Got my plate taken down by a bus driver.

Heres the scenario:

Im behind a bus right at about the corner of him, going 35 in a 40 cause i just pulled out of my apartment parking lot. His lights start flashing but im doing around 10mph faster then him and i was already at the corner of his bus so i kept going.


As im halfway past him the stop sign starts to come out, but i was past him by the time it was all the way out.


He then took down my plate number, told me he did so and said pointed menacingly at me. I didnt roll the window down cause i didnt feel like dealing with him (and it was raining).

Was he just trying to try to scare me taking my plate? If i stopped, i would have ended up right next to his driver window. Didnt make sense.

I guess well see if i get a ticket mailed to my house for running a stop sign. If that happens im fighting it, bus drivers are dumb. Carry on.

If you do get a ticket, it'll be a bit more serious than 'running a stop sign' I think passing a school bus is a much more serious infraction. 

Edited by M13-7 - 18 May 2010 at 5:09pm

Oh, I'm not questioning you, something similar happened to me a few years back, but I was going the other way. Red lights came on just about the same time that my front end lined up with the bus's. Got pulled over for it by the cop sitting at an intersection. All he saw was the red lights and me still coming, explained myself to him, and got off. 

Ok good to know, cause i didnt speed up to pass him, i kept doing 35 cause there was a light up ahead. Its not like i blew by him at 55 in a 40, i was doing less then the speed limit haha.

Im still betting on the cops not showing up for this one.

SSOK wrote: Ive always found that bus drivers are cranky people who whish they had authority.

Problem is, bus drivers have TONS of responsibility....and no authority.
Ever wonder why they're cranky? Try driving a 56 passenger bus through traffic that's jammed with rambunctious school kids- and having your back to them the entire time. It's not exactly the easiest job in the world- in my opinion, they've got every right to be just a bit cranky.

hes a bus driver...nothings gonna happen...if anything just say you have no idea what hes talking about

Lotsa disdain for the working man in here isn't there?

Eville wrote: Lots of disdain for power tripping pricks.

Don't know how necessary this is.

It certainly isn't clever or funny.

Are you actually going to lump all school bus drivers into a negative group because one may have misjudged distance and thought that the original poster had made an illegal maneuver?

Spend one day in the drivers seat of a school bus. I can almost guarantee that the pressures involved in the transportation of children while remaining firmly within the confines of the state and federal regulations that govern you would soften your attitude a smidgen.



 

I never said all bus drivers are, but the ones that are, I have disdain for.  

tallen702 wrote: If he took down your plate, that means that there wasn't a forward looking camera. This means that there's no evidence and it's his word against yours, which means that you won't get a ticket.