Idiots

[Bornagain again]

Saw the weirdest thing for a while.
 
 
Coming into the high street I have a moped with L plates pull up really close behind me.  Looked in the mirror and the kid is leaning down looking through my back window.  Look behind him and there a guy on a 500 with full reflective, a white flip helmet and a big mike. All the hallmarks of a cbt or training of some kind.
 
Traffic is at a standstill so I see the kid shout something back to the other guy , other guy nods, so the kid starts filtering.  They get to the traffic lights where there is a bus at the front.  Straight away I thought this is going to end in tear, a moped V a bus on acceleration - I'ld put bets on the bus everytime.
 
Anyway they pull away like a slow motion drag race, all 10 yards to the traffic queue.  Then the moped unbelievably cuts in in front of the bus into the about 4 foot gap.
 
Next thing the guy on the bike is shouting and waving arms at the bus driver. Then he cuts in front of the bus, clipping it as he does so.   The bus swings into the left lane which becomes a bus lane and the motorbike guy swings right across him and parks in front .  The bus drives around him and stops at a stop about 30 yards further up. 
 
The guy on the bike whacks his throttle cuts into the traffic and swings across the bus on a diagonal (in the bus lane) where the guy on the moped also does the same.  Then they both climb on the bus and start to have a real go at the bus driver.
 
Now I don't know what was said , but from my view, which cos of the curve of the road was good, I didn't see the bus driver do anything out of the ordinary and when the kid cut in there was still plenty of road to filter on.  But if the guy on the bike behind was an instructor what the feck did he think he was doing.
 
I sent an E-mail to the bus company giving my account of what happened cos if they report the bus driver I wouldn't want to see him losing his job because so idiot either couldn't teach his trainee how to filter properly.

[dBfazer600]

Hi BA
 
As an ex PSV driver its the way of the world as everyone tris to get round something larger regardless if they are doing the speed limit. the only thing I would have done different is to given the driver my contact details as a wittiness as this gives the driver the option to present it your details if a complaint was places but thats because I know what could come of your good dead.
 
First group management are fucking animals to the point that shareholders have a group that are trying to change things. This is for those who have terminal illnesses and such as I know drivers that have been sack for having cancer among other illnesses that is unlawful.
 
But hay good on ya for doing the right thing There needs to be more people like you who are willing to give their account of an incident.
 
Daz

[fireblake]

Most buses nowadays have CCTV on them, one on the front and one either side on the rear?




Mickey

[dBfazer600]

Most buses nowadays have CCTV on them, one on the front and one either side on the rear?




Mickey

True and thay are the ones you can see. Inside there is a minimum of 3 on the driver alone at Worst Group. All these cameras do not stop Worst Group from putting their slant on what is recorded so my advice to all drivers is to gain witnesses
 
Daz

[Bornagain again]

We have CCTV on this street as well.
 
But if the bike guy made a complain the moped kid would be an independent witness.
 Like I said it could have been a reaction to something said by the bus driver, but whatever it was the guy on the bikes antics were over the top.  God help the world if he was instructing the other guy.