An elderly good Samaritan was beaten and stabbed on board an MTA bus when he confronted a bully for pushing past a pregnant passenger – saying he felt compelled to step in because “there’s no respect for women on the bus.”
Robert Hunter, 73, was on his way back from grocery shopping in Harlem around 6:30 p.m. June 5 when he said four brutes attacked him as the bus reached Broadway and West 92nd Street on the Upper West Side – all because he defended the woman.
“It was a pregnant girl on the bus, she … had a baby carriage, and she didn’t want to sit down,” Hunter told The Post by phone Thursday. “She’s letting everybody else sit down. So a guy got on the bus and pushed by her, squeezing by, hitting the lady’s stomach, you know?”
“So all I said was, ‘You know the lady’s pregnant, show her some respect,’” Hunter recalled…