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Video: Enraged Everyman Lashes Out At Stupid Bus Ticket Machine, Modern World
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published May 8, 2017
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Despite some early skepticism, Select Bus Service has at least streamlined bus service, even if fewer people take buses and traffic's still bad. Still, a major consequence of the proliferation of SBS is that our lives are run by The Machines now, whose tardiness in spitting out a ticket determines whether you just miss the bus or lose $2.75. And one area man captured on video spoke for us all as he took his full rage out on a ticket dispenser on Main Street in Flushing that decided to keep his bus fare for itself. Behold:
The bad news is, in the battle between Man vs. Machine the latter always wins, but that's no reason to go down quietly. How else are we supposed to get viral videos?
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