As anyone that has taken the subway can tell you, there are quite a few wackos that ride the rails. Today while heading off to adventure, I encountered such a wacko. A man sporting a sash holding a Bible entered the subway car. He had highlighted all the important passages with a red highlighter, and apparently there was not a single word lacking in importance since both pages that were visible were completely highlighted.
The man walked down the center of the car screaming about 예수님 (Yesunim [Korean for Jesus]), but no one in the car seemed to be interested. At the next stop the man disembarked from the train and began preaching the gospel to the a coffee vending machine on the platform. Sadly I think he had better luck talking to the machine then he did with the passengers on the train.
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2005. Nov. 20, 2005 sun.
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Comment by SMITH_L. — November 21, 2005 @ 2:31 am
Sorta reminds you of the wackos in Las Vegas and New York shouting…”the end is coming” or “repent, or burn in hell”…
Comment by Ho-Seon — November 22, 2005 @ 13:31 pm
More than half of Koreans are Christians (an oddity considering the rest of Asia clearly isn’t), so I can imagine the zeal. I ran across and interesting article about Christianity and Koreans. http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_anderson/20050105.html
Comment by Meena — November 22, 2005 @ 14:33 pm
I still think the crazy homeless man in NYC telling my friend that she, “had a nice ass” and he wanted to “stick something up it,” is a better instance of nuts on the subway. Oh and he was also the guy who said “It ain’t funny when ya got no money!”
Comment by Ailinn — November 23, 2005 @ 3:50 am