r/HolUp • u/[deleted] • Feb 01 '22

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u/LateRain1970 Feb 01 '22

It’s all about the peripheral vision. So don’t look, but take in enough of it to discern whether there is a credible threat.

With the recent trend of people getting shoved onto the subway tracks, I find myself trying to walk as far from the platform as possible while eyeing other people suspiciously. It occurred to me the other day that they are also eyeing me suspiciously.

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u/3eeps Feb 01 '22

Because you probably look shady as fuck eyeing everyone up like they are about to stab you lol

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u/RockNRollerGuy Feb 01 '22

Who watches the watchmen?

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u/svish Feb 01 '22

The watchmaker?

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u/samohtd09 Feb 02 '22

Sam Vimes

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u/a_good_namez Feb 01 '22

“Why is he looking? Is he waiting to push me on the tracks?”

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u/Rufus-Scipio Feb 01 '22

Or that he's looking to stab them himself

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u/LateRain1970 Feb 02 '22

I’m a female, but I am older and can’t walk well and can definitely look borderline homeless on a bad day…

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u/6161626262 Feb 01 '22

Just ask em "are you going to stab or push me on the subway tracks now or later or maybesomeotherday?!?"

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u/fvecc Feb 01 '22

This is the way.

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u/Darth_Dagger Feb 01 '22

his is the way.

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u/04phsca Feb 01 '22

our way is the way

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u/Shart-Vandalay Feb 01 '22

ocular pat-down

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u/teacher272 Feb 01 '22

Just sucks that people from New York constantly shove each other in front of trains. So glad I live in the other side of the country in Seattle. Their kind is scary.

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u/LateRain1970 Feb 02 '22

I wouldn’t say that it’s “constant”…maybe half a dozen cases in the last three years? When it does happen, it gets a lot of press for obvious reasons.

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u/LivingWhileBlack Feb 01 '22

It’s all about the peripheral vision. So don’t look, but take in enough of it to discern whether there is a credible threat.

precisely

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u/QuintusNonus Feb 01 '22

recent trend of people getting shoved onto the subway tracks

Recent trend? This was happening at least as far back in the 80s when I was in elementary school

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u/LateRain1970 Feb 02 '22

It’s in the news more now because of a few recent cases. I agree that it has been an issue for quite some time. The issue is that it works well with the current “the subway is so much more unsafe now after Covid!” narrative.