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: In an epic incident of the pot calling the kettle rude, a Tigard,
: Oregon woman said she felt "disrespected" after police
: escorted her from an Amtrak train mostly because she refused to
: get off her cellphone - for 16 hours.
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: KATU.com reports:
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: Lakeysha Beard was charged with disorderly conduct after
: police said she got into a verbal altercation with passengers on
: the train. The other passengers complained she refused to put
: down her cellphone, even after train staff made repeated
: announcements for passengers to not use cellphones, according to
: police.
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: When a passenger confronted her about her loud talking,
: police said Beard got aggressive. She had reportedly been
: talking non-stop on the phone since getting on the train in
: Oakland, Calif.
:
: Beard was taken into custody until a family member could
: come and pick her up.
:
:
: In a follow-up interview with KATU.com, Beard confirmed she was
: blathering away on her mobile device, but that "she didn't
: understand why she had to be escorted off the train."
:
: Like many communal commuter-based agencies, Amtrak does have a
: policy against obnoxious blathering, specifically in "quiet
: cars" like the one Beard was annoying her fellow passengers
: in, again, for 16 hours.
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