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Share your strange bus riding experiences

Leros

Leros

Lifer
I was on the bus this morning riding to school. This guy in a suit with a briefcase sits down next to me. Everything is fine, but a few minutes later he starts twitching or having little spasms. The ride was only about 10 minutes long, but he made a couple of hissing sounds (like a cat).

 
People who ride the bus are either insane or afraid of all the insane people.

Kinda sucks... if it weren't for all the nutjobs, public transportation might be a lot better in this country.
 
Originally posted by: Leros
I was on the bus this morning riding to school. This guy in a suit with a briefcase sits down next to me. Everything is fine, but a few minutes later he starts twitching or having little spasms. The ride was only about 10 minutes long, but he made a couple of hissing sounds (like a cat).
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was there any sunlight on his body? maybe he was a vampire?
 
I was on a bus and we drove by a bus stop on a rainy day (at ~55MPH).

A 20-foot-high wave of water from the road washed over everyone at the bus stop. 🙁 I felt so bad for them!
 
Originally posted by: Sabot
There was a shooting at my subway stop yesterday
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Osgoode?

Weirdest rides involved a hobo-rapist and a really happy driver. The hobo-rapist somehow got on, the driver was smart enough to not confront him, but this asshole began harassing a schoolgirl. He was "motioning" his body very suggestively towards her, and no one did anything about it until he voluntarily got off. I was 13 and still 5'2"-ish then.

The happy driver was singing into the comm. of a packed streetcar. I thought it was funny, but some people were freaked out and asked to be let off. Best ride ever...
 
Maybe he was doing what most people do.

Act crazy when someone sits near you so the person moves and you have extra leg room.
 
I ride the subway a few times a day and see my share of oddities. One incident in particular sticks out in my mind. I boarded the subway at rush hour to return home from work. The area directly by the door had a pocket of emptiness but otherwise the train was at its crush capacity. This seemed surprising and odd to me, but in a ?great for some reason I have lots of space!? kind of way than a ?I wonder why no one is standing here?? way. So the train gets moving and I have a look around my immediate area and notice a homeless standing beside me. This is not the usual at rush hour but not unheard of so no big deal.

I look down at this curious bag he is holding and realize why I'm standing in a mostly empty space with this guy. He is holding a clear plastic bag filled with blood and the corpses of several mutilated animals that look like they may have been squirrels. Also in the bag and coming out of the top is a coiled plastic tube which seems to have one end inserted into a mutilated animal. Gross drippings are coming from the bottom of the bag and forming a little bloody puddle on the floor around my feet. I got off at the next station and waited for the next train.
 
In my pre-car days i encountered a crazy hobo who went up and down the walkway telling everyone with jeans on "god bless your blue jeans in the name of jesus christ"... then giving mean looks to those wearing slacks
 
Originally posted by: Imp
Originally posted by: Sabot
There was a shooting at my subway stop yesterday
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Osgoode?

Weirdest rides involved a hobo-rapist and a really happy driver. The hobo-rapist somehow got on, the driver was smart enough to not confront him, but this asshole began harassing a schoolgirl. He was "motioning" his body very suggestively towards her, and no one did anything about it until he voluntarily got off. I was 13 and still 5'2"-ish then.

The happy driver was singing into the comm. of a packed streetcar. I thought it was funny, but some people were freaked out and asked to be let off. Best ride ever...
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Indeed, Osgoode

Swat team was out and everything, K9 etc
 
Originally posted by: Kntx
I ride the subway a few times a day and see my share of oddities. One incident in particular sticks out in my mind. I boarded the subway at rush hour to return home from work. The area directly by the door had a pocket of emptiness but otherwise the train was at its crush capacity. This seemed surprising and odd to me, but in a ?great for some reason I have lots of space!? kind of way than a ?I wonder why no one is standing here?? way. So the train gets moving and I have a look around my immediate area and notice a homeless standing beside me. This is not the usual at rush hour but not unheard of so no big deal.

I look down at this curious bag he is holding and realize why I'm standing in a mostly empty space with this guy. He is holding a clear plastic bag filled with blood and the corpses of several mutilated animals that look like they may have been squirrels. Also in the bag and coming out of the top is a coiled plastic tube which seems to have one end inserted into a mutilated animal. Gross drippings are coming from the bottom of the bag and forming a little bloody puddle on the floor around my feet. I got off at the next station and waited for the next train.
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good fucking god... what city?
 
I have seen a few weird ones.

Once when riding the Skytrain (above-ground train), there was a meth addict scratching the shit out of his face and screaming at the top of his lungs. The rest of the people on the train were shocked and dead silent.

On the bus a couple years ago I saw a lady go into a full-blown epileptic seizure and almost fall off her seat. I waited for the next bus while the driver waited for the ambulance to show up.

Once I saw a drunk guy in his late teens get pissed off about missing his stop and having to travel over the bridge to the next bus stop. He started yelling obscenities and then he wound up and punched the glass in the rear door. He left a crack probably 6 or 8 inches wide. Then he started taunting everyone on the bus: "Who the fuck wants some, huh?". The driver called the transit police and he was arrested at the next stop.

I recall a story a few years ago about a psychologically disturbed woman who set a driver and bus on fire. IIRC it was one of the sketchier downtown Vancouver routes (Hastings or Victoria). Thankfully I wasn't on that bus.
 
When Tropical Storm Allison hit Houston years back, my normal 45 minute bus ride home took over 3 hours as parts of I-10 were under water. We had to take side roads and work ourselves back to the highway. In any case, we were back on the highway, traffic was very slow, bumper to bumper. It was pouring out, but we were about 4-5 miles from our park and ride location. Suddenly a guy walks down the aisle to the driver and says something. He makes his way back, picks up his briefcase and then proceeds back to the front of the bus at which point the bus driver opens the door and the guys gets out. Mind you it's pouring, we are on the highway and still miles from our stop. Also, the only way to get to any businesses is to cross a culvert that is full of water. Noone was quite sure why the guy suddenly needed to get off, but we surmised he just couldn't hold it any longer. Ironically and unbeknownst the guy, the traffic cleared up about a half mile down and we got to our stop in about 5 minutes.

Also, I've been in 3 bus accidents in my ten years of riding. Last one, an old gentlemen didn't stop at his red light and smacked us going about 40 mph.
 
Train from Santa Barbara to Tacoma (35 hours or so). For the first 22 hours, I am next to a man who as far as I can tell used to be in the Navy, and while stationed in New Zealand and doing occassional work in Antarctica, he got in a motorcycle accident and collided head-on with a box truck. The head neurosurgeon at Christchurch thought he was completely brain dead and had no hope for survival, but he made a miraculous recovery. The way of his speech and how he walked (he had shattered his pelvis he said) suggested this could be true. He was unable to really process anything I said to him, aside from being responsive to questions, and he would more or less repeat pieces of his life story in great detail as if he had recited it many times before. He was on his way to some place in the middle of nowhere, Montana, where he lived, I had no idea what he had been doing in California.

After he left, in Portland a group of 5 young people came on. It seemed like they were together but overhearing them they had just met at the train station. One was a guy with a guitar heading to Seattle, then there was a couple headed to Seattle, then there was another couple headed to Vancouver. The girl from Hawaii could sing really well and her boyfriend thought he was a good poet, and strangely enough the guitarist was a white guy who spoke fluent Mandarin. The poet guy started doing some spoken word and then the other guy in a couple did too, and then the guitarist started playing guitar and the Hawaii girl started singing. People passed by and some stayed to watch. Then some kid maybe 18 joins the group and starts talking about how he is roaming around and traveling, but I think he is full of shit because he tells stories about places I've been that sound off and he says shit like 'I was in Rome and just decided I was going to walk to London.' Right kid. You walked to London from fucking Rome, thousands of miles away. Anyway that was weird to have the train car turn into a beatnik love festival.

edit: I also thought he was full of shit because him and what seemed to be his mother and a couple relatives helped me pack my bike in a box at the train station. He seemed like a kid being sent off by his family, hopefully to an institution because he was nuts (you had to hear the shit he was saying)
 
one time I was sitting with a friend in same seat, the bus was pretty packed. This native guy in t he seat not very far from us was acompanied by his friend, the native guy was having some kind of temper tantrum and hitting everything around him while his friend was trying to restrain him. he kept banging on the seat (metal btw). Now this was your typical GM city bus, like in the movie Speed. Thouse are serious tough busses and this story confirms it. This guy was also stomping the floor. Then he decided to punch the window and it shattered but stayed in one piece. The people behind were quite scared and shielding their face as that glass could of let go any time, at this point. I can hear the bus driver mumbling stuff in the CB radio, probably getting the cops ready at the terminal, but not wanting to start a scene in the bus. Other then that the bus kept going it's normal route.

Getting at the terminal we GTFO. I never seen a bus empty that fast.

I feel sorry for that guy's friend though. One punch and he would of probably been down or even killed. These native guys are not to be messed around with. 😱 But he did a fairly good job at restraining him. Thing is he was not wanting to hurt anyone he was just more or less hurting himself. Basically picture an emo, drunk, and 300 pounds, of muscle. Yeah.
 
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