The Mock Turtle

Marth wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 3:32 pm

geek_kitten wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 2:55 pm

Heebie Jeebie wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 12:35 pm Well exactly. Would a bus driver really stop if someone apparently being arrested tried to flag them down?

Even after all this my instinct would be to get in the car and do what any apparent police officer told me. They can be absolute cunts to anyone who doesn't.

A mate of mine used to drive buses. They're told not to get out of their cab for any reason and they're even told not challenge people who don't pay the right fare (obviously some do but it wasn't company policy to do so with that firm).

So in short, the bus advice is utterly useless. I hope the driver unions come out and shoot it down in flames.

I totally understand the risk to bus drivers and support them keeping safe and not challenging people. I understood though that they had a method of alerting their controller about different levels of issues occuring if needed.

geek_kitten wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 3:58 pm

Marth wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 3:32 pm

geek_kitten wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 2:55 pm

Heebie Jeebie wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 12:35 pm Well exactly. Would a bus driver really stop if someone apparently being arrested tried to flag them down?

Even after all this my instinct would be to get in the car and do what any apparent police officer told me. They can be absolute cunts to anyone who doesn't.

A mate of mine used to drive buses. They're told not to get out of their cab for any reason and they're even told not challenge people who don't pay the right fare (obviously some do but it wasn't company policy to do so with that firm).

So in short, the bus advice is utterly useless. I hope the driver unions come out and shoot it down in flames.

I totally understand the risk to bus drivers and support them keeping safe and not challenging people. I understood though that they had a method of alerting their controller about different levels of issues occuring if needed.

They do. Generally they tell the driver to stay in their cab and ask if they need police support. I can't imagine that a driver would think a random woman trying to wave them down was an issue that needed reporting or police support.

Bat Macdui wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 3:06 pm Also, in today's 'you absolutely fucking what' takes: this :

Speaking on BBC Radio, Conservative Mr Allott said women should be aware this was not an indictable offence - one considered serious enough to warrant a prison sentence or crown court hearing.

"So women, first of all, need to be streetwise about when they can be arrested and when they can't be arrested. She should never have been arrested and submitted to that," he said.

"Perhaps women need to consider in terms of the legal process, to just learn a bit about that legal process".

Marth wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 5:09 pm Anyone posting about this on Facebook had all their male friends liking or commenting?

No? Thought not.

Luna wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 5:12 pm Looking back, I could have been a Sarah.
Way back in 1986 I took a job in the centre of Athens as a dance teacher. I went with another girl who I didn’t know and we shared an apartment in a slightly grotty area. We had no facilities in the flat whatsoever and telephone calls home used to be done at this place called the OTE. You would queue up to use a booth and pay at the desk afterwards.
One evening I went there by myself and was followed the whole way there. As I stood in the queue I could see this shitty bloke pacing up and down outside peering in the window at me. Naturally I scared the life out of my bf by crying on the phone that someone was waiting outside to get me.
After I paid for the call, I told a guy at the desk who could speak English what had happened and that I had to get away from this man who was waiting for me. He said he was finishing his shift so he’d give me a lift home. I was so desperate to get away from creepy bloke that I accepted his offer. As I sat in the car I had this realisation I was in a foreign country, in a strangers car at night and could be driven off to god knows where.
Happily he wasn’t dodgy but my whole experience in Athens was spent avoiding creepy men. We laughed a lot of it off at the time but that one experience really rattled me.