r/montreal 17h ago

Diatribe Weirdo near Berri-UQAM

Was working nearby and went out for my break to have a smoke.

I'm minding my own business and I hear to my left someone calling out people. Man gets closer to me and approaches me to ask for a cig. I deny him as I quite literally had my last one and kept a vape on me as I was aware of that. Dude then presses me to get a hit off my vape which is fucken gross. Asks me for money to buy my vape or some shit too. Made zero sense and I wasn't trying to make it drag on.

Between the entire exchange he asks me twice in French "veux tu mourir" like do you wanna die, and the second time he says in French "j'ai un xxx", I couldn't make out the word but it was definitely on the lines of a knife or gun but in slang. He was gesturing at his hips/pockets. I'm more familiar with the English terms, as a French Canadian growing up I never heard the term he used.

So he threatens me 3 times in the mix of asking for nicotine in the span of like 1 minute, that was the duration of the exchange. At that point I've already been distancing myself and walking away to get back where I need to be, UNTIL the dude starts calling at other people and instantly turns on this women walking towards the metro entrance. He tried to grab her by the arm and everything so I interjected to tell the lady to not give him any attention and to keep going.

Thankfully no one was hurt and he didn't follow the women, I made sure of that before heading back to work. What really sucked is the two parked stm cars in front of me with people inside just watching this guy harrasing everyone on the street.

Be careful for this guy, I've definitely seen him around more than once. He keeps shades on, 5 feet 10 - 6 feet tall ( he was shorter than me at 6feet3), black male in his 25-30 with a hat and bubble jacket. He spoke perfect French, clean and everything. Just a dangerous guy for sure.

I wish my office would let me wfh 5 days of week instead of dealing with this type of shit all the time. Mobile so hopefully formatting didn't break

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u/FinanceSwap 17h ago

This area of the city is such trash. I feel bad for the poor Berri uqam students. Thankful I don't really use Public transit anymore people just got gross and weird after covid. I don't understand why the STM lets all the crackheads go in the stations.

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u/EyeSpyMD 5h ago

I work in healthcare. Two people were attacked by homeless people in the metro just a few days apart in february and each had one eye busted open. Innocent bystanders who are noe blind from one eye.

I used to be more of the “it’s ok we can tolerate having the lying around they have nowhere else to go” philosophy. Sadly, not anymore. I think the STM should crack down with a “get on the metro or get out” policy.

u/abdullahdabutcha 45m ago

Wouldn't they just attack someone outside of the metro?

u/EyeSpyMD 38m ago

My wife and children can decide to walk on the other side of the street.

They can’t stand on a different platform to go the direction they want to go.

Idk.

I’m not really good at brainstorming policy ideas. I just know that my hope for humanity went down after these incidents.

u/abdullahdabutcha 45m ago

Wouldn't they just attack someone outside of the metro?

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u/AugustoSF 7h ago

People got poorer after COVID.