Saturday night around 9:15 I was taking the 10 Dalhousie home from work. I was sitting towards the back of the bus with a fellow mall employee and a group of girls and their guy friend. The were being loud, annoying, and terribly obnoxious. I am used to getting off work and experiencing these types of inconsiderate people (I am accepting that I am going to need a hearing aid later in life from turning my MP3 player up to max). A girl a few seats up decided to say something to the gang of girls (BAD idea). The girls started screaming/laughing MANICALLY, pissing the girl off, causing her to mouth off a bit to them. They started verballing fighting, and soon it was the groups stop. On the way out the bus they all train punched the girl in the face, laughing and ridiculing her. The poor girl had a box in her lap which was shoved in her face giving her a welt. There was also a guy blocking the door out (unintentionally), and aparently this inconvience was enough for the only guy in the group to smoke the passenger in the face three times-blood squirted out of his nose. They all got off the bus and several girls searched through their bags to find tissue for the poor fella with a bloody nose.
This type of violence is disgraceful, and I’d love to blame the busdriver for not interfering-but she probably would’ve recieved the same treatment.
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen something like this happen on the bus and these types of gang attacks seem to frequent Dartmouth and Halifax more and more.
What the fuck is being done it about it?
And what the fuck can be done?
This article appears in Jan 10-16, 2008.
umm… call the cops perhaps?
Ummm.. it’s more like from Dartmouth, Spryfield, Sackville to Halifax.. and i agree, it’s getting worse. I’m glad YOU did something about it tho:) Great job witnessing and just.. Witnessing! Had you and the guy up fron ganged up on them, You would have probably put them in their place. The bus driver would have called someone.. Charges would have been laid.. oh wait a min.. i forgot.. we have the crappiest youth criminal law in the world.. To us.. youth are not criminals.. they’re just disgruntled kids!!!!
I have to agree with Coyotex on the fact that we refuse to punish youth when they commit crimes – I mean sure – steal a candy bar, slap on the wrist – save us some cash, violent crime – screw em, treat them like an adult.Now in his defense – if he appears much older than the kids and he did beat on them – while we agree that it’s OK as he was only defending others – I’m sure he would be the one in trouble. Too bad you didn’t get off FIRST and then sort of follow them for a little bit and when the coast was clear just kick a LITTLE crap out of him – no one on the bus might have known but sometimes anonymous gestures are welcome.Maybe someday we will start treating victims as victims and punishing all equally – even the youth.