| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: Culture Wars |
| Police: Please stop throwing rocks at buses |
| 2013-01-09 |
| [Washington Post] Metro says that Metrobuses traveling in parts of Southeast Washington are being pelted with rocks. As part of a campaign to discourage this, police are distributing a flier reminding people not to throw rocks at buses or cars. Southeast, if you didn't know or hadn't guessed, being the District of Columbia's festering sore. The Metro Transit Police and Metropolitan Police Department have been distributing the flier, which features a reminder that throwing rocks at vehicles is a crime. It also includes 911 as well as numbers for D.C. police (202-727-9099) and the transit police (202-962-2121, which riders may or may not recognize as the number repeated in system-wide announcements). The transit agency took the rock attacks seriously enough to consider cutting nighttime service on the W6 and W8 routes. Metro decided last month not to discontinue the service. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 2nd warthoawgswife. That was some pretty funny stuff CF. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-01-09 16:34 |
| #10 Wouldn't it be a better reminder if the cops made some arrests instead of just leaving a few fliers at the doughnut shop? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-01-09 12:48 |
| #9 @Crazy Fool - You gave me a good laugh this morning with "Rock Free Zone", especially after reading so much bad news in this country this morning. Thank you for the lift. |
| Posted by: warthogswife 2013-01-09 12:16 |
#8 Southeast, if you didn't know or hadn't guessed, being the District of Columbia's festering sore. A festering sore on a cancer? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2013-01-09 12:04 |
| #7 One the bright side - back in the late 80s, it was bullets. So either conditions have (relatively) improved or ammo is getting scarce. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-01-09 11:23 |
| #6 Time to put signs on the side of the busses: That's sure to do the trick! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-01-09 11:08 |
| #5 Give each driver a shotgun loaded with 1. Rock salt, 2. birdshot,3. buckshot, and 4. solid slug, Pronounce him free to use it as he sees fit. Severe penalties(Firing, arrest Etc) if he "Looses" the shitgun, or It's ammo, or carries it Unloaded. Account for "Spent" Ammo. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-01-09 11:03 |
| #4 Decent idea, Besoeker, but I'd be concerned about who the system put in the gunner's hatch. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-01-09 08:34 |
| #3 Install gunner's hatches, M2 Browning machine guns, 5 cans of ammo per each, and encourage liberal use. Instruct the ridership on the potential hazards of expended brass while entering and exiting. The shi* should taper off dramatically. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-01-09 01:56 |
| #2 I gotta ask, who thinks this stuff up? Do they really believe that someone who throws rocks at a bus will be deterred by a printed reminder that what they are doing is against the law? Seriously? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-01-09 01:42 |
| #1 The Metro Transit Police and Metropolitan Police Department have been distributing the flier, which features a reminder that throwing rocks at vehicles is a crime. Not if you don't make arrests for it. Which looks to be the policy. Ah, our nation's capital... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2013-01-09 01:39 |