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Teen Fired Ball Bearing Into Bus Driver's Face

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  • #2
    Faith+1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Faith+1


    Driver was very lucky not to lose his eye.


  • #3
    n97 mini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭n97 mini


    6 years. Bloody hell. If that was here it would have been 6 months suspended, or less if he had a string of previous convictions.


  • #4
    StreetLight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭StreetLight


    Just what is it that makes some people think that buses and bus drivers are legitimate targets for anti-social behaviour?


  • #5
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    joegriffinjnr wrote: »
    Scum of the earth.
    n97 mini wrote: »
    If that was here it would have been 6 months suspended, or less if he had a string of previous convictions.
    While I can empathise with the driver and condemn the assailant, these comments are not particularly constructive and don't belong here.

    Moderator


  • #6
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    I understand kids get excited when they see a bus especially a double decker as they love to sit upstairs and see everything but there is a strange aggression out there towards buses and drivers as I have had windows shot out with bearings, stones, rocks, ice balls with rocks inside at times.

    I was lucky where a ball bearing smashed through the doors and hit the screen so it saved me.

    Absolute idiots out there that think it's fun and don't think about oh when the object goes through the glass will it go through the driver's or passengers head/face.

    Why a young offenders for 6 years? He is 18.

    He should be forced to work for the bus company and clean all the crap off them and pay the driver compo.


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  • #7
    n97 mini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭n97 mini


    Victor wrote: »
    While I can empathise with the driver and condemn the assailant, these comments are not particularly constructive and don't belong here.

    Moderator

    Mine was commentary on the lack of standards here, and relevant in my opinion. If something similar happened to a Dublin Bus driver could you see the assailant getting 6 years? I couldn't, even though he should.


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