Unsuck DC Metro: Screw Bottled Water! We want Beer!

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Screw Bottled Water! We want Beer!

via @Aggathug @unsuckdcmetro Spotted in Ballston: 5 dudes with a keg! YES! This makes up for my miserable commute! twitpic.com/5u7e5r

What's the most notable/odd/weird thing you've seen hauled on Metro?

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UnSuck Fan · 713 weeks ago

Forget the work satchels with wheels, I saw a guy hauling around a CRATE on wheels. Guess his backpack needed a lot if its own space.

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F'n JD · 713 weeks ago

A lapdog in bag. Definitely not a service animal.

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dcn8v · 713 weeks ago

From the WMATA website:

Can I bring my dog on Metrorail and Metrobus?
Service animals that assist people with disabilities are the only animals permitted to ride unconfined on Metrorail and Metrobus. However, a pet may be transported on Metrorail and Metrobus, provided it is carried aboard in a secure container from which it cannot escape.

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F'n JD · 713 weeks ago

definitely not what the signs in the metro rail cars say.

but thanks for the clarification. im totally going to bring my monkey with me to work on Monday.

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hryan4740 37p · 713 weeks ago

A few weeks ago I got on the train to find a man with a giant (empty) rabbit cage taking up most of the penalty box. I'm grateful it was empty. This morning though, I ended up sitting next to a man with a full double gulp of soda. With no lid. I spent the whole ride afraid I was going to work covered in coke.

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WTF · 713 weeks ago

The whole ride? You couldn't get up?

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hryan4740 37p · 713 weeks ago

He kept a pretty good handle on it. Let's just say he wasn't all there. And I have a nasty sprained ankle that makes standing during the ridiculous brake slamming really difficult.

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guest · 713 weeks ago

Fireworks in a three-foot-long rocket container in a Metrorail station. A guy moving - seven boxes worth - on Metrobus.

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Soylent Green Line · 713 weeks ago

Haha, that is classic (the guy moving I mean)!

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@ChrisHowdy · 713 weeks ago

I've also lugged a pony keg on the Metro, not ashamed to admit it.

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Lowrie · 713 weeks ago

there is a picture somewhere on the interwebs universe of a girl trying to get a twin mattress on a metro bus. sad but soooo funny.

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dcn8v · 713 weeks ago

I saw a woman hauling an 7-foot tall potted tree. During rush hour.

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Ever and Anon · 713 weeks ago

I can envision the conversations:

"Pardon me. Would you get your branch out of my ribs please?

"Hey! Stop leafing my eye please!"

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Mike · 713 weeks ago

I believe the correct line is, "Pardon me, is that your tree?"
Small word, but they can mean so much...

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@Hell_on_wheelz · 713 weeks ago

I'm guilty of transporting odd things on Metro: bags of mulch (2 per trip), garden tools, new (boxed) lawnmower, full length mirror for the wife's closet door, flat pack furniture, folding workbenches being among the larger.

Every year I threaten to dress up in red and bring the christmas tree home via bus... so far other affordable arrangements have presented themselves.

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Dizzy · 713 weeks ago

I actually did carry a Christmas tree on a DASH bus and then on Metro. I got some interesting looks for sure. I wasn't dressed in red, though.

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ternie · 713 weeks ago

SNAKES! Seriously, 2 snakes. On the most crowded green line train ever between Mt. Vernon and Chinatown on the day of the Carribbean Festival. I squeezed into the middle of a crowded train, then I heard shrieks and proceeded to get trampled by hordes of terrified teenagers. I didn't know what was happening, until I saw the two young men, each holding a snake and sitting in seats already filled with young women. Finally, someone convinced them to put the snakes in a backpack, but, oddly, no one decked them for doing something clearly to get a rise out of people. It's a wonder folks didn't get hurt from all the people trying to get away. I reported it to the metro personnel at Chinatown, who were appropriately astonished, but I think the snake handlers had moved on to terrify another car by then.

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@VeggieTart · 713 weeks ago

Would you want to deck someone waving a snake around?

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One take · 713 weeks ago

Your post reminds of an experience I had on the New York subway once. It was a weekend afternoon, not rush hour but a young man came on the subway with a very large snake wrapped around his shoulders. Not sure what kind it was, maybe a Burmese - but it was albino; as is bright yellow and white. Needless to say, it wasn’t something you see every day on the subway, no matter where you are!

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Ever and Anon · 713 weeks ago

I'd not be able to resist. I'd have to look em in the eye and say, "Ya know.. they taste just like chicken."

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Guest · 713 weeks ago

Where's Samuel L. Jackson when you need him?

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jenster8dc · 713 weeks ago

I once borrowed a friend's vacuum cleaner (in my poor college days) and brought it to my place on the Metro. The escalator part was exciting.

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Henry · 713 weeks ago

I've never seen anything too strange, but I once brought home a surround-sound speaker system that a friend gave me (he was moving from a house to an apartment). I had the subwoofer and one speaker in a plastic trash bag, and all the random wires+ the other speaker in hand. Got some funny looks, and was somewhat nervous that I would find my nice new system forcibly removed from my possession!

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n2deep · 713 weeks ago

one night while working at huntington on a weekend i saw a guy push a harley off of the train around 1 AM. iasked what was he doing with a motorcyle on the subway. he responded," it broke down and i had to get it home". i asked where he came in at and he replied,"up on the red line". so he transferred at gallery place without anyone saying a thing to him.

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@SchuminWeb · 713 weeks ago

I think that takes the cake right there! A Harley on the Metro...

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@SchuminWeb · 713 weeks ago

I think the strangest thing I've ever taken around via Metro was a large framed picture one time. I was taking it to hang up in my office at work, and so I just took it in on the train with me...

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@SchuminWeb · 713 weeks ago

Then there's the lady using the ceiling bar as a clothes rack...
http://www.schuminweb.com/schumin-web/life-and-ti...

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RobP · 713 weeks ago

I confess: I've done that before. A large load of dry-cleaning is surprisingly unwieldy.

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slb · 713 weeks ago

I've taken a large framed picture, a nightstand, 20lbs of potting soil, and a full-length mirror (all at different times, none even close to rush hour!). The attendant at Stadium-Armory where I picked up the picture was nice and let me use the free gate (I paid anyway, don't worry). The attendant at Bethesda (nightstand) said "there are rules! you can't bring furniture on the metro! I weighed my options (elevator was out and I was not bringing that thing back up the escalator and taking a cab home), figured she was not going to do the paperwork involved in calling the cops on me, and just said "actually, I don't think there is a rule about that" and kept going. It took up a ton less room than a bicycle or double stroller.

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Guest · 713 weeks ago

A human centipede

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Guest · 710 weeks ago

I saw a dude once dressed in a tux with a full size, 4 foot tall harp on a small roller cart at metro center. not in a case of some sort, just out in the open on a rolley cart. he was across the platform from me and it made do a double take. i was going to get a pic but was running to catch my train.