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Woman enforces her personal space on a T bus with pepper spray, police say
By adamg on Wed, 09/06/2023 - 11:15am
Transit Police report they are investigating a case of bus rage at Tremont and Wigglesworth streets near Brigham Circle around 3 p.m. on Tuesday:
2 adult women were allegedly jostling over space on board an MBTA bus. 1 of the subjects then pepper sprayed the other female and fled.
Police say the victim was treated at the scene and that they are now looking for the pepper sprayer.
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Not really near Ruggles
This is a block from Brigham Circle and almost a mile to Ruggles.
You are correct
Gah, I'm losing all sense of direction, I guess - even after I call up the address on Google Maps. Fixed, thanks!
Bus rage is all the rage
Wait till the shuttle buses replace the red line trains and trolleys. The Yankee buses have narrow aisles which won't be able to accommodate baby strollers bigger than battleships and the hundreds of kids getting out of school pushing and shoving and tormenting the drivers and adult passengers.
the kids are alright
The students aren't the ones pushing and shoving adult passengers. In fact, they are more likely than adults to offer seats to people who need them. This is observational, from when I happen to be traveling at the same time as students going to and from school.
When they're talking louder than the adult passengers, they're usually talking to other people on the bus with them. Not yelling into their phones about someone who done them wrong, or calling relatives to tell them all about their latest medical problems.
Adults these days....
Vicki
Nobody even mentioned 'students'......
Really???
That's quite a stretch.
Word definition
What are “kids getting out of school” if not students?
I experienced bus stop rage there …
… about 4 years ago. I’m imagining the same woman.
A Boston cop strolling by with his dunk’s coffee declined to get involved. So I just got myself a dunks and waited for the next bus and made a complaint to Boston police about a cop stealing his pay check.
Sorry for the driver and other victims.
ugh
I feel sorry for the other passengers. Seems like this was a very crowded bus. And Im sure with the heat the windows were not open. Im pretty sure everyone's eyes were burning and could not wait to get off that box.
I totally agree cybah.
I totally agree cybah. Capistan is some nasty stuff in an enclosed space.
This article isn't quite correct
This isn't really what happened, I was there and the lady with the pepper spray had been screaming at the other passengers to move to the back of the bus and when she got out she forcibly held the doors open and refused to let the bus leave. After some passengers got into a screaming match with her they (from my limited knowledge as my view was obstructed) tried to force her off the bus and she used the pepper spray. I don't know if anyone was hit but you could smell it in the bus. She then fought another passenger right outside my window.