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Old 04-30-07, 11:40 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips
Your daughters get heckled on the bus?!
Let's keep things in proportion. They have been through less than a handful of such minor incidents over their lifetime of bus travels but that's more than there should be. Plus they went on bus routes that were from from containing a vast amount of riff-raff. Plus they were not the most frequent bus travelers around.

Meaning that events do occur and someone in the extremly religious community may have taken this as an excuse to be "more holier than thou". An excuse, by any other name, is still an excuse.

EDIT: Suggested reading: Egged and the Taliban ("Egged" is Israel's major national bus carrier).
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