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To be glad this rasict got her arse kicked

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maypole1 · 13/12/2011 13:27

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2073496/Yet-ANOTHER-racist-rant-public-transport-caught-camera-abusive-woman-aims-kick-bus-passenger--falls-flat-back.html

Yet another drunken racist but this time she got a can of whoop arse

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AmberLeaf · 13/12/2011 14:03

He did throw her off, you can even hear the noise of the door release and see the open doorway.

maypole1 · 13/12/2011 14:05

festi yes he chucked her off the bus I wish somone would of intervened not a good look for both parties

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AmberLeaf · 13/12/2011 14:07

So was that bus still moving when he threw her off?

maypole1 · 13/12/2011 14:07

it was a bendy bus so no steps just hard pavement

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maypole1 · 13/12/2011 14:08

Don't know I think I heard people shouting stop the bus when she gave him a kick so the bus might have stopped by then

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festi · 13/12/2011 14:08

I think there is a fine line in acceptable retiliation, where as I feel this over stepped it I didnt think the big man on the other link with the guy who didnt have a ticket over stepped it, it is difficult to define. this made me uncomfertable and the other clip didnt. I suposse every one has their own level due to personal experience.

SirCliffRichardSucksEggsInHell · 13/12/2011 14:09

Would you have put yourself between a drunken racist and a clearly irate, large black guy?

As much as I would normally intervene in any situation like that, I think even I would have thought twice.

Firawla · 13/12/2011 14:10

couldn't watch it yet as kids around but imo if she was shouting racist comments and took it a step further of trying to attack and punch the guy then yes she deserves if people retaliate. who cares she's a woman, its not wrong to fight her back if she has started it.

witherhills · 13/12/2011 14:11

That woman is very drunk, it looks very much like we missed an incident before it, looks to me like he is completely taking the piss out of her.
The only thing I can make out is her saying "she doesn't know if he is afro-caribbean" his response I've already told you who the fuck I am is very aggressive and suggests a previous row.
He was horribly aggressive as well as defensive.
He throws her off the bus, he could have killed her

She probably is racist, she was aggressive, but that video doesn't really prove a lot

Kladdkaka · 13/12/2011 14:11

I don't think this guy did anything wrong at all. He didn't retaliate. It looks to me like he was trying to hold her away from him while she was still trying to hit him.

festi · 13/12/2011 14:18

he punched her twice in the face once before he slammed her into the side area and once again before he threw her off the bus, that was obviouse to me on the film, he certainly didnt just hold her.

AmberLeaf · 13/12/2011 14:21

She may well be racist but she didnt shout racist comments in that video.

She hit him first but his response was disproportionate and throwing her off the bus like that was way to far, if it was still moving that could've killed her.

Kladdkaka, really ?

sozzledchops · 13/12/2011 14:23

Funny, but I had more problem with the Scotrail clip of the Big Man throwing the smaller guy of the bus. Not so much here as she was violent and horrendous, the black guy did escalate it a bit and would have been better if she could make a total tit of herself without any violence. He didn't come out of it well either.

GypsyMoth · 13/12/2011 14:24

Where is the racism bit? She asks him if he's Afro Caribbean.... Is that the racist part?

sozzledchops · 13/12/2011 14:29

Looked again and he looks like he's just trying to push her out the way and keep her at arms length until he pushed her off. He didn't use that much force, more protecting himself. Man, she ticks every box about the perception of 'British women'.

wheredidiputit · 13/12/2011 14:35

festi, He didn't 'punch her twice' he blocking her from hitting him again if you look. Every thing he doing is stopping her.

woollyideas · 13/12/2011 14:35

Man, she ticks every box about the perception of 'British women'.

Charming.

SenoritaViva · 13/12/2011 14:39

These kind of behaviours that are appearing make me embarrassed to be (white) British.

SirCliffRichardSucksEggsInHell · 13/12/2011 14:41

Littlest - she goes on about being English a bit too.

sozzled - could you re-phrase that bit about British women please?

The clip is open to interpretation but I still say that she was so pissed she could hardly stand, he could have easily walked away. He didn't. He shoved her to the ground and could have hurt other passengers who had to all move out of the way. The end looks like a fisticuffs between the pair of them, but even if it is not, throwing her down on the floor like that was unnecessary given the state she was already in.

SenoritaViva · 13/12/2011 14:42

What I mean is that the whole thing is a problem. Why do people get so drunk and aggressive? In my day, we kept ourselves to ourselves on the bus home, sometimes we had a friendly chat and made friends. Why so much aggression? I can't tell the whole story from this video, she definitely was behaving inappropriately and (possibly) him rather aggressively too. Either way, this just depresses me.

festi · 13/12/2011 14:48

I disagree wheredidiputit I can clearly see him punching her in the face twice that was in view of cammera and she was bleeding.

woollyideas · 13/12/2011 14:51

Why are obviously drunk people even allowed onto public transport? It's unpleasant for everyone.

Kladdkaka · 13/12/2011 14:53

Because the alternative is even more unpleasant for everyone. They drive themselves home instead.

SirCliffRichardSucksEggsInHell · 13/12/2011 14:58

Oh I see the Daily Mail have kindly produced a transcript of what she is saying. How ironic that the Daily Mail should come over all high and mighty on racism.

Having seen the video again, I am unclear whether he punches her but he does grab her throat, then he tackles to her to ground and when she tries to get up he pushes her back - head first - out of the bus. The doors close and you can see him step back.

I don't think he should have taken her on - there was obviously a lot going on beforehand judging by the whooping and laughter. He made that situation escalate and then reacted very aggressively. Of course he may fully regret his actions now and may have done so in the heat of the moment, but this clip is not about some racist getting her comeuppance, it's just a sad reflection of our society.

sozzledchops · 13/12/2011 15:41

You are not aware that the perception that many Countries like to peddle about 'British Women' is overweight, aggressive, drunk, foul mouthed, badly dressed? Bad enough trying to work against what other folk like to jibe at us without having this kind of thing all over the Internet to prove their point.