A woman, who had talked on her cell phone for 16 straight hours, was removed from an Amtrak train, in a move that brought smiles to millions across the nation, and serves as a warning to chatty passengers.
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Beard and her victims were sitting in a "quiet car" where talking on the phone is prohibited. The 39-year-old reportedly ignored repeated announcements from the train crew telling passengers not to use cell phones. She was able to continue her marathon-long conversation due to Amtrak's phone charging stations.
Beard, after spending an entire waking day talking on a cell phone in a train car, said she felt "disrespected."
A survey earlier this year found that 91 percent of U.S. adultswitness examples of bad cell phone etiquette daily.
Unless the implied nine percent who don't notice anything wrong represent an extremely rude and highly mobile bad-manners squad -- of which Beard may be a leader -- that stat implies that many people practice some of the bad behaviors they find offensive in others.
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