Hoodrats Using Smartphones Dumbly
As a rider of NYC’s elevated subway lines, I’m all too familiar with the obnoxious antics that riders exhibit by way of their cell phones, but it’s usually only a temporary mental splinter that comes to an eventual end once the train rolls into an underground station. Unless of course they’re “blasting.” That’s the term the “youth” reportedly use when they play music over their smartphones as if they were mini-boom boxes, according to amNY.
Just last Friday, I experienced this firsthand and was amazed at how one person could annoy a car full of commuters so easily with their tinny cacophony. It didn’t help that he was playing this track either.
by Bucky Turco on June 21, 2011 at 5:50 pm
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man, these youths don't even know what's up with real hip hop culture with real music, mcs (not officer ricky) and lasonics. poor ignorant idiots, how can one generation completely miss the boat on what the fathers of hip hop created. god how i miss the golden age.
In London the French do this as a matter of course. Anywhere they can.
move out the city or dont take public trasnportasion. holy fuck you sound like some yuppy fuck
@ kencm07
That's the solution for the vermin problem? Leave? I'll bet there are other solutions. Think, hard.
This is old news. This has been done as long as phones have had the MP3 player function. Before this NEXTEL ringtones were all the rage. You could hold down the volume button and get a pretty long stretch of music going. Does it really matter though, I actually like it, broadens my horizons, lol.