Caught on Tape: The 50 Craziest Mass Transit Fights
By Complex Magazine, Greg Topscher, Ross Scarano | Jul 11, 2011 | 1:10 pm | Permalink
You're on your way to work, maybe on a subway or bus, and you're smashed against a man loudly chomping through an egg sandwich. His messenger bag pushes into your side everytime he wipes the yolk away from around his mouth. You don't want to go to work; it's Monday. You're irritable, and his messenger bag must be full of bricks because it's catching you right above the hip, the soft spot below your ribs, and it actually hurts. Without thinking, you give the dude a little shove and begin to run your mouth. Insults you didn't know you had in you come spitting out of your mouth like the spirit of Joe Pesci circa Goodfellas has possessed you. If things get real, one of you hits the other. Add someone with a camera phone and there you have it: a mass transit fight, caught on tape.
It might be the small space. It might be the fact that we take public transportation to go to places we don't want to be, i.e. work, or that we use it to get back from the bar rather than risk a D.U.I. Whatever it is, a crowded subway, train, bus, or ferry is a great place to witness, or participate in, a verbal or sometimes physical brawl. Now that everyone carries with them the technology to become a member of the paparazzi, we've seen an outbreak in mass transit fight videos.
Presumably mass transit fights have been happening since the advent of communal travel. Back when the ancient Greeks were ferrying around, you can bet that drunk and disorderly passengers chewed each other out, cracked jaws, and left people bobbing in the river Styx. Cowboys with days of stubble and little self-control must've slugged each other on top of stagecoaches in between shots of poorly distilled corn liquor. But we don't have video documentation of thse confrontations. However, we do have shaky footage from contemporary commuters who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
What you're about to witness are the best (worst?) of those altercations. If you're not into blood, casual racism/sexism, colorful language, and general trauma, this is not the list for you. Everybody else, dig in. This is Caught on Tape: The 50 Craziest Mass Transit Fights.
Andrew July 11th, 2011 at 05:21 PM
Just FYI - this is a Metro North train, it services Westchester and CT, but not LI.
Andrew July 11th, 2011 at 05:22 PM
On #35
JoeMoe July 11th, 2011 at 07:03 PM
After a long commute home on the subway...there's nothing I like better than watching arbitrarily ranked, poorly edited clips of black people fighting on mass transit.
Summerbr3ze July 19th, 2011 at 06:58 PM
smh...ya know!
Big Al July 11th, 2011 at 08:44 PM
WOW! Most of the people involved are black! WHAT A SHOCKER!!!!!!!!!!
Kip Smithers July 11th, 2011 at 09:57 PM
why the hell do you bring race into it? all of these people did a great job representing themselves in these fight including blacks, whites, asians, hispanics, etc. so Big Al and Joe Moe go fuck yourself because your bigotry literally only makes you look like an ass. your welcome douchbags. i'm suprised fuckin' hicks read complex.
JoeMoe July 11th, 2011 at 11:38 PM
I'm black. Assumuming Kip is your real name...you must be homosexual.
Do Work July 12th, 2011 at 10:35 AM
your ? you're. If you can't figure out the difference, then don't comment. Bad grammar makes you look stupid.
Do Work? Yeah ok. July 12th, 2011 at 12:12 PM
Good one. Nice response. I remember when i used to argue like a 10 year-old.
Laid Off July 12th, 2011 at 03:01 PM
In Joe Moe's case, "your" is correct. Falsely critiquing someone's grammar makes you look even more stupid.
ryan July 11th, 2011 at 10:57 PM
I'm from Toronto.Definately not the TTC.
CT July 12th, 2011 at 01:52 AM
I really don't understand why people do not protect others today. You see someone getting HURT but we laugh and make it a spectacle. What if that fight turned into something tragic. A man beats a woman in public and others say she deserved to get her ass whooped cuz she hit him. His punch does not measure to her punch no matter what, restrain her if possible but be a MAN and walk away. Man, Woman, Boy or Girl, situations like this should be diffused not cheered on smdh!
rmo134 July 12th, 2011 at 03:22 AM
50 lamest mass transit arguments
JoeMoe July 12th, 2011 at 09:26 AM
I didn't say you were white. But that makes it even worse now that you are black. Have some respect for your own race and race in general. I'm ignoring the assumption so you can grow the fuck up.
Allycat July 12th, 2011 at 02:49 PM
#41 as suggested at 1:08 - The dude filming and I had the same response. "DAMN!" It's sad that there are very few people who come forward to help during these situations but the even sadder reality is this: nobody's trying to get killed/stabbed/shot attempting to be a mediator to babbling/grappling idiots. It's not like it used to be where they can talk sense into those involved. No one wants to hear sense any more. *shrugs*
Brett July 25th, 2011 at 12:33 AM
You're absolutely right. A drunken fight was going on in the street (i live in a college town), my roommate tried to step in, say calm down, and split them up. He ended up getting two of his teeth knocked out. Its simply not worth it anymore to try and stop a fight unless someone is going to die. Because the types of people that are getting into fist fights anyways are the types of people that aren't going to listen to logic or reason in the first place.
fuckNY July 12th, 2011 at 07:05 PM
I swear, every motherfucker thinks because they're from New York that they are a tough guy. Fucking pussies. I'm from New York! I'm from New York! I don't give a fuck if you from Compton, South Central, Brooklyn, Queens. Just cause you born there don't mean you tough.
Gab Kranjcar July 19th, 2011 at 03:56 AM
True story, New York sucks..