2 girls kicked off Ore. bus for kissing, driver called them "sickos"

The only "sicko" here is the asshole homophobe driver :grr:

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A transit agency chief apologized Wednesday to two teenage girls who were kicked off a city bus for kissing each other.

The girls, both 14, said the driver called them "sickos" after a female passenger complained about their kiss. The driver then stopped the bus along the street and forced them off.

"Removing the girls from the bus was not consistent with our policy," said TriMet General Manager Fred Hansen. "I want to reiterate that we welcome all riders on our system."

The 64-year-old driver also violated company policy that requires operators to call for assistance before removing any minors, TriMet said in a statement.

The driver, an 11-veteran who was not identified, will be disciplined, TriMet officials said, though no details were released.

"TriMet sincerely apologizes to the girls and their families for this incident," Hansen said in the statement.

The mother of one of the girls, Ronnda Zezula, welcomed the apology.

"The only thing I had a problem with is they didn't really address why the driver broke those policies," Zezula said. "He knew it was wrong. He's been a driver for 11 years."

She also said she wished the agency had made the extent of the disciplinary action public to show it will not "be just a slap on the wrist."

Zezula said the family has been encouraged to consider a lawsuit, but they will "have to mull it over."

I am not one for much public displays of affection, but two kids kissing causes an uproar? We are such a fucked-up society. It may be hopeless...

They just have to be easily identifiable as opposite genders. :eyes:

who's kissing who?

I'm glad the bus system apologised and signaled that it was the driver who was wrong here. That's actually progress.

Deviance is deviance. If you allow this sort of behavior to go on, they'll be sacrificing goats to Satan next. And it only goes downhill from there. Punish them all I say.

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the look on its face says it all

Maybe it would shake some common sense into him. As long as we tolerate idiots like him we will continue to have problems.

This has got to stop.

It certainly does.

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Thanks. :)

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Go fuckin' figure. I guess the difference between Portland and some other parts of the country is probably in how the Transit authority handled the whole thing, by apologizing.

;-)

;)

The only purpose of issuing an apology is to hopefully minimize litigation and to give a false impression in the media of having something that resembles ethics.

Damn these people piss me off. :argh:

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