Bus driver kicks off woman with crying baby; passengers leave too

[n2doc]

Can. Someone. Please. Make. That. Baby. Stop. Crying.

No, actually. Babies are notorious for crying as long as they feel like it; adults are known by psychologists to hate the sound of crying babies more than just about any other sound there is; and well, there you are.

It's an age-old dilemma, and its very familiarity may account for the way in which an incident last week on Oregon TriMet's Bus No. 57 has become an international cause célèbre. It is the story of two dozen passengers, more or less, a baby in a bad mood, and a bus that motored through its own terrible little Twilight Zone on the 16 miles from Beaverton to Forest Grove.

The trip ended only when the bus came to a halt, the baby and mom were ordered off the bus, the passengers protested in her defense, the driver suggested they could leave too if they didn't like it, and everybody did.

Oregon has talked about little else for days. Hundreds of comments have come in from around the world to newspapers and television websites, with people weighing in on behalf of beleaguered mothers, overstressed bus drivers, abused passengers, tired babies -- the whole unhappy mix of humanity thrown together on buses so often it's a wonder only the babies actually cry.


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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/10/oregon-crying-baby-bus.html

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. "Man kicks Dog."

:shrug:

[cyberpj]

2. snip- "...it's a wonder only the babies actually cry." Amen to that. nt

[Whisp]

3. so true.

'''the whole unhappy mix of humanity thrown together on buses so often it's a wonder only the babies actually cry.'''

[hlthe2b]

4. Hand out earplugs..... Issue solved...

:eyes:

[hifiguy]

5. That is why I always use earplugs when I fly.

Just in case. Plus I seem to be more relaxed at the end of the flight, crying babies or no.

[HappyMe]

6. Once I saw that they

all were getting off of the bus, I would have stayed on.

[frazzled]

7. Good for them: solidarity is the best statement

I hate crying babies, too. I hated it when my own cried. But some babies truly are inconsolable. And they're usually the ones with the piercing cries. It's tough, but it's life, folks. Accept babies who cry, elderly people who move slowly or can't hear well, and all the rest. You may be annoying to someone else, too.

[shraby]

8. I always enjoy hearing a baby cry..it's somebody else's baby

and I don't have to do anything about it. (from a mother who had 4 pre-schoolers with no multiple births)

[seabeyond]

9. does my heart good to hear people standing with this mom. good for them. nt

[kestrel91316]

10. I hate screaming babies just as much as the next childless person, lol,

but it's SIXTEEN MILES, for crying out loud. It's not a 4-hour nonstop airline flight.

I would have been off that bus in protest with the rest of them. Buses are transportation for people who likely don't HAVE an alternative.

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. Yep. There is a huge difference between a mom and babe on a bus they HAD to be on

and a mom and babe in a movie theater or restaurant.

While I can sympathize with the bus driver, he could have reasonably asked her to move to the farthest rear seat to lessen then din, and then just dealt with it.

[Lex]

12. The only thing worse than hearing the baby cry was the mother & baby

unceremoniously getting kicked off the bus at place that wasn't even their stop.

[madrchsod]

13. "crying baby airline"