Interesting parallel…
Was checking up on some morning news and had an article about Manny Ramirez in my RSS reader. That, first of all, was strange simply because I’m not a huge baseball fan (sorry Beavers!) but I did see that apparently he got ejected last night from his first game back from a lengthy suspension.
So I opened the article up to skim it and I read an interesting quote from Manny about his reasoning behind his ejection from the game:
“I didn’t want to throw even more fire. I just walked away,” he said. “I only play five innings, so I was leaving anyway.”
Does that sound like anything we’ve recently heard about? Oh, maybe someone saying something along the lines of:
“(Anderson) told the ticket inspector he ‘might as well go to jail‘ if he was going to get a citation”
Sure, we’re comparing a crime committed against a baseball player getting ejected from a game… but I thought it was interesting that seemingly the same mentality applied to both situations.
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Christian, interesting comparison, by the way.
I heard more about how the fare inspector was attacked. He had his back to the guy, since he was done dealing with him. The guy came up from behind him and attacked him.
Pretty crazy - and I got this info from the rail supervisor who was with him at the time.
From what I hear, he is doing OK and will be back to work in a few weeks.
I hope the guy gets the book thrown at him. He is certainly not somebody I want to be around as an operator or a passenger…