Sunday, January 23, 2011
From Reykjavik, Iceland: "Bus walked through Icelandic whiteout" (UPI)
A group of Icelandic aluminum smelter employees got to work in a whiteout blizzard after two men walked ahead of their bus to guide the driver, a worker said. (Read more here.)
Sunday, January 16, 2011
From Auckland, New Zealand: "How I met satan on the bus," by Ruth Papalii
Well really it first started at "Auckland City Mission," I saw this witchmale with a black hat that the witches wear on their heads he did not do anything at the time but when I went home from the Auckland City Mission I saw the devil on the bus you would all recognize it is the devil by the way I speak about it. (Read more here.)
Sunday, January 9, 2011
From Boston: "Random act of hospitali-T," by Richard Weir for the Boston Herald
T workers often get a bad rap for all sorts of sins. But for every rude remark or apathetic response some might utter, there are countless acts of unexpected kindness carried out by the men and women of the MBTA each day.
People such as T bus driver Ricardo Miranda. (Read more here.)
Sunday, January 2, 2011
From Milwaukee: "Man Gets $500 Fine For Swearing On County Bus" (WISN)
Milwaukee County sheriff's deputies are on the lookout for rude behavior on Milwaukee County buses, slapping a $500 disorderly conduct ticket on a man for swearing on a bus this week. (Read more here.)
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Sunday, December 19, 2010
From Champaign, Illinois: "CNN Illinois bus driver loses job for hitting snowman in road," by Jeanne Moos for CNN
It's one thing if a bus driver loses his job for hitting a pedestrian, but how about if the man he hits is made of snow?
A hit and run on a snowman has cost a bus driver in Illinois his job. (Read more here. With video.)
Sunday, December 12, 2010
From northern Vermont: "My Spectacular Odd Job: A Special-Needs Bus Driver," by Jim DeFilippi
My favorite job
A spectacular job? If the glory of human endurance is a spectacle, then the most spectacular job I've ever had is my current employment. I am a special needs bus driver-for the wheel-chair bound, the elderly, the sick, and the dying. (Read the whole story here.)
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