Buying Puppy a Ticket on Bus Raises Controversy
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Thursday, 26 July 2012 11:00
An unidentified female passenger lets her dog take a seat on a bus in Ningbo, Zhejiang province on July 25, 2012. [Photo: Yangtse Evening Newspaper]
On July 25, an unidentified female passenger bought a bus ticket for her dog and put the pet on a passenger seat, an act that aroused some controversy after a picture of her and her dog were posted online, the Yangtse Evening Newspaper reports.
The young woman, who comes from Ningbo, Zhejiang province, initially put her puppy on a seat without paying for it. This caused some disapproval from other passengers. Realizing this, without saying anything, she swiped her bus card once more for her dog.
The Nanjing Transport said that passengers are not allowed to take public transportation with pets and taxis can also refuse to take passengers with pets. Guide dogs are also not allowed on public transportation in Nanjing, though they are in North America, Europe and other developed and civilized areas around the world.
Some passengers try to hide their pets in satchels or bags on buses, but if they are discovered, the driver will not allow them to get on
Source 2012-7-25 10:28:40
The picture shows the users to upload images.
A young woman sitting by the window, wearing sunglasses, face the camera, Lianlu unhappy. The dog is curled into a ball, "sitting" on the seat beside her.
Yesterday morning, the picture on the microblogging attracted much attention. Shoot diagram users to "toot toot toot" said the girl on the train back to the dog brush card, said that so that you can openly sit.
Figure "truth", a time, tile and saliva flying together, friends exclaimed --- "wonderful woman!"
Just three hours, the picture has more than 300 times forwarded. Users have condemned the misconduct of the woman, also links to the previously released movie "Search" and directed its reality version of "sunglasses sister.
What has happened, how? The reporter first attempt to contact the microblogging the rebellion users, but has no one responded. As of 15:00, that the microblogging has been removed, "beep beep beep" network name suddenly "no such person.
At nearly 4:00 in the afternoon, friends, "Cold Water 922" take the initiative to contact the reporter. She claimed to be friends broke the news, is also an insider. According to her, about 10:30 yesterday, the users in Beilun Bonded Eastern take the 716 bus. Up two women, one holding the dog. Initially, the dogs woman want a dog on the side, but the passengers and her companions do not like, the woman had to sit together with the dog.
"That woman on the Dog: 'a lot, I give you to buy a ticket, so you can sit fair and square!' Friends said the woman to bring a dog I ran over to paint a bus card. Later, the half-way some of the passengers on the train no seat. "The woman seeing indifferent, contrary confidently dog said: 'a lot, so pregnant women, elderly people up, we seat, do not let other people.' Friends said the woman in Jiufeng Beilun district station off.
The reporter then contacted 716 of the Beilun bus company. The staff of a surname Zhao told reporters that companies have begun to investigate the matter, but the dispatcher did not know or heard of driver reaction ".
Not to mention the words and deeds of the woman aside, he believes that if the User is true, the parties to the driver wrong. "The city already expressly provides that pets are not allowed on the bus. Woman holding a dog on the bus, the driver, if found, the right to refuse her car." He stressed that "even if the brush card, also right to ask to get off! "
Pet dog sitting, standing passengers. The staff of the City Public Transport Company also believes that women's behavior is contrary to public morals, the public should work together to resist such uncivilized behavior.