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Today I witnessed an odd and at the same time kind of funny, but also maybe sad scene.
I was on the way home from the ottakringer bad, I took tram 52 at ameisgasse, I entered the tram towards the end of the train because it was snowing heavily an I had been waiting for the tram unter the roof of the stop, and when the tram stopped the roof was at the end of the tram. Anyway I needed to get out of the tram at the front of the tram and so I began to walk towards the front of the train inside the train. As I came closer to the the first door, I heard a male voice shouting around "don't come closer, you stink, you are a whore, go wash yourself", and I realized that a young man was standing next to the first door. Apparently he was also kicking into the air. So I stopped, I thought I better be careful. It was clear that the man was crazy. The man kept shouting around, and I had no other choice than to listen. After about five minutes I realized that the man was shouting at an imaginary woman who in his mind was standing right next to him. He talked about beating and killing her and that kind of stuff, well and kept repeating that she was a stinking whore, he also said that she smelled like sh**. When the tram got closer to the stop where I had to get out I went closer to the first door and left the train throught the first door. I was a bit afraid, but when I left I understood that there was no danger at all. I stood very closer to him for one or two minutes.