On route 42 in the Swedish city Gotheburg, the bus driver is seen talking on his cell phone while driving. After finishing his call, he dials a new number.

An elderly passenger moves forward in the bus and kindly suggest that talking on the phone might perhaps not be in the best interest of safety. This makes the driver so angry that he starts shouting and waving his hands. Still driving. The driver claims he has been a bus driver for twenty-seven years and nobody should tell him how to do his job.

The bus ride all of sudden turns into a nightmare for everyone.

After awhile the driver, still angry with everyone, decides to stop the bus and throw off all passengers.

When a passenger calls the bus company in question, the passenger is told that the company don’t have time to listen to complaints like that. Meaning nobody really belives the story. Another call, and the passengers now wonder how they are going to reach their final destination since they have been thrown off the bus. Still a cold answer from the bus company. “Not their business”.

Meaning the company has the drivers they deserve? Maybe.

Maybe the tension is all about the fact the driver is an immigrant and the passengers Swedish.

Just be careful if you come to Gothenburg, and be careful if you want to ride any of “Västtrafiks” buses. Never accept that a driver in commercial traffic talks on the phone while driving. Never.

Source: diolivetti.wordpress.com

If you understand some Swedish, this is a video of a small part of the incident: YouTube

Not Taj Showers

They still walk among us.

Taj Showers went to the movies with her 10-year-old son. During the show she hunched forward to “discreetly” hold a conversation on her cellphone.

As she was leaning forward, her head tilted to the side and an upright armrest fell in to position. The armrest hit her so hard, she says, that she went to the hospital with a concussion.

In her negligence lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court, Taj Showers claims that armrest fell in to the horizontal position because it was poor maintenance.

“You go to the movie theaters and the arm rest is going to knock you out. It’s an unforeseen incident and you don’t want anybody to go through the pain and suffering I’m going through,” Showers, 36 of southwest suburban Summit, told the Sun-Times.

Well, talking on a cellphone is not a normal activity in the theatres. And you are not suppose to have your head under the armrest. I claim that this can only happen to stupid people.

Source: Chicago Sun Times

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