Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

Holy crap. I got caught on the Penrith train. Two guys started bashing passengers right in front of me. I couldn't get out. So scary. One man who tried to help got really hurt. I called the police. One of their friends is still on the train swearing loudly & is very drunk.

Thanks all who checked in. I'm fine. I was shook up and upset because two of us hopped off the train & told the station attendant about the third drunk violent man and he said: "This train has to move." He waved the train away. We couldn't believe this nonchalant response.

The train schedule was more important than all those packed passengers who were being frightened by this man. He was yelling, getting in men's faces. "What the fuck you looking at?" "You want a go?" Yelled at his girlfriend, calling her a "bitch" & "cunt" for trying to calm him

TW violence: I thought about the girlfriend all the way home. I grew up with women like her. I've been trapped like her. I grew up in a violent household. I've had lots of violent men in various friendship groups. They pick fights at parties, weddings, clubs, on the street.

TW VAW: on the train, she pleaded with him. She raised her voice to match his. She told him he was an idiot for getting so drunk on a Sunday night. She said he was selfish. All he cared about was his mates who'd jumped off the train without him after the fight. He swore non-stop

TW violence: Before it started, I knew it would be a fight. Growing up around violence you know the signs between showboating & men who want to see blood. Other passengers looked ahead as they got in men's faces. "Are you looking at me?" "I'm not looking at you, mate."

TW violence: The 2 men were picking a fight with the two men sitting next to me. I was by the window and couldn't leave. The man who stood up to them - I've thought about his girlfriend who got hit as she tried to protect him. The men hit him together in front of us. Packed train

TW violence. The passengers dispersed instead of helping. The girlfriend & me yelling for them to stop. There we were. A bunch of strangers, all with intimate experience of violence. No one else helped. No one checked on us. The train stopped at the station and they jumped off.