Today some scumbag decided to murder one of his fellow Metro bus passengers:
A man was shot to death today on a Metropolitan Transit Authority bus in west Houston after he apparently got into an argument with a man he may have touched or bumped while trying to get off the bus.
The two exchanged angry words before the suspect allegedly pulled out a gun and shot the victim.
The victim then staggered to the front of the bus before he collapsed. More than an hour later, his body was still visible hanging feet first out of the bus door.
And now some calming words of reassurance from Metro’s top cop:
“This is a rare occurrence,” said Metro Police Chief Tom Lambert. “He noted that Metro carries 330,000 passengers daily on 1,300 buses.
Boy, I sure feel safe!
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this is the bus route I take when I’m forced to ride. It was about 4 miles from my place.
The people out on this side of town are growing scummier by the day.
When is New Orleans going to take it’s trash back?
The perpetrator of this killing probably knew it was illegal to carry a handgun on the bus so he didn’t have to worry about being shot back at. So, the honest citizen follows the rules and dies while the killer gets away with it.
“This is a rare occurrence,” said Metro Police Chief Tom Lambert. “He noted that Metro carries 330,000 passengers daily on 1,300 buses.
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That is 254 people per bus. I doubt if one bus could carry that many people and he wants us to believe EVERY bus carries that many. The ones I see have about seven people on them.
Metro works for you!
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#3 bigmck
I believe that’s total daily riders….. not all at one time! They do stop let some folks off and then let some get on.
/I don’t believe metro’s numbers either.
Despite what METRO used to say, it is NOT illegal to carry a legal CCW weapon on the bus. In fact Lambert, in one of his less than intelligent moments (he has quite a few) commented to the press that if bus riders didn’t feel safe without METRO PD patrolling Park and Pillages, that bus riders should get a CCW permit and carry on the bus. At that time METRO still had a number of the “no guns on buses” signs up in violation of a judges order.
About a month ago, my car was in the shop for a couple of days. Rather than commandeering my wife’s or daughter’s car, or renting one, I decided to see what Metro was like these days (I took the bus to work downtown for a while when I moved to Houston in the mid-1980s). It got me where I needed to get.
All in all, however, I’m glad I have a choice. First, though one can read or sleep on the bus, which is nice, it (due to the convoluted zig-zag route this bus now takes) actually took longer than if I’d driven my own car, which can’t use the HOV lanes. Second, it’s not that cheap - the round trip cost me the same or a little more than I would have used in gasoline. Third, when I worked late one of the nights, I walked three blocks from my office to the nearest bus stop. Let me tell you, not all of downtown is bustling with “rejuvanated” activity at 8:00 p.m., and there are some strange acting cats out there. I would not want to hang out at that corner after dark every night.
But then, I’m probably some kind of elitist-racist-fascist. (Oops, I’m a Republican so I must be.)
Metro keeps Lambert on a short leash but they need to add a muzzle….badly!!
It was the Chief’s fault, Matt…
#7 naw this town is safe - just ask our arizona police chief.
what texas needs to do is send all illegals caught in crime to washington dc to live free of charge. it would save us some money and open the a$$holes eyes up there!
That link up there (the one for the word “murder”) is messed up.
#7
I drive downtown one day per week (because I don’t go straight home that day after work), and I ride from a Park and Ride location that is about 3 miles from home the other days.
In either case, I leave the house at the same time, and I also arrive downtown at the same time. That day of the week I drive, I tend to get a head-start on the bus, which then catches up to me while I’m walking to my office.
If it was just bus fare against gas, I could understand your statement that you got off a little cheaper in your car. So where is the free or cheap parking downtown? I need to know about this.
The cheapest I can find within reasonable walking distance from my building is $8/day. That makes Metro much cheaper.
Not that Metro can do no wrong in my eyes - far from it - but even if gas and wear/tear on your car were zero, parking would pretty much always make Metro the less expensive choice for commuting from the suburbs to downtown.
Strange cats - heard that. Let’s see, there was the guy who came up to me at the bus stop one day, and asked rather belligerently if I had any spare change, and when I declined his “request” he proceeded to scream insults and obscenities at me. He stopped just short of spitting in my face. That was fun. Then there was the guy the other day who was standing on the street corner, yelling at no one. Finally, there was once a weird dude who was sitting in front of me on the bus, angrily muttering and staring at those around him the whole trip. Fun times.
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You’re right about the parking - it’s not cheap. Fortunately, my company pays for that. I don’t really have anything against Metro - it gets a lot of people where they need to be. And, if I had more predictable hours, I might use it more often. But I still don’t like hanging out on those street corners at night.
(#10 dowjones25k Says:
what texas needs to do is send all illegals caught in crime to washington dc to live free of charge. it would save us some money and open the a$$holes eyes up there!)
Just a little reminder! This guy was white, not Mexican!!!