Sep 23, 2019
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NEW YORK | Man caught shaving on train in viral video says don't judge
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NEW YORK | Man caught shaving on train in viral video says don't judge
NEW YORK— A man who was mocked online after he was recorded shaving at his seat on a commuter train headed out of New York City said he was just trying to clean up after days spent in a homeless shelter.
Anthony Torres, 56, told The Associated Press that the people judging him on social media don’t know the struggle he’s been through in his life.
“My life is all screwed up. That’s the reason I was shaving on the train,” he said.
A fellow passenger on a Thursday evening New Jersey Transit train took video of Torres, sitting in his seat, steadily swiping away at his lathered face and tossing the shaving cream from the razor onto the floor. The video , posted on Twitter, had 2.4 million views by Monday afternoon. Another video showed a clean-shaven Torres with a beer in his hand.
The self-grooming earned its share of negative comments on the internet, with insults like “slob,” ”animal” and “nasty.” Others humorously lauded his steady hand with a razor. A few cautioned against passing judgment and suggested people didn’t know the whole story.
The truth, Torres said, is that the video captured him at a vulnerable moment. He had been homeless and staying in a shelter in New York City. He’d reached out to his family for help. A brother gave him money for a train ticket, which he was using to get to another brother in southern New Jersey.
Torres grabbed the Northeast Corridor train from Manhattan’s Pennsylvania Station around 7 p.m. Thursday, headed toward Trenton, New Jersey.
He said he left the shelter before having a chance to shower and clean up and wanted to look “presentable.”
“I don’t want to say that I’m homeless, let everybody know,” he said. “That’s why I was shaving.”
Torres has had a hard life, said his brother Thomas Torres, 57, whose house in Atco, New Jersey, was where the younger Torres ended up after the train ride and a subsequent bus trip.
They grew up poor with four other brothers, raised on a farm in Hammonton, New Jersey, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) outside Philadelphia.
Anthony Torres said he worked a number of different jobs, including casino security guard and then construction. He moved to wherever the work was, like Florida, where his adult son lives. He said he has spent time living in motels or sleeping in bus depots.
Medical conditions have also been a problem, with Torres saying he had two strokes in the past two years.
But Thomas Torres said that, even growing up, his brother would make short-sighted decisions with money, or not think of the impact of his actions, like shaving in public in a train compartment.
“When he did what he did, that to him was normal,” Thomas Torres said. “He’s not that kind of person that does it because of spite or because he wants the attention.”
His voice got tear-filled as he recounted Anthony Torres initially showed up at his home after the train ride asking for a sleeping bag, saying he was prepared to go spend the night under a bridge.
“For so many years, he’s lived this way and I feel sorry for him. It’s hard to see the life that he’s lived,” Thomas Torres said.
Anthony Torres said he didn’t realize he was being filmed on the train. When he found out the video was circulating on the internet, he was amazed and a little upset.
“I never thought it would go viral, people making fun of me,” he said. Thomas Torres said they reached out to media because he thought it was important for people to hear his brother’s side.
“Maybe people will have more feeling knowing what this kid’s been through,” he said.
By DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press
British-born Nigerian man removed from UK flight by armed police over 'prayer' message on his phone
British-born Nigerian man removed from UK flight by armed police over 'prayer' message on his phone
A British-born Nigerian was removed from an Easyjet flight at Luton airport after a fellow passenger read a message that mentions ‘prayer’ on his mobile phone and alerted cabin crew, who raised alarm with the police.
Laolu Opebiyi was using WhatsApp to arrange a conference call prayer session with friends, as the Amsterdam-bound flight was waiting to take off at Luton airport on Thursday…
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British-born Nigerian man removed from UK flight by armed police over ‘prayer’ message on his phone
British-born Nigerian man removed from UK flight by armed police over ‘prayer’ message on his phone
A British-born Nigerian was removed from an Easyjet flight at Luton airport after a fellow passenger read a message that mentions ‘prayer’ on his mobile phone and alerted cabin crew, who raised alarm with the police.
Laolu Opebiyi was using WhatsApp to arrange a conference call prayer session with friends, as the Amsterdam-bound flight was waiting to take off at Luton airport on Thursday…
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Fellow Passenger on the G Line
I walked with her memory on these streets On these seats hurtling along the G Line. And while I work hard to forget the details I define her with I can still trace the cracks in her soul. The need on her lips. I ride the subway with the tired and the dejected and I see her beside me Eyes squinting ahead at a projected thought She is on the verge of sharing. I still love her and I do not. She is with me and she is not. Just a ghost on my skin and in my heart. She is so close while a world away And while untouchable and no longer mine I can smell her and take pleasure in the dimple of her chin. She is a fellow passenger on this ride In this street and on this night And you cannot see her but I can. My memory stings of her But it is resting. Resting for ages to come While I stand on crowded subways Wearing the same dead expression as all the others And pretend not to see her beside me. Resting and resting and waiting. Praying to forget and never forgetting. Filling the negative space in my heart with useful things. Maybe one day I will look and her ghost won’t be there And then I can grieve. Forget. Find other things. Grow old. Wither. Ache. Pass on my dust to others. Or maybe not.