Bus Driver Flips His Lid
Byrnzie
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I'm surprised that bus drivers flipping out hasn't reached epidemic proportions already, especially in India. 'Police have ruled out terrorism as a possible motive but were seeking more answers in questioning the driver, [Prune's police commissioner] said.'
Having worked for Transport For London for three years, I'll give you the answer: working with the general public.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/ja ... mpage-pune
Indian bus driver kills nine during rampage in Pune
Police hold 30-year-old on murder charge after he drove bus into pedestrians and rammed vehicles in western Indian city
Associated Press in New Delhi
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 25 January 2012
A bus driver has mown down pedestrians and rammed cars, scooters and food stalls in a rampage through crowded Indian streets, killing nine people and injuring more than two dozen.
Police chased the bus for an hour through the streets of the western city of Pune on Wednesday, with officers firing on the vehicle in an attempt to stop it, before they managed to arrest the 30-year-old driver. He is being held on murder charges.
The licensed bus driver had driven his route as normal Tuesday, but on Wednesday morning jumped into another driver's bus and took off, police said.
"He just went berserk," slamming into people, cars, school buses, scooters and vegetable stands, Pune's police commissioner, Meeran Borwankar, said.
Pedestrians tried to flee, with some throwing children out of the way of the oncoming vehicle, she said.
"He went on ramming vehicles, hitting pedestrians. He was in such a dangerous mood," Borwankar said.
Food stalls were reduced to piles of squashed produce and broken beams, while at least 40 cars were crushed.
The injured were being treated in three hospitals.
Police have ruled out terrorism as a possible motive but were seeking more answers in questioning the driver, Borwankar said.
The mayor of Pune, which is about 125 miles south-east of Mumbai, appealed for calm.
Having worked for Transport For London for three years, I'll give you the answer: working with the general public.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/ja ... mpage-pune
Indian bus driver kills nine during rampage in Pune
Police hold 30-year-old on murder charge after he drove bus into pedestrians and rammed vehicles in western Indian city
Associated Press in New Delhi
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 25 January 2012
A bus driver has mown down pedestrians and rammed cars, scooters and food stalls in a rampage through crowded Indian streets, killing nine people and injuring more than two dozen.
Police chased the bus for an hour through the streets of the western city of Pune on Wednesday, with officers firing on the vehicle in an attempt to stop it, before they managed to arrest the 30-year-old driver. He is being held on murder charges.
The licensed bus driver had driven his route as normal Tuesday, but on Wednesday morning jumped into another driver's bus and took off, police said.
"He just went berserk," slamming into people, cars, school buses, scooters and vegetable stands, Pune's police commissioner, Meeran Borwankar, said.
Pedestrians tried to flee, with some throwing children out of the way of the oncoming vehicle, she said.
"He went on ramming vehicles, hitting pedestrians. He was in such a dangerous mood," Borwankar said.
Food stalls were reduced to piles of squashed produce and broken beams, while at least 40 cars were crushed.
The injured were being treated in three hospitals.
Police have ruled out terrorism as a possible motive but were seeking more answers in questioning the driver, Borwankar said.
The mayor of Pune, which is about 125 miles south-east of Mumbai, appealed for calm.
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i work with the general public and it is really frustrating at times. extremely frustrating... but i doubt that only that was enough to spark this. he must have been dealing with a lot and he just snapped under the pressure.
the scary thing is it can happen to anyone.
what did norman bates say? "we all go a little mad sometimes..."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
'The adventures of an ordinary man at war with the everyday World'
Ummm, we are all part of the general public.
I know what you mean though. When you work with or around so many people, someone is going to be an idiot that day, so there ends up being an idiot everyday.
Doesn't have to be the general public either...just a big company.
haha, thats what I was thinking.
I love when he tries to order breakfast and its like 11:02 and they dont let him.
Have you ever worked with the general public? It's not a case of 'someone is going to be an idiot'. 75%-90% of them are idiots. It used to surprise me when a 'normal/rational' person called me.
I spent three years working for Transport For London's London Buses Customer Services Center. The list of moronic complaints I had to deal with would take me all day to list.
As for bus drivers being under stress, the first ever call I took at this job, whilst I was still being trained, involved a bus driver who drove off and left a pregnant woman at the bus stop. Somehow this woman managed to catch the bus up, and when she asked the driver why he'd drive off and left her behind he got out of his cabin and punched her.
I didn't receive too many calls involving bus drivers losing the plot, but I took enough to know that a lot of these fellas are ticking time bombs.
I also remember a call I took involving a bus driver who turned his engine off in the middle of his route, told all his passengers to go fuck themselves and announced that he was quitting. He then just walked off the bus and left all the passengers sitting there.
Moral of this story: Be nice to your bus driver - especially if you live in America and the dude might be packing something!
I have, retail jobs.
I think what I said was pretty clear, being around a lot of people raises the odds of dealing with an idiot, each day, very day.
It's funny, even when I agree with you, you have to disagree with me somehow.
And I think it was also pretty clear what I said: I never dealt with 'an' idiot every day, or with 'someone' who was an idiot. I dealt with dozens of idiots every day. If I could have dealt with just one idiot a day I would have been very happy.
Im reinventing the t-shirt that says, "Help! Im surrounded by Idiots" Really, humans never cease to amaze me.
Alright, you win. :roll:
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i guess this driver dude finally snapped. he delt with this for years probably. there is no excuse for ramming into people though. i am just putting the pieces together to understand his actions.
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"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
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