Worst public transport experience

thelad95 · 30-05-2014 06:30PM #1

Just sat on a packed bus home from town beside an old man who kept spitting on the floor. I nearly got sick.

What's your worst public transport experience?

Zombienosh · 30-05-2014 06:33PM

I thought you couldn't sit next to the driver anymore.

Arthur Beesley · 30-05-2014 06:33PM

A guy sitting beside me on the DART sh*t himself. Luckily he had a nappy on so it didn't travel as far as me.

Unpleasant odour the the remainder of the journey though.

Mint Sauce · 30-05-2014 06:37PM

Two that spring to mind...

Luggage stolen off bus at Bus Arus.

5 hours on BE from Dublin to Letterkenny.

So glad I have a car now.

Barely There · 30-05-2014 06:41PM

A trip to the Electric Picnic in Laois about 10 years ago.
Hour and a half queue to get on the bus followed by a four hour drive with multiple traffic jams and constant 'piss-stops' en route.

whiskeyman · 30-05-2014 06:41PM

Bus masterbaters!!!

shopaholic01 · 30-05-2014 06:41PM

Public transport? :eek::eek:

Peasants!

Teyla Emmagan · 30-05-2014 06:42PM

The guy who tried pissing out the window of the bus. Upstairs. The little he didn't get on himself went out the window and straight in on top of the people ten people behind. He was with a big bunch of his scrote mates which is the only reason he's alive today. Actually he's probably not still alive today.

wazky · 30-05-2014 06:49PM

shopaholic01 wrote: »

Public transport? :eek::eek:

Peasants!

Bus self pleasurers!!

mfceiling · 30-05-2014 06:52PM

Yeah, you can beat this....

I got the train from mallow to heuston on easter monday having paid handsomely for a seat. I had the "pleasure" of a junkie who had 2 hospital bracelets on each arm, continually fall into my seat, He was so out of it that the girl who checked the tickets told him that he would have to get off the train - but of course it wasn't pursued and he was left standing (well more leaning into my chair). I was steadily digging him with my elbow to get him away, and i only paid €38 for that pleasure.

FearDark · 30-05-2014 06:53PM

Which town were you in again OP?

30-05-2014 06:54PM

Bussed it from Dundalk-Dublin-Limerick-Tralee and back a few days later. I now always make sure to stand clear luggage doors operate.

Maphisto · 30-05-2014 06:58PM

What's public transport?

The bus that goes into town on Friday and comes back 3 hours later?

Red Alert · 30-05-2014 07:30PM

Witnessing a sexual assault on a british train in the early afternoon :eek:

RayM · 30-05-2014 07:34PM

A few years ago, I was on an 84 from town (Dublin, obviously) and the bus developed some kind of problem - the engine was running, but it was unable to get out of first gear. When we got to Donnybrook garage, we switched onto another bus. Then we were barely a mile down the road when that bus broke down (ran out of fuel). No more than a couple of minutes later, a replacement bus arrived - the same one that we had originally changed from. The mechanic (same guy who had just given us a bus with no diesel) insisted that it was fine now, so the driver reluctantly accepted it. And it was fine... for around ten minutes, before the exact same fault happened again. Rather than stopping and waiting for another bus to be sent out, the driver was told to continue as far as Bray train station, where there would be another replacement bus waiting.

When we got to Bray, there was no sign of any other bus. The driver's shift was finished, but he assured us (in a less-than-confident tone of voice) that another driver and bus would be along in a minute. He then left, very quickly. After around fifteen minutes, an inspector came along, wondering why there around 20 people sitting on an empty bus. It turned out that the other driver had just taken the replacement bus without realising that he was supposed to wait for us. Everyone was a bit impatient and annoyed at this stage, so the inspector decided to drive us home.

Perhaps not a particularly bad experience, but a very annoying one.

Maphisto · 30-05-2014 07:38PM

Red Alert wrote: »

Witnessing a sexual assault on a british train in the early afternoon :eek:

I'm assuming it was a man, did anyone stop or arrest him?

Diabhal Beag · 30-05-2014 07:38PM

Packed bus on the way home from an All-Ireland final. Heading down to Galway after a draw against KK in the hurling and the bus is packed. On the bus with 4 other friends so I get the seat with a stranger option. Young lad walks on with a look on his face as if he murdered the Pope. As he walked down the aisle heads turned so I knew it was bad. He sits down and the waft of incontinence was unbearable. Thank **** he got off in Moate. The hurlers weren't the only ones to shíte themselves that day.

Beats getting stabbed I suppose.

bnt · 30-05-2014 07:54PM

thelad95 wrote: »

Just sat on a packed bus home from town beside an old man who kept spitting on the floor. I nearly got sick.

Nearly? Give it a few hours, the viruses need a little time for incubation.

In Ireland, I've still to see anything to match the experience of taking the Night Bus in London. I used to go to late movies then catch the N20 to Muswell Hill. It was always incredibly crowded, so I would find myself halfway up the stairs, hanging on as drunkards staggered around me.

endacl · 30-05-2014 07:55PM

Waiting for the 75.

Sgt Hartman · 30-05-2014 07:59PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Bussed it from Dundalk-Dublin-Limerick-Tralee and back a few days later. I now always make sure to stand clear luggage doors operate.

No no, it's pronounced "luggage doors operaaish!"

Semele · 30-05-2014 08:44PM

A mentally impaired man with no legs thought I'd stolen his phone once on an overnight bus from London to Dublin. I was only the target because I was in the seat behind him, and being legless he couldn't really expand his search much further. Myself and the driver tried to help him look for it, then the driver said we'd have to carry on, at which point the man became even more furious. As we drove along the motorway he launched himself off his seat into the aisle, shrieking abuse, then pulled himself to where I was sitting and began punching me with one hand while trying to drag himself onto the seat with the other!

I was bloody mortified- torn between shock, pity at the state he was in, and increasing anger at the repeated punching. Because I was wedged in by my bags I couldn't get out and there was no way to get him off without physically fighting back, which I was reluctant to do because he was clearly not all there. No-one else knew what to do either- there was a general air of shock and nervous giggling. The driver was roaring away at him till he got a chance to pull in, come down the bus and lift the guy back onto his seat, where he bitched and moaned away for the next 9 hours!

I fly home now, regardless of the cost!

mfceiling · 30-05-2014 08:46PM

Semele wrote: »

A mentally impaired man with no legs thought I'd stolen his phone once on an overnight bus from London to Dublin. I was only the target because I was in the seat behind him, and being legless he couldn't really expand his search much further. Myself and the driver tried to help him look for it, then the driver said we'd have to carry on, at which point the man became even more furious. As we drove along the motorway he launched himself off his seat into the aisle, shrieking abuse, then pulled himself to where I was sitting and began punching me with one hand while trying to drag himself onto the seat with the other!

I was bloody mortified- torn between shock, pity at the state he was in, and increasing anger at the repeated punching. Because I was wedged in by my bags I couldn't get out and there was no way to get him off without physically fighting back, which I was reluctant to do because he was clearly not all there. No-one else knew what to do either- there was a general air of shock and nervous giggling. The driver was roaring away at him till he got a chance to pull in, come down the bus and lift the guy back onto his seat, where he bitched and moaned away for the next 9 hours.

I fly home now, regardless of the cost!

That is possibly the greatest thing i have ever read on the internet in my entire life!!

monflat · 30-05-2014 08:55PM

Myself and the now husband were travelling years ago we got on a bus from kuala lumpar destined for Singapore

No where to sit bar the back seats.
The fumes were unbelievable overpowering along with the humidity.
Both of us passed out from the fumes somewhere along the journey . We came to when the bus had to be unloaded at many a border crossing.

At this particular border crossing we were taken into a room with a customs official who was heavily armed.
When he went through our passports then he let us off.

Out we went bags on back and not a bus to to seen
the bastard drove off and left us. !!
Not a sinner spoke english
We hadn't a clue where we were it was like we were dropped from the sky into this place

Definitely the worst memory ever as we were fair dopey from whatever fumes that potentially could have killed us !

errlloyd · 30-05-2014 09:04PM

My worst travel story was picking up some salmonella poisoning on an island in the Philippines, I couldn't eat, had a fever and had a serious case of the "runs".

Getting home involved several nightmarish legs. Back of a pick up truck to to the dock. Water taxi to an Asian sized bus. 4 hours of bus over land to an internal flight. 3 hours to manilla. The rush hour manilla traffic across the capital to pick up bags, and back again to the international terminal. Which was packed. And had several queues. Two 8 hour flights and 6 hour layover. Home, aircoach and a 25 minute walk with all my bags. Awful. Sick for a month.

SwettyBalls · 30-05-2014 09:10PM

On a bus from Limerick to Cork. Some mentally disturbed lad sitting behind me was coughing and spluttering into the air for the whole journey. Between each cough and splutter he would swing is head from right to left constantly, look out the window, look into the bus, look out the window, into the bus, like clockwork. While swinging his head around he had a really daft smile as if he was sedated. Then more coughing and spluttering into the air, really loudly that sounded half puke half cough. Some guy asked him to cover his mouth, which he did, for about 2 seconds. Then back to coughing into the air. That lasted about two hours.

My second worst experience was when I was waiting at the bus station in Clonmel, and some guy in his 40s waddled out with a smell of shyte wafting behind him. He called somebody from the phone box and started screaming "I DID IT AGAIN! I DID IT AGAIN!" Only then I saw that there was shyte all over his pants. Pure scutthery shyte. 5 minutes later a lady came to pick him up in the car, and as he sat in he scraped his shytey arse all the way down the seat, from the headrest to the bottom. Then they drove off on their merry way.

--LOS-- · 30-05-2014 09:10PM

Obviously like anyone I've encountered lots of weirdos on Dublin bus, but probably the worst bus experience was over 3 hours from Meath to Dublin in the snow. A journey that should take less than an hour >.<

corner of hells · 30-05-2014 09:11PM

Two bus crashes in one week .

While I was an apprentice going to work one Monday morning the bus I was on skidded in Lucan village , knocked down a telegraph pole and crashed into a derelict building .I arrived into work an hour late with my foreman refusing to believe me because I was hungover.
At ten he was listening to the news and heard about the crash .

That Friday , hungover again , another bus I was on skidded and crashed into a bus at a stop on near Hueston station , an hour late again .

30-05-2014 09:12PM

Once,on the way back to my bedsit in Ballsbridge the chauffeur of my Mercedes-Benz S600 told me the climate control wouldnt go below 17C :O felt nauseous all the way!

fussyonion · 30-05-2014 09:32PM

I was on the Luas a few years back and it was fairly empty..a couple of people up near the front, and I was sitting near the back.
A lad got on and sat on the seat directly opposite me.

I didn't make eye contact with him but from the corner of my eye I could see he had his hand down his tracksuit bottoms and he was....yknow...yeah.
I felt so uncomfortable and very vulnerable so I stood up and moved to a seat near the front.

He followed me and sat down and did it again. Before I had the chance to do anything, two Luas security guards got on so I stood up and told them what the fella was doing.

He was promptly escorted off the Luas but it left me feeling violated all day.
People might think it was funny but not when it's a girl on her own. I didn't know what he was going to do.

wazky · 30-05-2014 09:33PM

fussyonion wrote: »

I didn't know what he was going to do.

Have a **** would be my bet.

fussyonion · 30-05-2014 09:35PM

wazky wrote: »

Have a **** would be my bet.

Well no he was doing that already.

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