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Dublin Bus Bursts into Flames

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  • #32
    OneEightSeven
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    Drakares wrote: »
    I never get people who do this. The same when there's some scumbags having a fight on the side of the road.. People whipping out their phones to record :confused:

    What do you want them to do, pee on the bus to put it out? If someone rang the fire brigade already, you might as well record it.


  • #33
    smellmepower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 829 ✭✭✭smellmepower


    mikom wrote: »
    "Fuckin' pegged it, he did".


    ''With the muck on them windows?''


  • #34
    Odyssey 2005
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    Good to see that Dublin Bus can afford to give their Chief Investigator a personalised Hi-viz-vest. H&S will be pleased.:rolleyes:


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,055 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Oh, it was on fire? I thought it was just really fast.


  • #36
    Ghost Train
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    Well that's what you get for stopping on a yellow box


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  • #37
    shopaholic01
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    OneEightSeven wrote: »
    What do you want them to do, pee on the bus to put it out? If someone rang the fire brigade already, you might as well record it.
    Record it for what - prosperity? :confused: Why do people feel the need to record everything now?


  • #38
    Calibos
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    There are reports that the passengers were singing as they got off the Bus.
    Stop de Bus, We need to FLEE FLEE!!...Stop de Bus, we need to Flee flee!!

    :D


  • #39
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »
    I don't get it
    Wouldn't expect you to.
    All you need to know is less fancy people use them for transport.
    You might have spotted one from the air, they are a little taller but not quite as long as your usual day to day limo:cool:


  • #40
    FortuneChip
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    UCDVet wrote: »
    Does anyone know what bus route this was on? Not that it matters, I'm just curious.

    Fairly sure it was the 77a I was on today.
    I got on opposite Watergate park shortly after 12. Driver said he was having problems with the bus (didn't take payments, cheers!), and had been in touch with dispatch or whatever to get another bus out (don't know what help that did, we basically got on the next scheduled bus).

    I sat down the back on the bottom floor, the smell of petrol fumes was horrible.
    The bus barely made it to the next stop at Old Bawn (about 300 metres, took all of five minutes), and he told all that it was a loss cause, so we'd all have to leave the vehicle and get the next bus.

    I didn't find out about any fire until I got into work later (so it may have been a different bus, but doesn't seem likely).


  • #41
    krudler
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    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    ''Concerned onlookers, who quickly snapped images.'' :rolleyes:

    What would you do? pull out your fire putting out equipment and set to work?


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  • #42
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    The writer was very careful to tell us that there was smoke coming from this fire.

    That's an awesome fire


  • #43
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    krudler wrote: »
    What would you do? pull out your fire putting out equipment and set to work?
    Ring the fire brigade and carry on with my day. I'd hardly be overly concerned if I just stood there recording it. It's not something I'd look at in years to come.


  • #44
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Arthur Beesley wrote: »
    I heard a junkie accidentally set himself on fire and the fire spread.


    Set them all on fire.


    wha wha wha


  • #45
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    There were some worried faces on my Dublin Bus today when the driver stopped on the side of the road and hurried out to the back of the bus :D


    It was a flat tyre.


  • #46
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    What happened the story on Thejournal.ie about this story?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #47
    kylith
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    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Jesus! That could have ended up much much worse! I usually sit down the back at the bottom, the thoughts of getting caught in that is quite frightening.
    You'd be right beside the emergency exit in that case.


  • #48
    MRnotlob606
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    i would say this is paranormal


  • #49
    galwayredgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 192 ✭✭galwayredgirl


    Why do buses seem to have a habit of just going up in flames? - It happens with shocking regularity!


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