To the fuckface bus driver who let some weird old man carrying an old rusty lawnmower blade onto the #7 the other night… it’s rush hour and the bus was packed and you’re letting some potential serial killer get onto the bus and he could have possible have harmed 30-40 other people. He was carrying a fucking lawnmower blade. Right out in the open, nothing to carry it in. The bus was so full that the guy was standing up with one hand on the top rail and the other hand flailing around his lawnmower blade at each turn, bump, or stop. The guy looked harmless, but don’t they always? What if he had been carrying a gun?
If it had been a subway or an airplane, the dude never would have gotten on. I’m not suggesting we put metal detectors on our buses, but Metro Transit should be on top of this. You won’t let someone get on the bus if they’re carrying a paper cup with a lid on it but a rusty, sharp, tetanus-infected piece of metal is okay? —Metro Transit, I Think It’s Time for Some Security Training
This article appears in Jan 5-11, 2012.
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps the gentleman in question was going ot for some of them there french fried pataters, ummm-hmmmm.
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Actually, I agree with the point about the paper cups with lids….. they won’t let those on, but they’ll let an uncovered lawnmower blade on?
LAME.
awwww shit…. so now we’ll need full body scanners installed on every entry door of every bus….
what’s this gonna cost us?
shit o.p., i used to carry worse stuff than that on a bus.you wanna see the looks you get when you bring a samuri sword on a bus.
OMG so he had a lawn mower blade. With this winter one could mow the lawn. Paranoid or what.
I agree with OP. No we don’t need metal detectors or body scanner but if someone has a sharp object out in the open in the driver’s plain sight, they shouldn’t be allowed to carry it on. He may not be a serial killer but accidents happen. What if the bus crashed and it went flying or someone fell on it. They could die. If I get sliced open with a rusty blade I’m suing Metro Transit. It’s their job to ensure our safety to the best of their ability while on their bus.
this reminds me of a story…In the late 1980s, I lived in the postcard perfect village of Woodstock, Vermont. My new place had a fireplace, so I bought a run of wood that was so green it broke a splitting maul its first use. The hardware store where I bought it was only 2 blocks away, too close to drive, so I walked with it over my shoulder. Kind of embarrassing when I met up with a crowd of senior citizen tourists. I remember one old geezer yanking his wife out of my path…
I agree with Painey, though. Dude shoulda had it in a bag at least.
Maybe he is a barber for the poor suckers who use the bus.
it hasn’t been all that long really….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Tim…
huh xeno?
As someone who has carried a hard-shell guitar case (usually full of guns and lawnmower blades) on the bus many times, I do know how easily an object can move around and accidentally hit another passenger. And a metal blade wouldn’t be a pleasant encounter…
So … I’ve reviewed the following:
“Passenger Etiquette” … http://halifax.ca/metrotransit/passenger_s…
“Policies & Guidelines” … http://halifax.ca/metrotransit/policies.ht…
“Transit Security” … http://halifax.ca/metrotransit/documents/T…
Nope, no reference to lawn mower blades.
Why would you want a metro bus driver to have security training when the local security guards don’t need to have it?
Do rusty old lawn mower blades have carrying cases?
it doesn’t mention pipe bombs either …
or mustard gas…
or vodka soaked tampons….
but I’m sure they should be prohibited.
not sure how to police that last one though….
That’s the point Z … it doesn’t say much … doesn’t even list obvious things that should be there. And if they aren’t going to define every object that should be prohibited (an impossible task, really) … then provide a general disclaimer that the operator can use their discretion to refuse entry to anyone wishing to transport items that could be dangerous.
And, OP, while I do agree it shouldn’t have happened … it did. I’d be interested to know if you had a chance to raise your concern with the driver and what the response was.
Who needs a lawnmower blade in the middle of winter? Someone who plans ahead.
This bitch makes me think of Ray the landscaper from “The Head”.
How about a cane? He cold bash you with a cane, or stragle you with shoe laces. No more keys on the buses!!! They’re dangerous someone could lose an eye.
FFS
Could have been worse. He could have had the whole lawnmower. Or even worse, eight people each with a lawnmower like those moms with the baby strollers a few months back.
In all seriousness, I totally agree with paingirl, he SHOULD have had it in a bag.
May I also add that this is the best bus bitch for quite some time?