Quiana Bradley wrote to "Going Public" about a bad bus experience Tuesday night. Her letter continues after the jump.
"A little after 9 p.m. [Tuesday] night a friend and I were heading home from school. We boarded the No. 75 75th Street Damen bus going westbound from the 79th Street Red Line.
After we boarded, a group of boys between the ages of 6 and 12 years old got on behind us, some carrying sticks and white buckets.
On our bus ride going westbound one of the boys started drumming the bucket. Annoyed by the noise, my friend politely asked the boy to please stop. The boy continued saying he paid his fare (meaning he had a right to drum the bucket), even after other boy with him asked him to stop.
A female passenger on the back of the bus near the boys hollered up to the front of the bus for the driver to ask the boys to stop. ...
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The bus driver told the female passenger to tell the boy to stop
drumming. Basically he didn't give a care.
Eventually the boys got off the bus at 75th and Vincennes. That boy was so rude. The noise was loud and annoying and the bus driver was too scared to do anything.
As a passenger who do we go to in cases like that when the driver is too scared to use his/her authority.
That boy was out of order and we expected the bus driver to put some order into the situation.
I understand this maybe is his everyday route and he was probably afraid of retaliation from the boys. But what if a altercation broke loose on that bus??? Who would we turn to for HELP????"
Eventually the boys got off the bus at 75th and Vincennes. That boy was so rude. The noise was loud and annoying and the bus driver was too scared to do anything.
As a passenger who do we go to in cases like that when the driver is too scared to use his/her authority.
That boy was out of order and we expected the bus driver to put some order into the situation.
I understand this maybe is his everyday route and he was probably afraid of retaliation from the boys. But what if a altercation broke loose on that bus??? Who would we turn to for HELP????"
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CGT said:
"the driver is too scared to use his/her authority."
What authority? All the driver can do is call the police, only further delaying everyone's commute, and who knows if they'll ever even show up. The driver can tell someone to be quiet or exit the bus, but that doesn't mean they must.
"But what if a altercation broke loose on that bus??? Who would we turn to for HELP????""
Are there people out there who believe that should a real altercation break out, that the driver is to lay down his or her life for the passengers on the bus? Because that's not gonna happen, if something real happens on the bus, I can assure you, the driver is a normal person just like everyone else on the bus, and will open the doors, exit the bus, and get to a safe distant where he or she can hopefully notify the police of the situation.
In regards to the situation at hand, while it certainly sounds like these boys were quite annoying, that sounds like all they did. The nearest thing I can see to an altercation was coming from the people upset about them.
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