34 Replies to “Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 30 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car”

  1. OK, seriously. You got the kind of bowel problems that require you to carry a toilet with you, I do not begrudge the guy. Not possible to carry a portable shower and laundry…

    At least he didn’t try to eat anyone.

  2. Setup……toilet paper at the ready.
    Do you by 1 roll of toilet paper at the same time as a toilet?
    Why was the video started? And from the ideal position?

  3. Now if it is a Trawna Bus or Rail surely the Mayor will set up a ‘personal potty programme’ as How he is happily providing care for the “homeless”.____ Something Secretary Pompero provided from the Trump Administration which will NOT be available to Greater Trawna;____Soooo? Is this information available on the CBC branch of the Liberal Party of canada or any of the minion leech Central Canada media sponging up the remnants of Tax-payer funds not handed over to CBC & Radio du canada. ___ How’s the New Radio du Canada — Mansion for the Quebec Nation going?

  4. Agree. That’s staged. People are desperate for views and will do anything to get them.

    Rachel Maddow is a good example.

    1. Agreed. Here are some images of TTC subway cars. Plus one of the ladies who gets up to move is carrying a Macy’s bag as part of her shopping. There is no Macy’s in Toronto.

      It’s more likely New York. Here are some images of NYC subway cars. Note the hard grey plastic benches and the bias slashed metal bars that separate seating areas. Other subway systems in the US may share these features but the TTC definitely does not.

  7. This is a staged video from an internet “performance artist” named Zeeshan Ali, out of New York, from a couple years ago.

    Proving once again that art is subjective.

  8. Fake and staged for shock value! That gross video is not even funny. Oh well, it’s the YouTube era. People will be zany. This toilet humor is what would amuse prepubescent boys. At least he used a camping toilet unlike the drug addict in the California Safeway featured a few days ago. (If you missed it, you’re lucky)

    When I lived in Montreal there were always odd people around. Many things took place in open spaces. Like…

    • The giant man with the very long and curly handlebar mustache who fed pigeons in the downtown city Square. The odd thing was that he had a ton of medals pinned on his coat. That coat was worn rain or shine, summer or winter. He’d buy stale bread from the grocer in the Hudson Bay (formerly Henry Morgan’s department store) The old bread was 10 cents/ loaf. I’d seen him there too, thought it was for himself. In researching the Square, you, dear reader, might like the following link. It’s amazing to see just how much history there was in my old city, Montreal. There are names in this link that you’d recognize, including Western Canadian place names:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Square

    • Then there was the weird and harmless old lady who would sit in the aforementioned Square and talk to herself. That wasn’t the half of it, she’d wear the most comical hat you ever saw. It was similar to one like the Shriners wear!

    • There were always interesting people in the Métro. Like the pretty young men with fur coats, big hair, platform boots and full makeup including beautiful manicures!

    • In 30° C weather, one would always spot people in their underwear on downtown streets! They were so hot! (not)

    • In every neighbourhood there were male flashers. I’d seen quite a few of those.

    • There were beautiful girls with see-through tops and mini skirts galore… but this was très normale!

    • There were people on the bus who carried live chickens in their large paper shopping bags going home from the outdoor Market. If there were no seats available and they had to stand and hang onto a bar, in summer, one not only could see their hairy armpits, but one had to endure listening to their clucking chickens! Yikes!

    These are just a few examples of “people-watching” that I can recall. The fact is, to this day, I still enjoy this activity! One thing that hasn’t changed is that there are some crazy people out there.

    1. My favourite place to people watch in Montreal was Bens Delicatessan. During the late 90s and early 2000s, Bens was in severe decline and attracted a much smaller far more eclectic crowd than it had during its heyday. Between the staff and the off-the-street regulars there was an interesting show going on every lunch hour. There were also the nostalgic diners like myself who were trying to recapture the past, even though Schwartz’s had long ago surpassed Bens for quantity and quality; although, my brother swears by Chenoys in Dollard-Des Ormeaux.

      1. I enjoyed Ben’s Deli too. I always hoped to get a different seat every time I went there in order to have a better look at all the photos of the celebrity guests who’d dined there. Remember those? There were many World famous people including American actors, sports people even international politicians. I used to go there more often than any others, their smoked meat on rye was delicious. I had only been to Schwartz’s once and found out then that smoked pastrami had a stronger taste. It is for that very reason that I enjoyed the food at Chenoy’s in DDO as much as Ben’s. I’d make that my go to place too, when visiting Mtl. if I didn’t make it downtown.

        I was shocked to learn that Ben’s had closed. I found a nice colored photo of the interior of the place in an issue of “Saturday Night” magazine when they still published that on weekends with the local newspapers. I kept the photo and framed it, for old times’ sake. It showed that famous back wall with all the photos and on the right side corner, there pictured, is one lone waiter taking a break late at night. What was nice was that these places stayed opened late and one could eat there at anytime of the day or night.

        The article in the magazine indicated that the yellow Formica counter and stools, along with the memorabilia from the restaurant was to be preserved in a museum but the place where it is, was undisclosed.

        You wrote: “Between the staff and the off-the-street regulars there was an interesting show going on every lunch hour.”

        Show? Do you mean a show of interesting celebrities? Or something else? Hope you reply! Do tell!

        1. I got to Montreal 3 or 4 times per year between 1996 and 2005. Bens had become an afterthought for most diners by that time. The inside although quaint was falling apart. Some seats and tables were held together with duct tape. So there weren’t many celebrities coming in any more. The show wasn’t a real show it was a description of the street characters, who were seedier than the restaurant, who would come in and order a coffee. The wait and counter staff would carry out conversations with each other across the restaurant talking about everthing from sports to news to what their in-laws were doing. As I said it was very entertaining. I too enjoyed the photographs on the wall and the old school way you settled your cheque with the cashier (who was in a glassed in area).

          I was a big fan of Mordecai Richler’s novels. Bens always had a prominent place as a hangout for his characters. It was the picture of Bens he painted that had me enthralled. So every trip I made to Montreal included a stop for lunch or dinner at Bens. It also helped that my hotel was a two minute walk away.

          1. I left Mtl in1978. It’s so long ago and I am losing touch.

            That’s what I thought you meant! Funny stuff! I read that the staff wanted to join a union. Guess they wanted regular pay increases and benefits. The long time owners didn’t like to be dictated to so they closed the place. I think they owned the building so there was the end of an era. And probably a nice retirement, that is , if they owned the building.

            On Google Earth, I recently tried to see what there now was on that particular piece of real estate where Ben’s used to be. The road was closed due to construction and there was a detour around the complete block.

            Thanks.

          2. Were you part of the Anglo Exodus? I was in high school during that time. Between 1976 and 1978 it seems we had a new student transferring into our school from Montreal every couple of weeks. A lot of kids parents were executives with fairly large companies.

          3. Steve @ 5:27pm
            Yes– moved during the mass exodus– first to the Maritimes then later to Alberta. I have relatives and friends scattered in Southern Ontario, so over the years I visited there a lot.

        2. Well Nancy, it seems your time in Montreal coincided with mine. And I left at about the time as you. There was nothing like going for a smoke meat sandwich after a night on the town. Occasionally, in later years, Dunne’s and even Chenoy Boys at Snowden (before they built the Decarie canyon) and Chenoy’s in Dollard.
          I used to work at CJAD on the same shift as Paul Reid. Maybe you were a listener in those days.

          1. Interesting. I remember Mum listening to CJAD and since radios were numerous in the house I used to listen to CKGM AM for the Rock music and then later CFQR FM or of course, CHOM FM for commercial-less music. Below is a link on CJAD. My, how the CJAD channel has changed. BELL has swooped up – right in there. Doesn’t surprise me. I remember seeing their former office downtown, from the outside, likely where you worked. Everything has moved to where CFCF-CTV TV broadcasts from now. I still listen to the CTV NEWS daily with Mittsumi Takahachi (early) or Paul or Amanda Kline (late news)

            As for missing a good smoke meat sandwich – there ‘s no question. I get the odd frozen package at Costco now and throw it together between some lovely rye that we can get here in Calgary. But, but, it’s not the same as the real McCoy, in good old Montreal.

            BTW in the post I made at 1:08 pm, in the link I gave to Phillips Square, there at the very bottom of the page, were links to some of the history of Montreal. I went down that rabbit hole this afternoon and there were untold numbers of golden little nuggets. I was facinated to learn some things that they didn’t teach in school. For one, there were many who perished in the sinking of the Titanic. See list of wealthy Montrealers, and much much more. You’ll be surprised to learn just how important that place used to be. Of course, that is no longer the case.

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJAD

    2. Downtown Calgary in the late 1970s had its own share of fruitloops. Anybody who was in there in those days remember Disco Sally? How about the chap who was dressed in business attire and walked along the sidewalk loudly going “Yippee! Yahoo!”

      And then there was a troll-like character who would come up to people, mumble something incomprehensible, and then scoot off.

  9. What scares me the most is the amount of posters who BELIEVE this actually happened, as in spontaneous.

    i found it really funny, a prank, but in our PC world…

    I believe the Internet has strengthened the power of stupidity, not share knowledge…

    1. “I believe the Internet has strengthened the power of stupidity, not share knowledge…”

      You do know it’s a FACT that there are piles of excrement in the streets and on the sidewalks of L.A., San Francisco, Seattle, and San Diego, don’t you?
      So please explain why it strains gullibility to believe that someone would take a dump in a portable pottie on mass transit.
      Or maybe you’re just ignorant of the fact that people are shitting in the streets.

      1. Ummm, I was posting how people believed this video to be true, a guy bringing a toilet onto a subway with toilet paper and so on.

        Not the fact he was taking a dump.

        Learn to reason, it helps.

    2. “What scares me the most is the amount of posters who BELIEVE this actually happened…”

      Yeah sure Johnbrooks. We’ve all seen sh1t on subway platforms in Toronto at one time or another, pretty obviously not from a dog. Do I need video to figure out where it came from?

      Bad behavior by the unmedicated lunatics on subways is a given. This particular time it was a prank? Yay.

      1. I guess, you like Oz, totally missed the point about people falling for YouTube videos that are staged.

        I guess as well, you enforce the thought of being the amount is true.

    3. Right, impossible, just like that hoax about a cultural enricher dumping buckets of liquid diversity on students’ heads at UofT and York… oh wait never mind.

  10. the ‘Tranna subway’ claim is decisive PROOF of the ‘fake news’ syndrome.
    m’kay? here’s a hint dear SDA: the time has come, the era of mass instantaneous commuuuuuunication is here.
    thus, rumours DO spread faster than the truth can put on its pants.

    be.     very.       skeptical.       about.       EVERYTHING.        you see and hear from the web. m’kay?
    E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.

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