This guy ran up to the bus at the lights at the intersection of Portland and Baker, Halifax-bound, nowhere near a bus stop, knocked on the door of the bus to get in. Of course the bus driver didn’t let him on. Then the guy threw a fit, and kept walking up towards the Penhorn terminal. When the bus passed he flipped it off with both hands. I feel like his rage was not appropriately directed. —LMAO
This article appears in Mar 11-17, 2010.
lol…both hands…
take it to the next level.
so they can let people off at their discretion anywhere along the route, but aren’t able to pick them up? weird.
meh, one less psycho to deal with.
U wanted this enraged MoFo on the bus with ya? NOT.
just some people’s children o.p., just some children.
“so they can let people off at their discretion anywhere along the route, but aren’t able to pick them up? weird.”
I assume you are talking about the after-dark, in-between stop program. The driver has the blessing from transit but only if he is certain the alternate stop location can be used safely. He can refuse to request. This applies to people getting off the bus only.
He’d be knowingly breaking the rules by letting someone board while in his lane of travel, yet not as close as possible to the curb. Had the guy taken a fall or gotten injured then the driver and city would be liable. It would also set transit up to have people chasing buses all over the place – a dangerous practice that already occurs at marked bus stops, people see a bus leaving and they run after it, someone will fall under the wheels one of these times.
The driver did nothing wrong in this case.
Tards like this are everywhere. He has to stop to think that the buses don’t run on his schedule.
Senor Campana…seems from the many bitches about buses here…they don’t run on any schedual either, they just get there & leave whenever. Which must really suck if you gotta be somewhere.
What he did is nothing compared to what some of the bus drivers do.
In some countries, there are no bus stops. A person just needs to wave their hand at an approaching bus, and it will stop for them (usually), and the bus driver will let them off wherever they want along their route (usually). Maybe this man is from one of those countries.
I’m not saying this is practical. In fact, it’s a very inefficient pain in the ass, but can be fun nonetheless.
lol @ Q’s post. That’s how it is done in Sydney.
What are you talking about, Bitch Pl, I thought Sydney had the painted telephone poles to mark the stops…lol
Something tells me this is not CB we are talking about.
Why do people take the bus? Normal people drive their own cars.
seriously? “normal” people?
some of us “normal” people can’t afford a car and shelter. dickhead.
funnygirl, he says that every single time people complain about buses…
and every single time someone gets sucked into calling him a dickhead or loser or jerk….
but I hear there are plenty pretty new toyota’s available if you’re looking for a cheap car.
some people take the bus because it’s better for the environment, i guess “normal” people don’t care about that. plus it’s cheaper. what a stupid thing to say…loser for sure. hah.
aw that poor guy was probably having a rough day, double flip off well deserved.
Could’ve been worse; he might have been on the bus being driven by the pissed drunk TTC driver.
sebastian – didn’t I read that you are a gay guy? Well as another fellow fag I see the “holier than thou” attitude way too often in the Halifax gay community. Someone takes the bus and they are deemed to be a less than normal person? Fuck that.
At least the redneck gay communities in Calgary and Edmonton don’t look down on fellow citizens who don’t drive or don’t want to own a vehicle. And those rednecks are much more fun to take a ride on compared to most of the GLBT community members in Halifax. Can’t wait to be back there in the next few weeks… giddy-up!
And to think I’m a born and raised Maritimer, sorry NS but you can drag a person down so it’s time to move on again.
Never had a challenge with NS bus service, I remember when it was only 15 cents, with the lack of parking in most places it’s convenient. In Victoria BC, just the opposite, riders here should be issued with deodorant but not the kind that harms the ozone.
In Cuba, any government vehicle must stop and give you a ride if you hail them.
In India, there are two types of buses, the ones that run employees around and are company owned and nice, and the regular bus. Even I wasn’t brave enough to get on one of those. Most of the workers are picked by and dropped off at their homes on their employer’s rupee.
And then there’s this bus
http://www3.telus.net/hummingbirdpub/index…
We took it up to pub one night, and driver, who was tanked drove us back with The Who blaring on the sound system and flicking the interior lights on and off. The boats that we were on said that they could hear us screaming in terroe way before we got there!
Years ago after a nightly romp at Smooth Hermans (R.I.P.) I walked out to the Tim Horton’s in Sydney River (about a 45 minute walk from the bar…) I went in to get a donut or something. Two cops were sitting at a table and I stumbled up to them and asked for a drive home. (to my parents’ place where I was still living at the time, 15 minutes outside of town) They looked at each other, got up, told me to hop in the back of the car and dropped me off at my doorstep. Man I miss those days.
The local cops in Victoria used to eat at the pub I ran, one night at closing time in a club up the road, we were have a ‘puff’ outside when a cop car pulled up. I bet my friend $20 they would drive me home, I tossed the rest of the spliff and went over to the car and asked, well they did and he paid.
I also remember a drunk friend of mine semi-passed out in front of Lucifers, heard a car pull up to the curb in front of him, he was so loaded he jumped into the back thinking it was a cab, well it wasn’t and the 2 officers were happy to give him a ride – straight to the drunk tank…
@ jonno.. definitely sounds like something that would go down in cape breton. i didn’t live/hang out in sydney, i was closer to the bridge. but i did hear some pretty hilarious stories about that place. 🙂
There is FB tribute page to Hermans. Check it out- there are countless people telling stories about some of their nights there. It’s truly the end of an era. The equivalent to the Dome AND the Palace abruptly shutting down here in Hali.
Well jonnoman, the difference is that unlike those two awful bars, Smoothis supported live bands.
It’s more like the Misty Moon closing!
Oh yeah.
🙁
This is true BMF (even if most of them were just cover bands)… I was just comparing the impact of such a bar closing on the general bar-going population in a community. Here there are hundreds of options for drinking establishments, but a night usually ends up with the young 20-something/college crowd closing down the Dome/Palace. Good time to open a new bar in Sydney though I’ll tell you!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THE MISTY MOON.
You know what club I miss? Mercury. 🙁
really??? I found mercury to be particularly shitty….
course that was years ago.
I guess to each his own.
man the only reason i wouldn’t want the dome or the palace closing would be the ridiculous crowd that goes to them would have to find somewhere else to go and taint another place in the city. i’d be pretty sad if gus’s 1668 or charlies closed. those places are pretty sweet. i didn’t know smooth hermans closed but i’m sure some of my friends from the cape will be super disappointed.
Amen to that pardon…. the dome and the palace are keeping the playa dickwads (mostly) away from the establishments where I LIKE to go. Geeez… if any of my favorite bars got even a percentage of those retards I would have to find somewhere else to go myself. Or stay home….. which isn’t such a bad thing…. eh Z and angel??
I remember BTO opened the Moon (3rd location), I also remember when there was no dome just an empty lot between L@wrences and My @p@rtment and the P@l@ce had live bands and was open all week…good times.
i saw long john baldry at the moon. many many moons ago
I saw John (RIP) at the Silver room upstairs at Lucifers, I remember all the Navy guys singing ‘Standing on the corner smoking marijuana…
Hilarious how the topic changes so suddenly in the comments sometimes! 🙂
When I moved to O-Town, I was shocked, SHOCKED I say, to see drivers letting people on while stopped at lights and safe intersections. People don’t go out into traffic, but they don’t miss their bus that’s stopped right in front of them either.
I wish a pox on Metro Transit, now that I’ve experienced transit that actually works. And they have routes that run all night. ALL NIGHT!!! I know, right?? Unbelievable.
Palace *gags*
I think I’ve been there once, a long while back. That was one too many times for me.
I miss Cabbagetown and the Network
halifax reminds of the duchy of fenwick
Tribeca’s cool, too!
When a big 6’4 250 pound friend first moved here from the Bahamas for school, he thought that the transit system here worked the same way it did there, where when you saw a public bus driving by you could easily just wave it down and the driver would stop to let you on no problem, mon! He tried that here in Halifax once and got pretty pissed off when the bus wouldn’t stop for him on a cold winter’s day in his first Canadian winter, subsequently flailing his arms chasing the bus down the street, screaming “RUDE boy! Getta fock back here, aye!” Needless to say, seeing a 6’4 250 pound black dude chasing you down the street made the driver want to get away even faster!
“Needless to say, seeing a 6’4 250 pound black dude chasing you down the street made the driver want to get away even faster!”
because him being black is relevant.
The fastest sprinters in the world are black.
More. You have a point.
“”I miss Cabbagetown and the Network””
Dude, you’re old!
My first band “Portrait” was the second or third last band to play at the Network back in ’85…I guess our poor crowds were the final straw
;-(
Nah, they sold it to make room for the new mall there, Spring Garden Place. The Network had the best Happy Hour with outrageous prices and saw a lot of awesome bands there, I remember Platinum Blonde when they were still a Police cover band. The White (Zep) and Just Alice (Cooper) were a couple of more awesome acts, too bad thats all we had in the mid 80s, the cover band era. Quite a few Canadian acts got to play there too, Santers, Honeymoon Suite etc. and if you couldn’t get laid at Cabbagetown…kinda like the Dome now.
Michael White is still gigging, actually…I’ve sat in with him on keys a couple times here and there.
He actually played the New Palace (believe it or not) about 9 years ago and we did Kashmir. 🙂
BTW, Michael and Nick (Just Alice) and Platinum Blonde ARE Canadian bands!
I think the drinks were a buck, or 75 cents…*burp*