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In reply to the discussion: Wisconsin bus driver punched by teen, throws back, gets fired [View all]DragonBorn
(175 posts)111. I dont find thug to be offensive. You seemed to take offense to it.
Ok so its not that you can't answer, you just won't answer. Keep on glossing. Its ok, I'm done discussing something with someone who can't even feign that they will answer a legitimate question.
Funny how also someone throwing punches at the your head will make you forget to do things you'd never do. Such as putting on a parking break. Ask anyone who has ever been in a street fight how clearly they where thinking after they got punched in the nose, especially is it was unprovoked with no warning; because I'd bet money you never have been.
The bus crashing can burn us all to death. See? Easy.
This little tidbit speaks a lot. A bus going at about 5mph has the chance of exploding if it hits something? I think your basing all this on a view of the world the movies, video games, and the media give you. You can sustain multiple punches to the head at random, while thinking clearly, and vehicles explode when ever they strike anything.
Its not like the first punch could have knocked this guy out or even the second. Its also not like he had a clear shot to the guys temple, which if hit has never killed anyone in history. Fights are like video games and this bus driver still had half of health bar and he reacted like he was actually in danger!!!
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Dunno what I'd have done if driving. I hope I would have stopped the bus and called dispatch.
struggle4progress
Feb 2014
#1
And your innocent victim let an uncontrolled bus CRASH into several cars as he exacted revenge
rustydog
Feb 2014
#128
Really? Yes. He should have put it in park then gone and restrained the punk.
cui bono
Feb 2014
#139
... me not being there, of course, but I think he should have first stopped the bus. He's
RKP5637
Feb 2014
#157
agree. it would seem the firing is more appropriate for hitting cars than hitting his attacker. n/t
KurtNYC
Feb 2014
#80
Sorry, but I calculate a 95% probability or better that the reason the mother wants to press
MillennialDem
Feb 2014
#24
Again, the mother wants to do that because he hit her son, not because he left the
MillennialDem
Feb 2014
#28
How come as far as know, 20 other parents aren't wanting to press charges?
MillennialDem
Feb 2014
#37
If you watch the video he had no choice but to fight back too. He didn't chase the teen down or
MillennialDem
Feb 2014
#30
Ok, how is the driver supposed to stop the vehicle while the kid is continuously
MillennialDem
Feb 2014
#35
They fall/scuffle down the aisle as part of one continuous act (the fight). If you've
MillennialDem
Feb 2014
#43
There is a point at which the boy kicks the driver away and then runs to the back exit.
tblue37
Feb 2014
#155
Ok, let's get in your car and I'll punch you and pull you away from the wheel. I bet you can't
MillennialDem
Feb 2014
#63
The ARTICLE states that? And articles are never wrong? Watch the damn video closely and
MillennialDem
Feb 2014
#70
I don't care what some idiot local reporter wrote or some company bureaucrat wrote.
Hassin Bin Sober
Feb 2014
#73
"The bus crashing can burn us all to death". Let's get real here why don't we.
Hassin Bin Sober
Feb 2014
#133
At least my argument is grounded in the reality of what really happened.
Hassin Bin Sober
Feb 2014
#135
LOL because texting and driving is the same as defending yourself from a violent attack.
Hassin Bin Sober
Feb 2014
#141
I do teach today and your broad brush assessment of kids and their parents
arely staircase
Feb 2014
#127
that ten percent are the ones that school administrators live in terror of
arely staircase
Feb 2014
#146
Kid is charged with two felonies, driver is not charged with anything. Hopefully he
MillennialDem
Feb 2014
#50
Yeah, the OP conveniently left out that part in the title, lol - he deserved to be fired.
reformist2
Feb 2014
#27
Watch the video. He got up to defend himself because the kid was continuously
MillennialDem
Feb 2014
#38
Well, let's see you try to CONTROL and DRIVE and STOP a bus while I pull you
MillennialDem
Feb 2014
#56
Let's get in your car and I'll punch you and pull you away from the wheel and see if you
MillennialDem
Feb 2014
#66
if the bus had hit someone the kid very well could be seen as the proximate cause of the person's
arely staircase
Feb 2014
#163
On the other hand if he took out a gun and shot the kid to death (even if the bus crashed)
MillennialDem
Feb 2014
#25
GDS (Gun Derangement Syndrome)... Some people just can't shake it.
cherokeeprogressive
Feb 2014
#152
Watch the video, the kid is pulling him away from the wheel AND punching him.
MillennialDem
Feb 2014
#52
Yeah, fire the bus driver, because you'd definitely have reacted so much better in his situation
Distant Quasar
Feb 2014
#60
had he parked the bus before pounding on the snot-nosed punk, no charges or even wrongdoing
geek tragedy
Feb 2014
#98
You really don't need to know much more than reality to know to put the bus in park
siligut
Feb 2014
#104
So wait, this idiot just let the bus keep on rolling and didn't bother to stop?
penultimate
Feb 2014
#105
It stopped being self defense when he followed the child to the back of the bus.
obxhead
Feb 2014
#129
Let's be real here. The bus never got over 2 or 3 MPH and had a minor fender bender ...
Hassin Bin Sober
Feb 2014
#132