For both the conductor and the attendant, this was the sensible thing to do. For the attendant at least, it was also cowardly.

I doubt that the train conductor could rationally have stopped the train - that risks the next train down the line, risks the patrons in the train, and in any case the Conductor now has to get out of the train, run down the tracks, and come back up to deal with the situation? He did the right thing by immediately reporting the situation.

I also question what he could see as the conductor. Those trains open, close, and move, as shown by the fact it took almost no time for her to miss her previous stop. The conductor may have heard a scream but been moving already.

The attendant though. Clearly the sensible thing was to hit the alarm, which he did. But I wonder how he could have sat in his booth while a screaming woman is raped in his station. That would give me nightmares.

But it doesn't rise to a legal situation. You can't sue random bystanders for not helping you. And an employee is still a random bystander, unless they're hired to protect the riders.

The lady might have sued the subway system for not having security at empty stations at 2am.

Without laying any blame on her for being raped (and I truely don't mean to), I do wonder what a woman is doing riding a subway system at 2am without mace or a stun gun or a cell phone or something. I doubt this is the first time she's ridden the subway... there's a level of common sense missing there.

For it to be racist, the comment would really have to have special meaning for the race the comment was about. "That one" doesn't mean anything more to any given group of people. If Barack had been a woman people would say it was sexist. If he'd been jewish, it'd be anti-semetic. If he'd been native american, it'd be anti-native-american. He's black, so it's racist. A comment that offends EVERYONE isn't specific to anyone.

Ergo, disrespectful. Not Racist.

I am going to cry foul on this story, and put my two cents on it being proven a hoax in the long run.

I can move either eyebrow independant of the other.

Try this one:

Move your eyes in opposite directions - one to the left, the other to the right. I can do it if I warm up my eyes a bit. I've got a video of me doing it in avatar form somewhere. Not such a great way to meet women, but a fun bar trick.

And one for the ladies:

Stand with your back against a wall, and heels touching the wall (basically at attention, back on the wall). Women can touch their toes without bending their knees in this position. Men can not.

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We have smaller versions of these at our transformer production facilities. Much smaller versions.

We use them to generate lightning strikes to test the transformers. But these are huge. And strangely standing alone in a forest.