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A Staten Island couple isn't too thrilled with a city bus driver after he did the bare minimum to help their son following the 14-year-old boy being suckerpunched in the face. Anthony Paramithis, a freshman SI Technical High School, had just gotten onto the S78 bus when another teen clocked him from behind. An onlooker asked the assailant why he hit the smaller Paramithis and he replied, "Because I felt like it." When the driver learned what happened to the bloody-mouthed teen, he replied, "There's nothing I can do about that," and then let the attacker off at the next stop, a quarter-mile from the nearest precinct. The Fort Wadsworth boy's father told the SI Advance, "He left my son bleeding to death, and then he lets everyone off the bus so they can run?" But the MTA says the driver acted properly, notifying his command center and not getting involved in the altercation. Paramithis has his jaw wired shut for the next three weeks and can only eat "protein shakes, soup and anything else that will fit between his teeth." His parents told WCBS that his 14-year-old attacker confessed after being picked up yesterday by cops.
Driver Provides Little Help to SI Teen Decked on City Bus
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I would pay money for the opportunity to give the coward driver a good sound beating.
Lots of tough vigilantes in front of their computers today.
Why? I would pay money to beat the bully who hit the kid.
I find that pretty hilarious coming from you, TheFacts.
Personally, I'd get no satisfaction from whaling on the driver. I'd much rather be standing in a crowd as someone else wallops the shit out of him. And as he looks for help, just shrug. "There's nothing I can do about it."
Look, I think what happened to the kid was terrible too, but he was hit once. There was no beating to stop. What exactly do you think the driver should have done?
mta drivers have enough shit to deal with without getting in the middle of a conflict.
teenagers kill people in this town don't forget. all he did was hit the kid.
sounds, however, like he should have stopped the bus and called a cop right away instead of just "reporting" it
mta drivers have enough shit to deal with without getting in the middle of a conflict.
teenagers kill people in this town don't forget. all he did was hit the kid.
sounds, however, like he should have stopped the bus and called a cop right away instead of just "reporting" it
Bleeding to death? What was the kid hit in the mouth with, a shotgun blast?
I know MTA drivers have a lot to deal with these days, with rowdy passengers, fare beaters, drunks etc. They've gotten killed for getting involved before, but I still think the cops should have been called at the very least. Maybe they were, but it looks as if he only called the command center.
On another note, the kid and the parents of the kid that sucker punched this kid, should be punished for being such a thug.
You're assuming that the cops respond to every emergency and quickly. If the driver's phone call went to an NYCTA call center and not to 911 directly there had to be a delay. If 911 is called, by law, they must send help. If the Transit Authority gets the call, the recipient then makes a judgment. All of this causes delays. I really am not sure how the system works, but after that driver called a police car should have been there in a matter of minutes.
like so many city state and federal employees he's a do the minimum ain't my problem you are in the wrong line loser.
got a lot to deal with, bs. its called civilization, because we are supposed to be civilized. That means putting out, often more than you might get.
So it is just government employees that are the problem? Do you really think employees of private companies would have done better?
Well the kids parents will probably sue the MTA and the city and then our fares will go up again...GREAT
If the girl who got raped and no one called 911 got thrown out of court, a kid getting punched in the face by another kid isn't getting money.
I would hope that MTA employees (and everyone) would get involved in preventing a violent crime. But in terms of taking a risk in *catching* the criminal after the fact, I can undertand the driver's reluctance. I hope I'd have done something different in that situation, but won't begrudge him for not doing more.
I thought the policy for a crime on a bus is for the driver to alert the authorities and lock the bus down, preventing anyone from exiting. That's how the bus driver I was one handled it after someone was pickpocketed on ths bus. The thief tried to grab the door activator but the driver pushed him off; then he opened the emergency window, leaped out and ran.
once the city makes it legal to carry hand gun, I promise I will get involved and thwart every crime I see...until then, well we know what would happen - you confront the teenager, he attacks you, you hit him, you wind up in jail and eventually his family sues you...this is the society we've made...all helpless to do anything for ourselves but call someone else.
And by shooting him you will somehow avoid winding up in jail and being sued? I don't get your reasoning there
I'm outraged about this!!
So this is how the driver of the bus "treats others as how he wants to be treated"???
Use your common sense!!! F*ck work protocol!
we should all know by now that MTA employees do not get involved in situations like this.
http://gothamist.com/2009/04/01/g_train_platform_rape_victim_loses.php
it seems unlikely that the parents of the punching victim will have any luck with [winning] a lawsuit, as the precedent has already been set for MTA employees to not intervene in any situation that could cause them harm.
Can't really blame the driver for not getting involved - if he put his hands on a scumbag 15 year old I'd bet my lucky dollar that he'd be sued by the bloodsucking parents. I've ridden on the 78 when school lets out and, let me tell you, those kids are savages.
And yet if you deck one of these imbecile bus drivers, it's a felony, isn't it?
I do hope this is the last we'll see of the animal that did this for a long time.
Where were the other people on the bus? Did no one else intervene?
I'm pleased to supply some hilarity into the little World of Walter Mitty that you inhabit.