Gay Couple Kissing 'Ordered Off London Bus By Homophobic Driver'
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A gay couple say they were ordered off a London bus by the driver after he spotted them kissing.
Jack James, 23, and his partner were on board an 89 bus near Blackheath when the driver allegedly made homophobic comments.
James told the Evening Standard: “We were chatting away when my partner gave me a peck on the lips.
“The bus driver shouted ‘Oi you two don’t do that on my fucking bus or you can get off, I don’t want to watch that’.”
Initially, the couple thought the driver could not be speaking to them.
James added: "When the bus stopped at our stop I walked up to the driver and politely asked the driver if he was talking to us. His reply was 'Yes, it's my bus, it is my rules, and I don't want to watch that. It's disgusting. Get off the bus'.
"Once we got off the bus we were fuming and I was shaking. The bus stopped again and he shouted and told us we were not real men and we should f*** off."
The alleged incident happened on August 8 at around 10.30pm.
Ken Davidson, TfL’s Head of Bus Operations, told Huffington Post UK via email: “All customers have the right to use our services without fear of being abused and offensive behaviour is completely unacceptable.
"We would like to reassure Mr James that this matter is being taken very seriously and that a thorough investigation is being conducted by Go Ahead.”
Earlier this month, hundreds of people took part in a a "big consensual kiss-in" at a Sainsbury's store in Brighton in protest at the treatment of two women who were threatened with ejection from the store a few days earlier for kissing.
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WTF
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So many stupid stuff is happening nowadays. Truly there are no depths we can't sink to.
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Awful
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Competent drivers would not be watching that behavior because they would have their eyes on the road. Unlike, for example, the U.S. schoolbus driver who crashed because of texting while driving.
On the other hand, one really IS constantly astonished at the depth and breadth of hatred in bigotry, often with the excuse of religion. Just as patriotism long ago became the First refuge of a scoundrel (rather than the last), Christianists in particular seem to think their Get out of Hell Free card is actually a Get Out of Jail Free card, as in the game of Monopoly.
Here's a great example. In the great state of Florida, a continental appendage that just sort of hangs there limply on the map, a man (maybe drunk) and the woman he was breeding were arrested for the disgusting and abominal crime against natu… I mean for having public sex in public on the beach where nearly naked people never think about sex and must absolutely not ever see it because... I dunno? Churchianity? Because it is okay to molest your sisters or your wrestling students, if you are a Republic*nt? (NB: Major U.S. controversis at the moment over conspicuously misbehaving soi-disant "Christians."
I for one and sick and tired of being sick and tired of these self-righteous creeps. But here we have a hetero couple getting it on, and instead of being told to cover up or "get a room, you two!" they are arrested. But that is the least of it. Conviction means they are legally required to register, annually, for the rest of their revolting hetero active lives, as "sex offenders." They will not be allowed to live near schools. And on and on as if they had done active evil rather than have a lapse of judgment.
You want to know what a lapse of judgment is? It is when top US General David Petraeus running our brilliantly inspired and entirely God-approved war in Iraq gives away national secrets to the woman he is boning. Then, when the court is besieged with letters from all sorts of military officials and civilians asking for leniency that absolutely would be denied to "international man of luggage" Edward Snowden for leaking documents as a whistle-blower, not to get laid, but to right a wrong.
The people defending Gen. Betraeus, who presided in the field over the U.S. loss of our fledgling oil suzerain to actual Iraquis (the ones not yet killed as "collateral damage" are not defending the s.o.b. because of their own lack of judgment. No, no. And the cop who pulled a gun on neighborhood kids at a TXass pool party, well, he had a history of poor decision-making, but even if it was a crime what he did, that does not defend an entire network on the electronic television machine defending him and claiming the children were going to "shank" (knife) him (with, apparently, nonexistent weapons). These and some presidential candidates are also busy defending the child-molesting cultists and reality show grifters. That is not a lapse of judgment on their part either.
Well, enjoy the hidden cam vids of couples making love on the beach while you can. If they get caught in Florida, home of not one but two current presidential delusionists who are far holier than thou, no matter who thou art, such good time fiends can be punished for the rest of their lives, even if they are strait.
By the way, have you heard the popular US joke about the tasteless and watery low-alcohol "beer" we have here being called "Love on the Beach" because it is "fucking close to water"? Well, you have now.