Metro bus driver takes bite out of McGruff the Crime Dog

Washington Examiner ^

[RatherBiased.com]

McGruff never saw this one coming.

McGruff the Crime Dog, the stern but beloved police mascot who teaches kids how to stop crime before it happens, became a victim himself this weekend when a Metro bus driver punched him in the face as a stunned group of children watched, authorities said.

McGruff, a.k.a. D.C. police officer Tyrone Hardy, was passing out flyers to children at the corner of 14th Street and Spring Road in Northwest Washington around 2:30 p.m. Saturday when a Metro bus pulled up to the curb.

The bus driver, 38-year-old Shawn Brim, climbed out of the bus, adjusted both sideview mirrors and then slugged McGruff in the face with his closed fist, according to a police report. Because the huge McGruff head offered little visibility, Hardy didn’t see the punch coming, one officer said.

McGruff staggered, children screamed and the crime dog’s attacker jumped back into the bus and drove off, police said. A call of an assault on a police officer went out over the police radio while passengers on the bus yelled at Brim.

D.C. police working with McGruff hopped in their cruisers and pulled the Metro bus over three blocks away.

Brim, 38, later told a supervisor that he was trying “to be funny,” Metro spokeswoman Candace Smith told The Examiner on Monday.

[bencarter]

I laughed

[txnativegop]

Tell me if its funny when you are in jail. HaHa

[chuck_the_tv_out]

Brim has a history of arrests in the District of Columbia, including for prostitution in Oct. 30, 2006, possession of PCP in 1994 and possession of a gun in 1990, according to court records. In each case, prosecutors declined to file the charges in court.

And here's the result - a criminal with NO fear of the law.

[MplsSteve]

This bus driver is a friggin’ dick for doing something like that in front of some little kids!

I hope he gets his ass fired and is brought up on assault charges.

At that point, we’ll see how funny his “routine” becomes.

[SouthTexas]

Did McGruff track his scent to the new location?

[Retired Greyhound]

That’s hilarious. Is there video?

[kingu]

If it was some $8 an hour drone handing out flyers, I doubt police would have done more than take a report, if they showed up.

But since it was an officer in that suit, a herd of cops show up and haul the driver to jail.

Justice for you and me is not the same...

[Paladin2]

"And here's the result - a criminal with NO fear of the law. "

Now that's funny.

[MplsSteve]

“Brim has a history of arrests in the District of Columbia, including for prostitution in Oct. 30, 2006, possession of PCP in 1994 and possession of a gun in 1990, according to court records.”

And this ass-clown is driving a public bus...?!

Oh wait, it’s DC. It all makes total sense.

[I see my hands]

Funnier than wasting wealth on a goof off cop in a stupid costume (and his entourage, of course). Even funnier than wasting wealth on a goof off bus driver."

[posterchild]

Does Marion Barry need a limo driver?

[PalmettoMason]

PETA’s gonna be pissed!

[dirtymac]

“Funnier than wasting wealth on a goof off cop in a stupid costume (and his entourage, of course). Even funnier than wasting wealth on a goof off bus driver.”

I see you are the intellectual equal of your peers at Democrats Underground (DU). Are you sure you feel confortable with the discussion in this forum since most of us support law enforcement and their efforts to combat crime with children.

[bamahead]

PING!

[MplsSteve]

LOL!

[Dutchboy88]

Attention mod...please send lurker from DU back to his cave.

[Emmett McCarthy]

Yeah, hell, he’s qualified to be Da Mayor!

[martin_fierro]

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And for that brief moment, McGruff was his b1tch.

[bikerman]

He must have been a fan of Chevy Chase in the movie vacation when they went to wally world and he punched the moose in the nose.