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'Naughty' toddler thrown off bus

104 replies

Limpopo · 18/06/2010 13:09

here

Can't believe the bus driver What a bully. Bet if it was a gang of teenagers acting up he wouldn't have said anything. How embarrassing for the poor mum

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ShinyAndNew · 18/06/2010 14:53

Everyone sided with mother and declared that the bus driver to be an arse and then a few days later, it turned out that the woman had made the whole thing up

cyteen · 18/06/2010 14:55

Ah, thanks

HecateQueenOfWitches · 18/06/2010 14:58

It is very distracting trying to drive if there is a lot of screaming. If the child was having a full blown tantrum and it was stopping the bus driver from keeping his full attention on the road then that poses a danger to other passengers.

So it really depends if the child was so loud and so distracting that the driver felt to continue with him on the bus was a hazard.

God knows I've had to pull over when my kids started. There's noise and then there's noise!! You know?

HecateQueenOfWitches · 18/06/2010 14:59

that's my car not my bus. I don't have that many kids.

TheHeathenOfSuburbia · 18/06/2010 15:06

thecatatemygymsuit - you must have a very focussed 3yo; DD could easily take 20 mins just getting to the end of our road...

scrappydappydoo · 18/06/2010 15:08

I'd be interested in the cctv footage -
If its true I do feel for the mum - I didn't suffer from morning sickness but I had extreme tiredness til I was about 6mths pg I normally walk a lot but for me to have walked a mile in early pregnancy would have been exhausting espec with screaming toddler but I also understand that the bus driver as the safety of the bus and passengers to consider and ultimately has final say in who rides and who doesn't

thecatatemygymsuit · 18/06/2010 15:12

Heathen, well I guess she is, plus I'm afraid I'm rather a marcher and she marches along with me. Stems from impatience!
I didn't think it was especially unusual though, I'm not trying to score points.

tvfriend · 18/06/2010 15:15

What was the story that was made up? Was it the 'thrown off a bus for bf one' or something else??

HecateQueenOfWitches · 18/06/2010 15:21

Yes that was the one, I think.

The cctv footage showed nothing of the sort happened.

The woman apologised and said she had pnd.

tvfriend · 18/06/2010 15:24

Thanks!

wannaBe · 18/06/2010 15:25

Why on earth would you go to the press about this?

Sammyuni · 18/06/2010 15:29

Well this is difficult because it is unfair that the woman was thrown off BUT if the screaming of the child was impeding the persons ability to concentrate on driving then this is a safety issue involving peoples lives.

dawntigga · 18/06/2010 15:31

Manadon roundabout to crownhill is about a mile if she lives on the other side of crownhill it could be a bit longer but not much.

IMissPlymouthTiggaxx

OrmRenewed · 18/06/2010 15:33

twat!

NormaSknockers · 18/06/2010 15:37

The being 4 months pregnant could well be relevant. I had awful SPD in both my pregnancies & it would have taken me a hell of a lot longer then half an hour to walk over a mile, it still would now due to back problems.

Trouble is, as with all stories like this, we weren't there so we can't be 100% sure what happened, it's easy to say she shouldn't have got on the bus with a hot & bothered toddler but we don't know the full story or even how far she travelled before she was asked to leave (or do we?). Before I was able to drive I had to go everywhere by train or bus as we live in the middle of no-where & to try & walk with a 2 year old, a baby & serious back problems would have been near impossible.

It will be interesting to see what the CCTV brings.

Debs75 · 18/06/2010 15:40

I do feel sorry for her. It must of felt very embaressing(sp) and a bit scary being thrown off a bus. my DD1 used to scream herself to sleep or puke on most bus rides so was quite disruptive but not in a malicious way. He was only screaming after all, peak time buses with incessant chatter can be much louder.
Agree would be good to see the CCTV before we pass too much judgement

As for walking over a mile, it is not a hardship. I am 6 months pregnant and today walked about 1 and a half miles. I'm tired but it did me good

HerBeatitude · 18/06/2010 15:58

well obviously, mothers with screaming children shouldn't be allowed to go on buses at all.

They should all buy cars and add to congestion, global warming and the obesity epidemic.

It's outrageous to suggest that a mother with a fractious child should have access to public transport.

HerBeatitude · 18/06/2010 16:01

And also just because you felt like climbing Everest at 4 months pregnant with a fractious toddler, doesn't meant that a mile can't feel like Everest for someone who is going through a tough patch in pregnancy.

I hate this shit about "pregnancy isn't a disability". No it's not, but it's different from not being pregnant and it affects different women differently. I don't presume to suggest that all women should feel exactly the same as I did when I was pregnant.

Rockbird · 18/06/2010 16:10

God we're all in sympathetic mode today . I'd be pissed off if I got thrown off a bus because of dd. It's bloody hard to stop a 2yo tantruming and I've had to sit through loud teenagers, music from phones and God know what else over the years. If the driver can't block out noise then he surely shouldn't be in charge of a bus. Toddlers tantrum, such is life. And if the woman was doing all she could to shut him up without success then that's that. Except I forgot that women aren't allowed to take children on buses any more, are they?

Thankfully I don't get on the rotten things any more. I prefer my own car and wouldn't get on a bus if you paid me.

Assuming this is all true, of course...

Pootles2010 · 18/06/2010 16:10

Does make me laugh when people say 'why would you get a bus when you can walk' fair enough in this situation (maybe), but my 15 mile journey into town from my house might be a bit much...

Missus84 · 18/06/2010 16:12

If the driver felt the situation wasn't safe, what else should he have done though? Pull over til the boy calmed down?

Not nice for the mum to have to get off and walk, but not nice for the driver or other passengers if there was an accident because the driver was distracted.

Hullygully · 18/06/2010 16:13

ha ha ha ha ha

on so many levels

herbietea · 18/06/2010 16:16

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HerBeatitude · 18/06/2010 16:17

A tantruming toddler is known to be so much more dangerous than a gang of unruly teenagers.

My brother is a taxi driver. He's always having people being disruptive in the back of his car - tantrums, couples fighting, couples snogging and far more, people on mobile phones yelling, drunken groups of dickheads on nights out yelling and pissing about - he's a professional driver, so he blanks it out and carries on driving. If the bus driver can't deal with a toddler crying, then perhaps he's in the wrong job.

But let's see whether the report is true...

Missus84 · 18/06/2010 16:19

There wasn't a gang of unruly teenagers on the bus though, there was a screaming toddler.

It's one thing to say he's in the wrong job, but if he felt it was unsafe at the time, what was he supposed to do?

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