By myleghurts - 12/11/2012 06:50 - Australia - Strathfield

Today, on my way to school, I was shouted at by an obnoxious businessman for sitting down on the train when a "full fare paying passenger" was standing. I would normally have given him the seat straight away, except I have a broken leg. I showed him my leg and crutches. He still made me get up. FML
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JustJumped 22

Should have stayed sat down, some people are just plain horrible. Hope your leg heals soon :)

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rintintin19 5

what an asshole, i would have held on to that seat for dear life.

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ntd309 14

Explain what you mean when you say he "made you get up." Sue his ass if he touched you. If you got up on yor own then YDI for succumbing to his rude and control freak nature.

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darkhakai 18

You took the words right out of my mouth.

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Tidus0 17

Oh that's right. If he touched you and it can't be seen on camera properly cry sexual molester haha.

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lilhellian 26

Why feel for 'em :O they get their own personal scooters!

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Unbweavable 17

You shouldn't have gotten up. If you would have held your ground he couldn't do anything. And if he tried to move you, he would have been in trouble.

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welsea28 6

I would've stayed seated because if he touches you. You can say harassment and maybe even sue. If your a woman and he was a man

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olpally 32

Re-read the fml and the op is a man... The gender is in the upper right corner... You're welcome.

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alissa222 15

Only women can get harassed and sue over it?

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doodlecloud 26

It's people like you that make it hard for some people to take women's sexual harassment complaints seriously. If the guy tried to move OP with force then he could sue/complain about assault. Harassment (the sexual kind anyways) shouldn't come into it.

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poindexter25 5

Exactly don't give up your seat for some douchebag

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yankfan89 27

The worst disease is obesity mixed with stupidity.

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jerrylee123 8

It's not that easy to just say "**** off, I'm not moving". Here in Australia, there are signs up everywhere on public transport stating that students are required to stand for full-paying passengers (there's only a 50c fare for students). I've seen multiple occasions where some middle age prat with a stick up their arse has cracked the ***** like this and the student has been thrown off the bus. And if your bus driver is a REAL dick (which they so often are) they'll radio the other buses on that route and tell them not to let the student on any of their buses either. People are arseholes OP, and this is one of those cases where a little vigilante justice wouldn't have gone astray - wallop the prick across the knees with your crutches next time.

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perdix 29

Now, that explains a lot. I don't think we have a system that requests reduced-fare passengers yield their seats to full-fare ones. With that in mind, fare's fare, give up your seat, cheapskate. Either pay full fare while you're a cripple, or hire a limo to cart you around.

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xNephilim 18

I was gonna ask about that too. In Germany, students pay the full fare, so I was like... Wouldn't both of them be full fare paying passengers?

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allie2590 31

I would hope they would make an exception for someone with a broken leg, but maybe I still have too much faith in humanity.

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organolithium_fml 9

Then who has the priority for the seat between a healthy full-fare paying man, or a student with a broken leg? Or rather, does the fact of being injured surpass that of being a student? I'd guees it would be the one with a broken leg, if the bus driver has to brake hard, or turn hard, you could easely loose your balance, fall and make other passengers fall too.

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white16sox 19

In Chicago, students between 12 and 20 can get a card to put money on. It then charges you 15 cents for the first ride then 85 cents for the second( $1 in total). If the student doesn't have a card then it's $1 per ride. Also, we have priority seating only for elderly people, pregnant women, or disabled people.

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clueless05 12

I'm a student from Australia and I use public transport all the time, but oddly enough, I never heard the rule you hard to stand for full fare paying customers! I don't think that's really enforced in Victoria- or I've just been hiding under a rock!

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YouCantBreakMe 9

112- You have it switched around. First ride is 85 cents, second ride is 15, and the third is free.

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white16sox 19

159, third is free? How the hell haven't I noticed? Ah well, thanks for the correction.

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felixshen 18

Wtf is that how it is in WA? That is the most ridiculous rule ever.

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michael666 7

if I saw him pulling that on you bro, I woulda knocked his ass out his businessman socks.

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skyeyez9 24

Ignore the bullying asshole. You have just as much right to sit down as the next person.

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Tuffay 14

Not in Australia I guess... I learned something today! Thank you FML.

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