Worst public transport experience

onethreefive · 30-05-2014 09:47PM

In no particular order..

On the Dublin to Westport train being jammed on the inside seat between someone who was completely out of his mind drunk.

On the bus listening to 2 lads blaring their really bad music at full volume.

And the letterkenny to Dublin bus is pure torturous. I was contemplating flying to Dublin from Donegal Airport so I wouldn't have to sit on that bus for so long ever again.

Aidric · 30-05-2014 10:04PM

There were 2.

1. A mid morning metro ride in Prague after a 48 hour session packed full of young families. The paranoia was overwhelming.

2. A Bus Eireann trip from Galway to Limerick. An elderly gentleman got on at Bunratty and proceeded to soil himself straight away. It just happened to be a sweltering summers day and the bus was like a sweatbox. The stench was overpowering.

Mike747 · 30-05-2014 10:04PM

A bus journey once from Galway to Dublin. Four hours of drunk knackers shouting and roaring.

Pinch Flat · 30-05-2014 10:08PM

Ran out of foie gras in 1st class. Terrible

Merry_Hell · 31-05-2014 02:31AM

City Link, Dublin to Galway. Very strange eastern European couple, in their mid twenties sitting in the seat in front of me. I could hear/see them cuddling and kissing for a while before they started talking. I think the girl playfully slapped him and he slapped her playfully. So she spat in his face.

The next 5 minutes consisted of them light -heartedly spitting in each other's faces. Every now and then a spit would miss, hit the window and I'd get some splash back. I started looking around for a camera. but no. I remember him removing his glasses so that he wouldn't have to keep wiping them. It stopped when she hissed in annoyance and turned away from him. They didn't talk for the rest of the journey.

Galwayguy35 · 31-05-2014 02:45AM

Luas Red Line having to put up with 2 inbred skangers of about 14 or 15 shouting abuse at people, one couple in particular were the main target.

I felt really sorry for them having to put up with this, some people shouldn't be allowed to breed.

Umadbrah? · 31-05-2014 02:47AM

fussyonion wrote: »

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.

Jesus can a man not have a **** these days without being disturbed

Umadbrah? · 31-05-2014 02:49AM

Merry_Hell wrote: »

City Link, Dublin to Galway. Very strange eastern European couple, in their mid twenties sitting in the seat in front of me. I could hear/see them cuddling and kissing for a while before they started talking. I think the girl playfully slapped him and he slapped her playfully. So she spat in his face.

The next 5 minutes consisted of them light -heartedly spitting in each other's faces. Every now and then a spit would miss, hit the window and I'd get some splash back. I started looking around for a camera. but no. I remember him removing his glasses so that he wouldn't have to keep wiping them. It stopped when she hissed in annoyance and turned away from him. They didn't talk for the rest of the journey.

Ummmm that turned me on a bit

Dazza Mc kenna · 31-05-2014 03:02AM

A train journey back from Waterford to Dublin. the train got bricked causing the window to shatter all over me.

Mike747 · 31-05-2014 02:09PM

Why are there so many degenerates in this country?

893bet · 31-05-2014 03:17PM

I was at a bus stop once just waiting with one of my friends when a little ****ty yellow car drove past and some pigeon chest dude shouted "bus ****" out the window at us.

Ted_YNWA · 31-05-2014 03:25PM

corner of hells wrote: »

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 ia 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 .

Don't drive the bus hungover in future.

Pumpkinseeds · 31-05-2014 03:31PM

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!

I laughed so hard I went from crying to not being able to breathe, thanks I really needed a good laugh today:D

Alf. A. Male · 31-05-2014 03:38PM

Clearly what's need in Ireland is better toilet facilities at bus stations, it might save people ****ting themselves on the bus as frequently as this thread suggests.

TrustedApple · 31-05-2014 03:47PM

There a few months ago was on the bus.

There started to be a strong smell from be hide me and i was like what the hell was that did a baby near me **** them selfs ?.

After another 10 mins the bus driver stopped the bus and called out load and said what is that smell ?.

Turns out a perfect looking normal girl sitting be hide me got sick all over the seat that was beside her and there was this this huge amount of sick on the seat with floating pieces of food and everything in it :eek:

The bus driver eat the head of the girl for not telling him to stop to get sick as everyone on the bus will have to smell it for the next 40 mins.

To this day i never smelled sick as bad as what was be hide me on the bus seat.

People are sick !!!

Umadbrah? · 31-05-2014 03:51PM

samapple789 wrote: »

There a few months ago was on the bus.

There started to be a strong smell from be hide me and i was like what the hell was that did a baby near me **** them selfs ?.

After another 10 mins the bus driver stopped the bus and called out load and said what is that smell ?.

Turns out a perfect looking normal girl sitting be hide me got sick all over the seat that was beside her and there was this this huge amount of sick on the seat with floating pieces of food and everything in it :eek:

The bus driver eat the head of the girl for not telling him to stop to get sick as everyone on the bus will have to smell it for the next 40 mins.

To this day i never smelled sick as bad as what was be hide me on the bus seat.

People are sick !!!

In fairness if she got food poising or something it wan't her fault. It's not like you can hold vomit in..

dee_mc · 31-05-2014 03:58PM

Very uncomfortable bus journey from Buttevant to Mallow once; a couple in their +/- late 60's got on, sat in the seat opposite me, and proceeded to maul each other. She actually mounted him at one stage

(quite impressive agility at that age i suppose but nonetheless, nearly lost my lunch).

osarusan · 31-05-2014 04:26PM

Tokyo's Chuo line when somebody committed suicide by jumping under the train.

RayM · 31-05-2014 05:10PM

I was stuck for over an hour on a broken-down train once. It was somewhere in Staffordshire in England, right beside a toilet factory. There was nothing to do except stare out the window at a massive yard full of Armitage Shanks toilet bowls.

Nothing but toilets, as far as the eye could see.

UCDVet · 31-05-2014 05:49PM

I hate riding a bicycle. I mean, I really hate it. I have allergies and riding into work means a headache and sore throat. I hate dealing with the traffic, the wind, the rain....I also hate that I need to bring a change of clothes to work and, no matter what I do, I'll look like a guy who just spent 45 minutes cycling into work. I really hate that bicycle theft is rampant all over Dublin (and any major city) so not only do I need to carry (two) bicycle locks, I still have to worry about it being stolen (and I've had one lock cut - so it's a very real concern). I also hate the frequency at which I get flats and being late to work because I needed to spend 15 minutes changing a tube on the side of the road, and then inflating it with a hand pump.

But I ride my bicycle every singe day I go to work. Because it's still about fifty times better than riding the Dublin Bus. Seriously, I don't know how people put up with it.

Panda_Turtle · 31-05-2014 08:12PM

Bursting for a sh1te all the way home from town about an hour on the bus.

Got home and realised I was locked out. Luckily there was toilet paper in the shed so behind the hedge I went to drop the bombs.

Stinicker · 31-05-2014 08:41PM

I've had a few nightmarish journeys in my life,

On the LUAS a few years ago I and a few more train passengers got on in Heuston including an elderly American couple with their baggage, anyway somehow the american man dropped a €2 coin and a scumbag skanger immediately pounced on the coin with cheetah like skills and picked it up only for the old American chap to say "hey excuse me, I dropped that give it to me" and then him and his wife were met with a total barrage of abuse from said scummer (of about 15 years) and a few of his mates, who were accusing the American guy of accusing him of being a thief.

It really rattled the old man as he and his wife were at least 75 to 80 but they said nothing and when the scummers couldn't provoke a reaction they moved up the tram. Both the american guy and I disembarked at Abbey St. and as he was walking up the street I just handed him a €5 note and said I'm sorry you had to witness that, these people are not representative of the real Ireland. I would have loved to have told-off said scummer and if it was my own elderly parents that it was done to I probably wouldn't have kept my cool.

I had to endure a nightmare train trip another time with drunken teenagers at 7am (up from the night before) and they were planning on getting to Dublin to see a Kerry game, they were totally out of control and I told the train staff who had the guards waiting and had them thrown off at Mallow a long time before they got to Dublin.

I've had a few long epic journeys involving trains, buses, and planes but thankfully never had any other people trouble along the way. A 47 hour marathon journey home from Bangkok two years ago was about as bad as that was. I did a 20 hour bus trip via Wales from London to Kerry before which was hellish because it was long etc.but the people were lovely consisting mainly of old grannies and a few broke students and two huge obese passengers whom I suspect were just too fat to fly.

I only ever encounter "People" trouble in Ireland I notice.

Maphisto · 31-05-2014 09:05PM

Stinicker wrote: »

I've had a few nightmarish journeys in my life,

On the LUAS a few years ago I and a few more train passengers got on in Heuston including an elderly American couple with their baggage, anyway somehow the american man dropped a €2 coin and a scumbag skanger immediately pounced on the coin with cheetah like skills and picked it up only for the old American chap to say "hey excuse me, I dropped that give it to me" and then him and his wife were met with a total barrage of abuse from said scummer (of about 15 years) and a few of his mates, who were accusing the American guy of accusing him of being a thief.

It really rattled the old man as he and his wife were at least 75 to 80 but they said nothing and when the scummers couldn't provoke a reaction they moved up the tram. Both the american guy and I disembarked at Abbey St. and as he was walking up the street I just handed him a €5 note and said I'm sorry you had to witness that, these people are not representative of the real Ireland. I would have loved to have told-off said scummer and if it was my own elderly parents that it was done to I probably wouldn't have kept my cool.
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Good for you

deseil · 31-05-2014 09:17PM

Every summer from the age of seven I was put on a burkes bus from Dublin to Tuam to visit my granny,

My parents never had a car so I was not used to travelling and got motion sickness.
I used to travel alone or with my sister and was given an empty plastic bag which was handed to granny at the end of each and every journey full of puke containing all the crap I'd bought on the rest stop at Moate.
Sometimes the bag had a hole so I'd have a little puddle of puke at my feet and leave a trail of it all down the bus
Everytime I was met by Granny saying "for f*ck sake" and apologising to the bus driver.

Lapin · 31-05-2014 09:23PM

I was served a slightly tepid glass of Champagne on Concorde once.

OldMrBrennan83 · 31-05-2014 09:29PM

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Butterface · 31-05-2014 09:37PM

I got marched off a tram and right up to a banklink by a tram inspector and an armed police officer in the Czech Republic. I had the wrong tram ticket (which I had been told to buy by the ticket vendor!). They demanded to see my passport and then at the next stop got off and walked off ahead with it up to a banklink. The only way I knew what was happening was a nice Polish girl got off the tram with me and tried to argue my case. I gave them about 30e and they gave me back my passport, but they were unneccessarily aggressive about it.

Tin Foil Hat · 31-05-2014 09:47PM

I was in a aisle seat on a bus in Rio. A stream of men filed past me, their bits and pieces stuffed into budgie-smugglers 20 centimeters from my face. Horrific!

AulBiddy · 01-06-2014 12:37AM

Had to take the bus home from work experience one day because I had no lift. Not many free seats so I sat next to a fairly innocent looking woman who was listening to music on her phone. As soon as the bus started to move she took out the smelliest tuna sandwich one could smell. It was absolutely roasting that day too. Luckily my journey was only 20 minutes long but my god was I glad to get off that bus. The sandwich seemed to last for eternity.

Also, refused to use the toilets at bus aras so had to hold my pee the whole way home (thought there would be a toilet on the bus). It was painful.

Sgt Hartman · 01-06-2014 02:17PM

I'm a bit of a public transport veteran at this stage so I've bad quite a few crappy experiences..

On the train from Dublin to Limerick in June 99 I was sat across from a drunken dwarf who kept on spilling her can of cider on the table, it was dripping onto my legs. Another time back in June 2001 this extremely loud aggressive guy with one leg sat beside me. He was smoking and shouting over to his scummy mates all the time. I had to get up and go to a different carraige. I nearly puked from the smell of smoke and BO off him.

On the bus from Galway to Limerick there was this extremely camp effeminate guy who looked a bit like Colin Farrell. He was airing his dirty laundry quite loudly on the phone for the whole bus to hear. " You keep stirring up **** between me and my family, you're always stirring up **** between us. My sister is the only one in my family I talk to and you're stirring up **** between us again". Once he had finished that phonecall he rang someone else and quite loudly again he was like... "Oh HELLO dawlring, how are you sugar? What are you up to tonight chicken?" Ugg! It was painful

On the 101 Dublin to Drogheda bus a couple of years ago the bus was pulling away from the stop. As it was pulling away there was someone banging the side of the bus really aggressively shouting "OPEN THE GODDAMN DOOR YOU FCUKING ASSHOLE!" The bus stopped and this bearded, ponytailed middle-aged American fella got on with a young child and started berating the driver. "YOU FCUCKING ASSHOLE, LEAVING A YOUNG CHILD STANDING THERE IN THE RAIN!!" The weather was pretty bad that day and in fairness to the driver he musn't have seen the American guy with the child approaching the stop before he pulled off. The American guy plonked himself down on one of the seats while the driver told him to leave. He just sat there and wouldn't budge. The driver had to call the Gards and we waited about 20 minutes before the Gards came and took him off. All the while he was just sat there cursing. I felt sorry for the poor kid that was with him who looked really frightened and embarrassed.

Worst public transport experience

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