Drunken Yobbishness

[alsenior]

since were one upping i'll add my 2 cents

rtound here they don't have glass they have tramploines for windows.that way some dumb charva will get hit back in the face with what ever they threw.

but seriously they stopped replacing glass with glass a long time ago now are bubes are perspex all the way apart from emergency windows. stagecoach have now figured that if they want a bus disposed of and replaced by the insurance they just drive it through the nunsthorpe and yarhbrough estates on the last ride after a couple of weeks it will be wrecked

[Mike Fishcake]

They should definately change the name of ASBOs to GAYLORDS or BUMSTUFFERS and that way, they wont be too eager to show off about having loads of them.

I shall write to my MP now.

That is the best idea ever.

[tiggerai]

That is the best idea ever.

Anyone wanna add it to the Labour PM petition site?

I'd sign.

[Clunk]

Do you have linky please

[bigblue]

I have every sympathy for you, it's bad enough witnessing it as a passenger, never mind being the driver.

I used to go out with a girl who lived in a "slightly" dodgy area of Glasgow. The bus route to her house took us through the few areas that were actually worse than hers. Every saturday night, without fail, the bus would get bricked.

The slightly bizarre thing about it was seeing what new and ingenious ways the toe-rags could think of to attack the bus.

The highlight (or lowlight) had to be the week they had manufactured a catapult out of some oil drums, scaffolding and planks of wood. It was like something Wyle E Coyote would use against road runner. They had a plank of wood sitting over the drums see-saw style, and two of them leapt off the scaffolding onto the plank, propelling the rocks that were sitting at the other end of the plank hopefully bus-wards. I thought it would never work and at best they'd clonk themselves with the rocks. However, while I laughed at the sheer surrealism of it they managed a direct hit with a bloody great boulder from fully 50 yards which nearly went clean through the bus.

Only thing more bizarre was the pregnant woman sitting opposite us who briefly looked up, went "tch" and carried on reading her mag. Obviously battle hardened.

There's a blog from a Glasgow bus driver on the web which is pretty entertaining reading, I'm sure a lot of you have seen it. Think it's www.bloodbus.com.

[Agent]

Do you have linky please

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/new

Here, ive started it for you...

"title : rename ASBO to something more off-putting to youngsters, to counter them being used as trophy’s

With ASBO’s now being used as ‘bragging rights’, it seems appropriate to use the name itself as a deterrent.
Current ideas are:

<list>

"

[tiggerai]

Nevermind, i'm being blonde.

[Clunk]

Ta mate

Anyone like to add some ideas for alternative names?

Edit : Im making it now.

[Agent]

I have every sympathy for you, it's bad enough witnessing it as a passenger, never mind being the driver.

I used to go out with a girl who lived in a "slightly" dodgy area of Glasgow. The bus route to her house took us through the few areas that were actually worse than hers. Every saturday night, without fail, the bus would get bricked.

The slightly bizarre thing about it was seeing what new and ingenious ways the toe-rags could think of to attack the bus.

The highlight (or lowlight) had to be the week they had manufactured a catapult out of some oil drums, scaffolding and planks of wood. It was like something Wyle E Coyote would use against road runner. They had a plank of wood sitting over the drums see-saw style, and two of them leapt off the scaffolding onto the plank, propelling the rocks that were sitting at the other end of the plank hopefully bus-wards. I thought it would never work and at best they'd clonk themselves with the rocks. However, while I laughed at the sheer surrealism of it they managed a direct hit with a bloody great boulder from fully 50 yards which nearly went clean through the bus.

Only thing more bizarre was the pregnant woman sitting opposite us who breifly looked up, went "tch" and carried on reading her mag. Obviously battle hardened.

There's a blog from a Glasgow bus driver on the web which is pretty entertaining reading, I'm sure a lot of you have seen it. Think it's www.bloodbus.com.

Im trying to find a link at the moment, but there was something similar that happened a while back around here.
To cut a long story short, a railway sleeper was stolen, tied up between 2 trees so it swung. Waited for the bus, aimed for the driver part but thankfully the driver saw it and turned so the side of the bus got the impact.
It utterly demolished the side of the bus; I couldn’t believe how much damage was done to it.


There is also a spate of “happy jumping” at the moment around here with motorcyclists. Ie, jumping infront of a bike getting them to slow / swerve / dump the bike. On a bike forum I post on, they tried to beat up a bloke via the same method and get his bike.
Thankfully I have remote immobilisation on my bike (someone hijacks it and I can kill the engine ), but otherwise its almost certain that the bike will never be seen again.

[ctid]

www.bloodbus.com.

Not seen that before. There was something similar where an ambulance driver wrote a book about his experiences, and had a pdf to download on his site. Does anyone know the site?

[this_is_gav]

The highlight (or lowlight) had to be the week they had manufactured a catapult out of some oil drums, scaffolding and planks of wood. It was like something Wyle E Coyote would use against road runner. They had a plank of wood sitting over the drums see-saw style, and two of them leapt off the scaffolding onto the plank, propelling the rocks that were sitting at the other end of the plank hopefully bus-wards. I thought it would never work and at best they'd clonk themselves with the rocks. However, while I laughed at the sheer surrealism of it they managed a direct hit with a bloody great boulder from fully 50 yards which nearly went clean through the bus.

I'm going *slightly* against the quite rightful over-riding sense of shock and disappointment in this thread when I say this, but that quote rocks. I'm as mild-mannered as they come, and living in the sticks as I do, we're far less susceptible to sheer vandalism such as that mentioned, so reading this thread makes me feel extremely lucky. That said, there must be an evil streak that runs through me that just makes the above bus-attack nothing but awesome.

[Tom Scott]

Not seen that before. There was something similar where an ambulance driver wrote a book about his experiences, and had a pdf to download on his site. Does anyone know the site?

Blood, Sweat and Tea.

Free under creative commons license at http://randomreality.blogware.com

[Rave]

There's a blog from a Glasgow bus driver on the web which is pretty entertaining reading, I'm sure a lot of you have seen it. Think it's www.bloodbus.com.

LOL @ story and cheers for the link, really enjoyed it.

[Rave]

Wow peckham, thats a dangerous area.

Actually I was nowhere near Peckham at the time, and I've never had any grief there. Seems it's a dangerous place to sell drugs in (or be mistaken for someone who deals ) but it's no problem to drive a bus though.

Says he, touching wood. Tempting fate there aren't I?

[MadduckUK]

That said, there must be an evil streak that runs through me that just makes the above bus-attack nothing but awesome.

i have to agree, although my sense of humor is known to be effed up.

[TheAnimus]

night bus drivers, and mini-cab drivers should be given automatic sub-machine guns