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The People Who Had to Take the Bus

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From: (Robert Holder)
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 14:20
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The people who had to take the bus finally decided that they
 had had enough of route changes, schedule changes, transfers
 and shitty bus drivers with their obnoxious inbred mutant
 wart covered faces.
FIRST, they forced the drivers, at gunpoint, to pull over
 between stops!  They boarded without exact change and made
 the drivers give them refunds for the difference with their
 personal money!  They lost their transfers, and boarded anyways
 and they got in the drivers' faces saying, "So what are ya gonna
 DO about it, huh? heh heh heh" and if the driver gave them any
 lip, they forced him to stand on a live bouncing betty at an
 uncovered bench in the pouring rain while being slapped about
 the face, ears and groin with used-chewing-gum-covered tennis
 shoes.
They hotwired the busses and stood, and shouted, and smoked in
 them and they tied the hoods who sit in the back seats to the
 bumper and dragged 'em a few blocks.
THEN they commenced to burning all the buses, driving them
 off of bridges, rolling them in heavy traffic, and the like.
 They commandeered fire trucks and hosed water into passing
 car windows near all the corners where the big puddles gather
 after a storm, and then they cut down all the traffic lights
 with chain saws.
They got on the phones, called the emergency operators, reported
 accidents, looting, flooding, riots, pickets, protests and
 people chaining themselves to fences, buildings, vehicles,
 smokestacks, each other and every other goddamned thing.  They
 came out in force.  They flooded the market with cheap bonds
 and they cordoned off the area.  They broadcast paid political
 announcements, showed their 1-800 number and set up a perimeter.
 They trounced the opposition, filed all the right forms, got all
 the sneakiest lawyers, ate their Wheaties and they beat the tar
 outta those heathen A-rabs.  Again.
They ruled America with an iron fist, those people who had to
 take the bus.  It was the golden age of the pedestrian hero.
 They made us all see it their way, and they straightened things
 out.  This November, VOTE for the people who had to take the bus!
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