Sunday, April 25, 2010

The law is unfair

Watch the video first:


Anyone who has lived in North America long enough knows the behavior of teens can be unbearable. When I attended high school in Canada, I saw the same behavior teens show towards more vulnerable targets like teachers and others.

Seeing the bus driver's reaction on the camera it's only natural for him to react that way. What's more is the teen refused to move up the bus when told to do so. How else do you remove a person when he/she refuses to move?

The bus drivers mistake was responding physically to the teen's provocation. He could have threatened to call the police. Whatever his mistake was he received a harsh punishment for it. At the most he should have been given a criminal record, while the children who provoked and fought with him been given a ban from any form of public transport.
It's clear they have no sense of proper conduct when using a public facility.

But of course since the bus driver happened to be the adult, he got the prison sentence. Had the teens and bus driver switched places, the teens would have been given the light sentence even though their age group are the more aggressive ones.

The poor bus driver works in a difficult position and was given too much of a harsh punishment for his reaction.
I understand some bus drivers can be rude and arrogant, but this poor man definitely was not one of them.

The video below is of a bus driver refusing to let a teen off the bus and getting assaulted for it. By law, the driver cannot be letting off a person under eighteen or else she should be responsible for it.

The laws need to be reformed to prevent such incidents from continuing:

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