Today is the 3rd birthday of this blog and this is posting number 390. It’s about bus jumping.
Test Valley School has been featured here many times but this is one thing that they’ve not thought of …….. yet!
I’m surprised at how rigid the roof of a bus appears to be. Unlike cars, bus bodies contribute nothing to the rigidity of the vehicle and are simply aluminium sheets and fibreglass panels appended to a rigid chasis. I’d expected to see the roof dented where the kid jumped onto it.
Annon // Feb 7, 2010 at 20:45
The second video was actually made as part of an advert. You can tell because Sullivan Buses don’t actually run any Transport for London services (and are well known for having their buses in TV roles).
As for the first example. What an idiot. It’s a good job the roof of the bus was rigid. If he’d have fallen though and killed a passenger below he would have regretted it.