Saturday, 25 June 2011
Lone toddler's Bus Trip Shocker
The things that happen around here. A TWO year-old got on a bus and travelled 24 miles to Shrewsbury unaccompanied. He was just wearing his pyjamas, a nappy and socks, but no shoes, he somehow got on the bus and made the one hour trip to Shrewsbury without anyone noticing the parents were nowhere to be seen. The bus picked up people as usual and this little child managed to crawl on unnoticed and make his way to the back seat. Everyone in the bus naturally assumed the child's parents were on the bus and didn't make any comment about the child sitting on the back seat among a small group of teenagers. The bus driver tells the child wasn't in the slightest way distressed and didn't call out for his mother or father at any time. It wasn't until the bus pulled up at Shrewsbury's bus station that people started to realise the toddler was alone! When the last of the people started to get off the bus, the driver asked 'What about your child? to which everyone replied: 'It's not mine.' That's when it dawned on everyone that this child had made this trip all alone! Until that moment, everyone thought the child belonged to someone else and kept quiet. The concerned bus driver and one of the women on the bus, who had a pram, took the child to the nearest police station, a few hundred yards away and reported the incident. The police have commended the driver for his actions because he made sure the child was safe. The woman the driver was with, also purchased wet wipes and nappies to change the child. Isn't that something ?
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Yes, it's amazing the things that can happen. At least the child wasn't fined for fare dodging! I bet the parents were grateful to the driver, and I bet the driver was grateful to the woman. It's no fun picking up a child who needs his nappy changing.
Some years ago the Tv showed film of a pigeon who had learned to use the London Underground. He hopped on a train at one station and got off at the next.
There was a racing pigeon who was meant to go to France but decided to have a rest on a ship and the poor pigeon ended up in New York!
The bus driver said that he has had chickens boarding his bus but not an unacompanied two year old, that was a first.
A couple of years ago, there was a cat that waited for the bus that stopped in front of his house he would get on it and traveled to the town where he left that bus. Later that day, he would return to his home by the same bus.
Ha! Yes, cats are very clever. They seem to know how to ingratiate themselves with the neighbours, with the result that they can have as many dinners as they want.
There was an item recently - not sure that I can remember the exact details, but it had to do with birds recognizing the human being who had disturbed their nests previously. They would mob him when he approached. They didn't behave like that to other people, only him.
Oh, so that's what it is then, disturbing the nests. A couple of years ago, there was this man who was continually attacked and pelted by a seagull who would follow him even when he was driving in his car and it would attack him as soon as he got out of it. One day, the naughty seagull pelted his car's windscreen causing him to crash into a tree! The story made the news because his insurance company was finding it hard to believe his tale until someone filmed the unusual happening.
That is really weird, isn't it. I doubt if it is related to the nest, though, because I imagine birds will only fly a certain distance from the nest and then return - if they fly too far they'll be leaving the nest undefended.
Animals have a canny sense of what behaviour is cost effective and what isn't. For instance, lions view lepopards not so much as food, but as competitors for food. I have seen film of where a lion has chased a leopard up a tree. The lion sits at the base of the tree and looks up at the leopard. Eventually the lion goes away and the leopard escapes. Now you'd think that given the way lions cooperate when hunting, they could arrange a shift system, taking it in turns to sit at the base of the tree till the leopard comes down through sheer hunger. But they don't, so presumably any lions that used to act this way gradually died out because for some reason it's a bad use of their time.
A group of killer whales will often attack a sperm whale calf being escorted by its mother. The only chance the mother has of protecting the calf is to get it into shallow water. At which point, you'd think that the killer whales would just wait a bit further out to sea, until the sperm whales have to make a run for it. But as far as I know, they don't.
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