Pardon me, are you going to throw that?

Back when I regularly used public transport here in the UK, sometimes I felt like rioting too:

A riot by commuters enraged over delays, who destroyed part of the busiest train station in Buenos Aires, has drawn attention to the profound crisis afflicting Argentina's privatised railways, which have severe shortcomings despite the huge subsidies they receive from the state.

The private UK rail companies run a shoddy system with even shoddier employees, suffer constant delays, tell you obvious lies, and do it glibly, and typically won't give you your money back even when you can't get to the destination you've paid for. And you've really paid for it, too.

On one occasion, I bought a Tube ticket, and started down the escalator just as they announced they were closing the station ('evacuating', because that's more dramatic) for an undisclosed reason. The ticket manager, faced with a small mob of people politely but insistently demanding refunds, simply closed the window and literally went to hide in the office. The British are generally just too reserved for spontaneous rioting, but that felt like a good time for it.

"This was a calamity waiting to happen; we are fed up with the constant delays, the cancellation of services, the mistreatment and disregard of passengers"

Sounds familiar. Hey, the occasional riot really gets things done. It motivates politicians.