Commuting Suicide: Volume XXIII
I should remember that no matter how slow the traffic, or how annoying the seatmate, things could always be worse. My driver could decide to stab me.
New Jersey – WABC, January 8, 2007 – A bus driver is in police custody in New Jersey, accused of stabbing a passenger.
Police say the driver got into a fight with the passenger around 8:45 Monday night at a stop along Bloomfield Avenue.
The passenger allegedly spat in the driver’s face during a dispute over the fare. Police say that’s when the driver pulled out a knife and stabbed the passenger in the shoulder. That passenger was taken to Newark Hospital.
I did almost get spit on once, but that was in the bus terminal. Besides, I lacked the proper retaliatory stabbing implement to escalate matters to the ABC News-worthy level.