No other information was available at press time. Tuesday's incident in Guangzhou, the capital city of southern Guangdong province, was the seventh deadly attack on a public bus in China since While official information on the culprits and their motives is sometimes patchy, most of the incidents were the work of disgruntled individuals. The deadliest attack took place in Fujian province's Xiamen city last year, when a poverty-stricken street vendor set a public bus on fire, killing himself and 46 others.
In , a similar attack by an unemployed gambling addict in Chengdu, Sichuan province, killed the man and 26 others. These crimes, known as "revenge on society" acts, have ignited a debate in China about the negative side effects of its rapid economic transformation of the past few decades.
A cyclist took "revenge" on a “bully” London bus driver by switching off the vehicle’s engine after an altercation on the road. The rider was angered when the Route bus in Brixton, south London, beeped him twice before overtaking “too close”. The post says: “Bus. Dramatic footage captures the moment a cyclist takes his revenge on a bus driver who almost hit him by pressing the engine's emergency cut.
The rush to get rich has weakened the social fabric, say analysts, who point to the lack of social and mental health support for migrant workers uprooted to big cities such as Guangzhou. Experts say that China's mental health infrastructure is under-developed, which means troubled individuals do not receive help and their behaviour escalates into violence. He added that China's opaque decision-making hierarchy and official corruption deprive ordinary Chinese of legitimate methods of seeking redress, and so drive some to desperate acts.
Agreeing, Xiamen University social development expert Hu Rong said: Rapid development has extracted a painful cost from those at the bottom while those at the top are the ones who get richer, he said. Professor Hu cited as an example a case from his home town of Ningde in Fujian province.
This article was first published on July 17, When a company supervisor tried to board the bus at an intersection Jackson ignored him too. Finally he wheeled the big vehicle into one of the CTA barns, turned off the ignition, and hopped off the bus. He headed straight for his boss, stared him straight in the eye and announced: He can't quit just like that???
Why, do they own him? Sounds like a Three Stooges routine: The wheels on the bus go round and round, you ain't getting on, you ain't getting off, don't make a sound.
Oh, sorry, mistyped that Patty -- One place I worked, you had to sign an employee's agreement. Unlike most people, I read it.