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In fairness , the guy who wanted to unzip himself did stop when I begged him not to but the others carried on regardless with loutish behaviour. The thing which really maddened me about the bus driver though Goddsoulette was the fact that we got on at the bus station and an inspector was on the bus talking to the driver when they were all shouting and swearing. A guy jumped on the bus with his friends to drag some of them off because they had been gesturing towards them at the window and the inspector let the others stay on and simply walked off. At the next stop , the driver said (in the tone you would take with a three year old - not an angry one though) 'Now i'll give you one warning , then another , then i'm afraid I will have to ask you to leave'. They just laughed at him. He issued another ten warnings in total , they continued to abuse fellow passengers , launched objects , fought amongst themselves and one guy passed out cold - to which they all cheered. When we got off the bus , I told the driver that if he had put them off after the first warning , then my kids wouldn't have had to listen to that all the way back and he told me that he wasn't allowed to eject them from the bus because they were under 16 and he'd get into trouble. They didn't look under 16 and were clearly VERY intoxicated. He didn't ask them for ID on the bus but accepted them as half fares when they asked for it. The sooner I learn to drive the better and i'll be choosier about where I take my kids next year I think.
Fine , thanks - Already on it. Letter drafted to Chief constable already and will speak to my MSP too. I am swithering whether or not to submit a letter to the local paper because I know that they will most probably be inundated anyway.