[Withano]

Originally Posted by *Kate*

NO. It should be the responsibility of the bus company to ensure that people who pay fares to travel on their vehicles can do so in comfort, which includes not having to smell booze drenched people btw. They are quick enough taking our money. Your argument about drunk driving is feasible enough yes, but it seems you are also saying that people should have to put with this, well I don't find it acceptable behaviour, so I disagree with you completely on that aspect of what you said.

Well, with all due respect, I don't think you're thinking it through too well.

All it would take is one death because a drunk driver was told he couldn't travel by bus before you realise that perhaps, sitting next to a stinking drunk guy isn't so bad after all in comparison to other possible consequences.

[Kate!]

Originally Posted by BigBrother3232

Well, with all due respect, I don't think you're thinking it through too well.

All it would take is one death because a drunk driver was told he couldn't travel by bus before you realise that perhaps, sitting next to a stinking drunk guy isn't so bad after all in comparison to other possible consequences.

It's still not acceptable to pay to use a service, any service, be it restaurant, cinema OR bus, and have to tolerate that, what I'd personally implement is that the police should be called and the person detained until they sobered up, thereby solving the immediate problem of not letting him travel on the bus in that state (although he'll still stink when he's sober!!) and so that he can't take the option to drive. A taxi driver would refuse to take him, that's a cast iron fact, so why is that any different to a bus? Are taxi drivers then in the wrong? I don't think so.

[Legend killer]

I can confirm this story i was the man who smelt like Garlic

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i like drunk people on buses they amuse me

[arista]

Originally Posted by Scott

i like drunk people on buses they amuse me

Typical for you
Scott.



Life In The Fast Lane

[Withano]

Possible deaths trump everything.

Drinking is not illegal, being drunk in public is not illegal, stinking of alcohol is not illegal!

Its not the same as a restaurant or cinema, because the alternative is buying a DVD and having a takeaway

The alternative to a drunk person using the bus is a drunk person, drink driving, putting literally hundreds of people in danger (I'm not sure where you're from, but taxi drivers more than oblige taking drunk people home in my town? I think a lot of people opt out the decision to save a tenner)

I think they should wait until they're sober too but they're not doing anything illegal. If there was one death because one man chose to drive home because he was forced to wait by bus companies, it would obviously be an awful waste by something which could have been easily prevented.

Your children having to smell vodka and beer is so far down on the priority list in comparison to a child dying because of a drunk-driver

(Sorry for not quoting you in reply, my phones a bit temperamental)

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by BigBrother3232

Possible deaths trump everything.

Drinking is not illegal, being drunk in public is not illegal, stinking of alcohol is not illegal!

Its not the same as a restaurant or cinema, because the alternative is buying a DVD and having a takeaway

The alternative to a drunk person using the bus is a drunk person, drink driving, putting literally hundreds of people in danger (I'm not sure where you're from, but taxi drivers more than oblige taking drunk people home in my town? I think a lot of people opt out the decision to save a tenner)

I think they should wait until they're sober too but they're not doing anything illegal. If there was one death because one man chose to drive home because he was forced to wait by bus companies, it would obviously be an awful waste by something which could have been easily prevented.

Your children having to smell vodka and beer is so far down on the priority list in comparison to a child dying because of a drunk-driver

(Sorry for not quoting you in reply, my phones a bit temperamental)

Newcastle here and taxi drivers will NOT take people who are 'too' drunk. A few months back they refused to take my friend up the hospital (he seemed really drunk but wasnt, was his sugar levels dropping...hes a bad diabetic but didnt have his insulin with him) until he got shouted at from all directions that the kid could die :S

They also refuse people who smell bad, or charge them a soiling fee, which I believe is about Ł50.

[Kate!]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Newcastle here and taxi drivers will NOT take people who are 'too' drunk. A few months back they refused to take my friend up the hospital (he seemed really drunk but wasnt, was his sugar levels dropping...hes a bad diabetic but didnt have his insulin with him) until he got shouted at from all directions that the kid could die :S

They also refuse people who smell bad, or charge them a soiling fee, which I believe is about Ł50.

hallelujah, common sense prevailing,

However, that's terrible about refusing the diabetic, bet the driver felt crap when he realised

[Withano]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Newcastle here and taxi drivers will NOT take people who are 'too' drunk. A few months back they refused to take my friend up the hospital (he seemed really drunk but wasnt, was his sugar levels dropping...hes a bad diabetic but didnt have his insulin with him) until he got shouted at from all directions that the kid could die :S

They also refuse people who smell bad, or charge them a soiling fee, which I believe is about Ł50.

Yeah, there's a throwing up fee from the taxis in my town too, I think that's why they more than happily take drunk people home. Refusing should be illegal, your friend nearly died, any sort of emergency could be happening where people rely on public transport.

[Jordan.]

Sitting at the front on the fold up granny chairs is the safest option on a bus.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

Originally Posted by Jordan.

Sitting at the front on the fold up granny chairs is the safest option on a bus.

[Mrluvaluva]

There was a guy who got on the bus I was on yesterday who sat down and put his coat over his head to have a swig of vodka, so as not to get himself noticed.

ironic

[Tom4784]

I just sit as far away from other people as I can and put on an air of unapproachability.

[PrincessIona]

I heard that flight attendants have to refuse entry to a flight if anyone smells really bad.

Unfortunately they didn't enforce that rule last week when I had to suffer the smell of a baby who's nappy needed changing right for the entire flight. Had to stop myself from telling the mother to sort it out. Felt bad for the baby too