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Practical jokers harass bus driver with pornography
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In an e-mail sent to The Red & Black, Chaille Pittman said she was driving the Milledge Avenue Bus at about 4:30 p.m. and had pulled up to the Arch bus stop when two college-aged males got onto her bus and said they were lost.
One of the two males then pointed down at something and asked Pittman, "Can you tell me if the Family Housing bus takes me here?" according to the e-mail.
Pittman said she glanced down and saw a pornographic magazine flipped open to a full-frontal nude picture of a female looking seductively at a camera.
"I was speechless, and for those who know me, that's a rare occurrence," she said in the e-mail.
Pittman's look of surprise and horror reportedly was captured immediately by one of the males who "whipped out a camera and snapped a picture of my reaction," she said.
After the snapshot had been taken, the two men fled the scene and ran toward North Campus, Pittman said.
"(As they were running), I grabbed the magazine and threw it at them," she said. "It hit one of the males, (but) then they disappeared."
Outraged, Pittman then threw the magazine away before notifying her supervisor, who notified University Police.
"I don't know if they were students," said assistant University Police chief Maj. Jimmy Williamson.
Williamson said when the University Police receives a legitimate and serious complaint such as this, they investigate it to their fullest capabilities.
Campus Transit Manager Ron Hamlin said, "We take (this incident) very seriously."
Hamlin said by the time Campus Transit supervisors and University Police arrived at the scene, the offenders had escaped.
"We can't do much, but we just hope that people will respect employees of the University better in the future," he said.
Pittman could not be reached by phone for further comment.
