What do you do when someone starts to light a cigarette on a NYC subway train?

[Renew Deal]

There is only one right answer.

[Tunkamerica]

1. stab them with a pen?

making sure to have your notebook shield at the ready.

[Renew Deal]

3. A friend and former coworker got into a brawl and arrested on the subway

because he got in the middle of some guy beating his girlfriend. Thankfully the cops realized he wasn't the suspect after he got to the "Tombs."

[karnac]

2. Do what you want but

You better NOT order me around if i puff on an E-cigarette on the subway!

[pacalo]

4. Mind my own business.

[demwing]

11. it is your business, right?

you have to share that air

[LTR]

5. Ask if he's got a light

:hide:

[Renew Deal]

35. This is the only other "right answer"

:rofl:

[cloudbase]

6. Maybe you could

"bum" one from him. It looks like he has one or two to spare.

[rug]

7. Tell him you're from Nutley, NJ.

[Gemini Cat]

8. Sit down and fire up my own.

:shrug:

[AsahinaKimi]

9. Annouce politely that you are

BATMAN and as a good citizen of Gotham City,
he should put out his cigerette for the saftey of others
...OH, and make sure you have your costume on.

[The Doctor.]

28. Ummmm

Do you wear your costume regularly?

Mine is a little creepy. Even Batman had some trouble with it... long story.

Otherwise, I like your approach. ^_^

[Kurovski]

10. LOL! I knew I was gonna like this.

[JackBeck]

12. Berate all these so called NYC 'progressives'

for not caring enough about the homeless.

[Wilms]

13. Find them an ashtray.

Litter is out of control.

[Zanzoobar]

14. I have one problem with this poll...

The wording might better have been:

Politely remind the person that smoking on the train is against the law, and get stabbed in the face by a perfect stranger.

Tell the person to put that F****g thing out, and get stabbed in the face by a perfect stranger.

STFU, and don't make eye contact, and hope you don't get stabbed in the face by a perfect stranger.

[Renew Deal]

36. lol

:rofl:

[The Straight Story]

15. The same thing you do when someone fires up their car, a plane, puts on perfume, posts on the net

remind them that the pollution they are causing harms others and that you, a good citizen, would never do anything to harm others by your personal choices - oh and then tell them they are a sinner :)

BTW, how do those subways work? Do they use electric? Is it coal produced?

Funny how we get herded like sheep to make moral judgements about something like smoking while totally ignoring things which are just as bad if not worse (social stigma - see this article: http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/195773/ )

I live behind I270 here in Ohio. Me and the folks in my hood get a ton of pollution from folks in their cars, and the big trucks, as they ride down the freeway. Those same people are probably the ones who whine about smokers in bars...as their cars pollute the air I breathe. And I didn't even have a CHOICE (like they did - they did not have to go to a bar that allowed smoking, they chose to).

Funny how self righteous people will yell about folks who smoke in a place they don't have to go to, and then turn around and put more wicked things into the air I have to breath to get their kids to a soccer game.

Smoking on a subway? If that is the worst thing they face in their life...well I want their life.

[JackBeck]

16. Didn't you once post about a trip you took to NYC?

I'm curious to hear why you never smoked on the subway while you were here.

[Tunkamerica]

22. I second

[Union Scribe]

17. Bullies are enabled by the fear of others to speak up.

Haven't we learned this by now just from politics?

[Renew Deal]

37. It's not about being afraid to speak up.

It's about making good decisions. If you see a cop on the platform while some guy lights up a blunt, go ahead and tell the cop. But confronting crazy people is not a good idea. And any guy lighting up a blunt downtown during business hours is likely pretty crazy.

[Paradoxical]

18. I've been on the NYC subway. I am a blunt person. But I wouldn't say anything.

I enjoy not getting my ass beat.

The NYC subway can be rough.

[alphafemale]

19. Blow their nasty stinky cig puckered lipped head off before they stab me with a pen.

A pen clutched in their ugly yellow nicotine stained fingers.

:rofl:

[Renew Deal]

38. Ahhh, the Bernie Goetz route.

:hide:

[TorchTheWitch]

20. it was a blunt, not a cigarette

Which might screw up your poll results seeing as while some people may not complain about someone smoking legal tobacco they might if it was illegal pot.

Considering your poll has to do with the recent story of the woman getting slashed in the face with a pen by someone she had asked not to smoke I figured this point was relevant.

[Warren DeMontague]

25. Ah,

that explains why that dude vaguely resembles Snoop Dogg.

[Renew Deal]

39. It doesn't screw them up.

It reinforces them. If the person is crazy enough to light a blunt on a train, they're too crazy for you to confront.

[TransitJohn]

21. Put on a hockey mask. n/t

n/t

[Renew Deal]

40. Now that would be funny!

:rofl:

[TransitJohn]

50. I mean to avoid the stabbing in the face, not to intimidate the smoker.

:rofl:

[Raine]

23. Go into a coughing frenzy, maybe they will get the hint.

:shrug:

[Warren DeMontague]

24. Nothing.

I'm in Oregon, and frankly I avoid Manhattan at all costs.

[Renew Deal]

41. NYC is great.

You should visit. :pals:

[Warren DeMontague]

48. Right On. I've been there, had a good time.

It's cool, just not really my speed anymore. On the whole the East Coast seems a little too edgy for me. I lived in Chicago for years so I kind of got my mega-urban experience jones out of my system at that time. (This story is nothing compared to some of the shit I used to see go down on the "El") Plus, it's a haul.

But I do have good friends out there, and a lot of people love it, I will grant you that. :hi:

[LooseWilly]

26. Maneuver in closer to get a big whiff of second hand smoke...

What the hell? At least second-hand smoke is free... ;)

[Renew Deal]

42. lol

:rofl:

[The Doctor.]

27. Look them straight in the eyes, smile,

and laugh.

Then go back to whatever the fuck I'm doing.

That would be the dozenth or so time I've done it. Nothing happens.

[Warren DeMontague]

29. What do I do, you ask? Why, I check my calendar.

I see it's April.

[Renew Deal]

43. This is a classic!

:yourock:

:rofl:

[leftynyc]

30. I'm on the NYC subway

twice a day unless I decide to walk. Once, while waiting on a platform somebody lit up right next to me. I asked him to put it out and he did (I'm also a smoker). Granted, he looked like a high school kid and not dangerous at all.

[HopeHoops]

31. Fake a choking fit and collapse on the bench next to the fucker grasping my chest.

[Renew Deal]

44. Although funny

They will actually stop the train for that.

[WatsonT]

32. Set them on fire then dance around them while laughing maniacally

Also make lots of inappropriate puns about them "smoking"

[Renew Deal]

45. Ummm, OK

:wtf:



:rofl:

[eleny]

33. Go to the next car

[Better Believe It]

34. On a New York City subway the only intelligent thing to do is STFU!

Unless you want to engage in a fist fight or worse to make your point.

[Renew Deal]

46. This is correct.

:D

[Blue-Jay]

47. I continue not giving a shit about some random rude person.

I suppose I could get mad, go home, and start a STRONGLY-worded thread about it... but, I honestly have other shit to be concerned about.

[Rex]

I make it my goal in life to take away their lighter, even if it means

they go apeshit and rip my face up...hey it is the point that counts. Right?

[Rex]

49. I make it my goal in life to take away their lighter, even if it means

they go apeshit and rip my face up...hey it is the point that counts. Right?