School Bus Driver assaults student on Bus.

[Creeps]

Cue the Dave Chappelle "How old is 15 really?" bit

[SephYuyX]

Edit: Now this is a bus fight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_ndmPH1MMs

Wow, I feel sorry for that guy driving around all that white trash.

[archibaldcrane]

I think the bus driver did a pretty impressive job of staying calm, saying "just sit down" calmly, and standing her ground for quite a while there. I'd have probably just said "fuck it, get off the bus you whore".

Also,

If you're such a fuck up that your job is to be a school bus driver, then you should expect people to laugh at you.

I recall a few years ago in my hometown (madison, wi) the highest paid city employee for the year was a bus driver, made $120,000 for the year, more than the mayor. Regarding city employees as universal "fuckups" is kinda lame.

[Charla]

Edit: Now this is a bus fight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_ndmPH1MMs

Wow, I feel sorry for that guy driving around all that white trash.

but hey, at least they can afford color camreras! The Texas cop sunglasses were a nice touch.

[Norelco]

I think the bus driver did a pretty impressive job of staying calm, saying "just sit down" calmly, and standing her ground for quite a while there. I'd have probably just said "fuck it, get off the bus you whore".

Also,

If you're such a fuck up that your job is to be a school bus driver, then you should expect people to laugh at you.

I recall a few years ago in my hometown (madison, wi) the highest paid city employee for the year was a bus driver, made $120,000 for the year, more than the mayor. Regarding city employees as universal "fuckups" is kinda lame.

They actually do get paid pretty well, especially when you figure in they are protecting your kids and have to deal with a ton of bullshit.

[archibaldcrane]

I think the bus driver did a pretty impressive job of staying calm, saying "just sit down" calmly, and standing her ground for quite a while there. I'd have probably just said "fuck it, get off the bus you whore".

Also,

If you're such a fuck up that your job is to be a school bus driver, then you should expect people to laugh at you.

I recall a few years ago in my hometown (madison, wi) the highest paid city employee for the year was a bus driver, made $120,000 for the year, more than the mayor. Regarding city employees as universal "fuckups" is kinda lame.

They actually do get paid pretty well, especially when you figure in they are protecting your kids and have to deal with a ton of bullshit.

It might've just been a freak thing where a guy with 40 years of union-guaranteed raises worked tons of overtime though (actually, if I recall correctly that's what it was) - the average does kinda suck, although at least most of them get decent benefits (especially important when you have kids)

Median hourly earnings of school bus drivers were $11.18 in May 2004.

[SephYuyX]

Also,

If you're such a fuck up that your job is to be a school bus driver, then you should expect people to laugh at you.

I recall a few years ago in my hometown (madison, wi) the highest paid city employee for the year was a bus driver, made $120,000 for the year, more than the mayor. Regarding city employees as universal "fuckups" is kinda lame.

Wow, narrow minded much Lbelle? Most bus drivers are retired people, using it as a second job, and also require a great deal of training. Non school bus drivers go through alot more as well. And yes, they may not be 'glourious' jobs, but they get goverment benefits, and good pay; hell, here in Cincy, the average garbage man gets paid 60k a year.

[BRP]

If you're such a fuck up that your job is to be a school bus driver, then you should expect people to laugh at you.

My grandma is a fuck up? Why is my grandma a fuck up?

[Lbelle]

Yes I am narrow minded since 90% of the bus drivers I've ever had the joy of meeting have been complete assholes. Granted they have to deal with annoying college kids/people that can't afford cars all day long, they still are always mean and obnoxious to everyone it seems like. Or they take their job way too seriously.

I've never met a NICE, old retired blahblah bus driver ever, it's always some mean fat guy who hates life, and lets everyone they're driving around know it. So, that's why I said what I said.

[Norelco]

I've never met a NICE, old retired blahblah bus driver ever, it's always some mean fat guy who hates life, and lets everyone they're driving around know it. So, that's why I said what I said.

My bus driver from K-12 was great. Name was Lyle, treated the kids like equals. Was a real nice guy.

[archibaldcrane]

i hate bus drivers

They just act that way to you, they're nice to everyone who doesn't treat them like a "fuck up".

[Charla]

I guess that's why they always pretend I don't exist: I treat them the same way.

[SephYuyX]

My K-8 bus driver always made us cookies and lemoade in the summer ^-^ She'd always sing songs, and hold conversations with everyone, and even made up little quiz games that had little rewards.

[archibaldcrane]

In my experience, a sincere "good morning" or "how's it goin" goes along way with people.

Erm, I mean, lolbus, I have a car, fuck you poor losers. Amirite?

[Khamsin]

wow

both did shit wrong, moreso for the busdriver. at no point are you given the right to restrain another person as a busdriver. if they want to leave the bus, they are free to do so. the busdriver put her hands on the girl (who i just imagined to be a bitch the entire time to make it fair) and took and turned off/threw her phone twice when the girl tried to end the situation. she wouldnt give her the phone and let her leave. and it didnt help that the girl didnt think to just exit the bus through the emergency exit earlier~ but i guess thats not her fault because she was really stressed out.

i dont miss being a teenager.

Sorry, Niro, they are not allowed off. This isn't a public bus. It's a school bus. The kid needs written permission from parent and school official to be let off at a stop other than their own.

The bus driver did nothing wrong.

Except assaulting a student.

If she had merely refused to open the door for her, or grabbed her upper arm to pull her back and close the door, and then just stood there taking her beating (how hard can a 15-year-old girl hit, anyway?) until she calmed down, then that'd be ok.

But a fist fight?

Fuck that. That lady has a right to defend herself, even against a 15 year old.

Well, now I'm curious. Hypothetical scenario for the BG lawyers:

A 30+ year old guy is walking along the sidewalk when some 15 year old punk comes along and tries to assault him. So he defends himself and ends up hitting the kid. The kids parents end up trying to press charges on the older guy for child abuse. Would they win? Or would the court justify hitting the kid when he probably wasn't in any danger to begin with (unless the kid had a weapon)?

[archibaldcrane]

A 30+ year old guy is walking along the sidewalk when some 15 year old punk comes along and tries to assault him. So he defends himself and ends up hitting the kid. The kids parents end up trying to press charges on the older guy for child abuse. Would they win? Or would the court justify hitting the kid when he probably wasn't in any danger to begin with (unless the kid had a weapon)?

I was 5'9 150 when I was 15 (which is pretty average) - arguing that a 30+ year old guy isn't in any danger when someone of that size is assaulting them is odd.

No, the court would respect the man's right to defend himself.

Try 10 years old maybe.

[Andarvi]

wow

both did shit wrong, moreso for the busdriver. at no point are you given the right to restrain another person as a busdriver. if they want to leave the bus, they are free to do so. the busdriver put her hands on the girl (who i just imagined to be a bitch the entire time to make it fair) and took and turned off/threw her phone twice when the girl tried to end the situation. she wouldnt give her the phone and let her leave. and it didnt help that the girl didnt think to just exit the bus through the emergency exit earlier~ but i guess thats not her fault because she was really stressed out.

i dont miss being a teenager.

Sorry, Niro, they are not allowed off. This isn't a public bus. It's a school bus. The kid needs written permission from parent and school official to be let off at a stop other than their own.

The bus driver did nothing wrong.

Except assaulting a student.

If she had merely refused to open the door for her, or grabbed her upper arm to pull her back and close the door, and then just stood there taking her beating (how hard can a 15-year-old girl hit, anyway?) until she calmed down, then that'd be ok.

But a fist fight?

Fuck that. That lady has a right to defend herself, even against a 15 year old.

Well, now I'm curious. Hypothetical scenario for the BG lawyers:

A 30+ year old guy is walking along the sidewalk when some 15 year old punk comes along and tries to assault him. So he defends himself and ends up hitting the kid. The kids parents end up trying to press charges on the older guy for child abuse. Would they win? Or would the court justify hitting the kid when he probably wasn't in any danger to begin with (unless the kid had a weapon)?

He'd be fine im sure. 15 isnt 10, and 15 year olds these days sometimes look like adults but are also often tried as adults in situations like that one.

[Lbelle]

I don't treat them like fuckups at all. I always say hi or thanks when I get on the bus, and thanks when I leave the bus if I leave through the front door instead of the back one. I get the response "mhm" as does everyone else who also says thanks when they leave...so, whatever. Maybe it's where I'm from, and I ride a city bus instead of a k-12 school bus, but it's what I deal with basically everyday, people that have this job that act like they couldn't care less and that they hate their job. Not saying that they do, but that's how they act.

[archibaldcrane]

Lemme try again:

If you're such a fuck up that your mode of transportation is a bus, then you should expect people to treat you like you don't exist.

Better?

[Charla]

Well, now I'm curious. Hypothetical scenario for the BG lawyers:

A 30+ year old guy is walking along the sidewalk when some 15 year old punk comes along and tries to assault him. So he defends himself and ends up hitting the kid. The kids parents end up trying to press charges on the older guy for child abuse. Would they win? Or would the court justify hitting the kid when he probably wasn't in any danger to begin with (unless the kid had a weapon)?

What state?