This clown doesn’t seem to be a Muslim. He just knows what the world’s forces for destruction and havoc are. And right now, destruction and havoc are chic.
“NYC subway motorman calls for ISIS attack in rant,” by Rebecca Harshbarger, New York Post, March 17, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
Robert Bennett — who operates F trains to and from Coney Island — lashed out at riders in an F-bomb-riddled diatribe that called for an ISIS attack on the transit system.
He’s off the rails.
A disgruntled subway motorman who despises his job wants riders to suffer, too — so he posted a Facebook rant wishing for an ISIS attack on the transit system, The Post has learned.
Robert Bennett, who operates F trains to and from Coney Island, lashed out at riders and his limited break time in the F-bomb-riddled diatribe.
“F–K THIS PLACE, F–K THE MTA, F–K THE UNGRATEFUL GARBAGE WE CALL PASSENGERS,” wrote Bennett, who lives on Staten Island.
“I hope Al Shabah, ISIS or Al Queda [sic] attacks the subway,” he wrote, referring to the terrorist organizations al-Shabaab, ISIS and al Qaeda.
“2 hours on a f–king train and I have 17 minutes before I get on another to go back to Stillwell,” he griped.
The Stillwell Avenue station is a terminal for the F, D, N, and Q subway lines.
The MTA has placed Bennett on restricted duty and launched an investigation. A police spokesperson also said the case is “under review by our Intelligence Bureau.”
“He’s been removed from service right now, pending outcome of an investigation,” the MTA said in a statement.
Despite being on restricted duty since the Feb. 23 posting, Bennett is still earning $33.83 an hour, but is not allowed to operate a train.
A transit source said Bennett regretted putting up the post and lashing out, and he took it down two hours later. His account is private, but a Facebook friend alerted the MTA and he was pulled off the train mid-shift.
Straphangers said Bennett went way too far, no matter how tough the job gets.
“He might be stressed, but you still don’t say that,” said Mario Tantillo of Brooklyn.
“That’s just stupid,” added Erick Aguilar of Brooklyn. “I know the MTA sucks, but that doesn’t mean you have to kill people.”
Bennett’s neighbors described him as a gentle soul with two small dogs that he dotes on.
They said he has been grieving since his girlfriend passed away three years ago. She called him “Little Bear” and he called her “Little Cub,” they added.
“He’s been kinda down in the dumps since then,” said one neighbor. “He is just a solid, quiet guy. I guess he must have snapped, got really heated up about something at work.”
mariam rove says
What a clueless idiot! M
RG says
Isn’t this just the epitome of how all the ‘disgruntled’ jihadis get started? Something goes wrong in their lives, and they lash out and take it out on innocent bystanders! And the islamic SATANIC FORCES are all too ready to suck them in! They’re mad at the world and somebody’s gonna pay!
gravenimage says
Just what I was thinking.
This tool may never actually join Islam, but he does sound like a prime candidate.
Wellington says
What I was thinking too, gravenimage. Stunning and instructive, for all who can still be stunned and instructed by barbarism masquerading as something civilized, how Islam parasitically and invariably breeds upon discontent to advance itself, whether by clueless dhimmis, clueless converts or clueless “lifers.”
It’s the ultimate anti-religion of mankind posing as a real religion. And it’s gotten away with this charade for some 1400 years now, replete with destruction all over the place and with no apology, not at all, for all the harm it’s done.
Dan says
Let me get this straight.
In this economy, he’s got a $33 an hour job, where I don’t think he does a heck of a lot of back breaking work, and he hates it?
Well quit and let somebody else have the job.
What an idiot.
Jan says
It’s a good thing this guy hates his job because he isn’t going to have a job much longer. I wonder if getting himself fired was his real motive? He could have just quit.
Victor Redlick says
.. and if (a tattooed) Mr. Bennett’s dogs had been pit bulls and his girlfriend an ecdysiast, what of it? The pressure’s obviously too overwhelming and he couldn’t be sending out more dire signals that he needs a relax; like, a permanent one. If he requires meds, he would be disqualified from operating a train; for sure. Everyone is not suited for all vocations, and some people become less able along the way, as they age. The potential for disaster is great enough when everything ‘appears’ to be running smoothly, the ante gets upped when human frustration is added to the otherwise tenuous equation. The mere nature of its human As the most important transportation utility – large metropolises depend on to move incredible amounts of passengers daily – there can be no room for error, or the consequences can be as much as fatal. ALL ABOARD?
Oliver says
As dan mentioned, this does not seem to be back breaking work.
A few years ago, I knew a man who had the same job- and his pay BESIDES BENEFITS was in the neighborhood of $50-60,000 PLUS OVERTIME.
As also mentioned, he could have just quit; or asked for a leave of absence for a week or two or whatever.
he deserves to be fired, denied unemployment benefits and if possible, sent to the terrorist group of his choice. One way ticket
Ayatrollah says
Don’t put anything on face book that you don’t want the whole world to see for sure.
gravenimage says
Hopefully this idiot won’t be frustrated by his job too much longer—instead, he can be frustrated trying to find a new job when he was fired from his old one for making terrorist threats.
Now, motorman *can* be a stressful job. I once had roommates who were a station agent for San Francisco’s MUNI Metro and a driver for Greyhound. They would sometimes gripe about annoying passengers.
But calling for a terrorist attack? No way. They would have been appalled at the very idea.
Larry A. Singleton says
I was thinking about the Same Exact Thing about Facebook the other day. And I’ll tell ya’ I cuss up a storm sometimes I get so pissed off.
I think sometimse: why don’t these terrorists take out their ideological buddies like the IRS and the DMV or local Child Support offiice. Really; my two boys were abducted. Long story short every time I drive by the Child Support office on the way to the VA (like I did for my colonoscopy appointment today) I pray to God that when I turn off the off ramp the building on Mt. View will be a big pile of smoking rubble. Brothers and Sisters sometimes I am in a perpetual state of Pissed.
You have to wonder what this guy has to put up with. Our society is in decline. You hear the shitheads talking about it but 99.9% of the people shooting their mouths off, even here, have never even been to a city council meeting. Most just sit in the comfort of their office chair in front of their laptop. I’ve worked construction and seen our whole trades go to Mexicans. Then have our face rubbed in it by having to “Press 1 for English”. I wonder how many people reading this have ever ONCE, Just ONCE, gone to a city or county meeting and complained about their communities becoming sanctuary cities. Or ANYTHING!
I’ve gone to city and county meetings for the better part of my almost 60 years of life. Up close and personal watching the smug contempt oozing from our elected officials. Countless letters to the editor and my local “representatives”.
I see the “symptoms” of the disease that is the decline of this country like those Audio Terrorists who “drive by” and assault my home almost hourly with their ungodly unbelievably loud noise, our gutless hand-wringing cops and local officials here in Riverside CA do absolutely nothing about. If I put a bullet in one of their rude useless brains I’D be the one going to prison. They are a plague. An almost constant. Thugs allowed to utterly destroy our quality of life and peace and quiet at will that used to be almost sacred in this country. I went to one too many council meeting in Rialto CA to complain about these vermin when I lived there. I was attacked by the city council and then surrounded after the meeting by five cops who tried to bully, threaten and intimidate me for having the unmitigated gall to exhibit any signs of free speech.
I can relate to this guy; The Internet, which should be a tool for good, has degenerated into just one big stinking ad whore and extortion racket. Half the features are dysfunctional and like Facebook getting chronically worse on a Daily Basis. (I can count on ONE hand how many web sites have a decent print function) At the same time we’re fodder for those predator cable companies and anybody else who wants to feed on us after the governments gotten through with us.
Every aspect of our lives is either taxed, fined, levied or otherwise over-regulated. We have more reason to rebel than our Founding Fathers did during the Boston Tea Party. Instead we just bend over and take it in the ass.
If this transit guy’s blowing off a little steam from having to put up with the scum of the earth Every F-ing DAY and what I call the New Rude like those degenerates who go into campus classrooms and scream at people giving a lecture about Israel while campus police Stand By And Do NOTHING!!! (And me not being there to be able to take out my rage and frustration on some of these cretins; bummer.) Then MORE F-ing Power to him. And as far as being a “thirty dollar an hour worker” who I do have a hard time finding sympathy for, it just tells you even these guys are getting it in the neck now.
People who criticize guys like him have probably never had a bad day in their lives. Don’t know what it’s like to get royally screwed by your union, ex-wife or government. And I mean REALLY F**ked over. Can’t relate to the idea of sometimes just wanting to f-ing KILL somebody. (Please God; let this be the day I get to Kick SOMEBODY’S Ass.) (And FYI: you haven’t been screwed until you’ve been screwed by the railroad and child support.)
No, it’s the little dweeb sissies who sit behind their laptops, who don’t know what it’s like to lose everything, and judge people having no clue I have absolutely no sympathy for. Really, at least get off your ass and read a book; Until Proven Innocent about the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case and Mean Justice by Edward Humes, Taken Into Custody by Baskervile or the War Against Boys by Sommers, Plunder: How Public Employee Unions Are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation by Steven Greenhut and get an idea of the state our country is in and what it’s like to get screwed over and not being able to do Jack Shit about it and imagine how many of you pussies could maintain your sanity. When someone says “Thoughts of suicide our my constant companions”. I know EX-Actly what he’s talking about. Been there. Done that.
Did you miss the memo? People Are PISSED! We Are F**ked! We Are Getting SCREWED!!!!
We have a president of the United States who is aiding and abetting and collaborating with TERRORISTS!!!! Words like “unprecedented” and comments leading off with “never in my lifetime did I think I’d ever see….” can be seen Every Single DAY!
We Are In A SHIT Load of trouble. Individually and collectively! I don’t know about you but I’ve got two boys with their mother in North Carolina, (which is another story), and I am scared to death to think of what the future holds for them. Just like the “Press 1 for English” pretty soon we’ll be tripping over foot baths in public restrooms here real soon. Does anybody think about the fact that our local “representatives” won’t sell us out to Muslims the same way they have Public Employees and their unions and everybody else who are destroying our communities and preying on us? Like Cable Companies? Here are a couple of articles. I suggest you chew on these:
“It’s Time to Break Up AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner (and CHARTER!) and the Rest of the Telecoms.” AlterNet / By David Rosen and Bruce Kushnick
Today’s telecoms provide overpriced and inferior service, and are systematically overcharging the hapless American consumer.
alternet.org/news/150752/it’s_time_to_break_up_at%26t,%C2%A0verizon,_comcast,_time_warner_and_the_rest_of_the_telecoms/
“How the Phone Companies Are Screwing America: The $320 Billion Broadband Rip-Off” AlterNet / By David Rosen and Bruce Kushnick
Americans are stuck with an inferior and overpriced communications system, compared with the rest of the world, and we’re being ripped off in the process.
alternet.org/story/148397/how_the_phone_companies_are_screwing_america:_the_$320_billion_broadband_rip-off?page=entire
Bill says
$33.83 an hour. Plus benefits and health care that probably adds another $14.00 an hour to his pay plus a 50% city pension that he doesn’t put into. This wack job makes about $100,000 to $130,000 a year. I wonder how many people would kill (no pun intended) to get this idiots job. He should be thanking God every day he goes to work that he IS so lucky. Screw him. FIRE HIM AND PROSECUTE TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW!!!!!!!! Then he can rot in jail and complain about that!
eric says
I had precisely the same thoughts & sentiments. Yet he obviously has issues unrelated to ISIS that are pissing him off. Suspend his ass for a couple weeks, require truth serum/polygraph and if he is just mad because he overspent on ebay, then put him back to work, with a pay cut.
Joe Shmo says
Ah, I could care less. He made some inappropriate comments. But I have no reason to worry about this guy, he’s not a threat to me or the things I care about. He might lose his job, he’ll get a slap on the wrist I imagine (although I hope he’s not subjected to any legal crap). C’est la Vie.
Possibly the only good thing that will come out of this is more awareness of the Jihad threat.
Btw Larry, I loved your post. Your understanding of what might have driven this guy was very compassionate. The world is a lousy place, often it seems that’s all it is and ever will be. At the same time, there is beauty and good things in it too. Most of this mess we have no control over, but we do have some. We do have opportunity to make it better and that is afforded to us through free speech. Free Speech means wading through a lot of crap daily but we get some gems too, like this site.
Oliver says
I disagree with you, as that he is not a threat. Not to me (I don’t live in New York, thank goodness).
But, I would consider him a threat.
He ( when working) controls a train, and ( having lived in new York and ridden the subways) am aware that a train could hold several hundred people ( during rush hour; holidays; etc); and while I am not a motorman or engineer, I am sure that one could easily do something to have the train crash.
That man, in my view- should not be allowed to be near a train.
gee, he was upset that his girlfriend died three years ago. Get over it; go for grief counseling; or commit suicide. But why threaten or rant that the trains should be destroyed, and innocent people killed.
etch says
I hope that wasn’t that guy’s real name.
Jan says
I agree with the poster who criticized excessive noise, though such frustration would not in any way justify making terrorist threats. Our whole society has become one unremitting din. Even libraries aren’t quiet anymore. I think the noise level is diminishing everyone’s hearing so the noise just has to keep getting louder and louder for people to hear.
This is a sign of barbarism, in our society, not the Islamic one. Civilized people love music, but the love of excessive noise is a sign of barbarism.
jules says
Depression can make you feel like you don’t give a shit about anything and make you say things you normally wouldn’t.