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From: "Russell Wayne Peterson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:04:06 -0600
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Are you saying it's OK to bruise a bus driver as long as you don't smack his
head hard enough to give him a concussion? I certainly hope riders
assaulting the driver is not a commonplace occurrence on Minneapolis buses.
If a reporter gets shoved, we hear about it for weeks, but the driver went
Steve said (although I think these are the words of the Strib and not
Steve's):
"We rarely report routine beatings of anyone, much less drivers, and if we
did, the newspaper would have room for little else."
The fact that "routine beating" is actually a phrase we use and then say we
don't have