A dynamic community

And now, as I have just been writing about communities, I have just watch one grow up around me. An altercation on this train from Boston to NYC will bring me into NYC over and hour and a half later than I was scheduled to arrive. Apparently, a man and a woman were making racial comments about oriental people on the train. One man got very angry and threw a beer bottle at the racist man. The train's ticket agent handle the whole situation very poorly and did not diffuse things early when he was alerted to the aweful things the man and woman were saying, which allowed the situation to degenerate to the point where someone got angry enough to use violence to affect the situation. The train stopped at an unscheduled location to take the three people involved off of the train. The community banded together when it first appeared that the asian gentleman would be the only one removed from the train. Futher, they erupted when the asian man was removed from the train in handcuffs (I would say /rightly/ so). They convinced the officers to remove the man who was struck by the beer bottle. Not yet satisfied, they rallied until the woman was to escorted off of the train. I have a better feeling of what it feels like to be in a mob. My accounts of this story are mainly based on fragrments I heard from other passengers afterwards. I was listening my music for most of the ride. I did catch a solid photo of the police entering the train, and removing people. The guy sitting next to me wanted nothing to do with this group. A first year law school student at NYU, he got up and left about five minutes before we started off for New York again. He was anoyed by the whole situation and just wanted to get home to catch "Desparate Housewives" on TV. Who can blame him, between leaving 50 minutes late from South Station in Boston, and this train altercation, we're arriving into Central Station around 9:30-9:45 instead of the projected 7:48 that reads on our purchased ticket. Needless to say, I'm pretty anoyed too.