Teen Flies Into Rage When Bus Driver Won't Let Dog Onboard

Bus driver Marlene Bien-Aime (via NY1)

A Bronx teen flew off the handle yesterday when a bus driver wouldn't allow her to get on board with her dog. Driver Marlene Bien-Aime told 17-year-old Steangeli Medina she couldn't carry her dog in her jacket when she tried to board the Bx9 on Fordham road yesterday. That's when Medina lost it: "She punched the driver in the face. She then drags her off the bus by her hair...where she punched and kicked her repeatedly about the body," a source told the News.

Bien-Aime was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital with a black eye, facial cuts, and chest injuries; Medina was charged with assault, menacing and harassment. And during the fracas, the Post says the dog disappeared! Could it be homeward bound?

According to the MTA, small domestic pets are only permitted on subways, NYC Transit and MTA buses if they are in kennels or similar small containers that "can be accommodated by you on your lap without annoyance to other passengers."

Frank Austin, a vice chairman of Transport Workers Union Local 100, was appalled by the attack: "The bus driver was doing her job, enforcing the rules, and was assaulted while performing her duties, for no apparent reason." This incident is a far cry from another bus/dog confrontation from the spring, when a Brooklyn woman got so enraged when her B74 bus driver swerved to avoid hitting a dog, she pummeled him while screaming, "You should have fucking killed the dog."

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By Ben Yakas in News on June 22, 2011 11:29 AM

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D.B

That's why I could never be an MTA Bus Driver . I'm sorry people if it were me and someone attacked me for doing my job , You gonna get the shit beat out of you ( Win , Lose , OR Draw !)! Sorry but I'm not going to just sit their and let someone pummel the hell out of me , All the while thinking " I get Workers Comp. and if they really whupp my ass, I get Disability " Sorry Not happening ! No Way , No How . No Job is worth jeopardizing ones health, Or Life Over ! People today get on these buses and attack these Civil Servants knowing that they won't fight back . It's like the school bully knowing who to pick on .

hotguy

I know right. Nyers are sometimes a bunch of wussies
If there were any fighters on board be it man or woman or beast they would hav set that spick straight for life
Well it's a felony now so miss spick will be doing hard time upstate and there's plenty more like her in da hood so lock em all up
Why do we even let such trash into the city at all
Demolish all the fuxking pjs I say
Let them pay for their own rent

roknrolla

Seriously, bus drivers are way too vulnerable to random attacks from the lovely public. They're like right there, no plexi screen or anything to protect them. Ridiculous.

hotguy

I livedd in hungary where your average Negro/spig thug is replaced by your equally despicable Gypsy(Tigans). And even in relatively safe Hungary they have really nice solar diesel buses and plexi glass to protect the driver. In NYC the bus drivers should at a minimum carry firearms and kevlar jackets and even helmets at all times. These blud and crips and jamaicnas don't give a rats ass about the public or themselves so it's

Miles Bader

What's ridiculous is that American culture has sunk to the point where a such a thing even seems necessary.

OK to be honest, I'm not sure if it was actually all that much better in the past. Maybe it was worse.

America, Fuck Yeah! :(

roknrolla

Agreed. This is a relatively recent phenomenon. A bus driver was stabbed to death a year ago and another was just punched and screamed at by a woman (interesting, a couple of women have done the beatdowns lately).
But, no, we're not a violent society, getting more violent all the time...not at all...

pillow_case

Wow.

jisnotused

someone wake me up when a non-angry story comes up from the bronx.

felixthecat

poor dog, where is he?

roknrolla

Yes, my thoughts exactly. Imagine that this dog has to live with this deranged person. Who knows what she has already done to him/her?
Ugh.

Adam Moreira

But who's the dog...the canine, or the attacker?

etypical

Seems she's one of the classy young ladies that attends the Richard Green High School around the corner from my apartment. It's a high end school that only attracts upper echelon students. When school let's out at 3pm (or 9:20am) the streets are full of well spoken students dressed to learn. I think it's the Upper East Side annex of Poly Prep.