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Police: Man spits at bus driver, tries to fend off cops with a shopping cart
By adamg on Mon, 04/25/2016 - 5:10pm
Transit Police charge that Jorge Diaz-Vazquez reacted to being asked to pay his fare on a bus at Warren and Moreland in Roxbury around 6:45 last night by stepping off the bus and then spitting on the driver.
Police say officers alerted to his spitfulness spotted him not long after at the Dudley T stop:
As Officers approached Diaz-Vasquez he pushed a shopping carriage at the officers and fled. Officers gave chase and after a lengthy pursuit apprehended Diaz-Vasquez and placed him into custody for various assault charges.
After discovering his real name, officers discovered he was wanted on drug charges out of Charlestown.
Innocent, etc.
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I'm sure EVERYTHING about
I'm sure EVERYTHING about this guy is not legit.
Pity the poor bus drivers
And the Transit Police. I'm sure the courts don't take fare evasion or assaulting cops or drivers serious.
Not at all
Not at all
Why would they
They don't take drunk driving or child abuse seriously either.
Fare evasion and assault are
Fare evasion and assault are different levels of seriousness.
oberyn martell
lives once more
The guy clearly deserved to get into trouble,
not only for refusing to pay the fare, but for spitting at the bus driver, to boot. What are things coming to these days that people have so much gall that they spit on or even assault the bus driver for a simple thing as asking them to pay the fare?
There are signs on MBTA buses and trains, too, I think, that say "DO NOT TOUCH THE DRIVER."
MY SISTER IS A BUS DRIVER
GREAT JOB MBTA OFFICER, in arresting "spitter", look most of us would be ready to fight someone if they spit on us, however a defensive-less bus driver , don't expect it and they can't leave the bus because the safety of the passengers. We are taught early on in life not to spit and there is a reason for that. About the fare-evasion it's a serious crime treated as so. As we can see you never know who you might apprehend, the person might be a murder, people don't run for nothing.
I hope the "spitter" is charge with felonious assault..
i hope
the spitter gets a blue ribbon and pat on the back. he's doing the lords work.
nobody is innocent
It goes both ways, some bus drivers are kind and some bus drivers drive like assholes .Bus drivers also cheat by skipping bus stops if they see customers heading back in their direction towards Forest Hills from the Backbay area. They will shake there head no and keep going.