Bus driver punishes passengers over one person's complaint

The driver told them the bus would idle at a layover for an extra half-hour -- and nobody was allowed to get off. The reason: Someone had reported that he had been swerving during the first leg of the trip. "Since you aggravated me, I'm going to aggravate you," he said. (Boston Globe | Associated Press)

Comments

[Jack]

"The passengers on a New York-to-Boston Peter Pan bus Sunday afternoon heard an announcement that few travelers expect to hear. The bus would idle at a Framingham layover for an extra half-hour - and nobody was allowed to get off."

Well, with layovers like that you'll wont make it to Never-Never Land.

[Cherie]

Isnt that kidnapping? I'd tell him to kiss my ass and I'd walk off the bus.

[ugboss]

I hate idle threats.

[Yall]

Unless all the passengers were feeble little old folks or kids, how the hell does he think he can keep anyone on a bus if they want off?

[Cherie]

Yall, its sort of like being stuck on a plane on a tarmac for hours on end. Entrapment. I'm sure a bus would be a bit easier to get off of than a plane....
I definitely would've left the bus, I'd guess people would follow if you had one person ballsy enough to go for it....it didn't say he had a weapon of any kind.

[SteveO]

Some people live the dream. This guy is my hero today. But if he had done it to me I would have been popping out the emergency exit windows.

[buddy]

ugboss - i got it

[natallica]

i swear that guy must have been my bus driver the time i rode a peter pan bus. it was my first time traveling alone. i was catching another bus and since we were late arriving to the station, i asked him what i should do. he pointed to another bus and screamed "ARE YOU BLIND? THAT'S YOUR BUS!"

what a welcome i had to the east coast....

[Sean, Torrington CT]

People don't ride the bus for the service...

[Dave]

"I hate idle threats."

HAHA! Not much more to say after that...

[Dick C. Normas]

I would have simply told him to go F*!$# himself. Then I would take my 6'3" 245 lbs ass and removed his face from my fist.

[chiarams]

You have to wonder why no one would've called 911 or the Peter Pan office.

If I'm being held against my will on a bus, I'd be more than happy to let the bus driver deal with the local authorities.

[BallstotheWall]

He can't tell me not to get off. Busses are my favorite places to masterbate.

[A.V.]

"Crean also received what he described as an atypical handwritten letter from a third passenger, faxed to him with no return address or phone number, praising the driver for acting "respectfully and courteously" despite "agitated" passengers.'

Well, at least we know the driver owns a fax machine.

[elchampino]

Once it became clear the guy was unhinged, I would have not only done everything in my power to get off the bus, I would have tried my best to make sure this nut and his several ton bus never made it out of the parking lot and onto the highway where he could play out his little dictator fantasies on the road at 90 plus mph.

[Soo]

Mom?

[KC]

Well, I hear that someone among us
Has anonymously raised a fuss.
Don't like how I drive?
Then plan to arrive
Behind schedule; you're stuck on this bus!

[buddy]

the driver on the bus goes swerve swerve swerve
swerve swerve swerve
swerve swerve swerve

[Soo]

somebody tattled--they had some nerve nerve nerve
nerve nerve nerve
nerve nerve nerve

now the driver's real damn cross
real damn cross
real damn cross

you'll sit your ass down 'cause he's the boss
boss boss boss
boss boss boss

*thanks a lot buddy. that's worse than "this is the song that never ends..."

[KC]

99 people are stuck on the bus,
99 people are stuck.
Take one lout, let him get out;
98 people are stuck on the bus.

98 people are stuck on the bus....

[Soo]

Spank you very much, KC. That was soooo helpful! :P

[Cherie]

Ok...
The wheels on the bus dont go round and round
round and round
round and roun
The wheels on the bus dont go round and round
cause the driver's too tightly wound.

[yucca]

Egads everyone...enuff! I've got an amalgom of counting songs and that damn bus song in my head,forever churning.

This has got to be some form of kidnapping. And I would have made a very large disturbance, especially after his smirkish grin. I would have freaked the F out. You may NOT keep me adhered to a psychos agenda.

[yucca]

Also, THe author of the story looks as though he's 12.

[Lou Sussler]

Even if you could get off, and the article implied that one guy could but he couldn't get his luggage, what would you do, where would you go?

If you're on the bus to Boston and you get off in Framingham, aren't you screwed?

ALSO, would the folks posting in rhymes or poetry consider trying haiku? It might be a little more difficult but it may be more meaningful.

Thank you very much
For considering haiku
In your posts herein

[The Asshole Guy]

Shit, I hate to admit this but for once Cherie typed out something funny and amusing. Someone must have kidnapped the bitch inside of her for a few mins.

[andie]

Were these people a bunch of sheep? I'm sure that none attempted to get off because the driver looked crazed and he's the guy who controls the door. But what kept people from calling 911 and reporting a hostage situation, I don't know. My first instinct when I read this would have been to call and report...

And whoever said that at least the driver owns a fax, don't count on it. He probably took it to the local Kinko's.

[buddy]

this driver would scare rosa parks to the back of the bus

[JimmyVa]

I would have peed on his driver's seat.

[nunya]

Peter Pan Bus Lines' director of safety and security, Christopher Crean, said he has suspended the driver and is investigating the incident.

"If any of this came even close to happening, the driver could in some cases be subject to termination," Crean said. "It's definitely become an issue. And the more I dig, the less I like."

sounds like this driver needs a psych exam along w/ the suspension.and something in his record that will never allow him to have a commercial drivers license again.he's a hazard.

[sometimesilie]

What's up the picture of the guy on the Boston Globe site? It looks like he just saw his village raped and plundered and his dog shot- not at all like you'd expect someone to look after being "trapped" on a bus for 30 minutes.

[d'ep]

That's just a classic emo kid pose. "I was inconvenienced and it made me sad."

[sometimesilie]

LOL d'ep.

My boss has a sticker on his desk that says "I wish my lawn was emo so it's cut itself" and there is a picture of a lawnmower. I almost feel guilty for laughing.

[d'ep]

LOL SIL!

That's awesome!

[A.V.]

"Egads everyone...enuff!"

Nyucca nyucca nyucca
Woo woo
Moe!! Larryyyyyyyyy!!