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Playing Your PSP at Work is a Bad Idea, Especially When You Drive a City Bus
Posted by Sean Fallon at 9:40 AM on September 26, 2008
A bus driver in Honolulu, Hawaii was suspended without pay recently after he was discovered playing video games while driving. Photos taken by a concerned passenger caught him red handed with his PSP, and she complained that he would play at stoplights and "with two hands... at times, while he was driving in traffic." As baffling as all this is, I am even more surprised that he wasn't fired on the spot. And why didn't anyone speak up with a "hey dumbass, keep your eyes on the road before you kill us all?" [KITV via Kotaku]
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
lol
Posted September 27, 2008 12:43 AM
What a dumbo lolol
Polybius
Posted 10:14 AM 26/9/08
@BiZarRroBALlmeR: Wrong time of year for that ;)
Polybius
surfer88
Posted 10:13 AM 26/9/08
It's Hawaii brudda. Go with the flow and keep your shorts on. It's not like anyone in Hawaii is in any rush to get somewhere anyway.
surfer88
Cynt
Posted 10:13 AM 26/9/08
not only that, but the Bus drivers here in Hawaii get paid more than I do as a Graphic Designer with a 4 yr degree from a major university (not UH).
I don't get to play games at work either.
Cynt
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
Posted 10:09 AM 26/9/08
Was he playingn Need for Speed? :P
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
honozooloo
Posted 9:57 AM 26/9/08
ugh. sometimes i hate this state.
honozooloo
General Halfshaftery
Posted 9:50 AM 26/9/08
Well it's not like he has to watch over for snowbanks, lol
General Halfshaftery
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 9:47 AM 26/9/08
It could have been worse. He could have tazed a guy who was threatening to jump from a second-story ledge.
Sorry, but this bus driver does not get the Dumb Government Employee Of The Week Award.
OMG! Ponies!
Skeptical_Geezer
Posted 9:45 AM 26/9/08
No worse than the L.A. bus drivers that are I experience regularly reading the newspaper while driving, or the MetroRail engineer in the big crash a couple of weeks ago that reportedly ws test-messaging and so missed the stop signal.
Skeptical_Geezer
smegz
Posted 9:43 AM 26/9/08
You mean this is not safe to do? So Arnold wasn't wrong when he banned texting while driving in California?
smegz
BiZarRroBALlmeR
Posted 9:43 AM 26/9/08
Mele Kalikimaka
BiZarRroBALlmeR
zgulley
Posted 11:38 AM 26/9/08
Well I mean... it is in Honolulu... an island right? What's he got to make like 8,000 lefts a day. I bet that gets kind of monotonous. I'm not condoning it, I'm just saying...
zgulley
brutaluser
Posted 11:23 AM 26/9/08
He was playing twisted metal head on!!! probably
brutaluser
Platypus Man
Posted 12:04 PM 26/9/08
@Giz: "hey dumbass, keep your eyes on the road before you kill us all"
The people inside the bus would probably be fine. Much more likely to just plow the bus into several people outside the bus and kill them...
Platypus Man
rfox316
Posted 12:58 PM 26/9/08
ah yes....overpaid and incompetent. Smells like a union job to me.
rfox316
MightyCow
Posted 5:34 PM 26/9/08
San Francisco bus drivers have hit pedestrians, injuring or killing them, and they're simply moved to a different bus rout. The wonders of Unions work for the betterment of us all.
MightyCow
discounteggroll
Posted 6:20 PM 26/9/08
rubber band on the steering wheel and let it drive itself. Gran Turismo has taught me something after all
discounteggroll
Nathan Drake
Posted 8:15 PM 26/9/08
I just watched a bus driver play with his iPod while driving. Not the thing you should be doing while operating a moving vehicle.
Nathan Drake
bngi
Posted 9:16 PM 26/9/08
Doesnt this remind you of the SP episode, when kenny gets hit by an icecream truck, driven by a guy playing psp?
golden psp!
bngi
Null42
Posted 10:36 PM 26/9/08
He needs that last level! Lay off!
Null42
Dirk
Posted 10:53 PM 26/9/08
I once had to take a small prop-plane in Nicaragua (seats about about 10). Mid-flight I look up and the pilot is reading the sports section of the newspaper....
Dirk
ThomasinaVole
Posted 3:20 PM 26/9/08
I bus daily in Honolulu. Today my quarters got jammed in the slot. The stupid driver told me to get out a key and fix the jam! He didn't bother to help at all. Typical low life fool.
ThomasinaVole
ThomasinaVole
Posted 3:18 PM 26/9/08
What?! ALL times I hate this state.
ThomasinaVole
GiulioDascylus
Posted 12:53 PM 26/9/08
I use mine as an MP3 player ect..and play music videos through my car radio,it's nice to watch the videos at a light but trying to play a game would be to distracting!
GiulioDascylus
VikasTriton
Posted 9:55 AM 26/9/08
Hey! That's (was) the regular bus driver for my route! True Story! I was wondering where he was yesterday. The noob that replaced him had the wrong route posted (there is an upper and lower version of that particular route), in the front and I had to wait another 25 minutes becasue I thought either my bus was early or was late. But seriously I think he was a nice guy. I always see him talking to the regulars. Well, that probably was not safe either!
VikasTriton
EricAlder
Posted 5:18 AM 27/9/08
Mahalo, cousin! Wonder if he was playing a driving game?
EricAlder
chargernj
Posted 1:02 AM 28/9/08
@Cynt: That busdrive needs to be fired on the spot.
Tired of people who hold themselves above tradespeople because they have a college degree. And yes a busdriver is a tradesperson.
The busdriver gets more for a few good reasons.
That's because if something bad happens when a bus driver is working people may very well die.
If something bad happens when a graphic designer is working he may have to "go back to the drawing board".
There is a lot of demand for busdrivers, not as much for graphic designers. Only a small portion of designers get the top wage.
I have a bachelors degree from a 4 year university too. I also work a professional job at a different university. But while I was attending college college I used to drive a truck, for a portable toilet company no less. Gave me a sense of proportion and humility. Most professional drivers handle those large vehicles better than you handle your car.
Again, that driver should have been fired on the spot.
chargernj