| I witnessed a bus driver in Dundee verbally abuse and threaten a lady passenger.
He missed her at a bus stop and stopped a hundred yards up the road to allow her to get on.
Boarding a bus, she thanked him for stopping, but the tirade of abuse she received was appalling.
He was shouting and pointing his finger at her, she asked him to stop pointing and went and took her seat. The bus moved on to the next stop.
He then got out of the cab (the lady was reading her paper by this point) and approached her again. He was aggressive, pointing at her face, shouting and looming over her when she was sitting down.
Among other things, he called her a liar when she said she was waiting at the stop (which she was).
I take my hat off to her as she was obviously shaken but remained very calm, never as much raised her voice and asked him why he was being so confrontational.
The lady asked if she wasn’t waiting at the stop why he had stopped to let her on, again she was shouted down.
The whole thing was totally uncalled for and unacceptable.
The fact he had driven on and felt the need to confront her to carry out this attack was particularly disturbing. She repeatedly asked him not to talk to her like that, but it made no difference.
I really hope this lady has made a complaint. This type of behaviour has to be stopped.
The CCTV camera is there to protect drivers, but I hope in this case they will be used to protect passengers.
If this had happened to me I would have called the police from the bus. — Disgusted.
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