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Smoking on Dublin Bus

  • 14-01-2013 9:36pm
    #1
    Ray Quick
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭


    Hi,

    I was on the 39a on my way home this evening and once the bus stopped at the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre the driver came on the intercom.

    Basically he advised that the smoke sensor upstairs had gone off, CCTV footage had been sent back to Dublin Bus and that as a result the Guards would be called.

    Low and behold three lads come and sit downstairs to which the driver kindly informs them that it’s pointless as they have already been captured on CCTV. They obviously quickly depart the bus.

    Is this true or has the driver pulled a fast one.

    Thanks,
    RQ


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  • #2
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Could be true but I doubt it.

    Either way its not going to make one jot of difference.

    Do you really think the Guards are going spend time trying to trace three young twits for smoking on a bus ?


  • #3
    Ray Quick
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭Ray Quick


    Hi Lapin,

    I also highly doubt that the Guards would be called but I think that it's the CCTV card that is the key.

    RQ


  • #4
    The_Wrecker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 471 ✭✭The_Wrecker


    Ray Quick wrote: »
    Hi,

    I was on the 39a on my way home this evening and once thebus stopped at the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre the driver came on the intercom.

    Basically he advised that the smoke sensor upstairs had goneoff, CCTV footage had been sent back toDublin Bus and that as a result the Guards would be called.

    Low and behold three lads come and sit downstairs to whichthe driver kindly informs them that it’s pointless as thehave already been captured on CCTV. They obviously quickly depart the bus.

    Is this true or has the driver pulled a fast one.

    Thanks,
    RQ

    Its a bit of a fast one.
    We get the smell downstairs due to the cab window sucking the aroma down. Our next move is to use the intercom/pa, if no result contact control. Control would then inform the Garda.
    Keep in mind it is illegal to smoke and the CCTV will show that.
    The smoke sensor is our nose....


  • #5
    carlmango11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭carlmango11


    Either way the driver made a good move. He got them off the bus and *possibly* discouraged them from doing it on another bus.


  • #6
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    Lapin wrote: »
    Could be true but I doubt it.

    Either way its not going to make one jot of difference.

    Do you really think the Guards are going spend time trying to trace three young twits for smoking on a bus ?

    Would you not consider the result was a realpolitik victory ?

    Three Twits had to disembark before they actually wanted to,hopefully into a stiff,damp,freezing windblast to ensure that ciggie's would be more difficult to light-up .

    Yep,I'd suggest Three Cheers for a pro-active Busdriver ?


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I was on a 78A once where two people were smoking upstairs. The driver stopped the engine in Inchicore, went upstairs and said:

    "If you two weren't being so ****ing "cool" up here, maybe the people standing downstairs would take a seat up here. Get rid of them."

    That was the only time I'd seen a driver do something, but I wouldn't have wanted to approach someone like that for fear of what they might do to me!


  • #8
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    Karsini wrote: »
    I was on a 78A once where two people were smoking upstairs. The driver stopped the engine in Inchicore, went upstairs and said:

    "If you two weren't being so ****ing "cool" up here, maybe the people standing downstairs would take a seat up here. Get rid of them."

    That was the only time I'd seen a driver do something, but I wouldn't have wanted to approach someone like that for fear of what they might do to me!

    Brave Busdriver,and probably foolhardy,as in the event of an assault he would have been significantly outside the companys standing instructions for these matters.

    Significant amounts of people consider that buses and other public transport are free-fire zones for their anti-social weaponry,a mindset reinforced by the Driver being kept behind a screen !


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #9
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    AlekSmart wrote: »
    Brave Busdriver,and probably foolhardy,as in the event of an assault he would have been significantly outside the companys standing instructions for these matters.

    Significant amounts of people consider that buses and other public transport are free-fire zones for their anti-social weaponry,a mindset reinforced by the Driver being kept behind a screen !

    Oh I've seen it put to good use. On another 78A (I remember it was RV342 for some reason...) a passenger got on in Ballyfermot with no ticket but claimed to have a travel pass. When the driver asked to see it he got really aggressive and started punching the screen and trying to grab the driver from above. I felt terrible for the driver but he wasn't physically hurt at least. The Gardai took that passenger off the bus thankfully.


  • #10
    Bobby42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭Bobby42


    A good few times I've witnessed people smoking on the 27. Three or four lads smoking away filling the entire upstairs with the smell of smoke, its been bad enough that my jacket reeked of cigarettes.

    Told the driver and emailed Dublin bus, but nothing done. Seems to just be tolerated.

    Fair play to the driver.


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