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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: MTV Music Video Awards & why not to ride Academy buses
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 01:03:39 -0400 (EDT)
MTV Music Video Awards & why not to ride Academy buses http://www.alansondheim.org/mva02.mp4 So we're walking back and we're crossing Dean Street and the light's in our favor and it's red for the cars and buses and this Academy bus full of people pulls up to the stop lines and we're crossing and the driver starts inching into the crosswalk and almost hits up and I yell at him to stop and he starts coming on faster and almost hits Azure and me and the others and Azure slaps the front of the bus and yells stop and I slap the front of the bus and it speeds up into the cross walk and we get out of the way and I punch the bus door screaming what the hell are you doing and the door opens and the driver starts to get out and head towards me and a woman in the bus gets up to see what's going on and we're all yelling at the driver that he almost killed us and there have been accidents and people injured a lot on the corner and then this old guy with an accent chimes in that the driver had the right to pull the bus into the crosswalk and we were all at fault and at this point I'm screaming at him too and people are watching and Azure and I go upstairs with Tom to bring stuff down and Leslie's now talking to the bystanders who side with us and I keep thinking this is just like the incident a few months ago almost - imagine this time a huge bus challenging pedestrians in the crosswalk, inching forward at first then coming on - what was the point of all that? He almost hit all of us, the light was red, the bus was lurching - this kind of agro everywhere in the area around the arena - my word to the wise is don't ride Academy buses unless you don't mind running down pedestrians once in a while or for that matter if you don't mind breaking the law - we've seen lots of people hurt on this corner, Dean and Fifth, and on Fifth and Flatbush and on Dean and Flatbush (you can figure out the geometry here), lots of ambulances, everyone on edge. I did get some good swearing in and it almost became an incident but we ran upstairs and I played my shakuhachi; then we went over to T and L's place and watched the awards and no one was wrecked but for the life of me I can't understand watching Justin Timberlake and twenty minutes of that really drove me out of my mind -