"He had it coming, Alice. I warned him, "Bang, zoom, straight to the moon!"
Posted on 08/05/2007 1:00:34 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
NEW YORK (AP) -- A bus driver struck a passenger about the head with a phone after the rider refused to give up his seat to an elderly woman, police said.
The driver, Larry Woods, 44, and the rider, Christian Custis, 22, were arrested and charged with assault and harassment after the incident on the Q43 bus in the Jamaica section of Queens. Woods was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon. The men were arraigned in Queens Criminal Court.
According to police, Woods asked Custis to give up his seat when the woman using a cane boarded the bus at Hillside Avenue and 164th Street on Friday. Custis refused, police said. The driver then hit Custis about the head with the bus' onboard phone.
The men were treated for minor injuries at Mary Immaculate Hospital before being arrested.
If the young man had been raised right, he would have given his seat to the old lady with being asked to do so.
“His right to bear phones” is being infringed.
This is a time for jury nullification.
Let the driver go free!
Chivalry is not yet dead in New York. It's only half way there.
Woods was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon.
A phone?
"He had it coming, Alice. I warned him, "Bang, zoom, straight to the moon!"
In any civilized city, every man on the bus would be a volunteer.
I wonder whatever gave the bus driver the idea that he was working in a civilized city?
Amen to that!
I don’t miss NYC one bit. In fact, I skipped my annual summer visit this year.
Rudy civilized it, he told me so!
Exactly.
Too bad the bus driver got in trouble. He only did what this slob’s mother should have done years ago; smack him upside the head.
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