Cancer patient trapped in Bus Éireann luggage compartment

pharmaton

Wossack wrote: »

be sure to keep us posted as to how the rest of your day goes

I just ate a marshmallow teacake and smoked a rollie. I'll probably catch an hour or two of sleep then take the dog for a walk later. I'll make dinner around five and might meet up with a friend after and probably catch a movie or something later.

mitosis

Why would anyone climb into the luggage bay? Is she really, really short?

Bananatop

sunflower27 wrote: »

The poor woman, it must have been so awful. She'd have felt every single bump.

Totally agree. She must've been exhausted. Silly accident that can't be helped.

the_monkey

There was a case in Spain a few years back when 2 guys were nicking valuables on the Ryanair airport bus.

One of them would put the smaller fella in a bag and put that in the compartment, then the other lad would rummage around the rest of the bags looking for valuables.

Idiots got caught when security were suspicious as the guy was seen talking to his bag as he put it in.

Thoie

sunflower27 wrote: »

The poor woman, it must have been so awful. She'd have felt every single bump. If it was me I'd have cried my eyes out the whole way.

If it was me I'd have phoned 112 and got the fecking bus pulled in. And then cried.

Clareboy

I really don't see what is so funny about this story. I blame the hospital as they obviously discharged a cancer patient without making sure that she had somebody to bring her safely home. I always thought that a hospital could not discharge a patient unless there was somebody there to take them home.

Ramza

What does her having cancer have to do with it?

HIB

Ramza wrote: »

What does her having cancer have to do with it?

Is that not obvious?
Because she was returning from a chemotherapy session which meant she was probably feeling pretty awful, which made the whole experience more traumatic than it would have been for a healthy person.

Journalists generally include any details of a story that they think will be of interest to their audience .... God... I really can't believe I'm spelling this out for u.

Cody Pomeray

I don't necessarily blame Bus Éireann or the driver for this. It's the idea of a cancer patient traveling by Bus to her chemotherapy that I find a bit sad.

Imagine all the trauma of having to go through chemo, pain, nausea, exhaustion... and then having to worry about getting buses across the country in the middle of all that.

A friend of mine manages a backpacker's hostel in Dublin. They had a customer recently who was (pretty broke and) up from the countryside for her chemo every so often, she was in pretty serious pain and found it hard to navigate stairs, and had to sleep in a dorm with 10 or 12 raucous backpackers banging in at 3am.

As if chemo isn't bad enough for people on low incomes.

EdCastle

Driver is 100% to blame for this.

.....with these automatic doors which involves the driver pushing a button on the inside to close the luggage compartment, they rarely get up from their seat to check on passengers outside. It's a quick check of the mirror, push the button, close the door and drive off.

You'd think with the healthy salaries and pensions they will all be on, they could at least get up off their holes and go out and help passengers especially those who are elderly, sick or disabled......but no, they probably need another extra 20% on top of their already handsome salaries to do that too.

Fighting Irish

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Is it more shocking because she has cancer?

You should work for the sun newspaper

Timmyctc

EdCastle wrote: »

Driver is 100% to blame for this.

.....with these automatic doors which involves the driver pushing a button on the inside to close the luggage compartment, they rarely get up from their seat to check on passengers outside. It's a quick check of the mirror, push the button, close the door and drive off.

You'd think with the healthy salaries and pensions they will all be on, they could at least get up off their holes and go out and help passengers especially those who are elderly, sick or disabled......but no, they probably need another extra 20% on top of their already handsome salaries to do that too.

Ah now. If the passenger missed the "LUGGAGE DOORS IN OPERATION: STAND CLEAR" the first 10 times then its most definitely her own fault.

Caonima

I'm assuming the bus luggage bays aren't equipped with a 'Help, I'm stuck in here like a gobshite' button inside...

Pumpkinseeds

I regularly attend a hospital in Galway for medical treatment and I travel with Bus Eireann. I have met some nice drivers, very few it has to be said. On the whole most of the drivers I've encountered are utter wan*ers who really shouldn't be working with the public. If you encountered some of the aggresive ars*hole bus drivers that I have, believe you me, you wouldn't be asking them for help either.

Timmyctc

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I regularly attend a hospital in Galway for medical treatment and I travel with Bus Eireann. I have met some nice drivers, very few it has to be said. On the whole most of the drivers I've encountered are utter wan*ers who really shouldn't be working with the public. If you encountered some of the aggresive ars*hole bus drivers that I have, believe you me, you wouldn't be asking them for help either.

At the Galway bus Eireann bus station?? I traveled with them regularly for over a year and never encountered one gobshíte. (mind you the city drivers seem to hate life by and large alright) but the ones driving the long routes were always lovely and helpful in my experience. Maybe one or two exceptions now and again but people are entitled to have a bad day.

EdCastle

Ramza wrote: »

What does her having cancer have to do with it?

You ever see a person disabled or struggling with the weakness of an illness to do something that the rest of us healthy people take for granted. Are you one of these people who stands there laughing, shrug your shoulders as if you couldn't care less? ...........or do you get up off your ass and help.

It has plenty to do with it and speaks volumes about the personality of this one Bus Eireann driver, sitting idily by and couldn't a flying fack. Christ i'd hate to turn up to his bus in a wheelchair.

Fighting Irish

HIB wrote: »

Is that not obvious?
Because she was returning from a chemotherapy session which meant she was probably feeling pretty awful, which made the whole experience more traumatic than it would have been for a healthy person.

Journalists generally include any details of a story that they think will be of interest to their audience .... God... I really can't believe I'm spelling this out for u.

So if the woman had a really bad head cold would the headline read:

"Woman with head cold gets trapped in bus luggage compartment"

Fighting Irish

EdCastle wrote: »

You ever see a person disabled or struggling with the weakness of an illness to do something that the rest of us healthy people take for granted. Are you one of these people who stands there laughing, shrug your shoulders as if you couldn't care less? ...........or do you get up off your ass and help.

It has plenty to do with it and speaks volumes about the personality of this one Bus Eireann driver, sitting idily by and couldn't a flying fack. Christ i'd hate to turn up to his bus in a wheelchair.

Get down off yourself

HIB

Fighting Irish wrote: »

So if the woman had a really bad head cold would the headline read:

"Woman with head cold gets trapped in bus luggage compartment"

You're honestly comparing cancer to a head cold. Is that cause you have a head cold and you're feeling sorry for yourself!

EdCastle

Timmyctc wrote: »

Ah now. If the passenger missed the "LUGGAGE DOORS IN OPERATION: STAND CLEAR" the first 10 times then its most definitely her own fault.

Have you had cancer then? how do you know how cancer effects different people and their ability to live life like the rest of us healthy people.

Have a little empathy.

FionnK86

Doesn't matter if it was cancer or not, she would still get a huge settlement from Bus Èireann if she can prove it was somehow the companies or drivers fault. Accidents are never a cause for hoorah, but she wasn't seriously injured, and could still walk away with money for a hardly life-threatening experience. If she does get it, you can just see the amount of negligence claims going up against Bus Èireann. The worst i've done is get my mam to wait at the stop and throw in my luggage to be sent down to Limerick while I wait down there to collect it.

pog it

Disgusting replies to this incident.

pog it

EdCastle wrote: »

You ever see a person disabled or struggling with the weakness of an illness to do something that the rest of us healthy people take for granted. Are you one of these people who stands there laughing, shrug your shoulders as if you couldn't care less? ...........or do you get up off your ass and help.

It has plenty to do with it and speaks volumes about the personality of this one Bus Eireann driver, sitting idily by and couldn't a flying fack. Christ i'd hate to turn up to his bus in a wheelchair.

I've seen drivers too lazy to open up the luggage compartment at all and leaving people then to scramble to get their bags in.

Caonima

FionnK86 wrote: »

Doesn't matter if it was cancer or not, she would still get a huge settlement from Bus Èireann if she can prove it was somehow the companies or drivers fault.

From Independent.ie

"It's understood the woman had come to and did not want to make an issue of the incident. She has not lodged a complaint on the matter."

Pumpkinseeds

Timmyctc wrote: »

At the Galway bus Eireann bus station?? I traveled with them regularly for over a year and never encountered one gobshíte. (mind you the city drivers seem to hate life by and large alright) but the ones driving the long routes were always lovely and helpful in my experience. Maybe one or two exceptions now and again but people are entitled to have a bad day.

Lucky you. On one occassion last year my husband and I stayed overnight in Galway after one of my hospital appoinments. I was in a huge amount of pain with my arm and had one arm crossed over the other to try to take some of the pressure off my arm and alleviate some of the pain. The weather was awful and the driver wouldn't let anyone on the bus, despite the fact that he was already sitting in the drivers seat.

We stood patiently waiting our turn, during which time he signalled to a security guy to come over, who then asked if we were causing trouble. WTF? I'm 5'6 and was virtually hopping in pain and very weak, I wasn't in any position to harass anyone, what a fcuking cnut that driver was. He wouldn't have pulled that crap with any scumbags.

I use the Airport route buses and those guys are a nightmare. I've lost track of the amount of times I've seen drivers be abusive and aggressive with women travelling alone and with tourists. It's bloody disgraceful and if they were working in a supervised job dealing with the public they'd have been fired long ago.

I'm travelling to another hospital appointment in Galway next Monday and will probably have to deal with another ars*hole driver after a 2 hour journey to Galway, a minimum 2 hour wait at the hospital and another 2 hours on the way back.

Timmyctc

EdCastle wrote: »

Have you had cancer then? how do you know how cancer effects different people and their ability to live life like the rest of us healthy people.

Have a little empathy.

Jesus. Musta overlooked the side effect of chemo whereby it presents people with the urge to climb into luggage holds.

They should put an emergency button inside the hold for incidents such as this.
have it lit up so you could find it, if you were caught in such a situation

feel sorry for the woman, cant have been nice, and if she was heading home from chemo, thats awful.

Caonima

Jake1 wrote: »

They should put an emergency button inside the hold for incidents such as this.
have it lit up so you could find it, if you were caught in such a situation

I said the same thing, but just reread the story there and it says she may have fainted inside the hold.

Means Of Escape

Lucky for her she wasn't on a DC10.
Although if the airline was carrying live animals she would have been ok
Terrifying for her no doubt
Hope the woman is ok after her ordeal.

Caonima

Caonima wrote: »

I said the same thing, but just reread the story there and it says she may have fainted inside the hold.

wouldnt surprise me, chemo makes people feel sick and dizzy at the best of times,