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Muslim bus driver locks passengers aboard as he stops to pray
Telegraph.co.uk ^ | 08 Feb 2010 | Heidi Blake

Posted on 02/09/2010 8:52:24 AM PST by kingattax

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To: kingattax

I think I probably would have intervened immediately and violently.


21 posted on 02/09/2010 9:06:33 AM PST by RC one (WHAT!!!!)
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To: kingattax
There are emergency windows that can be poped out, so the people weren't 'trapped' except by their own inability to think in a potential crisis. (I'd include myself in that group, too.)

Hopefully, this wasn't the bus that was being driven:


22 posted on 02/09/2010 9:07:41 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: kingattax

I’d be doing a Flight 93 response.


23 posted on 02/09/2010 9:08:08 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Bad Jack Bauer

That would have depended on whether or not he left his sword home for the day.


24 posted on 02/09/2010 9:09:40 AM PST by ZULU (Hey Obama, how DO you pronounce "corpsman"?????)
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To: texan75010

I’m pretty far from a homie...if this happened to me, the guy would be getting a shoeectomy at the local ER after WALKING there...just a half minute into the prayer......


25 posted on 02/09/2010 9:09:44 AM PST by jessduntno (If Bawney Fwank talks in his sleep, is it considered wetting the bed?)
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To: cripplecreek
I would have made the bus driver want to get me off his bus.

LOL! Brits who ride the bus should start carrying ham or bacon sandwiches or bring a little container of bacon grease with them.
When the praying starts,break out the pork and watch those doors fly open!
27 posted on 02/09/2010 9:11:09 AM PST by gimme1ibertee ("In a time of universal deceit,telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act"-George Orwell)
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To: kingattax

KRAMER: No, I jumped on the bus. I told the driver, "I got a toe here, buddy, step on it!"

GEORGE: Holy cow!

KRAMER: Yeah, yeah. Then, all of a sudden, this guy pulls out a gun. Well, I knew any delay is gonna cost her her pinky toe, so I got out of the seat, and I started walking towards him. He says, "Where do you think you're going, Cracker Jack?" I says, "Well, I got a little prize for ya, buddy." [Makes punching moves.] Plow! Plat! Ke-yah! Knocked him out cold.

GEORGE: How could you do that?!

KRAMER: Then, everybody is screaming, because the driver, he's passed out because of all the commotion. The bus is OUT of control. So I grab him by the collar, I take him out of the seat, I get behind the wheel. Now I'm driving the bus.

GEORGE: You're Batman.

KRAMER: Yeah, yeah, I am Batman. Then the mugger, he comes to, and he starts choking me. So I'm fighting him off with one hand and I kept driving the bus with the other. Then, I managed to open up the door, and I kicked him out the door, you know, with my foot, you know, at the next stop.

JERRY: You kept making all the stops?!

KRAMER: Well, people kept ringing the bell!

28 posted on 02/09/2010 9:11:57 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: kingattax

I might have attacked him by mistake.


29 posted on 02/09/2010 9:12:24 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: RC one

When one or two of these muzzies driving buses lock the doors and detoante to slaughter a couple dozen ‘infidels’, do ya suppose hiring policies will be effected in cities like Detroit and Minneapolis? Of course not.


30 posted on 02/09/2010 9:13:19 AM PST by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: kingattax
No one was able to get on or off the vehicle

wait...one driver, on his knees, busload of passengers. What kind of sheep do they have in the UK?

31 posted on 02/09/2010 9:13:54 AM PST by T Minus Four (Donate to Haiti now and sponsor a Haitian child for the long term - Worldvision.com)
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To: kingattax

How sad is it that the excuse “Sorry I’m late, but a muslim fundamentalist delayed me....” can be perfectly well accepted in the UK now.


32 posted on 02/09/2010 9:14:56 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Onelifetogive

But they’re civilized and sophisticated, not like us ignorant savage Bible-thumping Americans with our neanderthal 2nd Amendment.


33 posted on 02/09/2010 9:15:56 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Bad Jack Bauer

I would have broken out my bible across his muzzie face; repeatedly.


34 posted on 02/09/2010 9:17:44 AM PST by Michael Barnes (Call me when the bullets start flying.)
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To: T Minus Four

I thought of sheep also. If they’re lucky, they’ll only end up fleeced.


35 posted on 02/09/2010 9:19:31 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: T Minus Four
What kind of sheep do they have in the UK?

I imagine the same as here. Only ours put a mohamaden in the most powerful office in the world.

36 posted on 02/09/2010 9:19:43 AM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
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To: kingattax
I would still be trying to get accustomed to English prison food.
37 posted on 02/09/2010 9:21:42 AM PST by BigCinBigD (")
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To: kingattax
Sources close to London General said the company had consulted with a local mosque and been told Islam allows for the drivers to be flexible about their prayer times.

Yes and no. Spent six years in Saudi Arabia and learned a few things about this subject. Never had a problem like this there. If a driver's responsibility was to go from point A to point B, then he should either pray before or after the trip. If he stops for gas then he should make up his prayer at that time, hence the reason for all of the combination gas station/mosques one can see all over the Middle East. Just stopping for a stop sign is not considered a stop.

The flexibility is so that he can do his job and meet his prayer requirements. The two should not conflict at all with each other. In Islamic advice columns it was even suggested that if a job interferes with prayer too much then find a new one. What the driver did was an in your face.

38 posted on 02/09/2010 9:23:28 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: kingattax

Break out a window and escape...

Lets roll...


39 posted on 02/09/2010 9:24:45 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: dblshot

This is in the UK. Apparently we can add “no right against false imprisonment” to “no right to self defense” and the more general “no rights against thugs.”


40 posted on 02/09/2010 9:26:43 AM PST by piytar (Ammo is hard to find! Bought some lately? Please share where at www.ammo-finder.com)
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