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To: BenLurkin
Bus Plunge Stories
"Bus plunge stories are a nickname for a journalistic practice of reporting bus accidents in short articles that describe the vehicle as "plunging" from a bridge or hillside road. The phenomenon has been noted in The New York Times, which published many bus plunge stories from the 1950s through the 1980s, with the newspaper running up to twenty such articles in 1968 alone …"

5 posted on 09/18/2022 12:41:18 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I will try to remember to ping you on these types of threads.


7 posted on 09/18/2022 1:30:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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