Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Bus Driver Abused
I watched a video on YouTube the other day where a bus driver had to deal with this drunk lady. She was so out of it that she was spitting and hitting the bus driver for no apparent reason. After a few minutes pulled over and started yelling back from here it escalated pretty quickly. He became outraged and uppercut her in the jaw. Then he forcibly removed her from the bus, but she was not done so she tried to run back on to the bus only to be pushed straight back off. The reason I am posting about this is because I do not think it was right of the bus driver to have hit her. Even though the woman started it there was no reason to punch her. He could have just as easily picked her up and moved her off the bus and shut the doors on her. I am not saying that it is all right to start drama with people who are working, but there were alternative options for the bus driver to deal with the women. And not only were there other options but she was a women. I do not care what she did, a guy is not supposed to hit a girl. It is not right.
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I am glad you posted this blog! I believe it brings up a great argument about the safety of people all together. The first thing is the safety of the people on the bus, when somebody is distracting the driver that is putting the people on the bus and the people on the outside of the bus in danger. When the bus driver has to deal with a distraction it causes them to spend less time paying attention to the road. This drunk was causing the bus driver to put the safety of the people in danger. The bus driver might have made a mistake and wreck putting his job at risk. I do understand the girl was drunk, but it still does not excuse her actions of tormenting the bus driver. The bus driver hitting the drunken girl was not appropriate like you stated, but I can see where he was coming from. I sure wouldn’t want to be spat at, and he had no reason to be spat at in the first place.
ReplyDeleteI guess you can see that I am taking the bus drivers side, the reason is my mom drives a school bus. She will come home and tell me how the students can cause many distractions. It’s my mom’s job to make the students behave while driving. This is a big job considering it’s hard to watch the road, and watch several kids behind her. So I guess I see why the bus driver got so frustrated with the drunk. I do agree though the bus driver should have handled himself better in this situation.
Hey, dude, that is a really intriguing thing to post about. First off, I am not going to lie, if I was that bus driver, I would be really annoyed out of my wits. When you consider the situation, not only is the intoxicated passenger being really really big nuisance to the driver, and the secondary witnessing passengers, but the drunk woman is also putting the lives of everyone on that bus in danger. The bus driver could easily crash on account of the drunken passenger and many people could have been hurt or possibly even fatally injured. That being said, I fully agree with you on the point that the bus driver had absolutely no right or authorization to assault the drunken lady for multiple opposing reasons. One reason I say this is because of the fact that the bus driver has no legal obligation to do such a thing. I mean, it doesn’t say on his job application “you have a right to assault anyone who harms the transportation system.” If he was a cop, it would be definitely different, but, she is not. Another reason why I say she should not have assaulted the drunken person is on account of the fact that attacking her is even more distracting her point of view away from driving. I mean, yeah, a drunken lady being in your face is distracting, but physically beating her is a whole new level of “things to not do when driving.” Things like these happen so much in the media with people abusing power, it is just saddening.
ReplyDeleteHello Rodney, It is so good to hear a man say that it is not right to hit a woman. I was abused by my husband for a number of years and it took me a long to see that he was wrong. That I was wrong for letting him hit me for letting my daughter see him hit me. When I finally left him I was so afraid to let another man into my life. I was afraid that he would do the same thing. I now know that not every guy thanks that it’s ok to hit a woman. So when I see a young man such as you, say the same thing it gives me hopes. It shows me that the world is changing for the better when it comes to that subject. I think that all of the talk about bulling in the schools is helping to relay this massage as well. I don’t think that it is ok to hit anyone unless it is in self-defense. I think that people should be able to talk through their problems. People need to understand that not everyone sees thing the same but, to except their differences’ and just get along. We all have to understand just because we have dereferences it does not make one person right and one person wrong. It is just an opinion and nothing more. So thank you for this comment and keep sending this massage out the way you are. You never know when what you might say will have a positive effect on someone.
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