'Enjoy walking 4 kilometers home': Bus driver gets payback against a mutinous passenger by leaving him stranded

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Feb 21, 2024 9:00 AM EST

Even if you're a level-headed worker, sometimes the stressors of the workplace can get to you. Boiling over with rage and brimming with thoughts of sabotage, there are some service industry jobs where the work is doable until the customers rear their ugly heads. Enduring the pig-headedness of customers– or in this case, passengers –can take a toll on a worker's patience and perhaps, their mercy. 

As a cardinal rule of polite society, never ever bite the hand that feeds you. Or in this case, don't bite the hand that drives you home…

The bus driver in our next story certainly reached their patience threshold when an unruly passenger insulted them. Trapped within the confines of a moving vehicle and enduring the jeers and jabs of this particularly fiery bus rider, this driver decided to maliciously comply with his asinine demands. Scroll for the fallout that occurred when this impolite passenger got exactly what they asked for, resulting in a long, rainy walk home. 

After this, here's another wild tale of payback where an employee gets payback against a coworker that crossed the line, by donating a fair amount of cash to their opposition. 

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    "I heard him exclaim, 'HEY WAIT!' as I pulled out"
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    Posted by u/Unthanked_Bus_Driver 4 hours ago D Passenger abuses me, the bus driver? Enjoy walking 4 kilometers home. M OC
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    I'm a bus driver. I pick up and drop passengers at bus stops. Passengers have to press a 'stop' button if they want the bus to stop at the next stop. Pressing the stop button flicks on a huge banner on the front of the bus, along with making a loud buzz. There are multiple stop buttons on the bus.
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    The condition of buses are quite bad here, some of the stop buttons are faulty. It's usually no big deal as passengers can see if the banner is flicked on, and if it's not, the passenger can just press another button or verbally tell me to stop.
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    However, it just doesn't register with some passengers that there is a huge, visible and audible banner. Unfortunately, these same passengers tend to lose their minds easily.
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    It was 9:30pm and I was driving between two large suburbs, let's call them Sunnydale and Riverdale, a passenger must have pressed the stop button but it didn't register on the banner. As I drove past the stop he yelled, "OI YA NG DOG SPAZ YA MISSED ME STOP DASTEAD".
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    I apologised and tried to explain to him that the button must have been faulty and that I would drop him at the next stop. I told him that I could not drop him off on the side of the road because I would get in trouble from the bus company as they have GPS tracking whenever I open the bus door.
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    The passenger just yelled, "STOP TALKING AND OPEN THE DOOR YA B M I stopped at the next stop, about 500 meters ahead, but the passenger yelled, "JUST GO TO RIVERVDALE MATE I AIN'T WALKING"
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    Now, what the passenger didn't know was that since Sunnyvale was a bigger town, the last bus from Sunnyvale to Riverdale was later than the last bus from Riverdale to Sunnyvale. He would be stranded at Riverdale, 4km away from his stop. So I kept driving to Riverdale, as the passenger requested.
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    I dropped him and the other passengers off and closed the door. I could see him checking the posted timetable on the bus stop. I put my bus into gear and pulled out. I heard him exclaim, "HEY WAIT!" as I did so.
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    Unfortunately, I could not have dropped him back to his stop even if I wanted to. I have a strict schedule and change route numbers after each trip. My schedule now was to fill up the bus with diesel and head back to the depot
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    I filled up my bus and headed back to the bus depot. As I drove back, I saw the passenger walking on the side of the road. From 500 meters to 4km.
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    SnooRobots4443 - 4 hr. ago Awesome! It's not too difficult to be nice! I've taken the bus to work for 23 years, I go out of my to be nice to the drivers. You guys get some unruly passengers!
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    Research Mediocre3592 4 hr. ago Did you give him a wave as you went by? Vote Reply Share Unthanked_Bus_Driver OP 4 hr. ago Nah, gotta keep both hands on the wheel. Vote Reply Share Research Mediocre3592 4 hr. ago What about a quick toot and flash of the lights ?
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    spidernole 3 hr. ago I have always said don't off people fixing your food or keeping you alive. I will add "driving your bus."
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    okmustardman 1 hr. ago I'm surprised you aren't allowed to stop between stops at night. For safety reasons? I've had drivers that have stopped closer to my road many times. But I'm a female and polite to drivers.
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    SeanBZA 5 min. ago Buses have to stop at designated stops, especially those that are run properly. Though by me buses and taxis will stop anywhere to pick up and drop off passengers, I have seen minibus taxis stop in the taxi lane on the freeway to drop off passengers rather than take an exit.
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    NotTheBadOne 1 hr. ago I would have tooted my horn at him and waved as I drove by... with a big on my face that I hoped he would see. eating grin
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