September 21, 2007
Hunter High Students Get Hammered
A bus full of students from Hunter College High School was pursued by a hammer-wielding road rager yesterday afternoon in Queens. It's unclear what made the driver so irate, but bus driver Jose Bautista noticed a man driving crazily in his rear view mirror and pulled over to the left. That is when the angry driver got out of his car and kicked in one of the panes of glass on the school bus's front door, then began hammering the vehicle.
Bautista is not allowed to carry a cell phone while working, so he contacted his dispatcher, Tom Guida, on the radio, who told him to get back on the road and move the 30 kids he was transporting to safety. The bus driver told ABC's Eyewitness News that the encounter with the hammer-swinging man was not over even after he got back on the road. "He started driving with one hand and hitting the bus with the hammer [out the driver's side window]."
Dispatcher Tom Guida was unimpressed with how a 911 operator handled his call. He said that she refused to listen to his account of a hammer-wielding maniac attacking a bus full of children because he wasn't the bus driver. No police were sent to intervene. Fortunately, the incident ended with no one hurt. Guida did file a police report after the fact, including the license plate number of the angry driver, which one of the Hunter kids recorded during the incident.
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I bet if Guida the bus disptacher told the 911 operator that it was a bus full of black students, she would have changed her tune.
They are the lowest form of life to handle such a sensitive job. Half the time you have to speak ebonics for them to understand you.
#1, get the hell out of NYC you ignorant f**k.
Let's hope the police do a better job than 911 following up on that maniac.
I was forced to take classes at Hunter College High School because Hunter College CUNY uses their classrooms in the evenings. The bathrooms in that school are filled with filth and nasty grafitti... and these kids are supposed to be the city's best and brightest, attending one of the greatest public schools in NYC?
Just saying...
Ha ha, the kid who took down the license plate number is more competent than the 911 dispatcher.
Well, maybe that might explain why the city schools don't bother reporting stuff...
admittedly, the city's no cell phone policy might not apply to Hunter High (it's semi private or something, right?) but wouldn't it have been a lot easier for one of the kids on the bus to call 911?
the possibility of kids using phones to disrupt learning exists but it's not substantially greater than the "time honored" methods used to disrupt learning. weighed against the possibility of phones as life saving tools in events like this or at VA-Tech/columbine incidents isn't the possibility of saving just one life worth a *potential* small increase in classroom disruptions?
Cell phones are a vital link between people. If the bloods and the crips want to sell there shit on line so be it. It's traceable. Let the rest of the hopefully intelligent individuals make the right choices of when and how the phones should be used. I think the board of education should go back to school.
it's like the warriors vs. the turnbull a.c.'s but the roles reversed.