Young child splashed slightly as bus takes corner too quickly....

[Saturn74]

Twas a VERY big puddle, according to bystanders (some of whom also got a bit damp around the lower leg area).
And the child......wasn't wearing wellies.
What is the world coming to?

it's a disgrace

lock em all up

They would have done, but there weren't any 'Bus Only' parking spaces available!

does anyone else remember the news story (real, i might add) about a bloke who got done for driving without due care and attention after splashing a pedestrian?

Was the pedestrian a magistrate?

PMSL - love the thread title

Cor, I would have loved to have taken a bloke to court once when he completely soaked me by driving past straight through a huge puddle.

Was still cursing him for the whole of the rest of the 20 minute walk home that day...

See, it's a considerable problem that no-one is addressing seriously.
Let's start a campaign - but avoid puddles during any protest marches, obviously!

proper local newspaper - 'Bus Drench Horror' would have made the front page...

no, just a saddo with nothing better to do I think. lol

Re the title - apparently it's going to take over 8 hours for the shoes of this poor child to dry out.

HumphreyCushion.

I'd sue the bus company. And maybe the local council.

...and the little pair of stripey socks will never, ever recover.

Noooooo.... not the stripey socks....

Yes, RD - the ones with the Wallace and Gromit motif!
They were too badly damaged to be saved, apparently. The mother of the child is expected to hold a press conference soon, praising the work that the socks did in protecting the tootsies of her child.

I think that's possibly the most tragic thing I've read all day ...

Ooh and an for good measure.

Oh shit. Just realised that I was supposed to just say "oh how sad " and left it at that while rubber-necking.

I really am awfully sorry I buggered up your thread, Humphrey...

RD.
Tis not buggered, don't worry!

pmsl

Bumping this as I know Boysarelikedogs enjoys it when threads are dragged kicking and screaming from the archives.

(have emailed you , you hussy)

I shit myself for a minute there when I looke dta the date of the OP and thought i'd missed the manchester mn night out!