Bus driver recovering after attack by passenger [Police Need Your Help]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | 07/01/2011 | Timothy McNulty

[Glenn]

A Port Authority bus driver stabbed six times during Downtown rush hour Thursday night in an altercation with an unruly group of passengers remained in stable condition at UPMC Mercy this morning.

The driver, age 47, has been with the transit agency since 2006, spokesman Jim Ritchie said. His name has not been released.

At around 6 p.m. last night, the driver ejected a group of young men and women from his outbound 67 Monroeville bus at Fifth Avenue and Market Street, after repeatedly telling them to stop disturbing other passengers. A man in the group proceeded to spit and punch at the driver before stabbing him multiple times in the chest.

Anyone with information about the passengers is asked to contact Port Authority police at 412-255-1385.

[Glenn]

Photos of the perps at the link.

[crosshairs]

Without looking, I’m going to guess Amish.

[sockmonkey]

Without looking, I’m going to guess Amish.

I see the Amish Police Chief's Grandson was charged in a stabbing last week.

[Sporke]

What is going on in Pennsylvania? First all the flash mobs in Philly, and now this.....

Union Utopia? :-/

[knarf]

I'm (now) a racist.

ozero's emboldened ****** civilian force.

[haircutter]

can you imagine what is going to happen when B.’dick’Huseinn Obama is voted out of office?????

[PalmettoMason]

Holder’s people?

[COBOL2Java]

Obama’s yutes

[COBOL2Java]

all the buses in our transit area come with webcams. hope Pittsburgh has ‘em

[Jeff Chandler]

I’m beginning to detect a pattern in the news articles.

[paul51]

unruly? as in violent felons?

[BilLies]

Perhaps they will start telling us if the Government is responsible for their behavior because it has been government that paid for their conception and welfare payments until they were grownup and could ‘rip-off’ for them selves, Negro or Caucasian.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

No surprises there!

[Two Kids' Dad]

Dre’Shawn and Lo’Queeshia are instantly recognizable.

[Godwin1]

And Obama, according to his Secretary of Transportation, faux Republican opportunist LaHood, wants to “get Americans out of their cars and on to public transportation.” This, despite the fact that, in most major American cities, public transportation is virtually unusable because of the feral urban vermin one would have to ride with.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

I've often said that the problem with public transit is that the public is allowed to ride. You said it more colourfully.

[Ken H]

Whites and Asians are not doing these types of mob attacks. Blacks are the ones doing it.

[APatientMan]

Let me guess...

[bvw]

Not enough Epic Beard Men. http://ohinternet.com/Epic_Beard_Man

And certainly not enough Dads. About 80% of black babies are born to unwed moms. http://blackamericans.com/blogs/news/archive/2008/01/25/about-80-of-black-babies-are-born-to-unwed-moms.aspx