What is the most interesting thing you have done/seen on public transport?
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Do things like suicide jumpers on the track or coma-drunk people inside count if I went there on duty?
Other than that I don't really have anything since I normally ride public transport with music in my ears and a complete disinterest for anything around me.
Other than that I don't really have anything since I normally ride public transport with music in my ears and a complete disinterest for anything around me.
I was on a bus with like 4 other people and an elderly man in a suspiciously long jacket came on and despite several free seats walked halfway up the bus and sat next to and kept eyeing me up in a weird way...
I think he was a pervert... but then he took an arrow to the knee... (don't judge me)
I think he was a pervert... but then he took an arrow to the knee... (don't judge me)
This is funny because I live near there, there's a bus at the top of my road that takes me there and I've had people not from my home town say, "getting the bus to Keeley!" and I just scream at them for pronouncing it wrong xPBinnsyboy said:
OT: I've surprisingly been okay with public transport. I keep getting a fair few free bus rides, probably because I get to know the drivers as I don't drive, so have to rely on buses.
I think I saw an old man having a pee in his seat. Guess it was to do with his age.
And one time the bus blew up at the back, that was a little scary.
I had to walk home too. Grr -.-
Me and my boyfriend were at a bus stop once, waiting for a bus and we noticed the security camera following this one shaven-headed tattoo'd-up guy around very closely. We giggled about it for a bit, because he hadn't noticed it was tracking his every move, then when the bus came, me and my boyfriend got on the bus and so did shaven-headed-guy. As soon as he got on a police van screeched up next to the bus and like four policemen came bursting out and dragged him off the bus and away.
I still wonder what he did.
I still wonder what he did.
Sir, I think a credit to Dara O'briain is in order. I'm just kidding, I forgive you because you reminded me of something so good.King of Asgaard said:
At my first week at uni on the bus home after a party, two extremely drunk guys got on the bus shouting at the top of their lungs that they were going to get some deck chairs. They then proceeded to hit on a girl in the opposite seat to mine. She obviously didn't wasn't enjoying herself so I tapped one of them on the shoulder and told him, despite being nowhere near the beach "You can get deckchairs at the next stop." He then thanked me, took his friend, and happily got off the bus.
I then sat down, smirked at the girl and told her "You're welcome." The bus driver actually thanked me when I got off the bus, and said there weren't enough gentlemen like me in the world.
Caprcha: nice job. Thank you Captcha.
I then sat down, smirked at the girl and told her "You're welcome." The bus driver actually thanked me when I got off the bus, and said there weren't enough gentlemen like me in the world.
Caprcha: nice job. Thank you Captcha.
Cool, you're definitely the closest Escapist to my area I've encountered so far!EeveeElectro said:
All I have is a guy who randomly started shouting obscenities at the Tram driver. When he got off of the tram, he apologized to the passengers.
They were probably a strike team belonging to the international pretentious association. He'll have been taken to one of their detainment sites and had synthetic hair sewn into his scalp.Phasmal said:
Phasmal said:
While it doesn't have anything to do with public transportation, this reminded me of something that happened at work.As my profile says, I work for a property management company. I was dispatched to a house to pick up some rent. I get out of my car, and by the time I get to the porch, 5 cop cars (including 2 K9 units) and a paddy wagon pull up. One officer immediately ran up to me and pulled me aside as the team with the battering ram ran up. They knocked on the door, announced themselves as the police and having a warrant, and when the tenant didn't answer they busted the door down and charged in. A couple minutes later they brought the tenant out in handcuffs.
Evidently he was a rather notorious drug dealer in the area, and it took 15 minutes for me to convince the cops that I wasn't a client of his, that I was just there to pick up rent.
At first we thought the CCTV operater was just jumpy and afraid of people who look a bit `scary`, but then the police showed up. The fair was in town (thats where we had been), so we thought maybe he'd been nicking purses, but a police van would be a bit over the top just for that I guess?Binnsyboy said:They were probably a strike team belonging to the international pretentious association. He'll have been taken to one of their detainment sites and had synthetic hair sewn into his scalp.Phasmal said:
I remember I was riding the bus late at night with a friend of mine, and this really drunk man got on and started hitting on her. It was clearly making her uncomfortable, but some random other woman sitting nearby stood up and asked "Do you have a problem with my daughter?" The guy just shut up right there and left us alone. I have no idea who that woman was, but we should have thanked her.
Flying into town for DragonCon a few years ago, I met up with some friends and we took the rail system to the hotel. Also in our train was a congoer cosplaying a Spartan from 300. At each stop, he felt compelled to make sure everyone knew we were using the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority.
I took a lot of public transportation back when I was working at Blockbuster, and I used to come home pretty damn late.
One night, it was just me and about half a dozen people on the train car, when suddenly we hear the window cracking and a loud *SNAP*.
Turns out it was a bullet. It entered the window and framed itself on the train car's interior where we were sitting. Thankfuly no one got hurt.
There was also that time when I overheard a group of Africans debating whether or not my Warhamer 40.000 eagle tattoo was a Nazi symbol. I'm glad they decided it wasn't and didn't come over, considering I was reading "Berlin: Downfall 1945", so they would've been hard-pressed to believe me.
One night, it was just me and about half a dozen people on the train car, when suddenly we hear the window cracking and a loud *SNAP*.
Turns out it was a bullet. It entered the window and framed itself on the train car's interior where we were sitting. Thankfuly no one got hurt.
There was also that time when I overheard a group of Africans debating whether or not my Warhamer 40.000 eagle tattoo was a Nazi symbol. I'm glad they decided it wasn't and didn't come over, considering I was reading "Berlin: Downfall 1945", so they would've been hard-pressed to believe me.
Not much really... though I've gotten my fair share of weird looks, be it because an ex leaning on my shoulder while she was wearing a metal face-mask, or me with bloody knuckles...
... though not simultaneously, I hasten to add.
... though not simultaneously, I hasten to add.
Well, there was the veteran/beggar with no legs, urban dogs, pissing tramps, and the postcard/socks/umbrella-selling gypsy ladies on the St. Petersburg Metro...
There was the party carriage on the train to Prague from Berlin after the World Cup final...
Oh, yes, I just remembered the troupe of Goths that got on the tram when I was going home from work in Sheffield one night; I suppose they must've been to a gig in town, but it was rather odd to have thirty goths turn up in one tram carriage.
There was the party carriage on the train to Prague from Berlin after the World Cup final...
Oh, yes, I just remembered the troupe of Goths that got on the tram when I was going home from work in Sheffield one night; I suppose they must've been to a gig in town, but it was rather odd to have thirty goths turn up in one tram carriage.