nypost- They couldn't resist. Two gamblers who miraculously survived a catastrophic brush with death aboard a Chinatown casino bus climbed back aboard the same company's bus only hours later for another trip to the gaming tables.
Bernardo Garcia, a 50-year-old cook from Brooklyn -- whose buddy Miguel Aquino was one of 14 people killed in Saturday's horrific 5:30 a.m. World Wide Tours bus crackup on the Hutchinson River Parkway -- told The Post he figured Lady Luck was on his side. "I'm the kind of person that believes when it's your time to go, it's your time to go," he said.
And Theodore Radulescu, a 55-year-old cook from The Bronx, rushed straight from St. Barnabas Hospital still dressed in his medical gown and bloody socks to the Lower East Side's Bowery Mission, where he picked up new clothes before boarding another World Wide Tours bus back to Connecticut's Mohegan Sun casino.
"When a bomb goes off, it doesn't go off again in the same spot," Radulescu reasoned. Only hours earlier, the pair had been on the World Wide Tours bus that careened out of control and had its top sheered off by a metal pole on the highway in The Bronx, decapitating at least one passenger and ripping arms off others.
After Garcia was treated for minor injuries and released from Jacobi Medical Center in The Bronx on Saturday, he headed right back to Chinatown for the 8:45 p.m. bus to Mohegan Sun -- even after seeing his gambling buddy, Aquino, die in the crash.
After the accident, "I touched [Aquino], trying to wake him up, but he didn't give no answer," Garcia said. Garcia said the entire busload of passengers was resting or asleep when disaster struck.
"We didn't know what really happened -- we were all in the back," he said of the survivors. "We got out through a window on the top of the bus. We saw people screaming and crying. My mind is still all f - - k ed up. "Seeing all those bodies, bruises all over their faces. The pole went right through everyone in the head. There was screaming. I can't even describe it. I saw arms cut off. They said one man lost both arms. Five people lost their arms."
Radulescu -- who lost $65 playing video poker and Jacks or Better on Friday night -- said the crash haunts him still.
Wow, talk about a couple of world class degenerates. These guys didn't even go home after the crash. They just went straight back to Chinatown and hopped on the next bus to the casino. It's almost like gambling is addictive of something. Mohegan Sun should use this story in a new advertising campaign. Here's an idea:
"After the bus crashed, we saw people screaming and crying. My mind is still all fucked up. Nothing that the 22,000 square foot, Elemis Spa can't take care of. Mohegan Sun, a world at play."
Or how about:
"The pole went right through everyone in the head. There was screaming. I can't even describe it. I saw arms cut off. They said one man lost both arms. But you know what won't cost you an arm? The penny slot machines at Mohegan's new Casino of the Wind. Mohegan Sun, a world at play."
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