Daaamn: Bus Rider Slashes Woman Who Touches Her Dog

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A Harmless Offense Ends In Stitches

One New York bus rider went OFF when a passenger tried to put her humanely paws on her dog, so much so that the dog owner slashed the passenger with a knife.

The scene went down in the Bronx on a BX2 bus at around 2:15 p.m. on Monday.

Imzadi Henriquez was the unfortunate victim of the dog-owner’s blade. “I put my hand out so the dog could smell my hand,” the 22-year-old told New York Daily News. “She got mad at that and ended up smacking my hand.”

Henriquez was riding the bus with her 20-year-old girlfriend, Lenora McClelland-Fraser. Henriquez says she brushed off the hand-smacking and went looking for a seat on the bus.

But the dog-owner was not done with her.

“Don’t touch my dog. You can’t fu**ing touch my dog. My dog is a service dog. You can’t do that,” the woman said, according to Henriquez.

Henriquez then said the woman kept muttering about how she wished Henriquez’s mom would die. This struck a nerve with Henriquez since her mom recently had a health scare.

When the bus stopped, Henriquez was getting ready to step off and walk away, but she heard the woman laughing and couldn’t leave it alone.

“I ended up coming back on the bus to go ahead and confront her. We ended up fighting,” Henriquez said. “I don’t know who hit who first, but I then went to grab her jacket to take a swing at her. She ended up grabbing my jacket and swung at me.”

Henriquez continued, “At some point, I grabbed her hair. Then she kept hitting me and hitting me and I didn’t know she had a blade in her hand until my girlfriend told me I was bleeding.”

Henriquez’s girlfriend stepped in to help and the dog-owner ended up slashing her left arm, according to police sources.

During the scuffle, the bus driver stopped the bus, and the dog-owner ran out and got into a green SUV taxi to ride off.

Medics took the two knife victims to Lincoln Medical Center for treatment. Henriquez received stitches to close up two long gashes across her eyebrow, and a third near her ear.

“I didn’t think that petting someone’s dog would have that kind of reaction and that it would escalate to that,” she said. “I’m not okay that I made the decision to go back and confront her, I can’t take that back. But I’m that person that— yeah, I probably would have done that again, honestly.”

Daaamn.

The police described the slasher as Black and between the ages of 30 and 35 years old. They are still on the search for the dog owner.