[PRCo] Re: Bus stabbing in New Orleans

[Herb Brannon]

That which does not kill you makes you stronger. I also refuse to be a
victim in this nation of victims.
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Phillip Clark Campbell <pcc_sr at yahoo.com>wrote:

> From: Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Friday, June 5, 2009 9:42:09 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Bus stabbing in New Orleans
> Ed probably remembers when I had nearly 50 stitches around my right eye
> back
> in May 1975.
> I was driving the 73-Highland Pk bus with a full standing load of
> passengers
> coming into the stop on the far side of Highland and Penn. Out of nowhere a
> guy hit me with something on the right side of my head. My sun glasses
> broke
> and all the pieces of glass went into and around my right eye. The @$$ who
> hit me took the transfers out of the cutter. I was trying to stop the still
> moving bus and the last thing I remember is pushing the door control handle
> into the full forward position which caused the interlocks to come on. I
> was
> in a sort of "twilight zone" for a few minutes. I remember a Pgh police
> officer came on board and a young lady who later turned out to be a
> University-Presby nurse was helping me. Blood was everywhere on the dash,
> steering wheel me, the farebox, even the windshield. Despite the fact that
> in that era the method of transport to a hospital were the Pgh Police paddy
> wagons (no EMS in those days) I came through o.k. They took me to Eye & Ear
> Hospital, which, as the name implies, specializes in eyes and ears. They
> knew what they were doing and after being off work from May to September
> everything worked out.
>
> Yes, I know what these lunatic people can do. You have to be aware and
> alert
> to be a public transit operator anywhere in the world. Now, in the current
> era, the addition of "transit police" dedicated to protecting the transit
> authority employees and property, and with the inclusion of public transit
> workers in all the Homeland Security laws, the incidents of assault have
> been curbed greatly but not stopped.
>
> I know strollers/baby carriages are a real problem these days. Homeland
> Security regulations and RTA (and most every transit agency) policy require
> the aisle be fully clear at all times in all buses, cars, and trains
> operating in the United States. Some women think they are "special" and
> have
> a right to do what they want. I ask them once to fold it. If they do, fine.
> If they don't I say nothing else to them and quietly put in a call to have
> transit police intercept the train. It works every time. Transit police
> don't fool around. These days you either comply or get removed and maybe
> arrested. This aspect of Homeland Security works quite nicely for me.
>
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> Mr.Brannon;
>
>
> Sorry to hear about this.  I trust that all is well now as you indicate and
> that you don't
> suffer from any long term effects.  Hope this memory doesn't cause
> problems.  It is a
> very imperfect world isn't it as has been mentioned a number of times yet
> one tends to
> think this type of assault happens elsewhere and not at home.
>
> My apologies for not replying sooner;  there was a deluge of mail when I
> returned home with
> this email buried under the rest.  Trust your career with Cleveland is far
> less eventful.
>
>
> Phil
> Without  a   'coast'   but  not  a   'cause.'
> --  --
> "If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God,
> and to do that, thou must be ruled by Him ...
> Those who will not be governed by God...
> ........will be ruled by Tyrants."
> William  Penn,  founder  of  Pennsylvania
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-- 
Herb Brannon
On America's North Coast  <TM>
 Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It
passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and
able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
*Mahatma Gandhi*, *1931*