Stricken...
Yesterday morning, a bomb ripped through a bus in Kabul, leaving nothing but a charred skeleton, throwing the mutilated bodies of 35 people in every direction.
Today, Canadian airports will begin screening all passengers against a "Specified Persons List" in hopes of making air travel safer.
Last night, in Kamloops, i needed police assistance in keeping a passenger from boarding my bus.
The man did not have a ticket -- only a receipt for return travel between two other points. When i told him he'd have to present a ticket, he stormed off, out the front door of the bus depot. Once i had completed my paper work and boarded my bus to conduct a head count, i discovered the man hiding in the washroom -- he had not locked the door, so that the "occupied" light would not be lit. When i asked him to get off the bus, he refused and caused a disturbance on the bus. When the police arrived, he gave them a hard time too.
When i got to Cache Creek, i tuned in to CBC's "Fifth Estate" -- they were airing the story of Stephen Marshall, the Cape Breton man who murdered two sex offenders in Maine before shooting himself in the head while on board a Greyhound bus bound for Boston earlier this year.
The concurrence of these things strikes me.
Today, Canadian airports will begin screening all passengers against a "Specified Persons List" in hopes of making air travel safer.
Last night, in Kamloops, i needed police assistance in keeping a passenger from boarding my bus.
The man did not have a ticket -- only a receipt for return travel between two other points. When i told him he'd have to present a ticket, he stormed off, out the front door of the bus depot. Once i had completed my paper work and boarded my bus to conduct a head count, i discovered the man hiding in the washroom -- he had not locked the door, so that the "occupied" light would not be lit. When i asked him to get off the bus, he refused and caused a disturbance on the bus. When the police arrived, he gave them a hard time too.
When i got to Cache Creek, i tuned in to CBC's "Fifth Estate" -- they were airing the story of Stephen Marshall, the Cape Breton man who murdered two sex offenders in Maine before shooting himself in the head while on board a Greyhound bus bound for Boston earlier this year.
The concurrence of these things strikes me.