17 December 2008

ACTION Bus on fire - who knows the story?

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It’s been doing the rounds but we haven’t done it yet.

Does anyone know the story behind these pictures of a burning ACTION bus?

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Looks like London mayor Boris Johnson has been exporting his incendiary buses to Canberra.

Looks like it might have been a lot more serious if this had happened in any other city. Like where the buses actually carry passengers.

(In Charlton Heston voice)

You maniacs, you blew it up, you blew it all up. Damn you, damn you all to hell. Now the apes will take over.

heinous said :

Looks like it’s bus-ted.

snap.

Poptop said

poptop said :

[Sadly their 1150 pictures of Action buses does not extend to the old galah coloured ones of my childhood.

I remember those! Maroon and grey, kind-of. With leatherette seats… a yucky brown, I think.

lol

(yeah, ok, 79% of statistics are totally made up on the spot, clearly like that one, evedentally..)

The really disturbing thing is that actbus.net being the number one site suggests there are others . . . =-/

poptop said :

Who knew there is a Canberra’s Number One Transport Enthusiast Website? Well there is! http://actbus.net/

Damn you poptop, that’s another three hours of my life wasted.

poptop said :


[Sadly their 1150 pictures of Action buses does not extend to the old galah coloured ones of my childhood.

Have a look here

http://trevorl.mvps.org/ratec/album.html

then click on AEC.

Speaking of traffic matters – Lyneham Shops pedestrian crossing on Wattle street has police markings and signs of a hard braking ending in the crossing – and a circled spot a little way away. Was someone badly damaged there in the last couple of days? Looked like it.

Looks like it’s bus-ted.

trevar said :

Timd said :

trevar said :

It says ‘midi bus’ on the side: you you think the alcohol from the driver’s midi was ignigted by his cigarette?

Personally, I would prefer to ride in a schooner bus.

clearly a pint bus is better

But a pint bus would be warm, whereas a schooner bus is nice and cold!

ah, but the warmth can be counteracted by drinking it quickly 🙂

all this talk is making me feel like one.. and a cigarette funnily enough

I got 404ed. =-(
That’s what I get for trying to use correct punctuation. Take the full stop off the end of the URL – that’ll fix it.

tylersmayhem4:08 pm 17 Dec 08

Sorry – it’s just clicked – I had the same problem earlier today with a post on here!

WMC, need a towel?

tylersmayhem3:40 pm 17 Dec 08

coffee > nose > monitor

Huh – you’ve lost me WMC

Woody Mann-Caruso3:37 pm 17 Dec 08

“let off some steam Bennett”

coffee > nose > monitor

Looks great.

Students dry-humping on the backseat?

i am disappointed by the mundane reason for the fire – why couldn’t it be another bus arson attack like that adelaide kiddies’ bus in civic a few weeks back? then rather than being known as the ‘bush capital’ we could be the ‘bus burnin’ capital’!

Timd said :

trevar said :

It says ‘midi bus’ on the side: you you think the alcohol from the driver’s midi was ignigted by his cigarette?

Personally, I would prefer to ride in a schooner bus.

clearly a pint bus is better

But a pint bus would be warm, whereas a schooner bus is nice and cold!

Timd said :

trevar said :

It says ‘midi bus’ on the side: you you think the alcohol from the driver’s midi was ignigted by his cigarette?

Personally, I would prefer to ride in a schooner bus.

clearly a pint bus is better

You’d get there quicker if it were a shot bus.

poptop – If you want some older photos, check out http://trevorl.mvps.org/ratec/index.html. I have to admit to always having been a bit of a closet train/bus-spotter…

trevar said :

It says ‘midi bus’ on the side: you you think the alcohol from the driver’s midi was ignigted by his cigarette?

Personally, I would prefer to ride in a schooner bus.

clearly a pint bus is better

Get your kicks on route sixty-six.

Those maniacs! They blew it up!

tylersmayhem12:55 pm 17 Dec 08

Does anyone know the story behind these pictures of a burning ACTION bus?

(in my best Arnie impersonation) “It blew it’s top”. Or maybe “let off some steam Bennett”

It says ‘midi bus’ on the side: you you think the alcohol from the driver’s midi was ignigted by his cigarette?

Personally, I would prefer to ride in a schooner bus.

Good heavens.
Tuppence to whoever can introduce Samuel Gordon-Stewart to those people.

Who knew there is a Canberra’s Number One Transport Enthusiast Website? Well there is! http://actbus.net/.

[Sadly their 1150 pictures of Action buses does not extend to the old galah coloured ones of my childhood.]

ACTbus tells us “Bus 148 met with an unfortunate fate earlier this week. While operating a northbound Route 66, a fire broke out in the engine compartment.

The vehicle is currently sitting next to what is left of 703 and 914 at Belconnen Depot, and we’ll let you know if we hear if ACTION choose to scrap it for parts or rebuild it.

Cause of the fire appears to be unknown and uninteresting to bus-spotters.

Looks like engine overheated.

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