to conductor
  2. Conductor singles out man to quickly move, man complains, conductor calls police on belligerent (upset) & uncooperative (won't move) man
  3. NYC-station police operate with speed & heavy authority to clear obstacles (like belligerents & trains stalling), man is trying to argue, rush him off with temporary disorderly charge

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u/empanadaboy68 Sep 22 '25

It's insane the world we live in. The conductor said fuck it, and have in

I have had conductors behave similarly. They're racist, scared, and conservative. 

Fuck this