Can You Eat On The Metro? Natasha Tynes Clowned On Twitter For Tweet
DC Metro Says Shamed Employee ‘Was Doing No Wrong’ By Eating On Subway
Officials at Washington, D.C.,’s subway train system have confirmed that one of its employees at the center of a social media shaming effort gone wrong was not violating any of its rules when she was photographed eating on board a train. Natasha Tynes saw the unidentified worker eating when she took a picture and posted it to Twitter in an apparent attempt to expose the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (WMATA) would-be hypocrisy in enforcing its strict rules for passengers.
“When you’re on your morning commute & see @wmata employee in UNIFORM eating on the train I thought we were not allowed to eat on the train,” Tynes tweeted Friday in a since-deleted post. “This is unacceptable. Hope @wmata responds.”
“We really do believe in zero tolerance,” then-Metro Transit Police Chief Barry J. McDevitt told the Washington Post, which described him as “unapologetic for such arrests.”
Fast-forward nearly two decades and the nation’s capital is now the home to laws that permit recreational marijuana, making it understandable that local law enforcement would relax the enforcement of policies such as eating on the metro.
Ironically, it was users on Twitter, the same social media platform of Tynes’ choice, that had the final word. Scroll down to see how social media clowned Tynes for losing her book contract after trying to shame a woman and get her fired for doing something the Metro system was totally fine.
Source: The Washington Post / Getty
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