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Turnpike Commission CEO apologizes for toll collector's racist statements as investigation continues
Penn Live ^ | July 27-28, 2016 | Steve Marroni

Posted on 08/20/2016 11:05:58 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Susquehanna Township resident Carl Shuman was heading home from a business trip in Pittsburgh Monday night, and after a pleasant drive, he pulled up to the toll booth at the Carlisle exit, ready to pay his toll.

There, he was stunned by something that in his more than four decades of driving and in his professional life as an employment-law attorney, he had never encountered -- not like this, anyway, he said.

As the car in front of him left the booth, Shuman noticed the toll collector shaking his head and smirking.

"He said something very close to, 'Them black people. You give them directions and they don't understand a thing. They can't even speak English.'" Shuman said.

He was shocked.

"I was trembling," Shuman said about that statement and what followed. "I was that offended and outraged at what had just transpired."

He filed a complaint on Tuesday, kicking off an investigation by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.

"It's certainly something we want to correct and something that we don't tolerate," said Carl DeFebo, spokesman for the commission. "I want to send a very strong message. It shouldn't be happening."

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: complaint; darkages; investigation; paturnpike; pennsylvania; ptc; racism; racist; tollcollector; tolls; transportation; trump
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Is it safe to drive while “trembling?” Given his fragile emotional state, Mr Schuman put other drivers’ lives at risk.


41 posted on 08/21/2016 4:22:53 AM PDT by Homer1
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The guy was trembling? OMG!

Clint Eastwood said something about this being the pussy generation or something. He sure was right.


42 posted on 08/21/2016 4:23:27 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Trembling!

Gee! A quail egg has thicker skin than this guy!


43 posted on 08/21/2016 4:24:14 AM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: Leaning Right

“I was trembling,” Shuman said about that statement and what followed. “I was that offended and outraged at what had just transpired.” Im tired of this bull, he was trembling? this guy sounds like a white privileged cupcake


44 posted on 08/21/2016 4:26:01 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“He called it a “Trumpian” experience, referring to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.”

Says all I need to know about Mr. Shuman.


45 posted on 08/21/2016 4:29:11 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

He heard the toll taker make a statement out loud (apparently to himself, not directed to anyone), possibly with his window up, while other traffic was around, on a busy freeway, is that correct? How could he be sure what he heard?


46 posted on 08/21/2016 4:31:48 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: Death, destruction, terrorism and weakness.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
You're right. "He called it 'Trumpian.'" These low-lifes never miss a chance to spread their hatred and Naziesque venom.
47 posted on 08/21/2016 4:35:14 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Trump is the Resistance! Vive la résistance!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
He said something very close to...

This is a tell that the statement which follows is a lie.

48 posted on 08/21/2016 4:55:37 AM PDT by Flick Lives (TRIGGER WARNING - Posts may require application of sarcasm filter)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

For 15 years it’s been ‘ Bush’s Fault’.

Now it’s Trump’s turn.


49 posted on 08/21/2016 4:57:10 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Blue Jays

Exactly, I am sure he buys his Depends at Shur Save. Most of the people in Susquehanna County would have laughed and been on their way up I 81.


50 posted on 08/21/2016 4:57:32 AM PDT by Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
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To: Mark17

Seems another Trump hit piece. Isn’t it interesting that so many of these “racial insults” are completely unwitnessed by anyone but the complaining liberal.


51 posted on 08/21/2016 4:57:44 AM PDT by nclaurel
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To: shibumi

52 posted on 08/21/2016 4:59:35 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: EinNYC

Moot point PA Turnpike going all EZ. pass in a few months.


53 posted on 08/21/2016 4:59:49 AM PDT by Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Susquehanna Township resident Carl Shuman was heading home from a business trip in Pittsburgh...

If this guy routinely travels for business, why wouldn't he have a FastLane transponder to avoid having to even stop at toll booths?

I have a feeling we'll eventually discover this idiot made up the entire story to simply push an anti-Trump narrative.

Liberals are not well anchored in reality. Reality for them is whatever narrative they are pushing at the time.

54 posted on 08/21/2016 5:00:56 AM PDT by Flick Lives (TRIGGER WARNING - Posts may require application of sarcasm filter)
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To: tumblindice

No, that was Gersh Kuntzman, the guy whose name has become synonymous with “bed-wetting pantywaist.”


55 posted on 08/21/2016 5:01:25 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Poor Carl. They never threw a party for him!

He finally saw an opportunity to get his day in the sun, so he took offence at what an innocent toll collector said to him. The collector was under the mistaken impression that Carl wasn’t a sanctimonious twit who awakened to an idea.

He could make a statement for the Hillary followers and work Trump’s name into his tempest in teapot.

This will be America under a President Hillary. Charge someone with a ‘hate crime’, get them fired and add a USSA merit badge to your lapel.


56 posted on 08/21/2016 5:05:19 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If I was the guy behind this twit and he put his car in park in order to cause a scene I would have put my truck in 4WD and pushed this asswipes car all the way home!


57 posted on 08/21/2016 5:09:45 AM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: nclaurel
Seems another Trump hit piece. Isn’t it interesting that so many of these “racial insults” are completely unwitnessed by anyone but the complaining liberal

Yes it is. I didn't much believe the media before, but it's almost to the point that I don't believe one single solitary word they tell me. If they say the sky is blue, I will go outside to verify it, before I believe it.

58 posted on 08/21/2016 5:15:53 AM PDT by Mark17 (The love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and strong. It shall forevermore endure.)
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To: kiryandil

Well, I never!


59 posted on 08/21/2016 5:17:31 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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