Would you have helped this girl?

[divegirl]

Words fail me!

http://www.dailymail....s-20p-short-fare.html

Just to add, a month or so ago my daughter [age 15] got on the wrong bus home. After phoning me near hysterical the driver stopped the bus, tokk her phone and told me he would look after her. He kept her on the bus the whole way back round the route [free of charge] and waited until a friend turned up to collect her.

IMO that is how it should be!

Lisa x

[ojread2]

sorry, Carl - I misread your reply
I can see thats not what you were saying should happen

[hc4361]

This is nobody's fault but the rapist.
Nobody is blaming the mother for not insisting she get a taxi, which of course was an option.

[joko]

why didnt she ask outright instead of hoping someone would offer? i expect half the bus didnt even notice.
i find it hard to believe the entire bus refused 20p

bus driver is an arse but hed have raped whoever he found

[andy-hughes]

It appears that some people are trying to infer that the driver / passengers are in some way culpable for the attack this poor young woman suffered, which is plainly nonsense.

As I have said - leaving aside entirely the issue of the attack which is the result of a fateful coincidence, and non-one's fault except the attacker- the shame lies in the fact that a driver would put off a passenger anywhere, never mind a street in the early hours, and that a bus full of passengers would do nothing to prevent that - for the sake of 20p. That is entirely the crux of the matter, and should not be lost sight of in misplaced eagerness to apportion blame for the attack where it clearly does not belong.

[joko]

well said andy. i think this whole thing about an entire busload of passengers, when confronted with a crying and distressed girl who only wanted 20p ALL said no, and therefore we as a society are doomed... i think this is the newspapers trying to make it seem all the more bleak and shocking.
i think most passenger were unaware of the problem, probably just thought she was drunk and emotiional and paid her no attention... not realising her predicament. if she had actually asked them for it i have no doubt someone would have given it to her.
the bus driver was a jobsworth with clearly no