Pink Safety Scissors
Several years ago, I was riding the 180 at 1am (this route used to serve downtown and the Mall of America, but has since been replaced by the Hiawatha Line). Heading back from the Mall of America on an articulated bus an older man, presumingly drunk, decided he had enough with Metro Transit and pulled out a pair of pink safety scissors (the plastic ones that make even paper seem strong).
He then announced to the entire bus, while holding up his pink scissors in the air, that he was planning on cutting the bus in half. He then started trying to actually cut the bus in half. Needless to say that the safety scissors couldn’t even cut through the canvas between the two halves. I couldn’t help laughing since they guy didn’t seem to realize that the two halves were actually connected by steel.
Well to make a short story even shorter, at the next stop 2 Metro Transit police came aboard and arrested him for attempting to destroy public property.
Feb 1st, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Awww, that’s actually really cute in a sad, substance induced kind of way.
Feb 23rd, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Man, it cracks me up!! Its so hilarious.. if I was there, I would just laugh…
Sep 1st, 2008 at 11:09 am
Lucky the reality police got there in time…Bet those scissors are at Area 53…That was close he could have cut the Earth in two…
The 180 bus got to the MOA faster the the Light Rail does. Do Light Rail Tales (Metro Transit Tales) count at Bustales?
Aug 3rd, 2009 at 1:09 pm
I got the pair of scissors that could probably cut that bus in half.
The problem is I’d need to break back into a secure government facility to get them out of my spaceship.
Though I’ve got a pair of ordinary kitchen shears. They just might do it.