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Oct. 19, 2012 1:27pm
Seattle Woman Considers Suing Metro Transit After She Was Asked to Leave Bus for Sons Dirty Diaper

Nichole Hakimian’s son plays during her interview with KOMO, during which she said she is considering legal action after being asked to get off a bus due to her son’s smelly diaper. (Image: KOMO screenshot)

SEATTLE (TheBlaze/AP) — Metro Transit in Seattle has apologized but says it won’t discipline the driver who asked a woman with a baby to get off a bus because of a stinky diaper.

Metro told KOMO the driver did not violate policy when she acted for the comfort of other passengers.

An apology is not enough for the mother, Nichole Hakimian, who threatens to sue.

Here’s how the exchange went according to Hakimian:

“I said, ‘He has diarrhea. I’m on my way to a doctor’s appointment for him. She said, ‘I’m sorry. It’s unbearable. You need to get off the bus,”‘ she said.

Hakimian said the driver insisted she get off even when she told the driver she only had two more stops to go.

“She said, ‘Well, I’m sorry. It’s just unbearable. You need to get off the bus,’” she said. “Nobody (else) on the bus was complaining at all.”

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Hakimian says she found a place to change the baby and caught another bus to the clinic where her son was diagnosed with a stomach bug.

Metro says the driver is a nine-year employee with an excellent record.

“This is a very unique situation. Our goal is always to balance the comfort of all of our riders with providing good customer service. The driver didn’t violate Metro policy – she felt she had to advocate for her passengers by politely and apologetically asking the woman to exit the bus,” Metro said in a statement.

On Thursday, KOMO reportedΒ Hakimian saying she felt discriminated against and bullied in the incident.

“[...] it made me feel like crap. It really did,” Hakimian told KOMO.

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  • babylonvi
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 2:55pm

    The same when the smelly diaper crowd is at a public dining facility, ignoring the fact they are ruining the meal experience of everyone else but ate too lazy to go change the the little critter’s nappy. I’ll be she doesn’t carry plastic bags for the soiled diapers either. The world revolves around THEM. These spoiled Progressives thankfully inhabit primarily the more dense urban zones.

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  • FEMALL
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 2:40pm

    Perhaps instead of spending money on tatooed eyebrows she should have purchased a car. Problem solved.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 4:10pm

      Good catch…didn’t even see that one. I was having sympathy for her until you pointed that out. I wonder if she threw the diaper, all taped shut, onto the pavement like they do here in Texas. I hate pulling into a parking spot somewhere and seeing a folded up, soiled diaper on the ground.

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  • Meyvn1
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 2:38pm

    Public transportation of all kinds suck.

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  • Balthazor
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 2:35pm

    There are three lines in this story which say it all:

    1) Hakimian says she found a place to change the baby and caught another bus to the clinic where her son was diagnosed with a stomach bug.

    The world didn’t end when she got off that bus, did it? Her baby didn’t die, no harm came to anyone. This is what she should’ve done in the first place. If it were me, I’d be embarrassed by the smell and I’d be concerned for the other passengers and I’d get off the bus all on my own.

    2) On Thursday, KOMO reported Hakimian saying she felt discriminated against and bullied in the incident.

    Ah, there’s two big buzzwords in there: “discriminated” and “bullied”. Those two words almost always lead to a third word: lawsuit

    3) it made me feel like crap

    There’s the cherry on top, it made her FEEL bad. Nobody cares about your stupid feelings lady. She’s all worried about FEELING like crap without a concern in the world for all her fellow passengers who had to SMELL her crap.

    In short, she’s a selfish pig of a woman.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 2:47pm

      Got any kids Balls? Didn’t think so. Pfft…..

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    • Lachoneous
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 2:51pm

      I can’t believe all the self righteous, idiot comments on this! It was a child, not some purse dog! She was taking her son to the doctor. I cannot imagine that the bus was her first choice to get him there. The key word is “Public” transportation.
      There is common courtesy, but it swings both ways. It is a conservative belief to be tolerant of other peoples ideas and yes, smells.Could she have got off the bus? Yes. Did anyone else complain except the driver? No. We don’t even know how long she on the bus or how long the kid had been stinking it up. We do know that she was just 2 stops from her destination. Suck it up and let her go the last couple of blocks!

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    • Hmschlmom
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 3:03pm

      Actually, it is the complainers who are selfish.
      It is normal for a 1 year old to need to have a diaper change.
      It is NOT normal for the adults in the vicinity to act like children, and not let the lady get to her destination before changing it.
      Perhaps she should have just changed him on the bus? Would that make you happy?

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    • Balthazor
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 3:10pm

      “Got any kids Balls? Didn’t think so. Pfft…..”

      Actually I do, but thanks for the ad hominem

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    • Balthazor
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 3:24pm

      “I can’t believe all the self righteous, idiot comments on this! It was a child, not some purse dog! ”

      There’s this fun thing in society today which could be paraphrased as the “it’s for the children” mentality. Which is to say, the rights and well-being of children eclipse absolutely everything else in the universe. So if it had been a dog stinking up the bus, you’d be ok with tossing her out. If the woman herself was stinking up the bus, you’d be ok with tossing her out. But because it was a child stinking up the bus, it’s horrible and inhuman to even suggest that the woman be tossed off the bus.

      The point is, as stated right there in the story, absolutely no harm came from tossing her off the bus. The kid still made it to the doctor, nobody was hurt, nothing bad happened whatsoever except that mom was mildly inconvenienced. That’s it. Mom was mildly inconvenienced by the ordeal.

      Thus, we’re balancing on one hand mom trying to avoid being mildly inconvenienced, and the bus driver trying to avoid his busload of passengers having to endure the reek of baby poo. To me it’s a no-brainer that the comfort of an entire busload of passengers outweighs the mild inconvenience of one passenger. But, apparently, since that one passenger is with child, well I guess that should trump absolutely every other factor involved, eh? The comfort of all the other passengers should be set aside becasue the one passenger being mildly inconvenienced has a child.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 3:28pm

      I have 3 girls and when they were babies, I changed them when they smelled. Of course, I didn’t use public transportation, but even if driving in a car, I would change them and not let them sit in a dirty diaper, because it’s just going to cause a rash. Back then, some places didn’t have the ironing board baby changing tables and I had to do it however I could, even if it was the back seat of the car.
      The point is, I was considerate of others and I think that is what Balthazor is saying. Nowadays, people are getting waaay too inconsiderate. SO inconsiderate, that they park in handicap spaces, use the handicap carts (fatty-can’t walk-only handicap is their mouth), stand in middle of store aisles and don’t move unless you say something. I HATE going out anymore, because people are SO inconsiderate and self-centered.

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    • Balthazor
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 3:52pm

      “Perhaps she should have just changed him on the bus? Would that make you happy?”

      No, what would’ve made me happy is what ended up happening anyhow: get off the bus and change the baby and catch the next bus, or walk the few remaining blocks to the appointment. It’s pretty widely regarded as common courtesy for parents who bring small children to movies to take the child out of the movie should they start crying. How does the same not apply here? By your reasoning, it would be selfish of the other moviegoers to expect parents to remove crying babies from the theater.

      Bottom line: having children brings about a variety of inconveniences, such as having to leave a theater or restaurant when the child starts crying, or having to leave a confined public place when the child drops a stink bomb. This woman appeared to want everyone else to be inconvenienced by her child so that she wouldn’t have to be. No, it’s her child, if there’s any inconvenience to be had they should be had by her. And to actually consider filing a lawsuit over that inconvenience, well it leads me to the conclusion that she’s a selfish pig. Your mileage may vary.

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    • Polarized America
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 4:05pm

      I’m not sure why theblaze edits a video like this but at least they provide a link to the entire video
      the statement is
      “And he had just pooped in his diaper as soon as I got on, because he was having diarrhea,”
      Not just…”", he was having diarrhea,”
      also..not in theblaze ..Sick toddler in tow, Hakimian, who is four months pregnant, tried her best to keep cool….( not in this video )

      whats the point ? to make her look bad or the people that comment ?

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    • Goldi-lox
      Posted on October 20, 2012 at 6:39am

      Yeah, already in over her head with that little one, has no transportation, and she’s got “another one in the oven” (i.e., she’s 4+ mos preg.)… Bet you $5.00 there is NO HUSBAND IN THIS SITUATION.

      THUMBS DOWN on the whole stinking mess!

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    • Melika
      Posted on October 20, 2012 at 9:54am

      Balthazor has it right on this one. She needed to act like an adult and get off the bus and change the diaper. I don’t care if she is 4 months pregnant, that isn’t so far along that she couldn’t get off the bus, change the diaper, and catch the next one. There are no windows that can be opened and a child with a stomach virus will produce the most nauseating smell on the planet – anyone who has had kids knows this. It doesn’t matter if the other passengers didn’t complain, most people don’t because bimbos like this tend to go off their rockers when you suggest they take the smelling crap they produced with the nearest drug addict off the bus. It’s like asking one of these baby factories to take the screaming brat out of the theater.

      I hope she felt bullied and intimidated. She needs a reminder that she and her spawn aren’t the most important things on the planet.

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    • csbaby
      Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:56pm

      I wonder how many other riders on that bus come down with a stomach virus thanks to the woman taking her sick child onto the bus. Only thinking about herself here – not caring one iota for people who could have compromised immune systems, etc. keep your sick kids to yourselves, or take a taxi – exposing fewer people to the sickness. I hope she washed her hands after changing the baby instead of touching all the seats, handle bars, etc. I side with the bus driver.

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 2:33pm

    Oh….she’s white. Then..by all means…kick her off the bus. Whites have no rights.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 2:50pm

      Exactly. Toss a black chick and her illegitimate kid off the bus and you will see SWAT teams with helicopter gunship support decend upon the bus driver ready to shoot him dead. But a snowman? Pfft who cares.

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  • Camptown Races
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 2:32pm

    Each passenger that day needs to counter sue the mother for exposing them to potentially viral fecal matter. I sympathize with the child’s illness. But once again, this is what happens when mothers are ‘child centered’. NOBODY else matters. The stink was only indicative of the potential health risk. There is a reason why all restaurants and other public places are required by law to have “Please wash hands before returning to work” in the bathrooms. One woman’s diarrhea laden, stomach bugged, child is another’s potential situation later on. Take a cab if the child was that sick. She had to wait a long time for the bus to even get to the stop she originally boarded on.

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    • mikem1969
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 2:47pm

      Ok, camp, next time you get any kind of illness and can’t afford a cab, walk to the doctor to be polite to other people. Hope you don’t have anything that keeps you from walking.

      The point here is she had a kid, she can’t tell the kid when he can and can’t go to the bathroom, especialy with a stomach bug.

      Get over yourself.

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    • JediKnight
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 3:00pm

      And maybe, just maybe, the kids crapped his pants after they got on the bus. You have no idea when the kid took a dump. As a father, I can tell you, if they have diarrhea, they can crap at almost anytime, so taking them anywhere runs a risk.

      “Child centered”? Um, duh, she’s a mom. Of course her life is child centered. Again, as a parent, my kids come first. If you can’t handle a little bit of a smell or some crying, you need to do a reality check.

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  • FightForTruthNotEgo
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 2:25pm

    Ok so I just have to tell my hilarious story about when I was a baby. My mom and I were flying to California and I had been sick recently but was fine the whole way there… Until I all of a sudden had an insane amount of white diarrhea and my mom had to use a trash bag because my diaper just didn’t cut it. Plus, it started sliding on the floor to the seats in front of us and it smelled horrible. Long story short, once we landed, a hazmat team had to come in wearing the full body suits and everything to clean it up. Thamkfully, since I was a baby at the time, I remember none of this. lol

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 2:53pm

      When I was a baby I got loose, climbed the outside of the Empire State Building, jumped on the back of a passing plane and flew to Singapore. Man that was fun.

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    • FreeUsAll
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 3:38pm

      Roflcopter. I liked the story, man. It’s pretty sick, though… lol.

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  • SocialistSlayer
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 2:18pm

    The Commie Liberals up in Seattle are so tolerant of other peoples needs !

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    • rickc34
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 2:26pm

      One day that bus driver may end up in diapers !!! What then?

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  • Username000001
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 2:10pm

    If this were a bus in New York City nobody would have noticed the smell.

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  • RDavis49
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 1:57pm

    Well, you know what lady? You obviously don’t care about anyone else either. I and many others feel for your sick baby and it’s condition. A person would have to be pretty cold not to. But, YOU, (knowing your baby’s condition) should have been more respectful and considerate of others around you and asked to be let off the bus. It’s you who’s to blame for getting put off the bus. You obviously have no social skills or class if you expect others around you to put up with anything from you, especially something as offensive to people as smelly baby poop. It’s your responsibility to be respectful of others around you and don’t expect them to smell crap just to accommodate you..

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  • Legalette
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 1:53pm

    Another sue-happy citizen!

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    • TurboCat
      Posted on October 20, 2012 at 3:49am

      Get her off the bus! When my kid acted up in a movie, we left IMMEDIATELY! People paid to see that movie. Not for me to subject a room full of people to my problems! Or a bus full of people either! I was once kicked off a bus at 1:00 in the morning in a city where I was completely disoriented and it was cold! I was a couple cities away from my final stop, and I ended up walking all night, lost. But I did not have the full bus fair to get home, so I was kicked off. That’s life; **** happens!

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  • godlovinmom
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 1:52pm

    Whatever happened to …hang on two minutes…and I’ll take care of it…how long does it take to change poo poo pants…after you’re done…wrap that big boy up…smell goes away…people have NO patience with eathother anymore.

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  • woodyee
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 1:52pm

    If that porker has the money to get her eyebrows professionally trimmed, setting aside the amount of food it takes to build such a gargantuan body, she can afford to take a cab – if he lets her lil’ stinker on board…

    Heck, skip the beauty shop (it ain’t helping) and the second helpings, and she can probably afford to lease a darn car…

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    • Johnny Cocheroo
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 3:53pm

      Of course she’s got the money.

      Lady in front of me last night bought a bunch of tasty goodies with her food stamps. Once paid, buys a carton of cigs and a 12 pack of beer. Whips out a wad of cash to pay for it.

      And for a second I thought she was a moron.

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  • RJJinGadsden
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 1:50pm

    I do seem to recall a court case a number of years ago where the judged virtually sentenced a city library to accept a filthy homeless man who absolutely stunk up the place. Something about it being unfair to the filthy bum and that the city employees, and visitors to the library just had to put up with him. Hmmmm?

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  • sparkyrules
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 1:49pm

    “…it made me feel like crap. It really did,” Hakimian told KOMO.

    There’s some irony in there somewhere.

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  • woodyee
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 1:48pm

    If I’d been sitting near her, I’d of raised a big stink, too. Move to the back of the bus; open a window, but, dang, folks, it’s PUBLIC transportation: so everyone has to suffer to tolerate one?

    Yeah, no one else complained. So maybe she was sitting too close to the driver. Would you want your driver getting woozy from the malodorous emanations of a loaded diaper near his schnoz? Fuggetaboudit! Hang the little stinker’s arse out the window!

    For crying out loud, bus drivers would just as soon come closer to running over a stinky homeless guy than close enough to let them on the bus!

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  • SimpleTruths
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 1:46pm

    This is newsworthy?

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  • Hmschlmom
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 1:45pm

    If other riders (or the driver, for that matter) cannot handle normal, everyday child issues like this…they need to arrange for private transportation! On public transportation…these things happen! Deal with it or find another ride. This small child (and his mother) did nothing wrong.

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    • Balthazor
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 4:39pm

      The bus driver has a responsibility to ensure the safety and comfort of all passengers, not just the ones with children. The choices were: inconvenience the one person who’s the cause of the problem, or inconvenience everyone else on the bus.

      There’s gotta be a word for people like you who appear to think that the world should revolve around your children.

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  • Popp40
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 1:45pm

    Public transportation….gotta love it. And this administration wants to force all of us into public transportation where they can control our movements, but what happens when you have a situation like this? You force them off the bus.

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  • mtsnj
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 1:42pm

    Well that Stinks.. :)

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  • susie4dy
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 1:38pm

    People should not be treated a second class!

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    • michael48
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 1:41pm

      and the same dem-wits want to force everybody in to Mass Transit…except for them ..of course…

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    • Popp40
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 1:57pm

      Now you really didn’t think that the liberal elites would be riding the same public transit that they will make us peasants ride on……remember the saying socialism is good for everyone except the socialists.

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  • ZAP
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 1:36pm

    Next time put the kid in a plastic bag and let him breath through a straw….

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  • spookchaser
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 1:36pm

    Good for the driver. Some people are just plain stupid and think only themself.

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    • Mudd
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 1:55pm

      I agree, the woman should have gotten off the bus and changed the kid’s diaper before she was forced to do it, it’s just common courtesy. Not to mention the fact that the poor kid had to sit there with that mess in his pants, talk about discrimination, he should sue his mother.

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  • huey6367
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 1:36pm

    Made you fell like crap? Maybe that was the source of the smell?

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on October 19, 2012 at 1:34pm

    Hold your breath and drive.

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    • Southerner01
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 2:00pm

      Heck no. The driver was right. Boot stinky off the bus. There will be another bus along and that gives her time to change the diaper.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on October 19, 2012 at 3:05pm

      What if the driver filled his depends? You drive the bus?

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