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One of the oldest memes I can remember lol the sub side bar I guess says it originated from some other story but idk about that, I definitely thought this video was it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/bitchimabus/comments/12p26t/the_original_bitch_im_a_bus/
Protests have a primary goal of raising visibility. Get the masses to notice the problem, get politicians seeing the problem, and get the nation talking about it.
Sometimes being genuinely disruptive and impolite, creating extra shock value through various means, will greatly increase the coverage your issue is getting.
The problem: people disrupted by the protest will often gain resentment towards the cause, especially if the protest is just a small group of assholes blocking traffic. If 20,000 people take to the streets chanting for something to be fixed, that demonstrates there’s a good likelihood a lot more people support the issue and it’s probably worth looking into.
There are numerous ways to "raise awareness" and if you have to go to extremes that derail and spoil the lives of others to "get noticed" then that should tell you that people are rejecting your message on mass.
If you are attempting to coerce them into caving to your demands then own that and cut the "raising awareness BS". You are extorting, blackmailing and harassing innocent people who you know do not support your cause. That's not a democratic act.
>If 20,000 people take to the streets chanting for something to be fixed, that demonstrates there’s a good likelihood a lot more people support the issue and it’s probably worth looking into.
Right, and if the issue is "some selfish assholes who can't take no for an answer are being a massive PITA" then the action that will follow will be laws and regulations to throw those assholes into jail if they keep up their BS.
People love protesting at people who aren't involved. Look at the Israel-Palestine war protests at colleges. Makes no sense to protest at a college/university halfway around the world to people and a college that has nothing to do with it.
They all light up, probably just from scraping metal on concrete for a good 5 seconds.
I find it hard to believe all of those that lit up are electric bikes [if any]
The fire starts near the front of the bus, while the engine is behind the rear tires (diesel pusher). The bus batteries are at the front driver's side. The flames may be from ebikes or magnesium frames on the bikes.
Most hybrid or electric buses have an additional top, which this does not, so probably not a battery pack from the bus itself.
Most likely broke the oil pan on the bottom of the bus. My brother ran over a freaking car battery or something in the middle of the road last year and all the oil leaked out then we got stuck in the mcdonalds parking lot...
The oil pan is in the rear of the bus. I very much doubt it was punctured. Those are just plain old sparks from rubbing metal on asphalt. Plus oil coming out of a sump doesn't ignite like that. It just leaks out.
This happened in Chile, october 2019 during the "Estallido Social". Long story short, a bunch of protest related to low pensions, salaries, health system, etc. This protests occurred day and night.
Redditors truely have no concept of what protests are or how they work.
No protest in history would have been liked by redditors, neither the suffragettes movement nor the civil rights movement or the protests against the Vietnam war, because there are always people being inconvenienced who are not responsible.
they needa toucha grass. I see protests as strikes; the purpose aint to recruit allies and help, but to inconvenience everyday operations to hurt those in power you want to change.
Redditors would've hated the fucking French Revolution tbh. Won't you think of all the poor people who had to travel through the Île Saint-Louis from the east who got held up by a bunch of no good hooligans at the Bastille?
That's what's always confused me about people reposting this as a "protest" . Why would they be protesting in the night time when the few people they actually would want to impact are happily not on the road.
This looks way more like intentionally malicious shenanigans.
OP did a shit job giving context. This Happened in october 2019 in Santiago, Chile during the "Estallido Social" (literally Social Outbreak). It was a bunch of protests related to low pensions, healthcare, education and other problems, they aren't cyclists protesting against vehicles, fossil fuels or anything like that. Those bikes are part of a bike renting service of Itaú Bank and the bus is part of Transantiago, part of the public transport of Santiago. These protest happened day and night.
I never understood citizens blocking traffic to impede other citizens. It doesn't help your cause only makes those more aware of who they hate. These bicyclists are no better than the stop oil protestors.
Edit: somehow a lot of replies are angry I said bicyclists, it's in the title people...
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Why do we feel the need to do this protest on a road, at night, low visibility and think it’s a good idea?
Seems like these people have 2 brain cells fighting over 3rd place.
I love this bus driver, but unfortunately they did two illegal things, knowingly crash into the bikes, and fail to stop after an accident. They may not be able to be a bus driver anymore.
i mean... i expected *someone* to plow through the bikes strewn across the road... but not gonna lie, i wasn't expecting public transit to lose patience first
Most based bus driver, or very strict company. My dad works for "Cotral" an italian bus company, and you need to follow the times REAL tightly since the bus can be tracked they know your stops and how late you are... they pay is already low and if you get slightly late you could say bye to 1/10th of it
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Lol, my man said the city pays the repair bill, I'm gonna send it.
Kinda honorable. His dedication to being on time takes commitment.
r/bitchimabus
How is this sub real? And why did I instantly join?
Fast peek inside , I am in! Apex predator without rails.
One of the oldest memes I can remember lol the sub side bar I guess says it originated from some other story but idk about that, I definitely thought this video was it. https://www.reddit.com/r/bitchimabus/comments/12p26t/the_original_bitch_im_a_bus/
It's from [the story](https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/fd667/while_riding_the_bus_yesterday_an_inside_joke_was/) linked in that thread.
r/bitchimatrain is probably also of interest
It’s a classic from the glory days of this site, enjoy. See also: r/bitchimatrain
Same...
Now I know why my bus is always on time.🤭
Bus driver is a real hero.
Did those protesters ever see the movie Speed? If he slows down, the bus is gonna blow up!
And on that day No fucks were to be seen.
Whos bill? Im jeff
Fuck it, use my taxes! Screw protestors who block roads
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“Oh, a protest? Nice, I’ll protest too…”
let me protest the protest
You can't protest the protest because I protest the protest of your protest
how dare u protest my protest of that protest ?! i will protest your protest of my protest of that protest even more !!!
I will protest all protests about protesting protests that protest
My protest is more protestier than yours
Exactly, why do they always do this to working stiffs? As opposed to a place full of billionaires or politicians
they are afraid of the consequences
Protests have a primary goal of raising visibility. Get the masses to notice the problem, get politicians seeing the problem, and get the nation talking about it. Sometimes being genuinely disruptive and impolite, creating extra shock value through various means, will greatly increase the coverage your issue is getting. The problem: people disrupted by the protest will often gain resentment towards the cause, especially if the protest is just a small group of assholes blocking traffic. If 20,000 people take to the streets chanting for something to be fixed, that demonstrates there’s a good likelihood a lot more people support the issue and it’s probably worth looking into.
Bingo - this does nothing but turn people against whatever cause you're protesting for.
There are numerous ways to "raise awareness" and if you have to go to extremes that derail and spoil the lives of others to "get noticed" then that should tell you that people are rejecting your message on mass. If you are attempting to coerce them into caving to your demands then own that and cut the "raising awareness BS". You are extorting, blackmailing and harassing innocent people who you know do not support your cause. That's not a democratic act. >If 20,000 people take to the streets chanting for something to be fixed, that demonstrates there’s a good likelihood a lot more people support the issue and it’s probably worth looking into. Right, and if the issue is "some selfish assholes who can't take no for an answer are being a massive PITA" then the action that will follow will be laws and regulations to throw those assholes into jail if they keep up their BS.
If they blocked the road to say the mayors office then it would work better.
People love protesting at people who aren't involved. Look at the Israel-Palestine war protests at colleges. Makes no sense to protest at a college/university halfway around the world to people and a college that has nothing to do with it.
They are protesting the fact that their tuition money is funding Israeli investments so yes they do have something to do with it
You seem to be educated on the topic, how is their tuition money funding "Israeli investments"?
Bro said " I don't get paid enough for this shit, see ya!"
r/bitchimabus
What a beautiful subreddit
you're gonna like r/BitchImATrain and r/bitchimatruck
Are those e-bikes that light up on fire?
They all light up, probably just from scraping metal on concrete for a good 5 seconds. I find it hard to believe all of those that lit up are electric bikes [if any]
You can see fire at the end. Most likely busted the oil pan, and it caught fire.
The fire starts near the front of the bus, while the engine is behind the rear tires (diesel pusher). The bus batteries are at the front driver's side. The flames may be from ebikes or magnesium frames on the bikes. Most hybrid or electric buses have an additional top, which this does not, so probably not a battery pack from the bus itself.
This would make more sense. 👍
Yeah magnesium can make some big sparks, its used in firestarters for that reason https://youtu.be/KA5lxUhxHjQ
Buses are rear engined.
Unless it's a sports bus. Those tend to be mid-engined.
Could've caught a fuel line or anything. The bikes could've been gas or electric powered. We will never know lol
I’m thinking the protesters were using stolen electric bikes as barricades.
Nah those flames are far too white to be an oil fire, that's burning metal
RIP to that titanium frame
It’s the ones you put on cakes and then when they blow them out they fake snuff and relight themselves.
No... Bus clearly reached 88 mph at the end of the video.
Great Scott!
Most likely broke the oil pan on the bottom of the bus. My brother ran over a freaking car battery or something in the middle of the road last year and all the oil leaked out then we got stuck in the mcdonalds parking lot...
The oil pan is in the rear of the bus. I very much doubt it was punctured. Those are just plain old sparks from rubbing metal on asphalt. Plus oil coming out of a sump doesn't ignite like that. It just leaks out.
Protest?! Where's the protest? That's just a couple of pricks throwing some bicycles on a road at night, probably while being shitfaced drunk.
This happened in Chile, october 2019 during the "Estallido Social". Long story short, a bunch of protest related to low pensions, salaries, health system, etc. This protests occurred day and night.
So these are not bicyclists and those probably are not their bikes. Great post title. So much accurate.
Are there CEOs in those cars or are they trying to get other civilians to pay their pensions?
Redditors truely have no concept of what protests are or how they work. No protest in history would have been liked by redditors, neither the suffragettes movement nor the civil rights movement or the protests against the Vietnam war, because there are always people being inconvenienced who are not responsible.
they needa toucha grass. I see protests as strikes; the purpose aint to recruit allies and help, but to inconvenience everyday operations to hurt those in power you want to change.
Redditors would've hated the fucking French Revolution tbh. Won't you think of all the poor people who had to travel through the Île Saint-Louis from the east who got held up by a bunch of no good hooligans at the Bastille?
The way they handle those bikes also makes it quite obvious they aren't the owners but just grabbed them of a bike stall nearby.
I think it's some confused Amsterdam tourists who don't know what to do with their bikes given there is no canal.
I think protests are supposed to be disruptive, to call attention to their cause.
The bus was a pretty disruptive counter protest.
That's what's always confused me about people reposting this as a "protest" . Why would they be protesting in the night time when the few people they actually would want to impact are happily not on the road. This looks way more like intentionally malicious shenanigans.
Why? Because the protest was 24/7 and lasted for many, many weeks and involved hundreds of thousands of people.
Need more buses to clear the road.
OP did a shit job giving context. This Happened in october 2019 in Santiago, Chile during the "Estallido Social" (literally Social Outbreak). It was a bunch of protests related to low pensions, healthcare, education and other problems, they aren't cyclists protesting against vehicles, fossil fuels or anything like that. Those bikes are part of a bike renting service of Itaú Bank and the bus is part of Transantiago, part of the public transport of Santiago. These protest happened day and night.
Was trying to go back to the future
I never understood citizens blocking traffic to impede other citizens. It doesn't help your cause only makes those more aware of who they hate. These bicyclists are no better than the stop oil protestors. Edit: somehow a lot of replies are angry I said bicyclists, it's in the title people...
Those are not the bicycles from the "protesters".
This is an actual “then everyone clapped” moment.
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I love how these always end up sounding like cavemen
Fr tho
Haha! Beep beep
https://i.redd.it/6eldflimb4ad1.gif
“Bitch, I have a schedule”
Hahaha Fuck your protest!
Why do we feel the need to do this protest on a road, at night, low visibility and think it’s a good idea? Seems like these people have 2 brain cells fighting over 3rd place.
It's probably not even their property that they are throwing in the road.
Good for the bus
Oh yeah that's right... Other people use roads besides selfish drivers.
pov: you're playing GTA V and you accidentally shoot the ground
Well now I know where all the stolen bikes end up
Beep beep! Vroooooom!
"not on my shift, b*tch"
[r/bitchimabus](r/bitchimabus)
Good
Many certain groups of spoiled people really think they and their immature ideas are more important than others.
Bus: WHAT???
Oddly satisfying clear of roadblocks
Bitch I'm a bus.
He don't give a shit
I love this bus driver, but unfortunately they did two illegal things, knowingly crash into the bikes, and fail to stop after an accident. They may not be able to be a bus driver anymore.
r/bitchimabus
Truly unexpected.
Anyone have with sound?
Fuck every protester that blocks the roads
Bitch! I'ma Bus!
Bus driver got a date after work, he wants to get laid, he’s not waiting for your bs.
That was anything but unexpected
Where are they when you need them?
I'm guessing that they were all electric bikes by the fires
r/therewasanattempt
BEEP BEEP motherf\*ckers!
r/MadeMeSmile
Go block reponsible houses
good on the bus
"BEEP BEEP MOTHERFUCKER!"
r/BitchImaBuss
THROUGH THE GATES OF HELL
i like the counter protest, coming through, schedule to keep!
My mans got a schedule to keep
It's like that one scene from Smokey and the Bandit when Cledus runs over the motorcycles
Bus driver be like: "Hell nah shift is over"
Mass transit for the win.
What ignited? 😍
Just stop oil should watch this because sooner later its gonna happen.
I love this so much. What were those assholes even protesting?
Absolute Chad! 🤣🤣🤣
Good for that bus driver
That was so satisfying.
Why did they start on fire?
A song came to mind “move b!tch, get out of the way, get out of the way”
Jokes on him. All those bikes were stolen!!
A man of the people!
Since nobody said it.... *"TCHOOOO TCHOOOOO MOTHERFUCKERS !!!"*
kinda expected, tbh
Yep 👍 👌
People on that bus got places to go
That bus driver has zero fucks
You know, in a game you block the road with random objects, and the npc just plows right through it.
r/BitchImABus
I hope those bikes belonged to them
Chile, bus line 503, I assume it was during protest in 2019 (estallido social), but I'm not sure.
The one that holds the bikes…destroys the bikes
Oh god yes
i mean... i expected *someone* to plow through the bikes strewn across the road... but not gonna lie, i wasn't expecting public transit to lose patience first
Well it’s the end of the night. Probably his shift is nearing its end and he wants to go home and not deal with this stupid shit.
Nothing unexpected there
r/abruptchaos
Not a problem anymore. Problem solved in seconds. Maybe that driver should be in charge of the country? lol.
Bus always wins
That is a perfect response!
I doubt it's the bike owners doing that
I actually expected this 😈
Fail too see a protest. this is just vandalism.
What protest is this?
Somos el mejor país de Chile hermanoo
i call that littering haha
Bus driver at the next stop: sorry sir the bike rack is full
Ρουφάτε τον..... Παπαρια!
They get new bikes for themselves out of their pockets.
God I love it!!!
America. Fuck yeah!!!
Like a buss
Truck kun to the rescue?
I laughed way too hard at this. I don't care how legit your cause it, stop holding up regular folks.
I owe that bus driver a pint 🍺
How did the bikes catch on fire?
Hes like, I'm a bus bitch
This should probably be on the satisfyingasfuck sub
PRIMO VICTORIA
Most based bus driver, or very strict company. My dad works for "Cotral" an italian bus company, and you need to follow the times REAL tightly since the bus can be tracked they know your stops and how late you are... they pay is already low and if you get slightly late you could say bye to 1/10th of it
The response these tiresome actions deserve...
Exactly what should have happened
la micro, perro !
How is this unexpected?
🤣🤣🤣🤣 same
Truly a happy ending!
The cheering on that bus would have been deafening.
not cyclists.
Challenge Accepted
Dispatch - looks like you're behind, pick it up Driver - buuuut Dispatch - figure it out Driver. - okay 👍
Buses should also make "choo choo" sounds.
Too bad he missed
And accomplishing what?
Bro is on a schedule. No time for bikes lol
Haha was thinking the same thoughts that bus driver had!
Bus driver was about to go back to the future
i want to hear that
Poor choice. Try bed springs next time. Those things get sucked up into the axile and shit.
That's the funniest thing I've seen all week
Excellent! Annoy completely innocent people to bring about changes they can’t make.