doesn t want to give up the free seat where she has her bags. the two unidentified women argue and eventually the woman who is standing is allowed to sit down, but not for long. the other lady starts yelling at her that she s too close and don t touch my bag. and you don t think anything is going to happen, though, until one of the ladies gets up and starts yelling at the other lady. that s when perell takes out his camera and begins to record. when they get up, they start yelling. the arguments, it s the asian lady didn t speak english very well, so her rebuttal was, you re stupid. you are stupid. you are stupid. and the whole bus, there s like a moment of silence where you can almost hear everybody going ooh.
and it was on tv and all over the place, suddenly muni had to deal with it. there were a number of other incidents that happened on muni buses. so it was kind of this perfect storm of a lot of violent events occurring on a muni bus and one that had a really good video to go along with it. a spokesperson for the san francisco municipal transportation agency says that with some 700,000 passengers a day, it s hard to ensure everyone will get along. it s just a difficult situation for everybody. it s unfortunate that the passengers had to go through that. unfortunate our operators had to go through that. what we can do is try to make sure this doesn t happen all the time. rose says the agency has several measures in place to protect passengers safety on the bus. we try to deploy our police department and transit fare inspectors to be a presence on our system. and a lot of times we send out our plainclothes task force to be on the bus. we try not only to make it safe but to make it
stop it. stop it. stop it. stop. get her back! stop it. act mature. there was one lady that kind of broke them up a little bit. but you know, most people did not want to get in between two older ladies just going all at it. i mean, there were serious blows. they were just slamming on each other. from beginning to end, the arguing and the fighting lasts about three minutes. things start to calm down as the two women are separated. and when the bus pulls up to a stop, one of the women gets off. it s just disappointing. you expect better from everyone in general. i had already seen some craziness three weeks before, so i m like, great, again. i just want to go to work. three weeks earlier, perell
says he s attacked on this same bus route while heading to work. i was sitting down, and suddenly from across the aisle, i get a punch right in my neck. it was just, oh, my god, what the hell? and i realized that the guy was just, you know, not there. he was either on something or had some mental issues. he reports the incident to the bus driver, but because perell decided not to file a formal report, nothing ever comes of it. perell is glad he records the video of the women fighting. he says it proves that dangerous events, like what happened to him three weeks earlier, can happen on the bus, which san franciscans also refer to as the muni. thanks to the fact i had done a video and was getting phone calls from the media about it
the bus goes a long way. while perell hasn t completely sworn off riding the bus, these days he s happier taking a different mode of transportation. i got myself an old 1976 vespa. and i scoot around the city now. i find that to be much safer. and every time i pass by the muni stops, i look and i go, oh. public transportation has a lot of conveniences, but they really need to work on safety. coming up, a defendant does not agree with a judge s decision. let me go! and a man tries to attack his sister s killer in court. i would never condone a person coming out of the audience toward a defendant, but i totally understood. completely.