ICTChris Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Lothian Buses, the bus company providing the majority of Edinburgh’s bus services, have announced that all evening services will be withdraw this evening from 7:30pm. This follows numerous instances of buses being attacked with bricks across the city in the last few weeks. Reports of buses having missiles thrown at them have been recorded in Drylaw, Portobello, Gilmerton, Drumbrae and Balerno. Police have charged a number of youths with offences related to attacks on buses - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-56417250?fbclid=IwAR1irrQAivi6WGpNip9ml6MLF7zTBUQ10zfBLfXuwyfzKTf9ehYq3biinfo Given the variety of areas affected it seems unlikely it’s the same kids doing this but is more like a copycat reaction to one event. I’m not sure I’ve ever been so bored that I started throwing bricks at buses but then I was never locked in the house for months at a time I suppose. Have any P&Bers ever bricked a bus due to boredom? Have any P&Bers ever been in a bus that was bricked? what’s the strangest thing P&Bers have done to relieve boredom? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmouth Strikes Again Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 4 minutes ago, ICTChris said: Have any P&Bers ever been in a bus that was bricked? Twice, once in Airdrie and the other time in the Bronx NYC. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 1 minute ago, Bigmouth Strikes Again said: Twice, once in Airdrie and the other time in the Bronx NYC. Soz! Nothing personal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Ferguson's Hat Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 I'm approaching my 30s and still enjoy throwing bricks at buses. Lothian Buses just have to grow up here, I'm afraid. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 No. Yes. On the advice of my lawyer, I will not be answering this question. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid android Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 (edited) This from Lothian Buses: "All journeys across Edinburgh which are due to depart terminal points after 19.30hrs will not operate tonight as a result of escalating incidents of antisocial behaviour which are putting the safety and wellbeing of our drivers and customers at risk." Throw the book at these c***s who've been charged. Edited March 17, 2021 by paranoid android 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superbigal Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 I think I must point out it is not Bricks that were being thrown. Actually I imagine throwing bricks must be quite challenging. Unless you get the ones like bowling balls with the finger holes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 I once threw a stone at Jimmy the Bus. (Elgin joke, there) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbaxters Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 (edited) 2 minutes ago, superbigal said: I think I must point out it is not Bricks that were being thrown. Actually I imagine throwing bricks must be quite challenging. Unless you get the ones like bowling balls with the finger holes. How do you know? Caught ye! (in a headlock). He's here, officer! Edited March 17, 2021 by jimbaxters 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 I know folk who were on a Meadowbank supporters bus that got bricked outside Cliftonhill in the 1980s. It is believed it wasn't the Rovers fans that did it but general Coatbridge ned scum. It was Berwick fans who threw stones at our bus when we won the City Cup in the 1990s, the naughty fellows. Balerno is fairly well to do. These middle class Edinburgh scum, eh?! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 9 minutes ago, tamthebam said: I know folk who were on a Meadowbank supporters bus that got bricked outside Cliftonhill in the 1980s. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermik Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Was speaking to my son at the weekend and he said he was driving nights for the next few weeks. Don’t know if there will be shifts available for him during the day! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 40 minutes ago, paranoid android said: This from Lothian Buses: "All journeys across Edinburgh which are due to depart terminal points after 19.30hrs will not operate tonight as a result of escalating incidents of antisocial behaviour which are putting the safety and wellbeing of our drivers and customers at risk." Throw bricks at these c***s who've been charged. FTFY. An eye for an eye, and all that 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid android Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Just now, Mark Connolly said: FTFY. An eye for an eye, and all that Indeed - could certainly have someone's eye oot. My mate's a bus driver, and it pretty grim the now.* *The failed follow-up single to 'My Old Man's a Dustman'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mark Connolly Posted March 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted March 17, 2021 1 minute ago, paranoid android said: Indeed - could certainly have someone's eye oot. My mate's a bus driver, and it pretty grim the now.* *The failed follow-up single to 'My Old Man's a Dustman'. He wears a First Bus jumper and his wife's a fucking cow? 29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbaxters Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 5 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said: He wears a First Bus jumper and his wife's a fucking cow? Hahahaha! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweeperDee Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Dundee fans bus was bricked by Rangers fans after they beat us in the cup final 2003. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 When I was at primary school probably about p4 me and my pals threw sticks on the road and one hit a car and the driver didn't say anything but grassed us into the Headteacher who went mental. Never thrown anything onto the road/ at a car since. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 1 minute ago, SweeperDee said: Dundee fans bus was bricked by Rangers fans after they beat us in the cup final 2003. Strange way to celebrate a cup win 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Pete Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Yes. Yes. Drew loads of cocks on a desk, chair, filing cabinet, wall and floor in school. Then realised I was sitting amongst a sea of pencil cocks and decided to let the teacher know I'd "found some graffiti" to take the heat off myself. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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