Trainspotter Posted January 22, 2009 Share #1 Posted January 22, 2009 A veteran MTA bus driver was bitten on the forearm by an out-of-control female passenger Wednesday as he drove his packed M104 bus during rush hour in Manhattan. Peter Williams, 42, was rushed to St. Luke's Hospital as a safety precaution after the woman gnawed into his arm as the bus headed north on Broadway at W. 79th St. just after 3 p.m. "A woman had given him a problem on the bus," said MTA spokesman Charles Seaton. "He got up to tell the dispatcher and when he rose from his seat the woman bit him." Shelia Bolar, 49, was charged with second-degree assault after the enraged Queens woman became hysterical on the crowded bus before sinking her teeth in Williams. After taking a bite out of Williams' forearm, Bolar fled the bus and ran south on Broadway before being nabbed by police near W. 73rd St., a police spokesman said. "She's a little. ... She likes attention," said Jonmon Bolar, a niece who lives in Mobile, Ala. "She's going to do whatever's gonna get her the most attention." Williams, whose last listed address is in Long Island, was released from the hospital around 5 p.m., officials said. Williams, who has worked for the MTA since 2000, is based out of the Manhattanville bus depot. BY ERICA PEARSON and JOTHAM SEDERSTROM DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS January 21st 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TransitGuy Posted January 22, 2009 Share #2 Posted January 22, 2009 Wow that is unbelievable. What an idiot, she needs some serious help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPBO Posted January 22, 2009 Share #3 Posted January 22, 2009 What is wrong with people these days?? This lady felt the need to bite the driver?? :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms61 Posted January 22, 2009 Share #4 Posted January 22, 2009 Some people are just impossible to understand... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forest Glen Posted January 22, 2009 Share #5 Posted January 22, 2009 First, a B/O gets stabbed. Now this. I never realized how bad they have it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasDART Posted January 22, 2009 Share #6 Posted January 22, 2009 Good Lord, this economy is making people go crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brighton Local Posted January 22, 2009 Share #7 Posted January 22, 2009 Bus Drivers need protection! At least Mace! Get with the program ! These Bus drivers don't deserve such pain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
via White Plains Road Posted January 22, 2009 Share #8 Posted January 22, 2009 What the heck is going on with ppl in this world?? Stabbing a B/O last year, another got one shot by being a innocent bystander and now he get biten by a crazy psycho chick. needs to step their game up and protect these B/O's or else no one wants to be a B/O anymore. Instead of raising the damn fares and cutting service....how about putting some type of glass where the B/O sit @ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I Run Trains Posted January 22, 2009 Share #9 Posted January 22, 2009 Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (Danger hiptop 4.6; U; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920) What the heck is going on with ppl in this world?? Stabbing a B/O last year, another got one shot by being a innocent bystander and now he get biten by a crazy psycho chick. needs to step their game up and protect these B/O's or else no one wants to be a B/O anymore. Instead of raising the damn fares and cutting service....how about putting some type of glass where the B/O sit @ Um..... that would be.... UGLY LOOKING! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHat Posted January 22, 2009 Share #10 Posted January 22, 2009 Bus Drivers need protection! At least Mace! Get with the program ! These Bus drivers don't deserve such pain! When I go back to work, when my back gets better I'm going into work w/ a bullet/stabproof vest as a protest to the & union not making it safe to drive a bus. If someone attacks a B/O by striking them in the head, I may have to trade my hat in for a helmet. I still have my riot helmet from my NYPD Auxiliary days(NYCT) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattTrain Posted January 22, 2009 Share #11 Posted January 22, 2009 That woman is going to be considered a felon, assaulting a transit official is a FELONY! If you attack transit workers you are a felon, no exceptions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms61 Posted January 23, 2009 Share #12 Posted January 23, 2009 Well putting a protective door with a glass isn't going to protect the driver more, (believe me here in Paris everyweek a driver is attacked). Also when you ride with a glass up, the riders will feel that the driver is affraid of the people, that he is putting a wall between him/her and the others... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlushingExpress Posted January 23, 2009 Share #13 Posted January 23, 2009 reminds me of an incident last month where i and a few other guys had to subdue a crazy old chinese woman who was complaining about her malfunction metrocard or something like that while the token booth clerk called the cops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTR Admiralty Posted January 23, 2009 Share #14 Posted January 23, 2009 Weird nuts and beyond predictable. Does she need a trip to the asylum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlushingExpress Posted January 24, 2009 Share #15 Posted January 24, 2009 Weird nuts and beyond predictable.Does she need a trip to the asylum? i think she did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
error46146 Posted January 24, 2009 Share #16 Posted January 24, 2009 Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5G77a Safari/525.20) Ouch... I would not want to be that driver that got bitten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffmorris Posted January 24, 2009 Share #17 Posted January 24, 2009 I thought that the woman bit the bus driver because she had problems paying her fare or refused to pay her fare but I found out from the newspaper that she was waiting an hour for a new hybrid city bus. A few months ago, a bus driver was stabbed because the man refused to pay his fare and demanded a transfer ticket. A female bus driver was robbed of her expensive jewerly. Last year, I watched a movie about a city bus boycott after a black woman refused to give her seat to a white passenger. One of the bus drivers was carrying a gun, making her nervous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTR Admiralty Posted January 24, 2009 Share #18 Posted January 24, 2009 i think she did "Rabid" woman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Articulated450 Posted January 26, 2009 Share #19 Posted January 26, 2009 this is just plain stupid and crazy. what in the hell are people thinking first we got stabbing and then shooting and now people are biting B/Os this is crazy thank god i work for beeline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainfan22 Posted January 27, 2009 Share #20 Posted January 27, 2009 LOL, she must be a bus buff biting the driver because he didn't have an Orion VII?!?! Thats just crazy, now I cannot stand the Orion VII's(NG, OG, triple OG whatever...) If im waiting an hour for an RTS and driver comes with an VII i'm not going bite he or she because they came with a bus I didn't like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RokuSix Posted January 27, 2009 Share #21 Posted January 27, 2009 Biting. Stabbing is one thing. Shooting is another. But biting? What is this, the Stone Age? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B41 Posted January 27, 2009 Share #22 Posted January 27, 2009 Biting.Stabbing is one thing. Shooting is another. But biting? What is this, the Stone Age? I know. Crazy right?:confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B35 via Church Posted January 28, 2009 Share #23 Posted January 28, 2009 Yeah... thanks a lot Mike Tyson... Biting someone has to be one of, if not The lowest offensive or defensive mechanism a human being can exhibit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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