Chicago Citizen Personally Handles Disturbance On CTA Bus

Yesterday I saw a local video circulating on Twitter that made me feel some type of way.

Let's check it out.

(H/T @heyFATabbot)

A clear disturbance is at the front of the bus while a passenger is arguing with the CTA bus driver. 

You can sense the dismay in the air. 

You can hear a woman say "Please stop" around the 5-second mark.

The mood at this point now is "this motherfucker is wasting all of our time."

I'm going to take a guess that it was around 4:30 PM/5:00 PM when this video was taken based on the caption.

This means the tensions are high and traffic is bumping. Everyone is driving like an asshole and everyone is in a hurry to get home.

After a brief ten-second silence, one passenger has had enough. He speaks up and he lets everyone on the bus know what he's thinking. 

To paraphrase, the vocal passenger informs the bus driver that if he needs him personally to get this disturbance off of the bus, he will.

After the disturbance responds to the thought, the vocal passenger cuts him off before he can even finish the sentence.  

Before the disturbance can respond back, the bus driver mentions that the only way the bus can get back on the road is if the disturbance is removed from the bus.

Say less. The vocal passenger takes that command and follows through with his offer. 

In less than ten seconds, the disturbance is removed from the premises along with all of his belongings.

Just. Like. That.

A nice serving of some playground justice. 

Immediately, the vocal passenger is silently deemed a hero by his fellow patrons.

You can hear audible sounds of "my man"  around the 42-second mark. 

As well as some vocal appreciation from the bus driver himself at the back end of the clip.

Just like that, the bus is back on the road and back on track.

No more time wasted.

I love to see a story like this. 

A story where a city worker, who is just trying to do his job, is put in an uncomfortable situation where if he reacts the wrong way he can lose his job. A story that happens every day in Chicago in some form or fashion.

But in this story, the citizen stood up. The citizen took control of the situation and took care of the problem at hand.

And he did it in a non-violent manner. He wasn't being a bully. He wasn't being an asshole.

He was simply standing up for every single person on that bus just trying to go home after work.

Bravo.