Hero Cops Escort Cellphone Loudmouth Off Train

Release Date 18 May, 2011 in Gawker

 
   

You know you'd cheer: Loud talker booted off train

Globe and Mail - Tralee Pearce - 18 May, 2011
A woman was booted off an Amtrak train for speaking loudly on her cell phone. For 16 hours. Straight. She had boarded the train in Oakland, California and, even after passengers complained, she refused to put down her cell phone, according to Komo News ...

Woman arrested on train for talking loudly on phone for 16 HOURS! (And she was ...

Daily Mail - 18 May, 2011
By Daily Mail Reporter As if it isn't hard enough to get to sleep on overnight journeys, one group of unlucky passengers shared a carriage with a woman who talked loudly on her mobile phone for 16 hours. In the end she was arrested. ...

Woman's cell-phone use halts train

San Francisco Chronicle - ‎May 16, 2011‎
A passenger train made an unscheduled stop in Oregon over a woman's cell phone use and verbal confrontations with other passengers. Salem police say in a statement that 39-year-old Lakeysha Beard of Tigard was arrested on disorderly conduct charges ...

Quiet Down! Woman Kicked Off Train For Being Too Loud On Phone

News One - Charles Dixon - 18 May, 2011
CALIFORNIA â€" A woman was escorted off an Amtrak train on Sunday for speaking too loudly on her phone. Lakeysha Beard, 39, was charged with disorderly conduct after she wouldn't stop talking on the 16-hour trip from Oakland, California, to Salem, ...

Train passenger arrested for 16-hour phone conversation in quiet carriage

Metro - 18 May, 2011
An American woman has been arrested for refusing to stop talking on her phone while travelling on a train's quiet carriage. Lakeysha Beard was speaking loudly on her mobile phone for 16 hours on the journey between Oakland, California, and Portland, ...

Warning: Talking Too Long and Too Loud on Cell Phone Means Trouble

Gather.com - Abby Greenhill - 18 May, 2011
Your cell phone use is your own business isn't it? Talking too long or talking too loud on your phone shouldn't be a problem, right? Wrong. It does depend on where you are using that phone. And if you overuse your phone, in certain situations, ...

Hero Cops Escort Cellphone Loudmouth Off Train

Gawker - 18 May, 2011
Seth Abramovitch â€"People who carry on high-volume conversations on their cellphones in public places are the worst. THE. WORST. Which makes Lakeysha Beard the worst of the worst of the worst. For sixteen solid hours after she boarded an Amtrak train in ...

Woman Kicked Off Train For Talking Too Loudly

Peace FM Online - 18 May, 2011
An Amtrak train made an unexpected stop Sunday, as a woman was escorted off for speaking loudly on her cell phone. Lakeysha Beard, 39, was charged with disorderly conduct after she wouldn't stop talking on the 16-hour trip from Oakland, California, ...

Loudness on train leads to arrest

My Fox Boston - ‎May 17, 2011‎
SALEM, OR (FOX 25/ MyFoxBoston.com) - Silence may be golden, but loudness could land you in jail. Lakeysha Beard was in a Salem, Oregon courtroom yesterday after her loud and constant cell phone chatter got her booted off a train ride Sunday. ...

Woman feels 'disrespected' after being kicked off train

KATU - Emily Sinovic - ‎May 16, 2011‎
Lakeysha Beard said she didn't understand what all the fuss was about when she was escorted off an Amtrak train. Police said she yelled at passengers who asked her to stop talking so loudly on her cell ...

Woman accused of train tirade in Oregon

UPI.com - ‎May 16, 2011‎
SALEM, Ore., May 16 (UPI) -- An Oregon woman was arrested for allegedly threatening and throwing things at passengers on an Amtrak train headed for Portland, police said. Lakeysha Beard, 39, of Tigard began a verbal altercation with other passengers ...

Woman arrested after incident on Amtrak train

Statesman Journal - ‎May 16, 2011‎
Salem police arrested a Tigard woman Sunday for reportedly threatening and throwing things at passengers while riding on an Amtrak train headed to Portland. The incident started just before 3 pm when Lakeysha Beard, 39, became verbally aggressive ...

Woman arrested on Amtrak in altercation over cell phone

Albany Democrat Herald - ‎May 16, 2011‎
A passenger was taken off the Coast Starlight Sunday following a disturbance over her continual and loud cell phone use, according to Salem police. The northbound Amtrak train was stopped in Salem until the police came and arrested the passenger, ...

Woman Arrested For Disorderly Conduct On Amtrak Train

750 KXL - ‎May 15, 2011‎
Police arrested a 39-year-old Tigard woman for being disruptive to other passengers and ignoring Amtrak staff. Apparently, she was talking loudly on her cell phone continuously from Oakland, CA to Salem, OR. The man from Austria fell 50 feet to his ...

Woman Arrested Following Amtrak Disruption

KPTV Portland - ‎May 15, 2011‎
SALEM, Ore. -- A woman who allegedly would not stop talking on her cell phone while on board an Amtrak train was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct. Police say Lakeysha Beard got into a verbal argument with another passenger after the rider ...

AMTRAK train stalled near Salem after woman refuses to put down cell phone

OregonLive.com - Natalie Feulner - ‎May 15, 2011‎
By Natalie Feulner, The Oregonian SALEM â€" Police stopped an AMTRAK train for about 20 minutes just outside Salem Sunday afternoon and a Tigard woman was taken into custody after she reportedly refused to stop talking on her cell phone. ...

Unruly passenger stalls travel on Amtrak

KOIN Local 6 - Gene Greer - ‎May 15, 2011‎
SALEM, Ore. - Police say a disorderly passenger stopped a main Amtrak train in its tracks Sunday afternoon. The incident happened aboard the Coast Starlight, a train which runs up and down the West Coast from near the Mexican border to Canada. ...

Police stop train after complaints about passenger talking on phone

KATU - John Tierney - ‎May 15, 2011‎
SALEM, Ore. - Salem Police stopped an Amtrak train on Sunday afternoon after reports a woman threatened other passengers when they complained she was speaking too loudly on her cell phone. Lakeysha Beard of Tigard was charged with disorderly conduct ...

Woman Arrested For Disorderly Conduct On Amtrak Train

750 KXL - Dave Bourne - ‎May 15, 2011‎
Police arrested 39-year-old Lakeysha Beard of Tigard for Disorderly Conduct on an Amtrak train Sunday afternoon. Salem Police Patrol Officers responded to a report of a passenger threatening other passengers and throwing things on the train. ...

 

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