French bus driver slaps teenager for disrespect

It's also important to note that, because an actual slap is so rare these days (and overly-punished), you can even see, as the bus driver approaches the large group of youths, the chap that did it, actually starts to confront the bus driver (until he is put in his place, of course).

I really can't see how this is a 23 page discussion. Bus driver was dead right and hopefully scummer learned a lesson.

Hitman3000

Deleted User wrote:

I really can't see how this is a 23 page discussion. Bus driver was dead right and hopefully scummer learned a lesson.

In fairness it's the driver who is going to learn a lesson. You can't assualt a child and think it has no consequences.

letsseehere14

I was driving out of Limerick city yesterday, just coming on to the Parkway roundabout. Probably the busiest roundabout in the city.
3 scuts on bikes ahead of the few cars in front of me enter the roundabout in the left lane. 1 of them cycling in a wheeley.
They don't yield, don't slow, but continue to cycle past the first exit still hugging the outside lane. Then proceed to cut across the second exit, a 2 lane dual carriageway down towards ul, around to the 3rd exit and off on the Childers road. All while 1 of them is pulling a wheeley!!! 2 cars had to slam on their brakes to avoid crushing them as they cut across the lanes. This was yesterday.
What these kind of kids need is disipline there and then and I guarantee if me of anyone else on that roundabout yesterday got the chance they'd have gotten a kick so hard from behind they'd be half way home before they landed. It would be disipline and it would have been deserved.
You can be sure those kids and the kids in the video don't get it at home. Because their parents probably don't care. You can be sure that a 'talking to' won't have any effect on them.
The bus driver did the right thing. Children of 12 are old enough to know right from wrong. They know what they're doing. They have this sense of entitlement and no consequence living that needs to be removed. Actions have consequences. That boy in the video needs to learn that. If the driver is fired that boy and gis friends will only be empowered and get worse.

Sunny Disposition

Driver goes a bit far, but only a bit, the kid should have consequences, it’s for his good too.
Driver needs to be brought in and spoken to, but definitely shouldn’t be fired.

Hitman3000

Sunny Disposition wrote:

Driver goes a bit far, but only a bit, the kid should have consequences, it’s for his good too. Driver needs to be brought in and spoken to, but definitely shouldn’t be fired.

The child got assualted for his actions, what more should happen to him.
The driver is only starting to be dealt with for his actions. Possible loss of job and the police knocking on his door. Do you think the assualt was worth all the trouble he has brought on himself ?

PistolsAtDawn

chuck eastwood wrote: »

No brainer really. You can't slap a child even if he is a little twat. A driver or anyone working with the public knows the professional and personal consequences for such actions. Sack and prosecute him. Social media and petitions have no place deciding if we should follow the basic rule of law

I got many a slap growing up in the 90s, never did me a bit of harm, thought me some manners and I deserved every last one I got

Sunny Disposition

Hitman3000 wrote: »

The child got assualted for his actions, what more should happen to him.
The driver is only starting to be dealt with for his actions. Possible loss of job and the police knocking on his door. Do you think the assualt was worth all the trouble he has brought on himself ?

No, like I said, he goes a bit too far.

Sunny Disposition

https://youtu.be/rwLXaS3rHAo
Here’s another clip of a young lad facing consequences he didn’t see coming. In this case I think the adult is fully in the right.

Sofiztikated

PistolsAtDawn wrote: »

I got many a slap growing up in the 90s, never did me a bit of harm, thought me some manners and I deserved every last one I got

Funny, I didn't, but yet, I have manners, know right from wrong, and to be fair, I did some **** that tested my mother's and father's patience.

I know other lads that got wholloped when they did stupid ****. Funny enough, it was a regular enough thing, because they constantly did stupid ****.

It's almost as though young people, in the presence of other young people, do **** that is reckless and pushes boundaries, that you, as an adult already know is stupid. Almost as though they're learning?

Hitman3000

PistolsAtDawn wrote:

I got many a slap growing up in the 90s, never did me a bit of harm, thought me some manners and I deserved every last one I got

I got many a slap as a very young child in school for using my left hand to write with. Taught me nothing other than some adults are sadistic b*stards that like to hit kids. I still write with my left hand.

decky1

my only problem with this--- he should have closed his fist and followed with another. give this man a pay rise. great it's om video lets everyone see what their like, they come to our town every sunner and try to take over, walking out in front of cars no respect for people on footpaths etc. Nice one Mr Driver.

blade1

Hitman3000 wrote: »

Do you think the assualt was worth all the trouble he has brought on himself ?

No it wasn't.
Maybe if he knocked him down he'd have less trouble to deal with.

MadDog76

decky1 wrote: »

my only problem with this--- he should have closed his fist and followed with another. give this man a pay rise. great it's om video lets everyone see what their like, they come to our town every sunner and try to take over, walking out in front of cars no respect for people on footpaths etc. Nice one Mr Driver.

Ironically, the fact that it's on video means Mr Driver is well and truly f#cked...... and the next driver will think twice before getting out of his bus.

Lessons have been learned by this incident.....

OldMrBrennan83

BBFAN wrote: »

No the facts that scum thinks it's okay to slap a child in the face, male of people.

What does male of people mean?

PlaneSpeeking

Patww79 wrote: »

What does male of people mean?

About as much sense as the rest of their posts tbh.

judestynes

Hitman3000 wrote: »

In fairness it's the driver who is going to learn a lesson. You can't assualt a child and think it has no consequences.

in fairness the kid needs to learn a lesson too. you can't endanger passengers and other pedastrians and think it has no consequences.

marcbrophy

I think the most important question here is:

Since when is 12 years old, a teenager?

Mutant z

The boy put himself and others at risk by his own stupidity who would blame the driver for reacting the way he did. If the bus driver swerved to avoid him and went into into a pile of traffic imagine all the fatalities it could well have caused so a little clip around the ear is harmless by comparison.

Renegade Mechanic

marcbrophy wrote: »

I think the most important question here is:

Since when is 12 years old, a teenager?

Since a bitch-slap became "violent assault" :rolleyes:

Ginger83

MadDog76 wrote: »

Ironically, the fact that it's on video means Mr Driver is well and truly f#cked...... and the next driver will think twice before getting out of his bus.

Lessons have been learned by this incident.....

Like i sad earlier lets hope the next driver uses his bus instead of his hand....kid will learn a harsher lesson.

Sofiztikated

Ginger83 wrote: »

Like i sad earlier lets hope the next driver uses his bus instead of his hand....kid will learn a harsher lesson.

So, let me get this right, you're advocating running over anyone that gets in your way, instead of saying "little bolix," and getting on with your day?

Dakota Dan

BBFAN wrote: »

WOW is all I can say, that sends shivers down my spine.

All I can say to you is that it is all that mccafferty ones fault.

Ginger83

Sofiztikated wrote: »

So, let me get this right, you're advocating running over anyone that gets in your way, instead of saying "little bolix," and getting on with your day?

Never said run him over, just a bump. He'll remember the safe cross code

judestynes

Says a lot about how things have changed. If I had have gone and told my parents that a bus driver gave me a slap in the mouth I would've got another one. He didn't do it for nothing. It didn't do me a lick of harm either.

Stone Deaf 4evr

I have a memory burned into my brain, of leaving the school grounds when I was about 13 or 14, and was having the craic with a few of my mates, when one of them went to throw an apple core or something at me, I jumped backwards and kind of spun around, and ended up with my nose literally an inch away from a passing bus, if it had been 2 seconds earlier I'd have been under the wheel. I legit get a shiver up my spine thinking about it to this day. I can only imagine the fright that the bus driver would have gotten if he had seen it.

on the video, I can see why the bus driver flipped the lid, a big crowd no doubt jeering and heckling. Doesn't make what he did, the right thing though,

The Rape of Lucretia

judestynes wrote: »

Says a lot about how things have changed. If I had have gone and told my parents that a bus driver gave me a slap in the mouth I would've got another one. He didn't do it for nothing. It didn't do me a lick of harm either.

A good example of how being brought up in a violent or abusive environment normalises and perpetuates the acceptance of it?

stevek93

Now a noice shalp was needed

LithiumKid1976

WWLBD?

What would lugs branigan do??

MadDog76

Mutant z wrote: »

The boy put himself and others at risk by his own stupidity who would blame the driver for reacting the way he did. If the bus driver swerved to avoid him and went into into a pile of traffic imagine all the fatalities it could well have caused so a little clip around the ear is harmless by comparison.

I assume that you're regularly getting out of your car to slap/punch pedestrians, cyclists and other motorists on a daily basis so....?

judestynes

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

A good example of how being brought up in a violent or abusive environment normalises and perpetuates the acceptance of it?

I wasn't brought up in a violent environment. I was brought up in a responsible one. I can count on 1 hand the amount of times either parent raised a hand to me. Just knowing that they could was enough of a deterrent to stop me or any of my siblings being little sh1theads. we all have good lives none of us have had run ins with the law we're in satisfying jobs. Those are not the results of a violent or abusive upbringing.