Physicians Assistant yelling “HELP ME” while stealing a CitiBike ?

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Anonymous wrote:I watched the video and I have no idea what I just saw. I’m so confused by everyone else’s confidence.

Have you ever used citibike before?

A lot of posters seem confused about the situation, and I wonder if that’s because they’re not familiar with the app and haven’t done the bike share before. It seems like people defending her, saying maybe she was confused and thought it was her bike are definitely not familiar with it, or they’d realize that argument doesn’t hold water. She didn’t reserve it, she didn’t unlock it, she couldn’t possibly think it was hers.

For the poster who said it’s sort of like she tried to jump into a taxi someone else was waiting for, I’d say since he already activated it, it’s more like she tried to take someone else’s Uber and stick them with the bill.

I wonder how many people she lied about in the past and tormented. She tried to bully these guys but they stayed calm and cool and called out her nonsense, and most importantly got video of the situation. Even with a video there are still people trying to say she didn’t do anything wrong. She’s lucky there weren’t any marines around feeling threatened by her yelling, touching people, and swiping their phones.

I’ve used these bikes many times. The video doesn’t show who unlocked the bike.

You can see his phone screen in the first few seconds of the video.

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Anonymous wrote:Count me among the people who think she's very much in the wrong and that her fake crying is awful but also think the way this has gone viral and how she's being held up as emblematic of all white women is troubling.

One of the first things I thought of when I saw this video was a time when I was walking down a city street texting, minding my own business, when a group of 4 teen girls walked up and demanded I give them my phone. My first instinct at the time, since it was about 6pm on a weekday and there were lots of people around, was to loudly start saying "These girls are trying to take my phone!" Not screaming, but just announcing to passers by what was happing in case they tried to physically take it from me. They laughed at me and walked away. I think my instincts were good.

But watching this video and the response, I now wonder how that response would look if it was recorded by someone else. Would it be clear to others what was going on? What if the video didn't catch the part where the girls demanded my phone? What did I look like calling out like that? Like some entitled white lady trying to get a group of young black people in trouble? In 2023, if a bystander heard me saying that, would they understand what was happening or assume I was just a white lade crying wolf?

So while I now understand enough context to get this woman was definitely in the wrong and find her behavior abhorrent, I worry about just assuming that anytime you see a white woman calling for help that she is faking it. Sometimes people do need help. Not all white women are bad actors. Not all black people are in the right. It feels like we are swinging from one set of assumptions to another and I don't think the outcomes are going to be great.

A woman being labelled a Karen is not the same as a black man having police sicced on him.

Yelling “help” when you think you are being threatened or stolen from is not “siccing police” on anyone. It’s calling for help. Until anyone can prove to me that the woman knew the bike wan’t hers, I’m neutral.

It is a rental bike which was rented by another person, who was right there with the reservation on his phone. 10/10 not her bike and she knew it.

THE VIDEO DOES NOT SHOW THAT.

YES IT DOES. YOU CAN SEE THE APP’S CONFIRMATION SCREEN ON HIS PHONE.

Now stop yelling. It’s big Boomer energy.

I agree with you. I’m a white woman and I think she’s mentally unstable.

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Anonymous wrote:Count me among the people who think she's very much in the wrong and that her fake crying is awful but also think the way this has gone viral and how she's being held up as emblematic of all white women is troubling.

One of the first things I thought of when I saw this video was a time when I was walking down a city street texting, minding my own business, when a group of 4 teen girls walked up and demanded I give them my phone. My first instinct at the time, since it was about 6pm on a weekday and there were lots of people around, was to loudly start saying "These girls are trying to take my phone!" Not screaming, but just announcing to passers by what was happing in case they tried to physically take it from me. They laughed at me and walked away. I think my instincts were good.

But watching this video and the response, I now wonder how that response would look if it was recorded by someone else. Would it be clear to others what was going on? What if the video didn't catch the part where the girls demanded my phone? What did I look like calling out like that? Like some entitled white lady trying to get a group of young black people in trouble? In 2023, if a bystander heard me saying that, would they understand what was happening or assume I was just a white lade crying wolf?

So while I now understand enough context to get this woman was definitely in the wrong and find her behavior abhorrent, I worry about just assuming that anytime you see a white woman calling for help that she is faking it. Sometimes people do need help. Not all white women are bad actors. Not all black people are in the right. It feels like we are swinging from one set of assumptions to another and I don't think the outcomes are going to be great.

A woman being labelled a Karen is not the same as a black man having police sicced on him.

Yelling “help” when you think you are being threatened or stolen from is not “siccing police” on anyone. It’s calling for help. Until anyone can prove to me that the woman knew the bike wan’t hers, I’m neutral.

It is a rental bike which was rented by another person, who was right there with the reservation on his phone. 10/10 not her bike and she knew it.

THE VIDEO DOES NOT SHOW THAT.

YES IT DOES. YOU CAN SEE THE APP’S CONFIRMATION SCREEN ON HIS PHONE.

Now stop yelling. It’s big Boomer energy.

That’s why I asked earlier if they were familiar with the citi bike app. If they don’t use it, they might think there’s no way to know if he had reserved the bike or if the bike was still up for grabs.

I’m surprised no one asked why he didn’t just pull a printed copy of his confirmation email out of his pocket if he wanted to clear things up.

It’s fine not to know how an app works, but it’s not okay to take sides and say there’s no proof he paid or that she’s not trying to steal just because you don’t know how an app works.

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I once had three black guys surround me ti take my bike. They insisted they needed a ride. At one point I was so scared I said you can sit on it and one rode off.

According to police I gave it to him. He rode it to my HS the next day.

It would be racist to get it back. How it goes that white women should have know.

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Anonymous wrote:Count me among the people who think she's very much in the wrong and that her fake crying is awful but also think the way this has gone viral and how she's being held up as emblematic of all white women is troubling.

One of the first things I thought of when I saw this video was a time when I was walking down a city street texting, minding my own business, when a group of 4 teen girls walked up and demanded I give them my phone. My first instinct at the time, since it was about 6pm on a weekday and there were lots of people around, was to loudly start saying "These girls are trying to take my phone!" Not screaming, but just announcing to passers by what was happing in case they tried to physically take it from me. They laughed at me and walked away. I think my instincts were good.

But watching this video and the response, I now wonder how that response would look if it was recorded by someone else. Would it be clear to others what was going on? What if the video didn't catch the part where the girls demanded my phone? What did I look like calling out like that? Like some entitled white lady trying to get a group of young black people in trouble? In 2023, if a bystander heard me saying that, would they understand what was happening or assume I was just a white lade crying wolf?

So while I now understand enough context to get this woman was definitely in the wrong and find her behavior abhorrent, I worry about just assuming that anytime you see a white woman calling for help that she is faking it. Sometimes people do need help. Not all white women are bad actors. Not all black people are in the right. It feels like we are swinging from one set of assumptions to another and I don't think the outcomes are going to be great.

A woman being labelled a Karen is not the same as a black man having police sicced on him.

Yelling “help” when you think you are being threatened or stolen from is not “siccing police” on anyone. It’s calling for help. Until anyone can prove to me that the woman knew the bike wan’t hers, I’m neutral.

It is a rental bike which was rented by another person, who was right there with the reservation on his phone. 10/10 not her bike and she knew it.

THE VIDEO DOES NOT SHOW THAT.

YES IT DOES. YOU CAN SEE THE APP’S CONFIRMATION SCREEN ON HIS PHONE.

Now stop yelling. It’s big Boomer energy.

That’s why I asked earlier if they were familiar with the citi bike app. If they don’t use it, they might think there’s no way to know if he had reserved the bike or if the bike was still up for grabs.

I’m surprised no one asked why he didn’t just pull a printed copy of his confirmation email out of his pocket if he wanted to clear things up.

It’s fine not to know how an app works, but it’s not okay to take sides and say there’s no proof he paid or that she’s not trying to steal just because you don’t know how an app works.

Why would he have a printer confirmation? It’s all done on the phone now. The video shows them both with phones in their hands but doesn’t show any reservation for a particular bike. Once you unlock the bike it just shows the time.

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Anonymous wrote:Count me among the people who think she's very much in the wrong and that her fake crying is awful but also think the way this has gone viral and how she's being held up as emblematic of all white women is troubling.

One of the first things I thought of when I saw this video was a time when I was walking down a city street texting, minding my own business, when a group of 4 teen girls walked up and demanded I give them my phone. My first instinct at the time, since it was about 6pm on a weekday and there were lots of people around, was to loudly start saying "These girls are trying to take my phone!" Not screaming, but just announcing to passers by what was happing in case they tried to physically take it from me. They laughed at me and walked away. I think my instincts were good.

But watching this video and the response, I now wonder how that response would look if it was recorded by someone else. Would it be clear to others what was going on? What if the video didn't catch the part where the girls demanded my phone? What did I look like calling out like that? Like some entitled white lady trying to get a group of young black people in trouble? In 2023, if a bystander heard me saying that, would they understand what was happening or assume I was just a white lade crying wolf?

So while I now understand enough context to get this woman was definitely in the wrong and find her behavior abhorrent, I worry about just assuming that anytime you see a white woman calling for help that she is faking it. Sometimes people do need help. Not all white women are bad actors. Not all black people are in the right. It feels like we are swinging from one set of assumptions to another and I don't think the outcomes are going to be great.

A woman being labelled a Karen is not the same as a black man having police sicced on him.

Yelling “help” when you think you are being threatened or stolen from is not “siccing police” on anyone. It’s calling for help. Until anyone can prove to me that the woman knew the bike wan’t hers, I’m neutral.

It is a rental bike which was rented by another person, who was right there with the reservation on his phone. 10/10 not her bike and she knew it.

THE VIDEO DOES NOT SHOW THAT.

YES IT DOES. YOU CAN SEE THE APP’S CONFIRMATION SCREEN ON HIS PHONE.

Now stop yelling. It’s big Boomer energy.

That’s why I asked earlier if they were familiar with the citi bike app. If they don’t use it, they might think there’s no way to know if he had reserved the bike or if the bike was still up for grabs.

I’m surprised no one asked why he didn’t just pull a printed copy of his confirmation email out of his pocket if he wanted to clear things up.

It’s fine not to know how an app works, but it’s not okay to take sides and say there’s no proof he paid or that she’s not trying to steal just because you don’t know how an app works.

Why would he have a printer confirmation? It’s all done on the phone now. The video shows them both with phones in their hands but doesn’t show any reservation for a particular bike. Once you unlock the bike it just shows the time.

It also looks like he is deliberately covering up the QR code so she can’t scan it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I once had three black guys surround me ti take my bike. They insisted they needed a ride. At one point I was so scared I said you can sit on it and one rode off.

According to police I gave it to him. He rode it to my HS the next day.

It would be racist to get it back. How it goes that white women should have know.

Exactly. You were scared so you let him have it. That's NOT what the woman in the video did. She stayed and held on and half heartedly yelled "help." She wasn't scared.

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Sucks to all be lumped together doesn’t it?

+1,000,000

“When you're accustomed to privilege equality feels like oppression”

It’s inapplicable. Equality in that construction means equal opportunity and fairness. What you’re arguing for is petty-B sharing of stereotyping and counter oppression. It’s not a good look.

Not a good look for who?

The people who spent centuries oppressing others and now faced with the question, doesn’t it suck to feel what oppressed people are going through. Or the people asking, doesn’t oppression suck.

You’re making the absurd presumption that all live, white-presenting women have spent centuries oppressing others. Your arguments are just…dumb AF.

Yeah, history is dumb.

Yeah, your inapposite use of it to bash posters who like me are critical of the woman in this circumstance is very dumb.

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Anonymous wrote:Count me among the people who think she's very much in the wrong and that her fake crying is awful but also think the way this has gone viral and how she's being held up as emblematic of all white women is troubling.

One of the first things I thought of when I saw this video was a time when I was walking down a city street texting, minding my own business, when a group of 4 teen girls walked up and demanded I give them my phone. My first instinct at the time, since it was about 6pm on a weekday and there were lots of people around, was to loudly start saying "These girls are trying to take my phone!" Not screaming, but just announcing to passers by what was happing in case they tried to physically take it from me. They laughed at me and walked away. I think my instincts were good.

But watching this video and the response, I now wonder how that response would look if it was recorded by someone else. Would it be clear to others what was going on? What if the video didn't catch the part where the girls demanded my phone? What did I look like calling out like that? Like some entitled white lady trying to get a group of young black people in trouble? In 2023, if a bystander heard me saying that, would they understand what was happening or assume I was just a white lade crying wolf?

So while I now understand enough context to get this woman was definitely in the wrong and find her behavior abhorrent, I worry about just assuming that anytime you see a white woman calling for help that she is faking it. Sometimes people do need help. Not all white women are bad actors. Not all black people are in the right. It feels like we are swinging from one set of assumptions to another and I don't think the outcomes are going to be great.

A woman being labelled a Karen is not the same as a black man having police sicced on him.

Yelling “help” when you think you are being threatened or stolen from is not “siccing police” on anyone. It’s calling for help. Until anyone can prove to me that the woman knew the bike wan’t hers, I’m neutral.

It is a rental bike which was rented by another person, who was right there with the reservation on his phone. 10/10 not her bike and she knew it.

THE VIDEO DOES NOT SHOW THAT.

YES IT DOES. YOU CAN SEE THE APP’S CONFIRMATION SCREEN ON HIS PHONE.

Now stop yelling. It’s big Boomer energy.

That’s why I asked earlier if they were familiar with the citi bike app. If they don’t use it, they might think there’s no way to know if he had reserved the bike or if the bike was still up for grabs.

I’m surprised no one asked why he didn’t just pull a printed copy of his confirmation email out of his pocket if he wanted to clear things up.

It’s fine not to know how an app works, but it’s not okay to take sides and say there’s no proof he paid or that she’s not trying to steal just because you don’t know how an app works.

Why would he have a printer confirmation? It’s all done on the phone now. The video shows them both with phones in their hands but doesn’t show any reservation for a particular bike. Once you unlock the bike it just shows the time.

It also looks like he is deliberately covering up the QR code so she can’t scan it.

Huh?
How would she be able to scan it? Are you telling me that I can scan somebody else’s QR code to confirm their reservation? I’m trying to understand.

[Anonymous]

I bet it was the only bike available on the street, and she hadn’t realized he had already booked it at the very beginning, and tried to get away with taking it from him before thinking through the stupidity of her behavior. She’ll be lucky if she still has a job tomorrow.

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Anonymous wrote:I bet it was the only bike available on the street, and she hadn’t realized he had already booked it at the very beginning, and tried to get away with taking it from him before thinking through the stupidity of her behavior. She’ll be lucky if she still has a job tomorrow.

I’m following I’m following the Hospital’s Twitter feed to see if they update her employment status.

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Anonymous wrote:Count me among the people who think she's very much in the wrong and that her fake crying is awful but also think the way this has gone viral and how she's being held up as emblematic of all white women is troubling.

One of the first things I thought of when I saw this video was a time when I was walking down a city street texting, minding my own business, when a group of 4 teen girls walked up and demanded I give them my phone. My first instinct at the time, since it was about 6pm on a weekday and there were lots of people around, was to loudly start saying "These girls are trying to take my phone!" Not screaming, but just announcing to passers by what was happing in case they tried to physically take it from me. They laughed at me and walked away. I think my instincts were good.

But watching this video and the response, I now wonder how that response would look if it was recorded by someone else. Would it be clear to others what was going on? What if the video didn't catch the part where the girls demanded my phone? What did I look like calling out like that? Like some entitled white lady trying to get a group of young black people in trouble? In 2023, if a bystander heard me saying that, would they understand what was happening or assume I was just a white lade crying wolf?

So while I now understand enough context to get this woman was definitely in the wrong and find her behavior abhorrent, I worry about just assuming that anytime you see a white woman calling for help that she is faking it. Sometimes people do need help. Not all white women are bad actors. Not all black people are in the right. It feels like we are swinging from one set of assumptions to another and I don't think the outcomes are going to be great.

A woman being labelled a Karen is not the same as a black man having police sicced on him.

Yelling “help” when you think you are being threatened or stolen from is not “siccing police” on anyone. It’s calling for help. Until anyone can prove to me that the woman knew the bike wan’t hers, I’m neutral.

It is a rental bike which was rented by another person, who was right there with the reservation on his phone. 10/10 not her bike and she knew it.

THE VIDEO DOES NOT SHOW THAT.

YES IT DOES. YOU CAN SEE THE APP’S CONFIRMATION SCREEN ON HIS PHONE.

Now stop yelling. It’s big Boomer energy.

That’s why I asked earlier if they were familiar with the citi bike app. If they don’t use it, they might think there’s no way to know if he had reserved the bike or if the bike was still up for grabs.

I’m surprised no one asked why he didn’t just pull a printed copy of his confirmation email out of his pocket if he wanted to clear things up.

It’s fine not to know how an app works, but it’s not okay to take sides and say there’s no proof he paid or that she’s not trying to steal just because you don’t know how an app works.

Why would he have a printer confirmation? It’s all done on the phone now. The video shows them both with phones in their hands but doesn’t show any reservation for a particular bike. Once you unlock the bike it just shows the time.

It also looks like he is deliberately covering up the QR code so she can’t scan it.

Huh?
How would she be able to scan it? Are you telling me that I can scan somebody else’s QR code to confirm their reservation? I’m trying to understand.

If they were arguing over who got to the bike first, he might have been covering up the QR code so she can’t scan it first. Or so that she can’t see the serial number if it’s on that version of the QR code sticker. In any event he definitely looks like he is covering up the QR code for some reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bet it was the only bike available on the street, and she hadn’t realized he had already booked it at the very beginning, and tried to get away with taking it from him before thinking through the stupidity of her behavior. She’ll be lucky if she still has a job tomorrow.

You can’t book a citibike in advance. About the only thing this video actually shows is that somebody unlocked the bike, but it’s unclear who.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I bet it was the only bike available on the street, and she hadn’t realized he had already booked it at the very beginning, and tried to get away with taking it from him before thinking through the stupidity of her behavior. She’ll be lucky if she still has a job tomorrow.

I’m following I’m following the Hospital’s Twitter feed to see if they update her employment status.

Why would they fire her over an argument in a viral video or publicly say anything? She’s in a union. Not gonna happen.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, the video makes the PA look terrible. Even if the circumstances are different from what we know, she does not appear to be threatened in any way that would have necessitated calling for help, and her tears are completely fake and off-putting. I'm curious what her side of the story is, but not at all optimistic that there is a compelling one. Seriously, are we so far gone that we can't work out simple disputes by talking things over instead of creating a hysterical scene?