211 - Mailbox: Breaking glass and the screeching of brakes…
An Irish reader writes about being attacked on a Dublin night bus.
A reader from Ireland shares the experience of being ambushed by multiple attackers while exiting a night bus with his girlfriend. My comments are at the end:
Hi Jeth,
Thanks for the great read and great writing. It brought me right back to the multitude of similar scenarios that I found myself in over the years.
Upstairs on the last 33 bus from Eden Quay to Skerries, on a Saturday night, 2330.
A gang of us coming home from after having been on the piss. One of our group was about seven months pregnant and obviously hadn't been drinking.
At the back of the bus are three guys, drinking and absolutely hammered. The bus is coming into Swords and one of them pisses into his now empty pint glass and fucks it out the window. We can hear the breaking glass and the screeching of brakes.
The bus pulls into the next stop, the driver storms upstairs with an extremely irate car driver in tow.
Everyone starts blaming everyone else, The three guys at the back chime in, giving it loads, blaming Sue, the pregnant one for throwing the glass. The bus driver believes them and demands that she gets off the bus. She goes mental and starts giving the driver shit, saying she didn't do it. We all back her up. The driver is having none of it.