But who am I to talk? I don’t ride the trains anymore.

Here in the hinterlands, a morning jogger complained to the police about a mysogynistic message spoken too loudly, she thought, by a driver who stopped in an intersection to allow her to cross the street (drivers have to yield to pedestrians in VT). She thought the driver was the rappper. Her complaint also noted what the speaker allegedly wanted to do something to her body. The cops chased him down. At first they charged him with dis con based on the use of language, including the “F” word, which is borderline illegal here. To put pressure on the violator to take a plea and pay a fine, they added some charges based on the volume of the radio (we have noise in the nighttime laws, too), in addition to a subjective provision which requires the citizen to state they felt threatened. The driver who was on his way home after working third shift missed some time coming to court, but ultimately the charges were dismissed. How does ya think he feels about the system.