Greyhound dumps human feces on family, is sued

by Jonathon Morgan (Subscribe to Jonathon Morgan's posts)
Nov 14th 2006 5:27PM

In my only Greyhound experience -- a fourteen hour haul from Cleveland to NYC -- my 6' 4" frame was trapped in between the window and an exceptionally large, sleeping, snoring, woman, who was holding a child that screamed bloody murder whenever it was awake. As my bladder expanded to unspeakable proportions, the kid in front of me was freaking out, and the driver kept threatening to call the cops "if that jackass didn't quit smoking [his] damn cigarettes in the bathroom!"

When we finally had a "stretch your legs" break, I got hit up for money by two other riders during my sprint back and forth from the rest stop's wretched bathroom, heavily fragranced with ode du week-old pee (although, technically, that had nothing to do with Greyhound, it certainly contributed to the overall impression).

This, however, is nothing compared to one family's heinous encounter.

The Stokes were driving down IH 75 in Toledo, OH when a Greyhound bus emptied it's septic tank onto their minivan. Two parents, a ten year-old, a nine year-old and a 22 year-old were bombarded with urine, feces and toilet paper through the van's open windows. Trapped in traffic, the family had no choice but to sit there and take it.

The car is apparently now worthless, as the poop smell has permanently permeated the upholstery.

I'll be following the litigation to see how this one turns out, but in the meantime, I have to ask, why in the hell was a bus emptying it's sanitation tank on the highway?

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11-14-2006 @ 6:19PM

Nicola said...

Minor correction. The article says that their son was 22 YEARS old, not months. The youngest was 9. Not sure about the source. If they were stopped in traffic, how did the stuff fly into their car? And if they were moving in traffic, why not just slow down and get out of the way? Seems a bit of a fishy report.

11-15-2006 @ 4:32PM

Jonathon Morgan said...

Thanks for the correction.

I'm not sure -- the report the family filed said the poop came in through the sunroof. I'm not sure how busses empty their sanitary tanks, I'd assumed they tipped them over like a garbage truck emptying out a trash can.

Though, now that I write that...I'm pretty sure that'd be a crazy way to do it.

I'll be interested to read more.

11-14-2006 @ 6:32PM

Ethel said...

Makes me think of the David Matthew's Band tour bus that unloaded when crossing a bridge, therebye sharing with a tour boat that was under the bridge. Is this more common then we know?

I really, really hope that the family suffers no ill health from this incident. I am pretty sure they will get something, but hopefully they won't need a liver transplant down the line.

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