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Just when you thought all was quiet...the rage is back.

It wasn't long ago we here at BIR were musing about Stagecoach and the utter disrespect they show their customers after they hiked their fares by 10%...

Three days notice?! Way to treat your customers like a pile of shit. You have an annual review and then woooshka!!! there it is, straight out of peoples pockets.

Now they're denying kids who are near on blind access to their buses...

“This kind of thing happens constantly somewhere in New Zealand – not an assault, but a member of the Foundation being denied access to a bus or taxi simply because the driver did not believe they were blind or vision-impaired; they did not ‘look like a typical’ blind person because they did not have a guide dog or white cane. This is enormously frustrating for our members. It’s really outrageous that this happened at all, and especially right after Blind Week and after the Human Rights Commission released their report about discrimination in public transport. This has got to stop,” says Paula Daye, CEO, Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind.....Unfortunately, Stagecoach, who are at the centre of the Monday night incident, have refused multiple approaches from the Foundation over several years to provide blindness awareness training to their drivers.

Hey drivers, time for a little reality check, you've got shit for brains and that's why you drive a fucking bus.

If people wanted your opinions on issues or for you to be making judgement calls greater than deciding when to brake and accelerate, we'd ask.

Do you hear anyone asking?

No?

Didn't think so, that's why we employ you to operate a bus - end of story.

What's more what does some lowly bus driver fucking care if some kid is using a blind pass illegitimately you'll get you $16 an hour regardless?

$16 an hour to drive a bus...that's bloody good money for something a chimp could do.

Speaking of chimps and buses.