Double U Tee Eff… What is the world coming to these days? Talk about Jesus take the wheel… Literally!

A 17-year-old mother with a toddler in tow stabbed a Regional Transit Authority bus driver in the chest Tuesday after refusing to comply with a request to fold up her baby stroller, RTA and New Orleans police officials said.

Authorities said the trouble began when Darrion Scott, 17, pushed a stroller carrying her 2 1/2-year-old child onto a bus shortly before 1 p.m. at the Gretna terminal.
Darrion Scott

Bus driver Hanella Johnson, 41, told authorities she informed Scott of the standard bus policy: Riders must fold baby strollers and keep them out of the aisle. As a driver for 18 years, Johnson can recite the rule from memory.

Scott refused to fold the stroller, though she paid the $1.25 fare, authorities said.

Johnson said she asked again. Scott refused and took a seat among eight other passengers, the upright stroller next to her.

Johnson said she continued through Algiers on the Gen. Meyer Avenue route.

About 15 minutes later, the bad blood came to a boil as the bus neared the intersection of St. Nick Drive.

Scott tore the top off a baby bottle of milk, doused Johnson and then pulled a knife and lunged at the driver, authorities said. The knife’s point plunged four inches into Johnson, just below her right breast, officials said.

The stabbing was witnessed by passengers and caught on the bus surveillance cameras, authorities said. It also shocked everyone at the RTA. SOURCE

This is the type of ish that keeps me from riding public transportation!

…just for watching this video. *logs off YouTube for 24 hours*

Dealing with psycho cleptos!! What the fudge?!

UPDATE: Police now say that it was attempted suicide. Mychal Bell told investigators he shot himself Monday evening “because he was tired of all the media attention,” the report says. Read more at CNN and as I said below, the psychological affects of what has happened are far reaching and need to be evaluated.

I am sure many were hoping for a modern day Little Rock Nine when the news of the boys now known as the Jena Six swept through the internet and eventually made headline news. Unfortunately, the stories to follow have not been the heroic legacy of previous civil rights history makers.

Mychal Bell, who has been at the center of the controversy, has remained a news maker after the dust settled from the protests and lawsuits. Sadly, the news was always good news.

Today, news broke that Mychal, who has since moved, shot himself after being arrested days earlier for stealing.

Mychal Bell was cleaning a gun when it accidentally discharged, shooting him in the shoulder, his attorney, Carol Powell-Lexing, told CNN. He had surgery Monday night at a hospital in Monroe, Louisiana, and has not yet been able to talk, she said.

Monroe police Sgt. Cassandra Wooten said the wound was not life-threatening.

On Christmas Eve, he was booked on theft charges after he allegedly tried to steal shirts from a department store and fled when a security guard and off-duty police officer tried to detain him. Bell also was booked on a charge of simple battery because he allegedly struck the security guard with an elbow.

While the case of Jena Six will probably live on in law classes and be studied in years to come, I wonder if anyone will ever study the psychological impact this made on these boys, namely Mychal.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake. – Confucious