Whats the worst thing you've seen somebody do on a bus?

[jackpackage200]

So what im asking is : Whats the most disgusting thing you've seen on public transport?

I didn't see it exactly but I saw the aftermath:
A shooting happened on a city bus. This was about 9 years ago. The kid died in the doorway. The look on his face... yeah. When we were subduing his murderer (don't worry he got convicted) he shouted how 'he deserved it.'
Maybe not 'disgusting' in the traditional sense but it's what I could think of.

Holy shit, like you actually took part in taking the shooter down?

OT: There was a guy sitting next me trimming a bonsai tree with a knife when the bus was full of people. He threatened to stab me when i asked him to put it away

Also, wtf is with people having sex on the bus? Seriously? people have no standards

 

[rutger5000]

Well I shouldn't say this was disgusting, but it was a live altering culture shock. I was on the way too long bus ride from Trononto (Cananda), to Grand Rapids (US, Michigan) on the couches to the right of me were 2 couples non of the four people were older then 19. Yet both the couples were married, and both of the women were pregnant. Okay I could kind of understand this, you accidentally knock up your girlfriend, and you choice to raise it instead of abort it, and decide to get married. Not something that I would do, but I could understand. But get this, both couples were married BEFORE the women got pregnant. Why on earth would you do that? Even worse the two guys were cheerfully chatting about FREAKING DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS. How could they not be freaking out!
Awh Americans, they are batshit crazy, but you've got to love them.

What's so wrong with that? Is it because they're young? Do you know that it was commonplace for marriage at like 13-15 in most cultures not THAT long ago right? I mean in our human society since our existence as "HomoSapiens" our reliance on the cultural norms and social prejudices that are mostly commonplace nowadays has been but a blink of an eye, hell we as a race haven't had such a hardon for ageism for a long long time just recently...

So rather than a massive culture shock, take it as an eye opener, some people choose to live their lives differently... And why should they be freaking out? They obviously CHOSE to have children with their wives, and as such they probably see nothing scary about the situation.

That aside, the worst thing I've seen on a bus...
Probably this one fat guy who quite obviously had... difficulties to say the least, dunno why, but he sat down in the seat 3 down from me... and I mean, I'm a guy, I sometimes forget to shower for a bit or fart and it smells bad, but this guy I swear burned out my nose, I couldn't smell anything else even after i got off the bus and walked home and cooked something that normally would have smelled fragrant and awesome, couldn't smell it at all... nose wouldn't work... that's not all though, guy was constantly muttering obscenities(leaving me with the distinct impression that he had difficulties as previously stated)... not saying he doesn't have the right to use public transit, just wished he'd at least have hosed himself down with some fabreeze or something to kill the odour, it was like some mix of dead animal and human waste, mixed in with rotting overripe fruit and vomit... if I ever smell something worse I'll be sure to mention it or something or document it as the worst smelling thing on earth...

I never said there was anything wrong with it, but that it was a massive culture shock. What is or what is not a massive culture shock, depends on the culture you are used to. The same applies on what freaks you out or not, for you it may be most normal thing in the world, for me it's the most shocking thing I've ever seen. And I find it shocking because I try to place it in my frame of experiences and feelings.
Because of that frame of experiences and feelings I myself am extremly supprised those couples had the confidence that they could succesfully raise a child / take care of a baby. I don't know anyone from my culture that would think they could handle such a responsibility while playing games is still relevant enough to talk for hours straight about it. If I had been in the situation I would have talked about nothing except the prospect of having a child and the effect that has on your live.
Also what was normal not such a long time ago is a terrible argument for why something is normal now. Do I need to make a list why that is so?

 

[loc978]

I haven't used public transport in ages... haven't lived in a city in years.

But I did once see a soldier bleed all over a seat on a bus... it was the closest thing we had to a medivac, and he had just knocked out his own front teeth with the front sight-post of his M16.

 

[FamoFunk]

honestly, why do they have to have sex on the bus? of all places...

For the thrill? Public place and all that.

I haven't taken the bus in years, what with living in town and a car.

Worse I've seen, and only thing I've seen is a really drunk, smelly guy sitting in all his piss on the seat. This was about 3.30pm, too, as it was on the bus home from school. It really fucking stunk :|

 

[Akimoto]

And here I was, thinking the worse was not giving up a seat for someone in need of it or moving to the back.

Like a frog in the well.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Nothing really disusting but I found someones tobacco purse once wich I was going to keep until I noticed their was about ?50 worth of pot in it. So since I detest drugs i threw it in the first garbage bin I found.

That was a very stupid thing to do.

OT: Nothing worse than old alcoholic men deciding to strike up conversations with me. But that's normal in rural Ireland.

 

[Colour Scientist]

grammer

People who want to complain about spelling and grammar should really learn how to spell this word first.
No one appreciates the high and mighty act, especially if you can't spell yourself.

OP: I once saw a rough couple try to stab the bus driver once cause he told them to get off for being... actually... I have no idea what they were doing wrong in the first place. I tend to put on my headphones and look out the window. Couldn't miss the attempted stabbing though, some old guy fought them off with his umbrella, it was awesome.

No one was hurt, by the way.

 

[Bassik]

Listen to music too loud... sorry, we are a very boring people.

 

[Robert Sanders]

Gypsies taking really loud and stealing people....

That and singing drunk people.... that were also beeing stolen by the gypsies... yeah in my country gypsies are not a good thing. Sorry if i sounded racist.

Gypsies actually steal people where you are? Crikey! that's pretty hardcore.

Hell yeah! One of those bastards stole my boss off the bus before I could ask for a raise!

 

[z121231211]

grammer

People who want to complain about spelling and grammar should really learn how to spell this word first.
No one appreciates the high and mighty act, especially if you can't spell yourself.

OP: I once saw a rough couple try to stab the bus driver once cause he told them to get off for being... actually... I have no idea what they were doing wrong in the first place. I tend to put on my headphones and look out the window. Couldn't miss the attempted stabbing though, some old guy fought them off with his umbrella, it was awesome.

No one was hurt, by the way.

Ah, so it has affected me too. It was just weird that this was the only topic I've seen where more than half the posts had something noticeably wrong with them on the first page, so I felt like pointing that out. It was just a funny observation.

 

[gazumped]

An old guy got on and this young girl was sitting in one of the front seats. The old guy was immediately rude and aggressive to her and told her "Get up! I should be sitting there!"
She stared at him, frightened, but didn't get up. So he started shouting, "YOU SHOULD DO WHAT ADULTS TELL YOU. GET UP! CHILDREN SHOULD DO WHAT ADULTS TELL THEM!"
This went on for a surprisingly long time until the girl's mum who, for some unknown reason, was sitting in the back and somehow hadn't noticed what was happening to her daughter, finally walked down to the front and screamed at him "SHE'S DEAF, YOU STUPID MAN, YOU'RE TERRIFYING HER, SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHY YOU'RE SHOUTING AT HER."

I can't decide if I think this is disgusting because an old man thought it was acceptable to scream at a terrified child or because a deaf girl's mother couldn't didn't sit her or bother to pay attention to what was happening to her. I guess it's a bit of both.

 

[Dr Jones]

Well this wasn't really on purpose, and it didn't happen on a bus (train).
But when 4 of my mates were on a train, looking at the roads we noticed a guy on a scooter driving very fast. I actually just commented "Damn that guy is fast", then SLAM. Happened incredibly fast, he hit a car and flew well about 2, 3 metres. We got off the train and checked in. He was hurt, but not considerably.

 

[Steambroom]

Nothing bad really, except for drunks, smokers and dangerously packed school busses.

But I bet the people on this bus would have the most fucked up story to tell:
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2008/07/31/man-decapited-beheaded-aboard-greyhound-bus-canada/

 

[ace_of_something]

I didn't see it exactly but I saw the aftermath:
A shooting happened on a city bus. This was about 9 years ago. The kid died in the doorway. The look on his face... yeah. When we were subduing his murderer (don't worry he got convicted) he shouted how 'he deserved it.'
Maybe not 'disgusting' in the traditional sense but it's what I could think of.

Holy shit, like you actually took part in taking the shooter down?

OT: There was a guy sitting next me trimming a bonsai tree with a knife when the bus was full of people. He threatened to stab me when i asked him to put it away

Well, of course he did. You were ruining his motherfucking calming damn tree.

In answer to your question I only had a small part with that particular takedown. You ever watch a movie/game/cops where a guy is running on foot in then a bunch of cop cars block his path down the ally way up ahead with cars and barricades? I was driving one of those cars. At that point he threw his gun into a creek. So we shot pepper balls at him and then tackled him. Which we got in trouble for, we were told we should've shot him because at this point he'd used lethal force and likely had another gun. Sometimes I wonder: since he did only get 10 years in prison. (Hmmm, he might be out now if he had early parole.)

The reason a kid was murdered on a bus was that he called the police when the murderer's half-brother broke into the kids' apartment beat the snot out of him and stole his TV/stereo/weed etc.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

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I never said there was anything wrong with it, but that it was a massive culture shock. What is or what is not a massive culture shock, depends on the culture you are used to. The same applies on what freaks you out or not, for you it may be most normal thing in the world, for me it's the most shocking thing I've ever seen. And I find it shocking because I try to place it in my frame of experiences and feelings.
Because of that frame of experiences and feelings I myself am extremly supprised those couples had the confidence that they could succesfully raise a child / take care of a baby. I don't know anyone from my culture that would think they could handle such a responsibility while playing games is still relevant enough to talk for hours straight about it. If I had been in the situation I would have talked about nothing except the prospect of having a child and the effect that has on your live.
Also what was normal not such a long time ago is a terrible argument for why something is normal now. Do I need to make a list why that is so?

Not meanin any offense here, it just seemed, from your previous post, that you thought it to be one of the most outlandish and fucked up things you'd seen...
You probably don't know anyone who's REALLY into D&D, which would probably count for how shocking it was for you, I've known a few hard core pen & paper and tabletop gamers, it becomes something they would likely be conversing about as nukes rained from the sky, it becomes a large part of their lives(Which can happen about anything anyone really really likes, cars, sports, women, anything, but seemingly more common among the geek populace).

I also happen to live in a community where a ton of different demographics kinda run into eachother, making me more used to things others may find unusual, so I admit I did overreact, and for that I am sorry.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Where the hell do you guys live? I took the bus almost every day for 11 years and pretty much nothing happened (medium-sized town in Sweden). Are there no parenting in your countries?

I got to agree with you. I live in Stockholm, Sweden and I have never seen anything bad on buses & subways and I have probably used them almost every day for about 10 years

+1 for mostly peaceful swedish buses, let's hope for continued as such when i move out of the city and start bussing again

The only ''incident'' i can recall was an old hag yelling about another old woman how she was bribed and corrupted in politics or something, she responded like you would to a child throwing a tantrum

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

Gypsies taking really loud and stealing people....

That and singing drunk people.... that were also beeing stolen by the gypsies... yeah in my country gypsies are not a good thing. Sorry if i sounded racist.

no problem, my friend from Greece doesn't like Gypsies either. Where are you from?

 

[kebab4you]

Some newcomer had his lights on at his seat when the rest of us regular bus people tried to sleep.[footnote]Shit you not I haven't seen anything on a bus, used it almost daily for ~4 years now[/footnote]
Edit: After reading some of the comments, fuck is wrong with your public transportation?!

 

[Kermi]

Nightride bus after the trains have stopped running.

Notorious for carting home drunks.

Sick drunk guy vomits out window near front of bus.

People several rows behind unfortunate enough to have their windows open too.

Many sad people.

 

[Mau95]

Wow, you people have really crappy buses. Worst I saw was this weird liquid INSIDE the windows... The isolation in them had been breached.