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August 7, 2007
Thank you Larry Woods
On August 6th, something wonderful happened and while I'm sure it's been covered and blogged by a bunch of people more read than I am, I still feel the need to share this with the non New York crowd.
But first, a prequel. Last night my fella was reading me a very familiar blog topic:
adults who take little kids to loud, violent movies. There's nothing more on this topic I can say that these folks haven't. In short, it's rude, inconsiderate, abusive to the children and it seriously impacts your movie going experience. Don't you ever wish someone would be braver than you and tell these parents exactly what should be said?
It is for this reason, that I feel that Larry Woods should be congratulated for standing up to Christian Custis.
Larry Woods is a bus driver who whisterpooped Custis for not giving up his seat to a patron with a cane. Of course, much like my take on the legality of stun guns in this city, the NYPD disagrees, and has arrested Mr. Woods.
I don't support violence, and I don't believe that it is the answer to the world's problems. I don't even believe it's the answer to the smallest problems, but there has always been some form of de facto societal control taking place in society, and Mr. Woods was just doing his part. I don't know how hard he hit him, and I don't know the damage he inflicted. It's quite possible that Mr. Woods went way overboard in his discipline of Mr. Custis, but it is my hope that he just delivered a grandfatherly smack-upside-the-head.
People have become so frightened to instruct, teach, criticize, for fear that the criticized will become violent. This form of informal policing is overdue and for this citizen, missed.
Maybe we should keep the violence down to a minimum, but surely can take pictures of these freaks and humiliate them publicly.
Posted by lysa at August 7, 2007 2:32 PM
Comments
can i beat the elderly women on my bus get onto an empty bus, stand in the aisle behind the driver so that no one can get on, then bitch when ppl try to PASS them to move to the back of the bus? cuz sometimes, i get that urge.
Posted by: scottie at August 7, 2007 6:39 PM