Spitting on someone is disgusting. For the most part public spitting that has been captured has been usually in a sports venue as two of the more famous cases of public spitting on someone were baseball player Roberto Alomar and NBA all-star Charles Barkley (who saved his spit for a young girl fan). Both incidents resulted in just penalties, again, it's a disgusting thing to do.
New York City's bus drivers have been reporting a lot more of these types of rage incidents where they are spat on. Here's where Johnny thinks the waste management lesson comes into play. Some of these drivers are taking time off, a LOT of time off after being technically 'assaulted' by the spitter. How much is a lot of time off? One driver took 191 days off after being spit on. No, you read that right, 191. Of the 51 drivers who took paid leave (and it's important to note not all took paid leave) took an AVERAGE of 64 days off to 'recover'.
Dear Transport Workers Union Local 100, this borders on out and out theft in our opinion. 64 days on AVERAGE? Do you not realize nor care the MTA is facing a $400 million dollar deficit? Know what helps run up such a shortfall? Taking time off you don't NEED and getting paid for it. If a driver is spit on and it enters their mouth or nose or eyes or somewhere a communicable disease like AIDS could be passed along, please, go to the doctor, get checked out, get all the tests run. If it takes a full day at the doctors and some follow up time to go over things sobeit.
But it shouldn't take 64 days. Ever.
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