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DC Police: Please stop throwing rocks at buses
Wash Post ^ | 1/7/2013

Posted on 01/08/2013 3:33:38 PM PST by Altura Ct.

Metro says that Metrobuses traveling in parts of Southeast Washington are being pelted with rocks. As part of a campaign to discourage this, police are distributing a flier reminding people not to throw rocks at buses or cars.

Flier here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dr-gridlock/files/2013/01/Dont-Throw-Rocks-Flier.pdf

The Metro Transit Police and Metropolitan Police Department have been distributing the flier, which features a reminder that throwing rocks at vehicles is a crime. It also includes 911 as well as numbers for D.C. police (202-727-9099) and the transit police (202-962-2121, which riders may or may not recognize as the number repeated in system-wide announcements).

The transit agency took the rock attacks seriously enough to consider cutting nighttime service on the W6 and W8 routes. Metro decided last month not to discontinue the service.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: democrats; democratutopia; districtofcolumbia
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To: Altura Ct.

“....with a cherry on top?”

“I’ll be your best frieend..”


21 posted on 01/08/2013 3:57:14 PM PST by Thorliveshere
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To: Altura Ct.

About 20 years ago, when I first moved to the City of Pittsburgh, I was riding in a city bus that took a route through a rough neighborhood.

It was summer and hot outside, and the air conditioner in the bus must have been on the blink, because some windows had been left open.

As luck would have it, I was seated near an open window when some YOUNG neighborhood kids—not more than 7 or 8 years old—started hurling rocks at the bus. One sailed though my open window, just inches from my head.

I never took that bus route again.


22 posted on 01/08/2013 3:58:49 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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To: Altura Ct.

What kind of reminders do they send to people in DC that don’t pay their property and other local taxes? I bet it isn’t so lenient and gentle.


23 posted on 01/08/2013 3:59:05 PM PST by paint_your_wagon
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Well, yeah. They’re just doing what ferals do. (This might not have happened if the left hadn’t enabled & encouraged it.)


24 posted on 01/08/2013 4:13:20 PM PST by KGeorge
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To: Altura Ct.

I looked at the PDF. Felt weird. It’s like “Don’t Murder! It’s against the law!”


25 posted on 01/08/2013 4:14:56 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Clearly there's only one solution to the problem of violent bitter clingers importing all this violence into the cities.

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26 posted on 01/08/2013 4:18:35 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

Mine too. I can’t believe we have to print and distribute flyers reminding people that s*** that’s obviously against the law is, in fact, against the law. WTF is going on???

“Don’t throw stuff at moving vehicles.” Clear as a bell. Especially when I hit that car with a snowball, damn straight it’s wrong. And we have to remind these youts not to throw *rocks?*


27 posted on 01/08/2013 4:20:46 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Okay, I’ll play. Ban people from carrying more than 10 rocks at a time.


28 posted on 01/08/2013 4:22:18 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Cyber Liberty
Around here we turned to more productive endeavors when we're bored.

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29 posted on 01/08/2013 4:27:18 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Gee, when this is implemented, we’ll have you to thank...

;-)


30 posted on 01/08/2013 4:27:43 PM PST by green pastures (Cynicism-- it's not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I think proper Englit would be “I IS SUMMBAHTTY”


31 posted on 01/08/2013 4:34:12 PM PST by Repeat Offender (What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
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To: cripplecreek

Those are nice. Get a good stove going, nice brew cooler out the door. Deck of cards and a buddy. Maybe even catch a fish or five. Heaven.


32 posted on 01/08/2013 4:35:12 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: chris37

green line issue no doubt


33 posted on 01/08/2013 4:39:10 PM PST by ptsal (E)
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To: Altura Ct.
police are distributing a flier reminding people not to throw rocks at buses or cars

             

DC > a hybrid of Tirana and Mogadishu, with some pretty monuments thrown in to confuse the unwary.

34 posted on 01/08/2013 4:47:48 PM PST by tomkat (-/\/\/\-)
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To: KGeorge
"“People”. People are throwing rocks at buses? Ferals may be throwing rocks at buses, but people are not. (I’m going to stop there before somebody calls me a you know what)"

A realist? That's what you are, and I am, too. And I don't give a damn what anybody wants to call me.

35 posted on 01/08/2013 4:49:42 PM PST by CatherineofAragon (Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization)
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To: chris37
"Ban rocks, ban buses, ban DC, and ban police."

Ban rock music.

36 posted on 01/08/2013 4:55:01 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Cyber Liberty
When I was a kid, we used to throw snowballs at trucks that drove though our neighborhood. Haha! Lotsa fun, but once we threw a snowball at some guy's car. Screech. Brake lights.

Backing lights.

Now some 230lb. hulk gets out of his car and chases us.

Uh, let's just say that we never did that again.

37 posted on 01/08/2013 5:01:46 PM PST by boop ("You don't look so bad, here's another")
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

And they remind everyone that throwing rocks at vehicles is a crime. That should take care of it. Thanks Altura Ct.


38 posted on 01/08/2013 5:10:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: CatherineofAragon

There’s not much else we can do when the left has exploited & manipulated people to this point. They’re clever, I’ll give them that. And very, very devious. And unabashed liars who know exactly what they’re doing.
The only thing that can stop it is the truth.
God Bless you & Keep you safe.


39 posted on 01/08/2013 5:14:12 PM PST by KGeorge
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To: matt04
"We must immediately ban High Capacity Assault Rocks."

And no pocket may be large enough to carry more than ten rocks.

40 posted on 01/08/2013 5:22:33 PM PST by John Leland 1789
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