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

[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.

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.

only if you're not very bright. It's clear to most that he unlocked it.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Racist. The word is racist. Not mentally unstable.

I love how people will do anything but just say, wow, that's racist as hell.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

only if you're not very bright. It's clear to most that he unlocked it.

Can you explain how? NP who actually hasn’t ever unlocked a citibike and I don’t see any evidence at all of who unlocked which bikes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

only if you're not very bright. It's clear to most that he unlocked it.

He’s standing there with his phone opened to the app that unlocked the bike. She grabbed his phone. She never even said she it was her bike.
No excuse but I think she’s tired and pregnant and used to getting her bike and her way all her life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

only if you're not very bright. It's clear to most that he unlocked it.

He’s standing there with his phone opened to the app that unlocked the bike. She grabbed his phone. She never even said she it was her bike.
No excuse but I think she’s tired and pregnant and used to getting her bike and her way all her life.

How can you tell that it’s the bike she’s on by looking at his phone screen?

[Anonymous]

Because her conduct is that of a person who is crazy, irrational, dishonest and/or racially biased, and she acted this way while wearing her work uniform, clearly displaying her employer’s name. That makes it her employer’s business.

[Anonymous]

^ responding to “why would they fire her”

[Anonymous]

For people who are familiar with Citibike—why is he blocking her ability to scan the QR code?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

only if you're not very bright. It's clear to most that he unlocked it.

Please show a screen capture proving that he unlocked it. Please also show your evidence (if he did unlock it) that she was knowingly trying to take it from him (as opposed to being confused about who unlocked it).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

There was never an argument over who reserved the bike. Maybe at first she didnt realize it was already assigned. Once she knew she didn’t have a bike reserved, she went directly to “HELP ME HELP ME” bs stuff we know gets black guys arrested and killed.
Terrible reaction, behavior and judgement on her part.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

only if you're not very bright. It's clear to most that he unlocked it.

He’s standing there with his phone opened to the app that unlocked the bike. She grabbed his phone. She never even said she it was her bike.
No excuse but I think she’s tired and pregnant and used to getting her bike and her way all her life.

She also has her phone and the clip *does not show* he unlocked that bike. It just doesn’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

only if you're not very bright. It's clear to most that he unlocked it.

He’s standing there with his phone opened to the app that unlocked the bike. She grabbed his phone. She never even said she it was her bike.
No excuse but I think she’s tired and pregnant and used to getting her bike and her way all her life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

There was never an argument over who reserved the bike. Maybe at first she didnt realize it was already assigned. Once she knew she didn’t have a bike reserved, she went directly to “HELP ME HELP ME” bs stuff we know gets black guys arrested and killed.
Terrible reaction, behavior and judgement on her part.

I see a woman being physically prevented from leaving by a larger, stronger man, and prevented from scanning a QR code on her phone, which she has out. I don’t see anything consistent with a claim that she was trying to steal a bike that someone else had rented.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

only if you're not very bright. It's clear to most that he unlocked it.

Please show a screen capture proving that he unlocked it. Please also show your evidence (if he did unlock it) that she was knowingly trying to take it from him (as opposed to being confused about who unlocked it).

This has been covered several times. Go look upthread if you want to know.

Also, a normal person who is confused doesn't act the way she did. A normal person would calmly say "I was under the impression that the bike was free. Would you mind showing me that you reserved it." He shows her and she moves on. There is a bike right next to her after all. Why is it so important that she get THAT one?

[Anonymous]

At this point I wonder if she was lying about the pregnancy