From:
Tim Kerr
Date:
Jun 21 13:12 UTC
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Hi Tom. You are not quite correct.... I do it only because NO ONE else will.
That is, if a company is stuck for a driver I am sometimes approached. I
don't do it because I enjoy doing it! I do it because it has to be done.....
I think if you were to go into town at about midnight, observed the huge
queues outside some of the better-know Manchester St bars you would get a
better understanding of the proportion of crapulent mystery bus boozers in
comparison to the total numbers of tarty-looking sheilas and their menfolk
who are NOT on mystery bus tours. The sixty-odd buses are only a tiny drop
in the bucket.
The women dress like tarts because they want to impress each other.
I can tell you, I am glad I'm not a policeman who has to sort them all out.
The crowd I took out tonight were lovely - only one was too pissed to be
lucid (As I said - there is always one....)
Thanks for your comments Tom - and I'm pleased to see you have read some of
my other contributions. Great stuff!
Cheers,
Tim kerr.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Taylor" <<email obscured>>
> To: <<email obscured>>
> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 8:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [Canterbury Issues] Reforming liquor laws to combat crime
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>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> So it's OK by you to be paid to take pissheads into the City so they can
>> beat the shit out of people and rape and assault women. You say you've
>> noticed the girls dress like tarts so are they asking for it? As you say
>> in
>> other forums in Canterbury Issues 'if I don't do it someone else will' so
>> no
>> probs, eh?
>>
>> Think about it.
>>
>> Tom
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tim Kerr" <<email obscured>>
>> To: <<email obscured>>
>> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 10:25 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Canterbury Issues] Reforming liquor laws to combat crime
>>
>>
>>>I have been a passenger in a booze bus trip once. It was OK - except for
>>>one
>>> out of control prick. There is always one...
>>>
>>> But I also drive the things from time to time. And I agree with you.
>>> Many
>>> of
>>> the booze bus trip organisers think it is an excuse to load the bus up
>>> with
>>> alcohol and drink themselves to oblivion within the shortest possible
>>> distance. And the participants do just that. If you think a booze bus
>>> driver
>>> can "control" booze-befuddled pricks who insist on standing in the aisle
>>> while sucking on a bourbon... then you need to come on a few trips with
>>> me!
>>>
>>> The "girls" are different than the males. They start up such a huge
>>> chorus
>>> of shrieks and screams that they actually have to communicate with
>>> one-another by text! (And cell-phone photos!) Sometimes I feel I need
>>> earmuffs. They also dress to kill. The compete with each other to look
>>> the
>>> most tarty - and they love it. They tend to bring their own music - and
>>> sometimes even bring along a bit of food.
>>>
>>> At least one female will get so plastered she will swear "Someone has
>>> spiked
>>> my drink!", Yeah, right....
>>>
>>> Men tend to just drink. They don't dress up - they put on their drinking
>>> clothes. They never think to bring their own food - or music. Depending
>>> on
>>> social background at least one male will get reasonably violent - that
>>> is,
>>> capable of swinging fists in a wide arc - so you have to try and avoid
>>> getting hit. I also notice you cannot predict who is going to end up the
>>> greatest twit - the most boozed-up and belligerent jerk. Often it is the
>>> one
>>> who starts off being the most friendly to the driver. Occasionally he
>>> will
>>> fall in love with the driver - which can be distracting when you are
>>> trying
>>> to control a bus-load of drunken jerks. And there is always a drunkenly
>>> uncontrollable Homo-phobe who wants to pick a fight with any guy who so
>>> much
>>> as looks at him (and probably because the guy is the centre of
>>> attraction
>>> in
>>> a stag do - and dressed in drag!)
>>>
>>> And at a reasonably early hour (11.30 p.m.) we release these crapulent
>>> twits
>>> into the central city. Their night is just set to begin. They intend to
>>> continue partying until at least 0400 Hrs! We drop them off in the
>>> central
>>> city so they don't have access to their cars.
>>>
>>> There are bus-loads of these people - and all I can say is we keep them
>>> out
>>> of the Oxford Strip dining area until the chattering classes have been
>>> to
>>> their show had their dinner or "afters" drinks and gone home.
>>>
>>> And while we cart these crapulent sots about the city and its environs,
>>> the
>>> boy racers are doing interpersonal status-positioning drags up and down
>>> Moorehouse Ave - and other places.....
>>>
>>> It's all called "having fun" - and if you can remember what fun you had
>>> that
>>> night... then obviously you hadn't had enough fun!
>>>
>>> I seem to vaguely remember similar activities when I was in my late
>>> teens
>>> to
>>> late twenties.....
>>>
>>> Each of the pubs we deliver these drunken sots to has a team of security
>>> boys out front. They are great - so patient, and they seem to enjoy
>>> their
>>> job too! I admire them.
>>>
>>> I have already stated how I feel we should sort these people out in an
>>> earlier diatribe - it focused on rounding them up, putting them in
>>> holding
>>> cells, then getting them up at 0700 hrs to do a bit of street cleaning
>>> until
>>> a bang-up breakfast at, say 0945 Hrs then giving them a bus fare
>>> home....
>>>
>>> Communicating and discussing options with them? I leave that up to the
>>> security boys on the pub doors. They are bigger and more patient than
>>> me.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "brenda dew" <<email obscured>>
>>> To: "Canterbury Public Issues Forum"
>>> <<email obscured>>
>>> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 9:51 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Canterbury Issues] Reforming liquor laws to combat crime
>>>
>>>
>>>> We went through Riccarton last Saturday night and I was astounded ,to
>>>> see
>>>> two party buses with standing passengers, drinking alcohol with one
>>>> hand
>>>> and trying to hold on with the other .
>>>> Where was the driver,s control?
>>>> I have been told they finish in town and then they create mayhem on the
>>>> streets .
>>>> What controls are there for safe travelling on these vehicles?
>>>> Feedback please if you have been a passenger.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> brenda dew
>>>>
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>> Tom Taylor
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