I think I've told this story before, it was in the mid 1990's, I am doing the last bus from Sullivan to Haymarket, down Bunker Hill St on a Saturday night
I get a drunk on the bus, I am not going to make a big deal out of it because I don't want to wait for TPD to show
I roll into Haymarket, my drunk gets off, I get on my radio to give a heads up to the last Lynn bus loading up not to let the guy on.
This was before we got the upgraded radios that ID'd themselves when you keyed the mic
Northside Dispatch comes on and wants to know who just said that, I ID myself by bus and badge, I figure I am going to be told to call the unrecorded line after I get back to the garage but no...
It seems the Lynn bus has a problem, they don't want him alone in the station, TPD and Supervisors are on the way... stay with him.
OK, So I shut the bus off, get off, leaving the passengers to get on without me .
I go over to the Lynn driver, who I knew from my time at Cabot Garage, we both did time in the hood together, he is a funny guy, straight shooter, not an ahole by any stretch of the imagination.
He tells me the guy in the front seat, right side is a problem, drunk, and potentially violent.
Everyone wants to get going as the last train has already gone thru and we can go except for he does not want to deal with the drunk all the way to Salem
So I start walking to the bus, the other driver advises against it, but I tell him I got it covered don't worry.
I go over to the bus and look up at a very large gentleman of color and he is not thrilled to see me
I get one of those "who da fuq are you" comments.
I explain to him I am his best friend
He responds " and how is that"
I reply that the TPD are on their way, and when they get here they may not arrest him, but they might place him in Protective Custody over at the station which was at the Cabot Yard at the time.
Again, he goes "so what"
My response is that the trains Don't run very early on Sundays, nor do the buses, so some T cop is going to decide you are sober at about 0500 and kick you loose on the edge of Southie with no way home, and at the mercy of some folks that may not be pleased to see a man of his color wandering around in South Boston at that time of day
All of a sudden he is up out of the seat, off the bus, and last seen running towards Government Center.
The Lynn driver runs over hops in the seat, hits the air button to close the doors, he is going out full throttle, I ran to my bus, did the same thing, watching my drunk passenger stumbling around and both buses run the red light getting out of the station just as the TPD comes around the corner with the blue lights on and the night bus supervisor close behind.
The Dispatcher wasn't very happy with us that we screwed out of the station before help arrived, but at that point it was easier to deal with him than it was with 2 buses with angry passengers who wanted to get home.
I had to write a report and call it in, I stated the passenger decided to leave of his own volition and since there was no longer a problem we left on our routes.
I didn't mention I encouraged him to get off the bus
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