Bus Driver Slaps Cheeky Kid....

[Spicerack]

I know who's side I'm on but I'll wait and see which way the thread goes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-45590024/french-bus-driver-sl

[Ellipsis]

An example of not taking action on the evidence of a bad bus driver:

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1624222.html

[sanmac]

Ellipsis, the only two things common between those two situations are that they both involve a bus and a driver. Other than that, they are miles apart...And I don't just mean geographically.

[ummmm]

Spicerack...I don't claim to be a perfect parent but I've managed to raise 3 children who all work full time, respect other people, show perfect manners to me and their dad and everyone else. I managed that without beating them up.

Like I said earlier.....hitting little people is lazy parenting.

[ChillDoubt]

The caption on the video says 300,000 have signed a petition backing the driver.
I doubt there’ll be a tenth of that for a cheeky sprog who put a driver in a horrible position through sheer stupidity and found it funny.
No prizes for guessing my opinion....

[Ellipsis]

> the only two things common between those two situations are that they both involve a bus and a driver

Your opinion, that I disagree with. Another common factor is poor behaviour that, left unchecked, could result in an accident.

In health and safety there's a concept known as Heinrich's Triangle:

https://www.shponline.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/heinrich_triangle.gif

Poor behaviour (e.g. failing to control anger) leads to near misses, minor accidents, major accidents and fatalities. Failing to take action at the bottom of the triangle leads, sooner or later, to the outcomes at the top of the triangle. This was demonstrated in the example I linked to.

A coach company that tolerates drivers that demonstrate road rage could find itself being blamed if one of those drivers eventually does something even more stupid, that results in serious injuries or deaths.

[Canary42]

So, it's OK to thump someone if they upset you providing they are smaller than you of course ?

[ChillDoubt]

So, it's OK to thump someone if they upset you providing they are smaller than you of course ?
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A. He didn’t thump him he slapped him, but don’t let that discourage you from gilding the lily.

B. He didn’t ‘upset’ him, through stupidity he placed the driver in a position whereby the driver(through NO fault of his own) would have had to suffer the torment, guilt and trauma of injuring/killing a child and one who thought it funny at that.

The kid will have learned a valuable lesson that may help keep him alive during his formative years.

As I said earlier, let’s see if 300,000 back the kid. Don’t hold your breath.

[ChillDoubt]

Forgot to add:

The slap was instinctive, a reaction to being ridiculed.

The same reaction and instinct that saved the kid from serious injury/death.

[sanmac]

Yes, the word "thumped", and someone else used the term "assaulted". Really righteous emotive terms. The kid was slapped for his irresponsibly dangerous behaviour and ensuing verbal responses.

[JJ109]

The bus driver shouldn't have slapped the kid. It is the parents who should have been slapped!

[Eleena]

Morning spicerack,
I haven't had time to read all of the comments. I know bus drivers have so much to contend with these days, I think he just flipped. Last week visiting my brother for example, his house adjoins a ginnel .. as does another on the other side. Older kids shelter under it and it gets out of hand, it's gone on for years. My brother can't afford to get worked up and go out to them, I had a word. The next door neighbour came out with an axe! Bus drivers are under constant abuse. I realise though that there's a limit to what you can do legally.

[Theland]

Just another example of how our society is breaking down.

[Eleena]

Hi Theland,
It's about common decency and respect isn't it as with the bus driver. All my brother and his neighbour want is peace and quiet, but these kids continue to push buttons with people, likewise the bus driver. Yes there is a breakdown.

[waterboatman]

From the information available I'm on the driver's side. The boy could have been killed by his own stupidity.

[Ellipsis]

It's not about sides (despite what it says in the OP). You can find fault with the coach driver without supporting the child, because they were both at fault.

[Sqad]

No comment.

[Rockrose]

//The slap was instinctive, a reaction to being ridiculed. //
Goodness then there would be a lot of slaps going on in AB!

But back to the OP, the bus driver had no right to hit the child - it was assault and hopefully will be treated as such by the law.

[CrapAtCryptics]

Its a path for youngsters - he`s lucky he got away with a slap - dissing someone in London will get you stabbed, am I wrong?

[-Talbot-]

Perhaps it would have been better for the driver to run the kid over.


If this had happened to my child it would be him who was in deep water, not the bus driver and I certainly would not be seeking compo.

[AuntLydia]

He is a child for goodness sake. The driver gives him a big wack. What he should have done is grab him by the arm frog marched him into the bus lock the door and call the gendarme. What he has done has opened himself up to disciplinary action, made a victim out of the perpetrator and a hero for his class mates.