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Bus driver's bathroom break brings down the housePosted 01.17.2008 by daphne
David Bown of Sydney, Australia, has been working on renovations for the past couple of years to get his home "just the way he liked it". Tweaking broken tiles and floorboards now seems small in the scheme of things, however, because this week his house has bigger problems. How big? Bus big. At 7:30 AM on January 7th, he awoke to the sounds of screaming just as a driverless bus drove into the front of his home, coming to a stop about a foot away from where he'd been napping in the front room.
Why is this on PoopReport? Because at the time of the accident, the driver was outside of the bus, taking a pee. An employee of Northland Coach and Travel, the driver had stepped away for "a very short period of time while he went to answer a call of nature". As he did, the bus began to roll. It rolled across a footpath, two lanes of traffic, and then a second footpath before crashing into Bown's house. Bown is waiting for the insurance assessor to find out whether bulldozing and starting over will be the best option, as the damage may irreparable. The residence was moved in its entirety, which may have ruined its connection to the foundation. But when Bown expressed *sympathy* for the driver instead of outrage, he showed a magnanimous nature that many people might not have been able to muster. "I mean, it's not his fault," Bown said. "It's not something you strive to do." Inspectors at the scene have not reported finding anything wrong with the brake system, which was the driver's claim, so whether fault is assigned to the driver remains to be seen. There article doesn't mention whether he shut the engine off or merely put the emergency brake on and left it running, which would surely be protocol. Naturally curious, I called Pierce Country Transit this morning and spoke to "Jerry" about what a city bus company consider safe bus operations. He said that their strict standard is for drivers to not only shut the bus off, should the need for a bathroom break arise, but also to lock the cab and sometimes even use what he called wheel chalks if the bus is parked on an incline. "At no time is the bus to remain running or in a state of possible movement without a driver," he reassured me. Well, now I see why!
As you can see, the unnamed driver appears sheepish and in a state of disbelief. One can only wonder what was going through his head at the time (not to mention his bladder). Imagine coming home from a day of work to tell the wife, "I ruined a man's home today because I had to pee." Show some poop support, or make a poop retort.
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