A woman who appeared drunk was caught hurling xenophobic comments at a group of German tourists on a New York train.
In shocking footage captured by another passenger and posted on social media this week, the Karen can be seen towering over a group of tourists chatting in their seats.
‘Are you German?’ the blonde woman asks before aggressively adding, “What did you say, tell me what you said.”
The woman, who has not been identified, becomes increasingly aggressive before screaming: “Don’t let immigrants take over our country…how about you get the fuck out of our country?”
The woman, wearing jeans and a light green tank top and referred to as “Karen” by social media users, is reassured by her concerned boyfriend.
The woman, who has not been identified, becomes increasingly aggressive before screaming: “Don’t let immigrants take over our country… how about you get the fuck out of our country?”
The “Karen” is seen towering over a group of tourists chatting in their seats.
“Brie, don’t do that. “You could get arrested,” he pleads as he takes her arm and tries to convince his partner that the group of men were “having a private conversation” and weren’t trying to instigate a conflict.
“I love you, but get away from me,” the increasingly annoyed woman tells her boyfriend as she continues to insult the tourists.
“Stop it now, sit down, otherwise I’ll never talk to you again,” he threatens.
The tourists seemed to take the incident in good humor, with only one jumping up from his seat and looking visibly upset before calmly sitting down again a few moments later.
It’s unclear what led to the confrontation or what comments were made toward the blonde woman.
After the woman sits back in her seat, her friend says, “I’m an immigrant too, you know that.”
“This interaction gives me second-hand embarrassment for her soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend,” one social media user wrote on Reddit.
“She’s completely drunk and her evil true character is now visible for all to see,” said another.
Another viewer tried to find the lighter side, writing: “It’s a pretty nice cultural exchange.” German guys caught crazy American Karen on a train. “She has Germans who found her bizarrely funny.”
The tourists seemed to take the incident in good humor, with only one jumping up from his seat and looking visibly upset before calmly sitting down again a few moments later
One of the tourists becomes visibly annoyed for a moment before calmly taking his seat
“Stop it now, sit down, otherwise I’ll never talk to you again,” threatens the woman’s boyfriend
New Jersey Transit told it was investigating the incident but could not immediately verify whether it involved a line train
New Jersey Transit told that the company “strongly condemns any behavior of this nature” and its customers are “encouraged to report incidents of this nature to train crew members or they can contact NJ TRANSIT Police.” turn around”.
It is the latest in a series of disorderly incidents on public transit in the United States.
In August, Tiffany Gomas went viral for storming an American Airlines jet after her outburst at an invisible man.
The now-infamous 38-year-old Dallas native was filmed telling passengers, “I’m getting the hell out of there and there’s a reason for that…” I’m telling you that shit back there isn’t real and you in that one Sit on the plane and die with them or not. I’m not going.’
The marketing director has since apologized in a video posted on social media, saying: “My life has been blown up.” It’s scary. Things go viral and everything changes.”
“First and foremost, I want to take full responsibility for my actions.
“They were completely unacceptable.” Desperate or not, I should have been in control of my emotions and I wasn’t.
“My use of profanity was completely unnecessary and I would like to apologize to everyone who was on that plane, especially those who had children on board.”
She said she couldn’t imagine “going through that and trying to explain to your child what on earth just happened.”