I think at the very least he should be named and have his picture put in the newspapers online. That alone should cause him and his family enough embaressment among their neighbours and let them know what kind of family they live next to.
Punishment by all means, but just enough to shake their real life just like he affected their real life.
Hmmm ................. punish the family too? Yes that sounds sensible. In fact why not his relatives and friends too ............................ anyone that knows him and any shops that he goes into?
How about sewing yellow stars onto their clothing just so we all know that they think differently to you?
Who knows if we follow your path to "justice" we might even be able to come up with a Final Solution.
Technically it's not his bus anyway. The taxpayer paid for it, it's for public use, so we share the bus. What I'm most outraged about is the abusive language directed towards the alleged victims, although if the couple really were trying to bite each other's faces off, that would be unsettling for me as well.
I think at the very least he should be named and have his picture put in the newspapers online. That alone should cause him and his family enough embaressment among their neighbours and let them know what kind of family they live next to.
Punishment by all means, but just enough to shake their real life just like he affected their real life.
:D His neighbours will probably be with him all the way.
As usual, there will be more to this story that we are being told. I'm going with they'll claim it was a peck on the lips, but in reality they were trying to taste what each other had for breakfast. Then when someone complained about not wanting their young children to see such acts and the driver had had a word the gay card was whipped out faster than a choir boy at a Church orgy.
Wow, looks like you've cracked the case, QT. It was those sneaky, conniving gays all along, huh? Should've known.
The Gay Lobby - Demanding of tolerance yet totally intolerant .........................
Yeah, that (not at all fictional) Gay Lobby, totally intolerant of intolerance and unprovoked hatred. How DARE they?! It's political correctness gone mad, I tell you! I mean, even the name sounds perverse: 'Gay Lobby'? It leaves a nasty taste in the mouth. Ooh, missus! >:(>:(
I'm in two minds. A peck on the lips wouldn't upset me at all. But I also feel that there is a staged feeling to these episodes, an elememt of testing boundaries. It isn't wise.
Somebody here called for the driver's dismissal and doesn't care if he has a family to support - other people will care even if gays don't. It won't do the cause any good if that were to happen.
And lf course the couple have waited a long time to go public, long enough for the CCTVevidence to have disappeared and witnesses to be untraceable. I cannot help but wonder why.
On the other hand, if the incident happened exactly as the couple described, it does seem a massive overreaction by the driver. Such a pity we didn't get his side of the story. However, when the couple go the police and he gets charged, we'll hear his side of it then.
U fil then, I'm prepared to suspend judgement on the matter.
I'm in two minds. A peck on the lips wouldn't upset me at all. But I also feel that there is a staged feeling to these episodes, an elememt of testing boundaries. It isn't wise.
Somebody here called for the driver's dismissal and doesn't care if he has a family to support - other people will care even if gays don't. It won't do the cause any good if that were to happen.
And lf course the couple have waited a long time to go public, long enough for the CCTVevidence to have disappeared and witnesses to be untraceable. I cannot help but wonder why.
On the other hand, if the incident happened exactly as the couple described, it does seem a massive overreaction by the driver. Such a pity we didn't get his side of the story. However, when the couple go the police and he gets charged, we'll hear his side of it then.
U fil then, I'm prepared to suspend judgement on the matter.
Bib - you see I just don't understand this argument - gay couples can get married now... what possible boundaries are they testing? I have kissed my partners on buses - I have kissed her in the street... in the cinema... on station platforms... and NONE of it was about 'testing boundaries' - it was just about sharing a kiss. My expectation is that I can and will behave in exactly the same way as is acceptable for straight couples... and if you don't think there is kissing happening on buses after 10.30pm in London then I can only assume you have never been on one.
As usual, there will be more to this story that we are being told. I'm going with they'll claim it was a peck on the lips, but in reality they were trying to taste what each other had for breakfast. Then when someone complained about not wanting their young children to see such acts and the driver had had a word the gay card was whipped out faster than a choir boy at a Church orgy.
Because it is literally unimaginable that two gay people could encounter homophobic behaviour, you mean?
Why does the media always claim that people are 'thrown off' or 'thrown out' of vehicles or places, when actually they are simply asked or at worst told to leave?
I'm pretty sure that everyone understands 'thrown off' as meaning 'told to leave' and not 'picked up and hurled into the gutter'.
And just like the Sainsbury's couple it will have been more than a peck on the cheek. I honestly hope there will be proof of what happened and they are found to be lying,maybe then people will think twice before making shit up to get people on their side.
Why are you getting into an actual habit of rewriting press stories to meet your personal prejudices?
According to the reports he drove them to their chosen destination notwithstanding their behaviour (offensive or otherwise).
It is bizarre to suggest that a bus driver is showing tolerance if he 'drives people to their chosen destination' when all he has done is followed his designated route while hurling abuse at the other passengers.
I fear the mods are generally swayed by the faux outrage and the alert button pushers;-)
Most people here don't need quite that much protection from the evil trollz. I think it's often better to leave offending posts in place, rather than leaving a sanitised version of people's posting history. WNS must have about 30% of his output deleted.
Why are you getting into an actual habit of rewriting press stories to meet your personal prejudices?
As I stated to another poster I have no personal prejudices as I am pansexual. I am just of the belief that these victim stories are lies until proven truth, as evidenced by the majority of them being proven false and made up by the "victim".
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How about sewing yellow stars onto their clothing just so we all know that they think differently to you?
Who knows if we follow your path to "justice" we might even be able to come up with a Final Solution.
Shame on you !!!
Then why say "all gay people" when that member was talking of those two on the bus?
What's the max capacity on one of those buses, anybody know?
This is the worst one ever: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senghenydd_Colliery_Disaster
Nobody yet knows either way do they.
And all straight people are evil homophobes who should be damned without being given a hearing. ;-)
I bet you're 'with him all the way' too.
That will be seen when the bus comapny finishes their investigating and views the CCTV, until then the driver should not be presumed guilty.
Wow, looks like you've cracked the case, QT. It was those sneaky, conniving gays all along, huh? Should've known.
Yeah, that (not at all fictional) Gay Lobby, totally intolerant of intolerance and unprovoked hatred. How DARE they?! It's political correctness gone mad, I tell you! I mean, even the name sounds perverse: 'Gay Lobby'? It leaves a nasty taste in the mouth. Ooh, missus! >:(>:(
I'm in two minds. A peck on the lips wouldn't upset me at all. But I also feel that there is a staged feeling to these episodes, an elememt of testing boundaries. It isn't wise.
Somebody here called for the driver's dismissal and doesn't care if he has a family to support - other people will care even if gays don't. It won't do the cause any good if that were to happen.
And lf course the couple have waited a long time to go public, long enough for the CCTVevidence to have disappeared and witnesses to be untraceable. I cannot help but wonder why.
On the other hand, if the incident happened exactly as the couple described, it does seem a massive overreaction by the driver. Such a pity we didn't get his side of the story. However, when the couple go the police and he gets charged, we'll hear his side of it then.
U fil then, I'm prepared to suspend judgement on the matter.
Especially if they've been driven underground? :cool:
It was the bus not the underground
Bib - you see I just don't understand this argument - gay couples can get married now... what possible boundaries are they testing? I have kissed my partners on buses - I have kissed her in the street... in the cinema... on station platforms... and NONE of it was about 'testing boundaries' - it was just about sharing a kiss. My expectation is that I can and will behave in exactly the same way as is acceptable for straight couples... and if you don't think there is kissing happening on buses after 10.30pm in London then I can only assume you have never been on one.
Hardly trolling, more like taking the piss.
The mods seem to have thought otherwise. I fear they are correct.
I fear the mods are generally swayed by the faux outrage and the alert button pushers;-)
Most people here don't need quite that much protection from the evil trollz. I think it's often better to leave offending posts in place, rather than leaving a sanitised version of people's posting history. WNS must have about 30% of his output deleted.
As I stated to another poster I have no personal prejudices as I am pansexual. I am just of the belief that these victim stories are lies until proven truth, as evidenced by the majority of them being proven false and made up by the "victim".