Mom spits on SEPTA bus driver, cops say
A woman with a 2-year-old child spit on a SEPTA bus driver and beat him with her umbrella yesterday after he asked her to quiet her screaming toddler, according to police.
Mom spits on SEPTA bus driver, cops say
A woman with her 2-year-old child spit on a SEPTA bus driver and beat him with her umbrella yesterday after he asked her to quiet the screaming toddler, according to police.
The 50-year-old driver asked Tiffany Alexander, 25, to calm her child down soon after she boarded the Route 7 bus yesterday around 3 p.m., a police spokeswoman said.
Alexander started to argue with the driver and came at him with her umbrella, but she eventually sat back down, police said. She then demanded to be let off the bus at Fairmount Avenue and 23rd Street and as she got off, she spit on the driver and hit him over the head with her umbrella, police said.
The driver was bleeding from his head and was treated at Hahnemann University Hospital. Alexander was charged with aggravated assault and related offenses.
The assault is at least the second on a bus driver this month. Today, SEPTA bus drivers protested outside Family Court, where three juveniles who allegedly assaulted a driver on March 17 were to have a hearing.
The hearing was continued but the crowd of about 20 drivers got their first look at the three teens when they were taken from a sheriff's van into the courthouse. The protesters booed the boys as they were led in to the building.
"They're grown-ass men, they ain't no kids," said bus driver Joe Bryant.
The crowd chanted "What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now," and "We're fired up. We ain't taking no more."
Although the teens were brought to the courthouse, they were not brought before Judge Kevin Dougherty, who granted a continuance in the case at the request of Assistant District Attorney Matthew Sedacca.
Sedacca asked for the continuance because the victimized bus driver was physically unable to come to the courthouse due to his injuries. Dougherty denied motions from the teens' attorneys to have them released from custody.
In that case, the 45-year-old driver of a Route 52 bus was punched, pulled from his driver's seat and severely beaten by three teens who had been unruly on his bus.
The driver's wife, who was in court yesterday and asked that her name be withheld, said her husband suffered a skull fracture, two orbital fractures and a sinus cavity fracture. Although he has returned home, she said he remains immobile and can't take long drives.
"Right now he remains entirely too traumatized to deal with anything," she said. "He's just focused on getting well."
What a shame that poor kid has no chance at life with that lowlife as its mother.— kenny.328.usa
Comment removed.- 5-10 years imprisonment, DHS should take the child away.
— Rick James - Then you and I can begin supporting the child before it grows up and goes to prison.
- when ruth buzzi hit guys over the head with her umbrella it was fun.— eaglesfillthesky
- ANOTHER CLASSY, LAWLESS, WELFARE ABUSING PHILADELPHIAN,DONT YOU TALK TO MR LIKE DAT IM ENTITLED— JAMMER27
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- hate crime? not in Philly!— FedCop123
- By the way is it really appropriate to call this animal a "Mom"— kenny.328.usa
- Time for a hooptee rally!!— The Philly Shadow
- Thank you SEPTA bus drivers for saying to those thugs what we're all thinking. These man-children know full well what they're doing is wrong, they just don't care.— Gilliam
- #1 Take away any pulbic assistance she is receiving for LIFE
#2 Take the kid away, you are doing him a favor
#3 Send her to jail for a few years, you are doing society a favor.
— 420-24-7 - Hats off to the bus drivers. Finally some people with the guts to stand up and tell it like it is with none of the political correctness that is killing this country.— dontavoidtheobvious
- I hate a spitter, always have. It really says something about a person's character. I wouldn't spit on the ground let alone a human being. It's a disgusting act.
Any wonder why the baby was crying?— iodine - The prosecutor needs to go after these miscreants to the fullest extent of the law. I also agree, jail them, take away their welfare, food stamps, etc.. Maybe next time you won't feel the need to attack a public employee simply doing their job.— nikki1231
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- Bus driver should have knocked her a** off the bus! Can't spit when your lip is swollen.— realtor44
- She and the three thugs will probably get extremely severe sentences....like probation.— guitarman
- who hasn't seen mothers cursing and hitting their kids in public? i'd say something but i'm white and it would become a big production.— high water
- Karma. Tiffany will have it return big time. The children should be taken away because Tiffany has shown she can be violent. Imagine what she does to the children at home. Save the children. Take them away. We need protests to protect the children from Tiffany— denjamr
- Nutter wants more money for schools. The animals we are reading about don't give a rat's behind about schools or education. Spend the money on prisons or whipping posts. The other kids that want to learn will find a way to get ahead.— paulfromtheoblongtable
- How disgusting! What a low life!— marcie
Bus drivers sometimes need combat pay with the idiots in this city. Keep the so called 'entitled' away from the general public. Please!— Ben Fan- Bus Drivers and Teachers need combat pay!— LadySLR
These bus drivers really do need some additional protections. Dealing with the public in Philadelphia is a terror and nightmare literally. At the very least drivers should have tazers and stun guns and be given WIDE authority to use them. Something! We can't have public servants dealing with these welfare animal spawn without protection.- can we all take a stab and guess the race of tiffany alexander?— sdffa13
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- dumb dumb dumb,we got a new breed of folk out in the world— dmac6419
- Please, everyone get to their legislators and have them sponsor a "stand your bus" rule. The driver should not have to retreat, and hitting someone with a weapon like an umbrella, it would have been self defense or justifiable homicide.— TheGuyfromPhilly
