Bus Explodes, Woman Dead

Yesterday's headline-making bus explosion has turned out to have only one fatality--local Astoria woman, Janine Shue, 38--who, ironically, was not even on the bus. Shue was tying her shoe at a stoplight on 85th and Amsterdam when the mechanically doomed bus exploded, sending shrapnel into her neck area. Everyone on the bus miraculously escaped unharmed, and in the chaos of the aftermath, Shue's body was left to empty itself, unnoticed, into the gutter. Miracle-bus passenger Ryan Hooks was interviewed on the scene, saying, "She might be dead, but the real story is how I'm alive. Print that."


Shue is survived by her father and three co-mothers.