Castletroy to city centre bus wrecked last Thursday night

bigpink

I was talking with my uncle who works for Bus Eireann,the bus from Castletroy/U.l to the city centre was wrecked by passengers last Thursday night going into town
Not sure what time bus but it was one of the last services into town and the bus was full of drunk idiots it seems
Some of the drivers dont want to work that time and route anymore and i cant blame them however it will affect people if the times are cut back

cson

Wouldn't be surprised tbh it's colloquially known as the booze bus in UL.

You'll always have a small minority that have no respect for themselves or others when they're on the smash; generally you'll have one idiot trying ti impress and then being egged on by the rest.

Gneez

Strangely enough the only time I've taken a bus in the last 3 years happens to be that same bus about 3 weeks ago, at about 7pm from castletroy into town and about ten 18 / 20 year old dublin jocks in tank tops got on and started shouting, singing, chanting and harassing girls on the bus, a fight nearly broke out too when someone told them to stfu, I was sitting next to some chick as one of the jocks in a shirt 3 sizes too small for him was trying to crack onto her with the most lame one liners and awkward conversation I've ever heard, I spent the whole bus ride facepalming repeatedly at this and then got off and vowed never to take a limerick bus again unless my life depends on it.

langdang

Gneez wrote: »

I spent the whole bus ride facepalming repeatedly at this and then got off and vowed never to take a limerick bus again unless my life depends on it.

Take a leaf outta Neil Prendevilles book - pop a few nurofen plus the next time boy, for "instant relief" from the pain of travelling with the plebs

Raiser

Oh God, Stooodents..... Their Mammies should be made sit beside them at all times

zuroph

one plain clothes cop could sort all this out very quickly. Two arrests and the rest of them will **** themselves and not act up again.

Karmafaerie

Gneez wrote: »

Strangely enough the only time I've taken a bus in the last 3 years happens to be that same bus about 3 weeks ago, at about 7pm from castletroy into town and about ten 18 / 20 year old dublin jocks in tank tops got on and started shouting, singing, chanting and harassing girls on the bus, a fight nearly broke out too when someone told them to stfu, I was sitting next to some chick as one of the jocks in a shirt 3 sizes too small for him was trying to crack onto her with the most lame one liners and awkward conversation I've ever heard, I spent the whole bus ride facepalming repeatedly at this and then got off and vowed never to take a limerick bus again unless my life depends on it.

Okay.

phog

The introduction of 3rd level fees will sort this out, they wont be able to afford the bus to town. Let them eat cheese.

Risteard

zuroph wrote: »

one plain clothes cop could sort all this out very quickly. Two arrests and the rest of them will **** themselves and not act up again.

I think there were two plain clothes cops on a bus around Halloween when people were acting up and two people were arrested.

zuroph

Risteard wrote: »

I think there were two plain clothes cops on a bus around Halloween when people were acting up and two people were arrested.

it'd definitely work, hell I'd say even the students union putting out the rumour that it was happening regularily would cop em on.

Harpy

Bus eireann stopped that bus about two years ago when i was in college.. They made it so like the last bus from ul was like at 9:30 on a Thursday or something like that because of the students coming on and causing problems so they'll probably just end up doing that again..It was very annoying.

dave 27

Hah no surprise there, i had to endure this bus journey on thursday nights coming back from the gym in UL..a quick search on youtube shows people drinking out of wine glasses, beer cans, beer bottols, naggans, pint glasses not to mention smoking and banging the window..thinking back i remember american students laughing in amazement taking pics at how they were even aloud do all this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLQTg63iY0Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6vX0hEhIKI

I suppose this is what you get having a university of 20,000 or so students out from the city centre

Holybejaysus

If that video didn't have a title, I would have sworn that those specimens were British football hooligans.

Perhaps some day in the future, there will be a return to the Victorian class system. The well behaved, mannered, and civilized should not have to endure the great unwashed.

I know it's just a minority that are misbehaving, but I just don't get why this is socially accepted here.

Standing by for the usual accusations of snobbery, 'how dare you' etc...

highlydebased

There is still a bus at 2315 every weeknight. I get it regularly after a few beverages in college. Needless to say, yes there is occasionally, very occasionally undesirable behavior. Never witnessed anything serious though.

padma

dave 27 wrote: »

Hah no surprise there, i had to endure this bus journey on thursday nights coming back from the gym in UL..a quick search on youtube shows people drinking out of wine glasses, beer cans, beer bottols, naggans, pint glasses not to mention smoking and banging the window..thinking back i remember american students laughing in amazement taking pics at how they were even aloud do all this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLQTg63iY0Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6vX0hEhIKI

I suppose this is what you get having a university of 20,000 or so students out from the city centre

Gosh I hope my kids never turn out like this

cson

I watched the first one and there's nothing in it; bunch of drunk students singing. Nothing like what's being described in the OP.

2 years old those vids are as well though I don't doubt that sort of ****e is still going on.

Mrmoe

I get the last bus regularly and Thursday nights would generally only be the bad night and it is usually more regular during the summer months. Some buses/luas in Dublin have security on them, it might be worth it for this particular day or as somebody mentioned earlier have the gardai present.

The worst incident I saw one night was similar to those videos, very loud and boistrous. It got too much at one stage and the bus driver slammed on the brakes and got out of his seat and shouted back. They weren't long calming down but he nearly sent several regular passengers flying at the same time.

Why are they even left on the bus in the first place is what I can't understand.

CiaranMT

zuroph wrote: »

one plain clothes cop could sort all this out very quickly. Two arrests and the rest of them will **** themselves and not act up again.

Very true.

I'm in Canada atm on exchange and if this kinda stuff is even hinted at, the drivers of the buses/trams will just stop the vehicle and tell the crowd that they ain't movin any further until things shut up.

Different attitude here though, far more respect given to one another. Strangers telling one other to move down the bus to make space for others getting on? You do that in Ireland and you'd be liable to get a smack.

Comhrá

Ahhhh......isn't the free education wonderful!

Our country's future is in good hands.

J.

Raiser

CiaranMT wrote: »

Very true.

I'm in Canada atm on exchange and if this kinda stuff is even hinted at, the drivers of the buses/trams will just stop the vehicle and tell the crowd that they ain't movin any further until things shut up.

Different attitude here though, far more respect given to one another. Strangers telling one other to move down the bus to make space for others getting on? You do that in Ireland and you'd be liable to get a smack.

Thats that then - I'm never going to visit a Country where you get chucked off the Bus for hinting about singing an auld tune :mad:

NickDrake

zuroph wrote: »

one plain clothes cop could sort all this out very quickly. Two arrests and the rest of them will **** themselves and not act up again.

Getting the cops to do this in Limerick might be difficult.

bigpink

Scumbags theres no other name for them

Amazotheamazing

Students drinking and singing, whatever will those crazy kids think of next?

Not advocating vandalism but I'm surprised I'm the only person here who might sing a little too loudly, very off key after a few pints, on occasion... (Sonic vandalism maybe?)

JoseJones

tippman1 wrote: »

Ahhhh......isn't the free education wonderful!

Our country's future is in good hands.

J.

I think you're safe enough, most of them will emigrate.

Zeouterlimits

Ridiculous and should be clamped down upon. Shame some idiots ruin it for the rest of us.

JoseJones wrote: »

I think you're safe enough, most of them will emigrate.

Those of us not wasted, with good degrees? Yeah, probably.

Holybejaysus

Amazotheamazing wrote: »

Students drinking and singing, whatever will those crazy kids think of next?

Not advocating vandalism but I'm surprised I'm the only person here who might sing a little too loudly, very off key after a few pints, on occasion... (Sonic vandalism maybe?)

Do I seriously have to point out to you that this is on public transport? The other people on the bus shouldn't have to be intimidated by this herd behaviour. You can sing all you want at a pub or house party, but when it comes to sharing transport with others, it's time to pipe down and act your age. I don't care if you are drunk, when your behaviour affects other people then it's time to have a chat with yourself.

This genuinely might be the first time someone has pointed this out to you, but there are certain occasions and places where you are expected to hold your booze like a man and respect others. Examples of this would include:

-On public transport.
-In restaurants.
-In cinemas.
-In the library.
-On airplanes.


The 'kerazzzy' untamed Irish bucko act went out of style ooh, about 150 years ago.
Personally, I feel etiquette should be compulsory in schools, but that's just my opinion. It's a disgrace, Joe. A disgrace!

Amazotheamazing

Holybejaysus wrote: »

Do I seriously have to point out to you that this is on public transport? The other people on the bus shouldn't have to be intimidated by this herd behaviour. You can sing all you want at a pub or house party, but when it comes to sharing transport with others, it's time to pipe down and act your age. I don't care if you are drunk, when your behaviour affects other people then it's time to have a chat with yourself.

This genuinely might be the first time someone has pointed this out to you, but there are certain occasions and places where you are expected to hold your booze like a man and respect others. Examples of this would include:

-On public transport.
-In restaurants.
-In cinemas.
-In the library.
-On airplanes.


The 'kerazzzy' untamed Irish bucko act went out of style ooh, about 150 years ago.
Personally, I feel etiquette should be compulsory in schools, but that's just my opinion. It's a disgrace, Joe. A disgrace!

Odd enough, the above list, it's only a bus that students are likely to have a few drinks and sing a bit, but I guess you've horror tales of the last time you went for a meal and the entire student cohort of UL insisted on forcing you to listen to them singing the greatest hits of Phil Collins. Have you ever been interrupted by students singing in the library or cinema? Indeed, have you ever even seen people drinking alcohol in a (public or university) library?

It's mostly harmless fun that people grow out of. Indeed, singing and drinking on a bus is acting your age, provided your age is 17 to 19 and you're in college. If I was to sing on a bus now I'd just look like a sad old bastard, not the cool debonair man I currently am.

I don't think it's much to do with being Irish either, I recall (hazily) a tram trip with German, English and French students in France when each group had to sing a song from their own country, I don't think we (the Irish) won, I have memories of the Germans running away with the title.

I wouldn't do it now, but alas, that's true for lots of things.

Holybejaysus

Amazotheamazing wrote: »

Odd enough, the above list, it's only a bus that students are likely to have a few drinks and sing a bit, but I guess you've horror tales of the last time you went for a meal and the entire student cohort of UL insisted on forcing you to listen to them singing the greatest hits of Phil Collins. Have you ever been interrupted by students singing in the library or cinema? Indeed, have you ever even seen people drinking alcohol in a (public or university) library?

It's mostly harmless fun that people grow out of. Indeed, singing and drinking on a bus is acting your age, provided your age is 17 to 19 and you're in college. If I was to sing on a bus now I'd just look like a sad old bastard, not the cool debonair man I currently am.

I don't think it's much to do with being Irish either, I recall (hazily) a tram trip with German, English and French students in France when each group had to sing a song from their own country, I don't think we (the Irish) won, I have memories of the Germans running away with the title.

I wouldn't do it now, but alas, that's true for lots of things.

Sorry, I should have been more specific in what I meant there. What I was referring to, is that people ought to know that talking out loud or disruptive behaviour is not on in the above mentioned situations. (I didn't mean when drunk, but just in general.) I find that some people just don't get that a cinema or library is not meant to be a place where you play with your ringtone or have a discussion out loud about x factor or Man United. I would imagine that some of those in the video would be the same type of people lacking in situational awareness, but that's just a hunch on my part.

Anyway, as has been demonstrated, if you allow this kind of stuff to go unchecked, something inevitably ends up getting broken sooner or later. So it would be better if there was a zero tolerance boozing/shouting policy on all public transport. That's my $0.02 worth anyway....

CiaranMT

Raiser wrote: »

Thats that then - I'm never going to visit a Country where you get chucked off the Bus for hinting about singing an auld tune :mad:

Ah they've no problem with that lad, it's the putting holes in roofs with crutches and such that they'd not be liking so much