On the day:
19/08/2013
On the way:
Sort of on the way. The bus is not moving and the man in the green T-shirt is reasoning with the driver. Reasoning, you say?
Well, he seems to have been at it a while and has long since abandoned the objective discourse of apoplectic, waving his bottle of Lucozade around and pounding his plosives like Kevin Pietersen faciing full-toss under-arm water bombs from Shane Warne, each utterance a fresh detonation of spittle, blood and bile.
In the course of stating his case he declaims: "You can call the police I don't care."
He presents his point of view: "There's only one person being stupid on this bus and that's you. %¿¥@ing €¡¥@head."
He discloses personal motivations: "I only want to go to the hospital to see my sick daughter." (fair enough, that's sure to put anyone on edge)
He appeals to the gallery: "I made the lady he was having an argument with get off the bus and he still won't go."
He outlines potential outcomes: "Just wait till I see you on the road you little pussy or what."
And, noting that the driver has said not a word in response but sat silently staring forward from the safety of his reinforced plastic/glass booth (surely the fact that he has nothing to say in his defence is a de facto admissio.n of guilt), closes: "QED."
Or, more accurately, he spots the next bus and steams off in righteous fury and unsatisfied frustration, leaving the apparently unmoved driver to go on about his day.
On the pod:
Pompeii - Bastille http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F90Cw4l-8NY
On the front page:
New warning over legal Twitter trap (Metro)
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