Japan Photo of the Week: Let’s Nintendo DS

Funny story, although not so at the time. On my way home from seeing a movie today, I was playing a PSP on the train. Like always, I was standing in the area closest to the door but pressed up against the seat to avoid traffic. At one point an old man (probably in his 70s) actually pushed me off the train and phycially pushed me to keep me from getting on it again. He started yelling at me and tried to rip the PSP from my hands. He was obviously drunk and was yelling at me for both playing games and not understanding the rules being a foreigner.
I was pissed as hell at this point, but I told him to follow me to the station office (in Japanese of course). When we got there I told the people what he did to me and he said, “Yep, that sounds about right,” and proceeded to explain to me that you can’t play games on the train. The office attendant butted in and told him that you can’t push other riders off the train and that playing games is not against “the manners” as long as you are wearing headphones and not playing the sound loud. The old man bowed and said something like, “そうですね。こちらも反省しちゃいけないこともある (sorry, I was too angry to pay attention to his grammar),” but after hearing this sentence I got even angrier and told him, “＊も＊じゃないんだよ！あなた＊が＊反省しなければならない！”
At that point he started to berate me for not accepting his apology and the office attendant had me sit down so he could start talking to him about how playing games isn’t a moral offense. They then asked me if I wanted to call the police to report him but I told them I just wanted to go home.
It was a very bizarre experience and not one I would really want to repeat but I felt it was pretty strange that the old guy would actually physically accost me to stop playing games quietly on the train. I’m totally for this マナー違反 campaign that they are running here to keep people calm on the trains but this was pretty crazy.
The worst part was that when the station attendant told the old man to apologize to me the old man tried to hug me. The station attendant jumped in between us because he was probably unsure of how I would react to getting touched by the old man. In the end, the old man did one of those politician handshakes (the two-handed one) and was sent stumbling off on his way into the sunset.