Originally Posted by
launcher
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if you ever have been on a moving bus before or had any imagination whatsoever, it is not unconscionable to think that a passenger could be acting suspiciously, maybe even belligerant if asked to stop. Those busses are often double deckers. The ventilation is such that air would recirculate within the cabin, not pass freely through any vents. if they were all subjected to unexplained strange smokes and smells, darn right there would be a lot of emergency calls! especially in a country where the public transportation system had already been successfully targeted before.
"smoking aids" my foot! If a passenger had a legal medically prescribed aid, the driver should know about it, and sequestered the rider so as not to put any other passengers in inconvenience, nor in harm's way. Those medical devices have noxious fumes and if someone absolutely needs that kind of attention, let them rent a private coach or taxi and not succumb the rest of us to smoke and terrible smells - especially as it was done in a manner to obviously try to circumvent the passenger etiquette rules, the passenger probably looked like he had devious intentions or no regard for society.
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As the story points out the bus was not a double-decker, basic electronic stop-smoking aids that do not emit "noxious fumes" are available over the counter in Britain and many other countries, and the security services response (closing a major freeway for seven hours, deploying dozens of army, police and paramedic units including hazmat decontamination tents, and removing passengers one by one at the point of a gun and then making them squat on the tarmac) - all because someone called the police on a brown passenger with a small wisp of smoke - appeared excessive.