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Nov. 20th, 2006 01:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mipeltajaPublic transport is fucking scary!
Now, I've heard horror stories about buses and trains from larger areas, but this is a relatively peaceful backwater place and I've only happened across one harmless looney screaming about Jesus (just for the record: the Jesus part is not what made her a looney, the screaming part is) in these two and a half years I've commuted to school on the bus.
Today, however, this one guy picked up a ten euro bill from the floor of the bus, and after being told a girl who at that point was at the back of the bus had dropped it, put the bill in his pocket, saying that it was his now. After five or so minutes, a girl came from the back of the bus and asked if anyone saw her drop a ten euro bill. Another girl told her the "guy over there" took it, and she said "I know, but he won't give it back unless I can prove it's mine".
They found a large-ish guy who also saw the girl drop the bill and went to the back of the bus. I could hear the man who took it saying something like "if you touch me, that's assault and battery and I'll sue you". Then some mumbled words I couldn't hear, and suddenly he starts fucking screaming about how there are going to be bodies if everyone doesn't get away from him. He then moves to the front of the bus (the girls tried to get him thrown off for causing a ruckus) and though no one's nearing him anymore, goes on and on about how, for only 400 euros, he can have anyone he wants killed and that the next person to complain about anything will end up on a drug gang's black list.
I was rolling my eys at his threats (would anyone seriously blow four hundred euros over a ten that wasn't theirs in the first place?) but I was scared that he might have had a knife or something with him. The girls also said he was drunk. I'm not sure if he was - he was being violent and irrational, but some people are that way naturally - but since they got a better look at him than I did, he well might have been.
(Ja Oona muuten, ole vaan onnellinen ettet ollut siellä. Oli nimittäin ihan Kemiin asti menossa se kaveri ja selitti et selvitetään tää sit siellä.)
Now, I've heard horror stories about buses and trains from larger areas, but this is a relatively peaceful backwater place and I've only happened across one harmless looney screaming about Jesus (just for the record: the Jesus part is not what made her a looney, the screaming part is) in these two and a half years I've commuted to school on the bus.
Today, however, this one guy picked up a ten euro bill from the floor of the bus, and after being told a girl who at that point was at the back of the bus had dropped it, put the bill in his pocket, saying that it was his now. After five or so minutes, a girl came from the back of the bus and asked if anyone saw her drop a ten euro bill. Another girl told her the "guy over there" took it, and she said "I know, but he won't give it back unless I can prove it's mine".
They found a large-ish guy who also saw the girl drop the bill and went to the back of the bus. I could hear the man who took it saying something like "if you touch me, that's assault and battery and I'll sue you". Then some mumbled words I couldn't hear, and suddenly he starts fucking screaming about how there are going to be bodies if everyone doesn't get away from him. He then moves to the front of the bus (the girls tried to get him thrown off for causing a ruckus) and though no one's nearing him anymore, goes on and on about how, for only 400 euros, he can have anyone he wants killed and that the next person to complain about anything will end up on a drug gang's black list.
I was rolling my eys at his threats (would anyone seriously blow four hundred euros over a ten that wasn't theirs in the first place?) but I was scared that he might have had a knife or something with him. The girls also said he was drunk. I'm not sure if he was - he was being violent and irrational, but some people are that way naturally - but since they got a better look at him than I did, he well might have been.
(Ja Oona muuten, ole vaan onnellinen ettet ollut siellä. Oli nimittäin ihan Kemiin asti menossa se kaveri ja selitti et selvitetään tää sit siellä.)
