Bus Stops - July 8

Train mishap: 'Bus crew was drunk'

 

'Party bus' hot topic in Ontario

 

Four children receive minor injuries when SUV collides with school bus

 

Tourist buses attacked in Buenos Aires

 

Sudden bus strike leads to commuter nightmare

 

70-year-old molests special needs student on school bus

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Google jumps on the bus in 400+ cities with public transit directions

 

Assaulted Bus Driver Challenging Suspension

 

Two more arrests in PG party bus stabbing

 

Why the car remains mightier than the bus

 

Schools chief calls state handling of bus funding 'unacceptable'

 

6 die as bus plunges into Kano dam

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TODAY IN BUS HISTORY

1944 - While on a pass into the nearby city of Durham Booker T. Spicely boarded a bus with a black family he was talking to at the bus stop, and sat in the front row behind the driver. The driver told them to go to the back of the bus. The family did, but Spicely refused, saying that he was a soldier and that he was fighting in the war. Soon afterwards, several white soldiers boarded the bus, and attempted to persuade Spicely to move to the back of the bus. Again, he protested, saying that he wore the same uniform as them and that he shouldn’t have to move seats. Spicely continued arguing with the bus driver until he departed the bus. When he did, the driver followed him off the bus and shot Spicely twice when Spicely turned around. His cause of death is listed as homicide ("shot by bus driver"), with sudden death occurring due to a "pistol shot wound through heart" with a secondary cause of "pistol shot through liver"

1974 - Thirteen inmates at the Tennessee State Prison commandeered a prison bus today and fled into the streets of West Nashville amid a hail of shotgun fire. By late today, eight prisoners were still at large, two had turned themselves in and three had been captured, the police said. 
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BUS QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?" (Dennis Hopper in Speed)