After 16 hours blathering, woman doesn't understand why she got the boot

updated 5/18/2011 3:24:30 PM ET

In an epic incident of the pot calling the kettle rude, a Tigard, Oregon woman said she felt "disrespected" after police escorted her from an Amtrak train mostly because she refused to get off her cellphone — for 16 hours.

KATU.com reports:

Lakeysha Beard was charged with disorderly conduct after police said she got into a verbal altercation with passengers on the train. The other passengers complained she refused to put down her cellphone, even after train staff made repeated announcements for passengers to not use cellphones, according to police.

When a passenger confronted her about her loud talking, police said Beard got aggressive. She had reportedly been talking non-stop on the phone since getting on the train in Oakland, Calif.

Beard was taken into custody until a family member could come and pick her up.

Beard's rudeness wasn't accommodated by some unknown super phone, but by Amtrak's handy cellphone charging stations.

In a follow-up interview with KATU.com, Beard confirmed she was blathering away on her mobile device, but that "she didn't understand why she had to be escorted off the train."

Like many communal commuter-based agencies, Amtrak does have a policy against obnoxious blathering, specifically in "quiet cars" like the one Beard was annoying her fellow passengers in, again, for 16 hours.

Just in case the severity of Beard's increasingly pervasive crime isn't obvious to all readers, KATU.com also took the time to consult social etiquette expert and instructor Jodi Blackwood, who confirmed that "too many people don't exercise basic courtesy when it comes to using their phones."

According to KATU.com, Blackwood went on to that when people speak too loudly and have personal conversations in public places they don't always realize the message they're sending.

"What does that say to them? It says that you're only thinking of yourself and that you are only aware of what you need and what you are doing and you are a less considerate person," Blackwood said.

Not for nothing, Beard doesn't seem like the sort to actually care what her cellphone screeching says to anyone but the person on the other end.

With all due respect to Blackwood's social etiquette expertise, Columbia University forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone might've made a more apt consultant for this particular crime. He's the dude who created the 22-point "Scale of Evil," which is further grouped into three distinctive tiers: Impulsive evil-doers, people who lack extreme psychopathic features, but may be psychotic, and finally, the profoundly psychopathic i.e. "They have no remorse for what they've done to other people."

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Whaaata donkey!!!!  Nothing irks me more than to be on the bus or train and being forced to hear another person's ENTIRE phone conversation.  Ugh that gets on my nerves!  I would've had this woman kicked off the train too!  SIXTEEN HOURS?!?! OF NON-STOP YAKKING?!?! Don't nobody wanna hear your jaws flapping for that long period of time!  And then this heffa had the NERVE to be on the quiet car!    Those passengers should've got up and whooped her ASS!!!!  And I bet you the person she was on the phone with was NOT the same person that had to pick her inconsiderate ass up.  Niccas kill me with that inconsiderate bullshit, and then try to play the victim.  How the hell does she have the AUDACITY to say that she felt "disrespected" when it was HER who was disrespecting the other passengers?  Chile boo.  Sitchoassdown some damn where and shut the fuck up!!!  Oooh that kind of shit just irks me to no end!