Crowd protests at Metro director's home
By GENEVIEVE BOOKWALTER
sENTINEL STAFF WRITER
About 50 union workers from around the area converged on the Encinal Street transit district offices Monday morning for a "militant" picket line to discourage workers belonging to another union from reporting to work.

But Metro General Manager Les White said the protest paled in comparison to one Sunday evening at board member Dene Bustichi's Scotts Valley home. According to police reports, up to 50 people chanted, banged drums and set off firecrackers to protest the bus drivers' strike, in its 29th day today.

"About 9:30 I got a knock on the door; I was actually asleep. The whole family was asleep," Bustichi said Monday. "Two girls at the door handed me some information and said they wanted to talk about the bus strike. I said, 'It's 9:30 at night and I'm standing here in my boxers and I'm going to go back to bed.'"

What Bustichi didn't realize, he said, was that more than 30 students and other protesters were in front of his house. After he shut the door, he said, they yelled, chanted, grabbed things out of his yard, beat on his trailer and took sheet metal from a neighbor's yard.

His children, ages 5 and 12, were so frightened they slept in the same room for the rest of the night, he said.

"The feeling of safety in my house that my children and wife felt is gone right now," an angry Bustichi said.

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