Public transport..your horror stories

DazMarz · 20-11-2009 04:28AM

Being forced to sit right at the front of the bus one time due to it being packed and watching in utter horror as the driver proceeded to count the float in the change machine thing while alternately steering with his knees or elbows. We came close to crashing several times.

Being on the Tube in London at like midnight coming back from Soho Bar in Fulham (Come on The Blues!!!), and being alone in the carriage. At Parson's Green stop, a bunch of what looked like Muslim fundamentalists got on. They never stopped glaring at me the whole journey. I was pretty well oiled, but I swear, they kept this absolutely hate-filled gaze pinned on me the whole journey and I was sure that I was dead meat. I bailed off the Tube at the next station and waited for the next one to come along!

Or on our very own LUAS, being accosted by a fúcking junkie looking for ''a bitta change, bud''. I was in no humour (Chelsea had just lost to Man United, so I was pissy). I told him that I'd no change. ''Give us your fookin walle' then''. Thankfully the doors just opened at the Cowper stop... I legged it and didn't stop running until I had hailed a cab and got home safe. Still hate getting the LUAS to this day!

Tom Cruises Left Nut · 20-11-2009 12:37PM

On the tube in London after a very heavy night out with one of my mates (rest of them had headed off to do shopping) we were on our way back to the pub.

This was 2 weeks after the London bombings.

Suddenly the tube screeches to a halt halfway out of a station and a load of armed police rush onto the platform and into the tube.

Turns out some dosey bint had forgotten her handbag and hit an emergency button.

Seriously thought I was gonna die that day, the faces on the police were scary, I am sure they would have had no problem shooting. Waving the guns in our faces, they didn't know what had happened.

The 2 of us just sat there in fear, nearly had to text the lads to get me new pants from the shops !

AnonoBoy · 20-11-2009 12:43PM

Was trying to get across O'Connell Street on the LUAS there a few weeks back.

We didn't make it.

star.chaser · 20-11-2009 12:51PM

public buses are one of the lowest forms of transport.
only joyriding is below it.

G-Money · 20-11-2009 12:52PM

Probably was one of the times I was on the Enterprise train down from the north. I take it from Newry station and the the train was already about an hour late arriving into Newry. I got onto the train and sat down and a few minutes later, a group of lads who were going to a Metallica concert in Dublin sat down at the seats just in front of me.

They were drinking and having the craic and in fairness, while they were loud, they weren't abusive or hassling people so that was grand.

Anyway I can't remember exactly if it was just before or just after Dundalk, but the train broke down. This was June as well. I don't know if anyone here has been on that train but it's all electronics etc. After a while the electric cut out and the windows are sealed so they couldn't be opened to let air in. The doors weren't opened either. As the power was cut, the toilets stopped working as well. I had to go myself (not very badly though) so I held it, but I heard horror stories from other one's on the train saying how the toilets were overflowing etc.

The train sat there for at least an hour, possibly two. Eventually they sent some other engine to take us the rest of the way. The stupid thing was that we got into Drogheda, took on more passengers then about half way between Drogheda and Dublin, they kicked us off (at Donabate I think). Apparently the driver wasn't happy to continue for safety reasons or something. So we all got off at Donabate, waited for another train to come along, got onto it and followed the Enterprise the whole way into Dublin. I found this strange as Drogheda has several tracks so surely they could have had us get off there and onto another train, rather than have us follow the dodgy train the whole way to Dublin.

Total nightmare journey. From Newry to Dublin on that train usually takes about 1hr and 15 minutes. That day it took us 5 hours with all the delays added in. The train was due to leave Newry about 11.15am. I remember checking my watch when I got into Dublin and it was after 4pm.

Madness.

D-A-V-E · 20-11-2009 01:23PM

some more stories,

i was getting the bus from the city centre to castletroy (university) in Limerick when about 7 or 8 romanian gypsies skipped the queue, the queue was fairly long as it was a filled bus, they held up everyone claiming they were under age and wanted a student discount eventhough they were clearly in their late 30s early 40s, everyone was on the bus at this stage and they continued to hassle the driver, after about 5 mins some guy shouted 'oi, get the fu*k off the bus', so they finally payed..stood beside every person in the bus handing them a card which said something like

'hello, i hope you are having a nice afternoon'

then i said fuc* that, read the last line and it said 'thankyou for your donation'

so i looked at her and said no! so she continued to go to other people, along with her friends..made me sick, iv seen them begging on busses with the change in an empty fizzy drink carton

they're actually cutting back on the bus fleet and bus times in Limerick due to vandalism, Limerick is supposed to have the least amount of busses per head of population than any other city in the country. bus eireann said that the traffic in the city is so bad and the vandalism to the busses is so bad that they're making a loss. now theres only 2 routes in the city that go after 7pm, which basically leaves the city without public transport!

another reason why i hate public transport, i waited for a bus for an hour and 10 minutes, it took 35 minutes to get from the stop to town (only about a mile and a half away) and waited 35 minutes in town to get the bus home, this is not right!

concussion · 20-11-2009 02:09PM

Nuggles wrote: »

There was the time they had to call the guards onto the bus to wrestle a nut off.

Should have used some WD40 and a socket wrench.

Kradock · 20-11-2009 02:25PM

D-A-V-E wrote: »

I thought id ask the question as every time i use the bus something happens so post your stories.

another time i was heading home and a rock hit the window i was sitting on

There's your problem right there.

gav_neonstars · 20-11-2009 03:31PM

I have way too many horror stories that involve buses.. Luckily i got a car when i was 18 and haven't been on one since!

One such event was a good few years ago. I was around 16 going to rugby training on the king of scum buses the 77. Anyhoo it was a hot Thursday evening and i got on around 6 o clock. I went upstairs with the rest of the lads and sat down near the stairs (to go down the back of a 77 is asking for trouble!) We noticed two scaldy looking junkies down the back skagged off they'r faces down the back (it being Thursday and all.. heroin day!) and thought nothing of it.

10 or 15 minutes later we hear this groaning noise coming from behind us and a nasty smell. I looked back and saw an image that has been burned into my retina's ever since that faithful day. There was the big fat horrible junkie whore with her tracksuit bottoms around he ankles jumping up and down on the other lad in the center seat.. you could see EVERYTHING..and the squelching sound has haunted me ever scince..I almost vomited. The dude was going 'awww mannnn thatttsss bleeeeedin deadddly that iss'

With that we burst out laughing and pointing. Her reply (in the most skangery junkie accent you could imagine) .. 'Fuuucckk ooooff yaa littuull wannkkurrss.. yizz arrrr onlyy jealoussss!'...

I can assure you love.. we wernt ..

Thanks be to Allah that our stop was next!

Flesh Gorden · 20-11-2009 04:21PM

Think everyone has experienced the volatile drunks and nut cases that think they've special powers at some point

My incidents normally started at the bus stop after getting off
lil' groups of kna***rs trying to start fights when they saw me on my own

I'd be on my way home from work or college and I had to keep a torque wrench in easy reach from my work bag to ward them off

I hate the things - I used have to get 4 busses a day till I started driving

by car I live 5 miles from work

by bus: 1hr going to
90 mins home if I finished at 9pm
2 hours if I finished at 5pm

robbie_998 · 20-11-2009 04:37PM

***DISCLAIMER*** This is not my story... it was else where on Boards.ie but im a bit lazy right now to find it :P

Anyway on a bus going down the quays in Dublin City (right around the time of the U2 Concerts in Croke Park) we were heading down Wellington Key past the Clearance Hotel when a couple of men in suits were getting out of a dark car. Then as we were passing by a guy on the bus got up and shouted out the windows " BONO ! PAY SOME TAXES !!! ". Then when he sat back down he took out a cornetto :pac:

foodie66 · 20-11-2009 07:07PM

gav_neonstars wrote: »

I have way too many horror stories that involve buses.. Luckily i got a car when i was 18 and haven't been on one since!

One such event was a good few years ago. I was around 16 going to rugby training on the king of scum buses the 77. Anyhoo it was a hot Thursday evening and i got on around 6 o clock. I went upstairs with the rest of the lads and sat down near the stairs (to go down the back of a 77 is asking for trouble!) We noticed two scaldy looking junkies down the back skagged off they'r faces down the back (it being Thursday and all.. heroin day!) and thought nothing of it.

10 or 15 minutes later we hear this groaning noise coming from behind us and a nasty smell. I looked back and saw an image that has been burned into my retina's ever since that faithful day. There was the big fat horrible junkie whore with her tracksuit bottoms around he ankles jumping up and down on the other lad in the center seat.. you could see EVERYTHING..and the squelching sound has haunted me ever scince..I almost vomited. The dude was going 'awww mannnn thatttsss bleeeeedin deadddly that iss'

With that we burst out laughing and pointing. Her reply (in the most skangery junkie accent you could imagine) .. 'Fuuucckk ooooff yaa littuull wannkkurrss.. yizz arrrr onlyy jealoussss!'...

I can assure you love.. we wernt ..

Thanks be to Allah that our stop was next!

LMAO!!! Don't lie you took pics and then went home and had a party with your left hand!!!! :rolleyes:

InKonspikuou2 · 20-11-2009 09:21PM

baalthor wrote: »

Or in America where the driver had to keep the bus over 50mph or it would blow up ..

Well at least they have super cops and stunt driver passengers over there. In Honduras i think the cops were the robbers.

Coriolanus · 20-11-2009 10:26PM

Well there was a funny one on the 65 out of Dub one time. Bunch of natives got on the bus at the Spawell and proceeded to scream and kick and shout, abusing everyone. They obviously didn't cop the change in route that the bus driver took through the industrial area around the Square, cause they were caught offguard when the bus driver drove into the Garda station parking lot. Smart fucker must have radio'd ahead and all cause there was a bunch of Garda waiting to drag the little bastards off.

CatFromHue · 20-11-2009 10:43PM

ive had a few bad public transport journeys.

one would be getting the 6pm bus from belfast to dublin. the driver was from cork and didnt know the way. a few times he took wrong exits off the motorway then had to turn around.
at first it was funny everyone had a giggle but then everyone realised this guy hadnt a clue and the trip was taking longer and longer as he took more wrong exits and drove around towns lost.

people were actually shouting at him from their seats at one stage.

it was the bus that stopped at dublin airport and so id say alot of people were late for their plane.

we would have expected to get in not long after 8 to dublin. it was 10 when we did.

another was getting the dart to work one morning. i got on the carraige and could see alot of people were wafting newspapers in thier face which was strange cos it wasnt that warm. then the smell hit me. it was awful. its was as if i was in the person who farted/crapped themselves underwear. the smell was so dense. people were talking to strangers about how bad the smell was. the whole carraige was full of the smell. it was one of the darts that you cant open the window on.

i had to change carraige at the next stop as i didnt want the smell sticking to my clothes!

robbie_998 · 26-11-2009 10:03PM

not really a horror story but anyway i got a bus into town today,

51B at about 9ish and half way through the journey a guy got on,(i know i know just wait !)

the bus was fairly packed but there were spare seats left at the back where you face backwards, so the guy sat there, after staring at two people in the corner for about 5 mins he took out a pencil and sharpened it there and then and the shavings went on the floor :pac:

after that he took out a notebook kinda thing and started drawing the two people seating in the corner !!!

he was actually very talented too :eek:

partyatmygaff · 26-11-2009 10:17PM

robbie_998 wrote: »

not really a horror story but anyway i got a bus into town today,

51B at about 9ish and half way through the journey a guy got on,(i know i know just wait !)

the bus was fairly packed but there were spare seats left at the back where you face backwards, so the guy sat there, after staring at two people in the corner for about 5 mins he took out a pencil and sharpened it there and then and the shavings went on the floor :pac:

after that he took out a notebook kinda thing and started drawing the two people seating in the corner !!!

he was actually very talented too :eek:

He's an artist on a bus and hes talented?
The horror :eek:

mental07 · 27-11-2009 02:08PM

baalthor wrote: »

Or in America where the driver had to keep the bus over 50mph or it would blow up ..

I think it was called 'The Bus That Wouldn't Slow Down'

CrazyRabbit · 27-11-2009 03:28PM

I don't use buses. Four reasons;

1. I haven't a clue how to work out the cost of each journey. It's not stated anywhere on the bus.

2. When you ask the bus driver how much the fare is, they give you that 'Are you stupid?' look and stare at you without answering.

3. You don't give any change, but instead a ticket which you can hand in at some location to get your 20c change. Of course, you probably have to get a bus to this location in the first place which will cost more than the 20c. Greatest money making racket I've ever seen.

4. I drive a motorbike.

Trains are ok to use. Though on sundays they run just 3-4 times per day on some routes which is useless.

prinz · 27-11-2009 03:38PM

A junkie on the No. 4 projectiling a mixture of vomit and blood... window, side, seat, floor it was everywhere.

Gummy Panda · 27-11-2009 03:54PM

prinz wrote: »

A junkie on the No. 4 projectiling a mixture of vomit and blood... window, side, seat, floor it was everywhere.

Oh sweet jesus!

I've seen on spaced out on the floor of the middle section, on a No. 4. He just lay there covered in popcorn spaced out and only moved when that middle moving section forced him to.

super_metroid · 27-11-2009 04:02PM

the city speed showed up 1 hour and 20 minutes late

dublin bus layed on a tiny 50 seater, despite 200 people waiting for the bus

i had to stand for 1.5 hours on the bus (the route was designed by a chimpanzee)

then the bus driver threw every one off the bus a few miles from home, he said he was starving and was getting something to eat and for everyone to F*** off and to walk the rest of the way home in the rain

(this was a typical journey with dublin bus from 1996 to 2002 for me, a lot worse happened...)

i really grew to hate dublin bus

thankfully it's changed and it's good now, but for years bus drivers should of been dragged out into the street and shot

missmatty · 27-11-2009 04:12PM

robbie_998 wrote: »

not really a horror story but anyway i got a bus into town today,

51B at about 9ish and half way through the journey a guy got on,(i know i know just wait !)

the bus was fairly packed but there were spare seats left at the back where you face backwards, so the guy sat there, after staring at two people in the corner for about 5 mins he took out a pencil and sharpened it there and then and the shavings went on the floor :pac:

after that he took out a notebook kinda thing and started drawing the two people seating in the corner !!!

he was actually very talented too :eek:

Saw that guy on the Luas as well on a Saturday night a couple of weeks ago. He started off by drawing a guy that was standing near me, it was a bit creepy really. Then he drew two girls who were sitting down and then was chatting away to them. Whatever and all that but I'd absolutely hate it if someone did that to me without asking and everyone else watching and nudging each other

Jip · 27-11-2009 04:54PM

foodie66 wrote: »

I was once bringing a top bk to the shop when a little chinese baby projectile vomited right into my shopping bag.... that was the end of getting my money bk for that. Little b!tch :(

WTF, bk ? You managed to fully spell out every other word, how much extra effort would it have been to put the a and c between the b and k ?

gav_neonstars wrote: »

on the king of scum buses the 77.

That was a fun bus, you never had to eat before getting on as you were always offered the Kitkat from the junkies who bought it just for the tinfoil.

super_metroid · 27-11-2009 05:36PM

a guy vomited on the floor behind me

the voit rolled up the bus when it moved and soaked my school bag

also the guy beside me peed himself, unknown to me, after a few minutes the dampness reached me and i got a wet ass

the joys of dublin bus

Dancing_Priest · 27-11-2009 05:52PM

Jip wrote: »

you were always offered the Kitkat from the junkies who bought it just for the tinfoil.

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

condra · 27-11-2009 05:58PM

I had a syringe put up to my neck on the Dart.

My friend had a syringe put in his leg on the Dart.

I saw a kid get beaten up on a bus.

plein de force · 28-11-2009 12:56AM

we were coming back from newry with my school on the aircoach and i had to sit next to this man as there were no other seats left, he reeked of BO and halfway to dublin he started farting non-stop :mad::mad:

and i don't know if anyone else ever gets the 29A bus, but fairly regularly when i'm on it this woman, completely gone in the head, starts ranting and raving about the government having her under surveilliance and racial discrimination, picking arguments with people who are just minding their own business, last month she was upstairs and her ranting and raving made everyone go downstairs, at one point the driver came up to tell her to keep her trap shut. i do feel sorry for her because she is a bit mental but it starts to grate when you encounter her on numerous occasions and if you're hungover when she kicks off like i was last time i saw her

partyatmygaff · 28-11-2009 01:14AM

plein de force wrote: »

we were coming back from newry with my school on the aircoach and i had to sit next to this man as there were no other seats left, he reeked of BO and halfway to dublin he started farting non-stop :mad::mad:

Minigun style?

starttheend · 28-11-2009 01:26AM

A good few years ago on 46a in Stillorgan, driver asked 4 guys who were drinking upstairs to get off the bus, as there on way down, they grabbed driver, one punched him in the back of the head(classy move!) while another kicked him in the face as he fell. They then legged it. Driver was in bits, maintains he's fine, tries to drive off a few minutes later and hits another bus driving on his outside as he pulls off. Poor guy.
Another horror one was a junkie couple with two children sitting on their laps passing a pipe between them down back of the bus and exhaling right in kid's faces. very depressing.

Public transport..your horror stories

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