Not my story but my dad's. He was in London for work and was using the public transit. I don't know if it's like this anywhere else but uk buses throw you around a lot. So a group of American tourists got on, with their typical "having a conversation with a stranger" behaviour, something unacceptable in the uk (/hj). The bus starts and the Americans just go flying and the entire bus of brits are just laughing at them.
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Young dude sitting waiting for a train flicking a bic lighter until it exploded in his hand.
Old lady fell off the platform between two cars while the train was still rolling. Had all the toes on one foot crushed and cut off. The sock was still intact so when we helped the conductor pull her back up it was just a bloody tube of sock with... stuff at the bottom.
Train stopped in the middle of nowhere after it hit a horse. The train won.
Probably meth or heroin. People peeing is fairly common.
Complaining about someone else smelling like a specific food associated with their skin color.
There's probably a lot of crazy stuff happen in Vancouver buses. Vancouver is transit centric, so from the mid-upper class to the poor and mentally ill uses the transit
The last one that I remember was early this year. I was riding the community bus (a 24 passenger, single exit bus, ) and one of the passenger looked like he hasn't showered or changed clothes in days.
The bus bumped into something and the drive stopped and told everyone he had to stop and wait for the transit supervisor.
The guy then started screaming "WHY" several times to the driver and tried to pee on the driver. Luckily there's a plastic barrier (from Covid days) so the driver's safe. After that he probably realized he did something bad and walked out of the bus
That's how it is here in Seattle, too. Poor people ride the light rail, well-off people ride the light rail. If the service is good, everybody will use it.
Buses have not quite met that standard yet.
On the buses I've rode, they have music players that can play music that hook up on one end to the radio and on the other end to a flash drive, with the flash drive containing music files, sometimes conjured by riders. And I pulled a John Maloney when I entered the picture.
Take some big rips from a bong while driving.