Hi,
Having had the serious displeasure and annoyance at having to endure an idiot smoking on the 33 last night, can you tell me what the legal position is on this? and for customers like myself what should we do. (I know we can ask them to stop, but how many people will be brave enough for this?
Look forward to your comments
Noel
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Posted 5 years ago #
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Your only course of action is to report the person to the driver and ask for the gardai to be called.However as you would be required to personally finger the person responsible to the gardai, it rarely happens.Unfortunately most people would rather endure it than be forced to get involved in this way.Us drivers are powerless unless somebody witnesses the act and is willing to stand up and be counted.
[posted by: Graham]Posted 5 years ago # -
Next time, travel with a few of the lads and if you run across the same creep, throw him out the “Ealú—Emergency Exit” window…
Smoking is for pubs, not buses.Posted 5 years ago # -
To the drivers: How about making an announcement from the mic, that smoking is not permitted? I've seen this happening (from a woman driver I might add) and it seemed to work?Posted 5 years ago #
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Mic announcements work on some routes,but rarely on the ones in the less hospitable of areas.Also the mic rarely works on the buses i drive!
[posted by: Graham]Posted 5 years ago # -
My approach is to get on the bus first and hog the upstairs backseat. Bus smokers tend to be gutless, they'll only do it if there's no-one behind them. If that doesn't work, sometimes I'll say loudly "Do us all a favour and don't light up willya?" and maybe they think twice and don't light up after all.Posted 5 years ago #
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I thought that DB were going to put some staff in plain clothes on the buses to identify and prosecute these offenders. Has anything happened on this yet?Posted 5 years ago #
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Ray...BAC did and continue to deploy plain clothes Inspectors on Smokin Patrol.
However I cannot see them doing it for much longer as the last group of prosecutions resulted in a brace of €10-€20 fines along with a greater number of "Benefit of the Probation Act" cobblers and the inevitable scot-free status to those claiming Social Welfare as their sole income..
In short the entire costly detection and prosecution excercise was pointless.
So if you are bothered by smokers then ask yourself if YOU consider it important enough to make a stand for your rights and quit bleating about Drivers not taking any notice.
I have long since abandoned political correctness and my P/A announcement consits of "I have been informed of passengers smoking on this bus,If You wish to continue smoking please leave the bus at the next stop,otherwise this journey will not proceed any further"
Usually works when mic is at full volume. If it fails I then threaten to come upstairs sit beside the smoker,pick my nose and eat the contents until they desist.
Never fails !!!!Posted 5 years ago # -
Alek: You are way nicer than me. If I was going to go to the trouble to pick my nose, I’d make the smoker eat the contents and then haul him off the bus with one hand.
Next time I am in Dublin, I may just do that to anyone who is smoking in front of me. Perhaps I may burn him with his own cigarette just for fun too…
But if we really want the proper authorities to take care of such people, then it should be away to gaol they go, no questions asked. Is it not possible for the driver to radio for the Guards if necessary…? or at the guards at the point where they won’t answer such a call.Posted 5 years ago # -
Al.
Our Gards are all computerized now.
Their despatching system called PULSE automatically categorises and prioritizes each call and allocates the calls in ascending order to available units (!)
Smoking on a Public Service Vehicle appears at number 2,327 on their list as it is of course a "Civil" matter...........Posted 5 years ago # -
As a driver, smoking on buses is very high on my list of annoyances. I usually pull over, stop the bus, switch off the engine (and pray that it starts up again) and tell the offender to leave the vehicle. They normally put the fag out straight away, but I don't back down. They've broken the law and the bus won't move off until they're off. For some reason, none of the regular heads on my route smoke when I'm driving. Some might think my approach is an unneccessary hassle, but the look of embarrassment on the face of the smoker, coupled with the look of joy on the faces of his passive victims makes it more than worthwhile.Posted 5 years ago #
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fair play to ye mr angry!
smoking on buses is my no.1 pet hate and has got me into trouble aplenty. i find it very hard to bite my tongue n endure it (was actually followed off the bus on one occassion by a group of scummers i told to quit fcking smoking and had to run for my life upon exiting the bus. not fun.).
however people might consider the safer option of writing an email to the man responsible for these things in DublinBus (john.graham@dublinbus.ie) and cc-ing it to your local TD. I sent 10 seperate emails to every TD in my area and to the relevant ministers and was surprised by the number of responses i received. fair play to Eric Byrne of Labour who actually rang me the following day (while i happened to be on the bus) and naturally enuf i was able to tell him that yet again there were people smoking on the bus.
alternatively on a somewhat more draconian note, i'm saving up for a really big sword which i intend to use to skewer any fcker who lights up at the back of the bus...Posted 4 years ago # -
i wish DB would put an inspector on the 0830 83 because myles told me that the girls from the school in glasnevin smoke on the bus every morning
[posted by: barry william]Posted 4 years ago # -
Glasnevin is the worst for buses full of smokers. Especially the 13A. I don't understand how there is always at least one person on that flipping bus smoking, and there are never inspectors - what are they afraid of (mind you some of the girls on that bus scare me too in retrospect...)
[posted by: Sandbin]Posted 4 years ago # -
Those are Ballymun-bound buses. Rules are different...Posted 4 years ago #
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those arent yer normal cigarrettes on the 13/a
[posted by: mmm]Posted 4 years ago # -
ive seen sessions in full swing on the 13 during the afternoon with people smoking and pouring whiskey into half full bottles of red lemonade, oh and also one lad smoking smaock off a tinfoil sheet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[posted by: not surprised]Posted 4 years ago # -
Quality Counts...!Posted 4 years ago #
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I was on the 41 home the other day when 3 guys started rolling a joint beside me on the bus. (At about 6:15)...I asked them to put it out at which time I was told to f**k off back to England....
I told the driver who pulled in at Whitehall garda station...A gard came out...spoke to them....took their false names and that was it...Posted 4 years ago #
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