Hit and Run - Bishopsgate 18:30 ish

I'll post this on YACF as well.

After my hit and run I can safely say the police will do fuck all unless your dead. Even then it'll as little as possible it seems.

On the way home tonight saw a cunt of a bus driver run a cyclist into the curb.

If I didn't know better I'd swear he did it on purpose.

Any way the guy fell off his bike and the bus drove over his wheel and then just drove off. The cyclist was banging on the bus drivers window just before as well.

After stopping to check if this guy was OK he asked me to catch the bus up and get the number.

Unfortunately I couldn't find him again.

Anyway as I suspected the police said 'there's no crime without a victim' so I need to find this guy.

He was riding a Grey Condor with gears, had a beard and wore a helmet (a rubbish description, I know but I wasn't concentrating on that).

The number plate was LX03 BVT, it was a number 8 bus (I think).

ha... this is not funny but what is funny is that the guy doesn't have a beard... he has shit stubble... the guy also rides a black condor (geared)... the guy sits next to me.

BCG - "yeah well last night a bus almost ran me off the road"
Shins - "fuck....licence plate?"
BCG - "nope"
Shins - "shit gutted, least you can pin point the time, and the bus number and note the 2 bus stops that the bus must have been between and maybe pin point the time via the oyster machine or something. Id write a letter...right back to work (forum)"
BCD - "yeah"

so... back at my desk.... refresh...

and here i am....

wicked news on the reg i'll pass it on... thanks!

Please can you encourage him to repor this to thhe Police?
An unreported incident does not exist to officialdom and things like this will haappen time and again.
If he can complain to the bus company, he'd do us all a service too.

Please can you encourage him to report this to the Police?
An unreported incident does not exist to officialdom and things like this will happen time and again.
If he can complain to the bus company, he'd do us all a service too.
Fixed

hes reported... and hes getting in contact with bus comp.

hes pretty well experienced in these matters. but thanks for the plee!

any way @STE5
from : BCG (not on forum)

THANK YOU! - you've just made my day. I'm the guy who was knocked off my Condor by the hit-and-run bus last night in bishopsgate. I did wait around for 5 mins but presumed you'd gone.

If you you'd be willing to give me your contact details as a witness would be more than appreciated - you can reach me at (email sent via pm)

By the way the driver did know I was there as I spoke to him before he did it - running me off the road seems a little bit of an extreme reaction..

I owe you a beer for that one

David

Can anyone confirm a rumour I heard that London bus drivers have been told that they are not to stop if involved in an accident, in order to keep to timetables?

It sounds like one of those complete piles of crap, but thought it was worth asking.

Timetables, timetables?! When have fuckwit busdrivers ever worried about timetables? They're more worried about completing their 'You can earn £300 a week - with 78hrs overtime'
Fuck me, being a bus driver must be on a par with being a:

1. Copper
   
2. Assistant in McDonalds
   
3. Tubetrain driver
   
4. Checkout in Argos
   
5. Soldier
   

Awesome! Do we get to keep the driver for our own amusement?

hes reported... and hes getting in contact with bus comp.

OK, glad that's on its way!

STE5, Shins +ve karma

yeah hes well chuffed about the Lplate...

^^^ mr technical details

@ London:

brilliant! sometimes this site is fucking amazing.

...2 two hours of trawling crap to find a good thread... Here it is!

Good work all invovled.

Great result, a perfect start to my weekend.

Cool, let us know what happens.

looks like a 531 result

tellingly, there is no 531 bus route.

however there is a satanic 135 route which goes:
135Crossharbour Asda - Mudshute - Island Gardens - Millwall - Heron Quay - Canary Wharf - Limehouse - Aldgate - Liverpool Street Station - Great Eastern Street - Old Street Station
Owing to roadworks in Holywell Lane, temporarily re-routed eastbound via **Old Street and Shoreditch High Street.
**
I think that says it all.

You know too much about buses.. closet tflenger!

RPM;

all of 5 seconds googling!

I hate buses, they were ok back in the day, but now, waste of space.

I hate buses, they were ok back in the day, but now, waste of space.

No, you hate Butler.

I'd prefer 1 bus carrying 50+ people to 50 cunts driving their cars in London.

I'd prefer 1 bus carrying 50+ people to 50 cunts driving their cars in London.

even better if those lazy fuckers walked or cycled, but the real point is that there are too many buses, being driven around empty.

Because there's too many cunts driving around in their cars!

There's not enough buses out here. They could double the frequency of the 297 and then use automated motion-sensing rocket launchers to take out non-commercial vehicles within the M25.

Because there's too many cunts driving around in their cars!

no because people are lazy.

cars are just a fucking joke, buses are a poorly executed excuse for public transport