This Video of a Bus Driver Tackling a Spitting Passenger Is a Valuable Lesson in Public Transit Etiquette

August 5, 2016, 2:10pm

This post originally appeared on VICE Canada.

Unless you live in some Scandinavian infrastructural utopia, dealing with public transit can be maddeningly frustrating even at the best of times. It’s enough to make one consider many unmentionable actions, or, at the very least, venting your anger at the nearest bus driver. But on Wednesday at approximately 4:30 PM, one Winnipeg man found out why this is a very bad idea—and like all great amateur public fight videos, it was captured in all its glory vertically in a cellphone video.

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After a confrontation of unknown origins at the front of the bus, which included some swearing, a man actually spits on the driver. The driver, reacting in a cat-like manner as if he’d been waiting all his life for someone to test him, responds to the aforementioned spitting, also known as the most sus, dirty, unparalleled move to pull on another human, by promptly chasing him out of the vehicle and tackling him.

The driver, still wearing his black steering gloves, proceeds to wail on the dude repetitively and while seemingly also trying to restrain him. A random man in a blue-striped polo and denim shorts sits on a bench adjacent to the scene, holding a bag. He stands up, briefly considering an intervention, but decides against it, thinking to himself, Nah, not today.

When the driver’s Oakley-like sunglasses fall off his face, he expertly catches them and continues to go in on the spitting susbag with one hand while holding his glasses in the other.

“Should I call the cops?” One of the bus passengers asks aloud multiple times at the end of the clip, after finally setting down their popcorn and watching the fight unfold like it’s a live Worldstar video.

Apparently the cops did show eventually because the dude who had the audacity to spit on a public transit driver was arrested. The driver did not face any charges, but he did teach all of us an important lesson: Do not fuck with the dude driving you around on public transit.

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