A peaceful morning commute on a MARTA train headed toward Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport took a turn \u2014 as they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why It Matters:<\/strong> Violence on public transit affects everyone who depends on it to get to work, school, or the airport. If you ride MARTA, this happened on a route you probably take every single day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s Happening:<\/strong> MARTA Police say officers responded to Airport Station at around 6:15 a.m. Thursday after two grown men decided a southbound train was the ideal venue for a fight \u2014 toddler style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the men suffered bite wounds to his ear and chest. Yes, bite wounds. Both men were taken into custody, presumably to reflect on their choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When officers arrived, one of the men escalated things further by producing a knife. Authorities confirmed no one was actually stabbed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Worth Noting:<\/strong> MARTA initially told reporters a stabbing had occurred. The agency later corrected that account, clarifying the injuries were from biting, not a blade. The fact that the initial report was of a stabbing indicate how bad the bite was.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A peaceful morning commute on a MARTA train headed toward Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport took a turn \u2014 as they do. Why It Matters: Violence on public transit affects everyone who depends on it to get to work, school, or the airport. If you ride MARTA, this happened on a route you probably take every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":248371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"large","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331],"tags":[21984,9454],"class_list":["post-248370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-odd-news","tag-bite","tag-marta","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}