View Full Version : So....do I take the subway tomorrow?
Janarth
10-06-2005, 10:12 PM
Lead story on cnn.com is there are bomb threats for the immediate future for NYC's subway. Not being an attention whore, but....this sucks :( Now I gotta pay 20 bucks for a effin cab.
I took the subway home cause I don't check the news mid day, didn't even notice.
Artha
10-06-2005, 10:46 PM
It probably won't be anything simply because word got leaked and people are going to be more alert now. I'd rather drop a 20 or two than maybe get blown up, though.
You could probably take the subway tomorrow and be ok since we've seen all the publicity... a few days afterwards though and who knows... not like the American attention span will warrant a high level of scrutiny of the massive subway system for more than a few days.
Ravenstorm
10-06-2005, 11:31 PM
The warning did say 'mid October'. It's not 'mid' yet. Still, don't stand near anyone with a backpack or baby carriage.
Raven
Terminator X
10-06-2005, 11:43 PM
Does this mean the LIRR too? If so, then :wtf:
Do you live in fear because people in power tell you to?
Has this administration been telling the truth about whats going on?
I’m listening to Rage, so forgive my sarcasm.
Tsunami
10-06-2005, 11:58 PM
The skein of your life is already woven by the old fathers. Go ahead and hide in a hole if you like, you won't live one moment longer.
Take it, you can't live your life in fear.
4a6c1
10-07-2005, 12:07 AM
^yahthat
Originally posted by Tsunami
The skein of your life is already woven by the old fathers. Go ahead and hide in a hole if you like, you won't live one moment longer.
Thats deeply profound and eerily amusing.
Words to live by.
I'll be taking the subway straight to yankee stadium tomorrow night.
Ravenstorm
10-07-2005, 12:40 AM
Originally posted by xtc
Take it, you can't live your life in fear.
On the other hand, simple caution is smarter than tempting fate. You can walk or take a bus if it's close enough and you have time. You don't have to go greatly out of your to avoid using the subways because OMG I'M GOING TO DIE!!! but you can use alternatives if you have them just as a simple precaution if the option is there.
Raven
Originally posted by Ravenstorm
Originally posted by xtc
Take it, you can't live your life in fear.
On the other hand, simple caution is smarter than tempting fate. You can walk or take a bus if it's close enough and you have time. You don't have to go greatly out of your to avoid using the subways because OMG I'M GOING TO DIE!!! but you can use alternatives if you have them just as a simple precaution if the option is there.
Raven
Bush administration, fear agenda, convert citizens into cowering emo's who support any moves to remove their civil rights to promote facist regime
Project for a New American Century
....nuff said
Numbers
10-07-2005, 02:31 AM
Take the bus.
Does the MTA there still have buses that do limited stops? I used to take the bus back and forth from school, and a limited would get me there in about 15 minutes. Regular one would take two to three times as long.
Tisket
10-07-2005, 03:23 AM
Originally posted by 3704558
Take the bus.
Yeah, buses are far easier to blow up. And get targetted far more often.
Janarth
10-07-2005, 09:43 AM
Well...the bus is slightly easier, but costlier. I have three viable options to get to work. I can:
Take a cab...20 bucks there, 20 bucks back. Yeah, I'm not rich.
Take the bus, 5 bucks there, 5 bucks back, see above.
Take the subway, 76 dollars covers me all month long to and from work, and as a bonus I ride the subway free if I take it when I go out or go do errands.
I can't walk, it'd take about an hour and a half to walk there, after which time I would have sweated through my suit.
So I took the subway this morning, cause I was broke. Nothing happened. And I wasn't too scared, just kinda 'bothered'. I was talking with my friends, who were more upset than me, and I told them they were A OK. They take the 6 down from the UES and the N accross, who would blow that up? My only reason for being bothered is if I were a terrorist and wanted to make a statement, I'd blow up one of three big stops which I go through every day :p and a times when I am there every day :p Grand central, Fulton and Wall, I pass through all three between 8:40 - 9 and 5:30-6:30, so if anyone was gonna get blown up, it was probably me.
As for whether Bush is lying to us...after London, I dunno. I think I can somewhat undertand what 'terrorists' are trying to do and what I would do if I could corrupt my mind to that mindset: I'd blow up grand central or wall street during morning rush hour, taking out as many of the capitalist, republican suits as I could (don't get worried, I'm just trying to realistically think how these terrorists seem to think). I think the caution they are preaching is not a bad idea. I'm irked, but I will take the train home tonight and next week, and the week after...
nocturnix
10-07-2005, 09:48 AM
Originally posted by Janarth
Lead story on cnn.com is there are bomb threats for the immediate future for NYC's subway. Not being an attention whore, but....this sucks :( Now I gotta pay 20 bucks for a effin cab.
I took the subway home cause I don't check the news mid day, didn't even notice.
Just arrived at work...9:34AM here, took the 6, xfer to the NRW, and got off at 34th and broadway. No trouble here, was eerily quiet. I wonder if most of the people riding had missed the news announcement, hard to do when youre being handed news papers with it on the front page.
I try not to let fear influence my life as much as possible and have always ignored terrorist threats. However, I've lived in Arizona all my life which has really never been a terrorist target. Moved to the city a month ago. Perhaps its nievety(sp), but I'm just not really affraid yet. Who knows, maybe I'll be an idiot and get blown up, but as Tsunami(fitting name) said, you cant live in a hole or some such.
That being said, I will admit I was a little affraid by the fact that all the news articles saying "cops flood the subways due to threat" and "city on its highest alert"; the resulting security measures were dissapointing.
I cannot say what the plan was, but I saw 1 cop in my transmute this morning at the turnstyles near where I live. No one checking bags, and plenty of suspicious looking bags to check, my own included. I would have been happy to have my bag checked.
Anyways, best solution for these kind of things: ignore them, put them out of your mind as much as possible. It's a practice ive become fairly good at. Every day we step out the door is a roll of the dice, we cant spend our lives thinking about the bad roll but then we have let the terrorists win.
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On a side note, are there any players here in NYC? As I said, I'm new here and so far I just work and play GS. Starting to get lonely with no friends.
[Edited on 10-7-2005 by nocturnix]
Parkbandit
10-07-2005, 10:06 AM
Originally posted by Backlash
Do you live in fear because people in power tell you to?
Has this administration been telling the truth about whats going on?
I’m listening to Rage, so forgive my sarcasm.
George W wanted to just scare everyone in NYC so they start buying more oil from his oil pals and stuff to protect themselves with from Haliburton. Backlash has cracked this case wide open once again.
:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
nocturnix
10-07-2005, 10:11 AM
They do use fear and lies to control us, no doubt.
However I think its too dangerous to make something like this up. Honestly I wish he did, and then we found out...I've been waiting for something drastic so we can finally impeach him. Although in my opinion it was time to impeach him after things like lying about WOMDs in Iraq, and exposing undercover agents and lists of other things. But apparently the American public needs something drastic in order for him to be impeached, like a bizzare sexual encounter or something. Lies? Bah, presidents have been doing that for centuries right? We cant impeach him for that.
I'm boycotting oil. Oh yah, and I cant afford it or a car...i live in NYC hah.
Kefka
10-07-2005, 10:15 AM
I think it's reached the point where many of us just get pissed off when we hear about terror warnings. To and from work, same slow trains, noone looking scared. I walk through Grand Central Station every work day. Work as usual. I work at MTA HQ and didn't hear about any threats until I got home from work.
SayGoodbye
10-07-2005, 12:05 PM
Originally posted by Tijay
I'll be taking the subway straight to yankee stadium tomorrow night.
Maybe Yankee stadium will be a target.
Not that I'm hoping for anything.. :smilegrin:
Note: In no way do I mean that I wish Tijay to come to harm, just his ballteam.
Vitruvian
10-07-2005, 12:22 PM
Umm, so they ARE winning! If you take the cabs, Bin Laden has won the war we were never meant to "win"!
Wezas
10-07-2005, 12:28 PM
Originally posted by Vitruvian
Umm, so they ARE winning! If you take the cabs, Bin Laden has won the war we were never meant to "win"!
<insert racist cab driver comment here>
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