I saw a bus go past where I live with the words "Help! Call Police" instead of the bus route number (Sorry for the bad image). Of course as soon as I saw it I rang the police and they are dealing with it now, but boy was that a surprise.
Posted by KingsOfAlt
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Oh if it drops below 50mph the bomb goes off.
Make sure you update if you find out what happened!
seems to come up every few months.
It happens when they hit their panic button. Also alerts their control team. Usually it’s accidental, but still doing the right thing calling it in just in case
It’s a safety feature when the driver activates the alarm it pops up , many a time it gets accidentally pressed , but if you see it always call police means the driver and pax need help .
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I hope everything is ok .. apparently it’s a distress feature and assuming everything works, the police are notified and the bus company can relay the GPS to them.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/help-sign-saves-brisbane-bus-driver/730bd0c8-2ea2-4e1b-b4c0-bb31009c38d8
Why the weird font?
One day a few years ago out side of altandi on mains road the 130 was supposed to turn up and instead a bus with people on it drove past with help call police. Everyone at the bus stop just kept to themselves pretending it didn’t happen, I called police link and they never had heard of it. Didn’t know what to do..
Let us know the update
We called it in once, they told us it’s usually activated accidentally but worth calling just in case
Years ago I saw one. Went and check in on the driver. Yeah he hit it by accident. Didn’t even know.
Call it in but then post on social media for karma, most miss that important step.
What do you do if a police car goes by with a sign saying ‘Call the bus service!’
Same as Greenlights on taxis.
Quite easy to hit the button with your foot .
Clearly that bus is getting kidnapped by a strange man and needs help ðŸ˜