In travel news this week we learnt that a lone toddler decided to take a bus journey from Montgomery to Shrewsbury, crossing the
Welsh border into England.
The toddler was thought to have boarded the bus at a stop in Montgomery and run straight to the back. Passengers just presumed that he belonged to somebody who was boarding the bus, according to the BBC report.
Nick Culliford, operation manager at Tanat Valley Motors, which runs the service, told the BBC:
“This little toddler climbed on the bus and ran down the back of the bus. Of course, people on the bus must have thought it belonged to one of the people getting on the bus. They got to Shrewsbury and people were getting off, and the driver said: ‘Excuse me, there’s a child here’. People said ‘not mine’ and then it suddenly dawned on people that the child belonged to nobody.”
Our man on the ground had this to say about the whole terrible incident:
“Also nominated for the worst sentence award:
People said ‘not mine’ and then it suddenly dawned on people that the child belonged to nobody.
And… that being the case… if everyone had left… nobody would have been there and could then have taken the child home…”
Come on Graham, we never start a sentence with “and,” it’s just bad grammar.
We asked one regular bus user what they thought of the incident:
“What amazed me is that the toddler managed to get the entire 28 miles without having to change buses. In my experience, simply getting from one side of the city to the other requires to changes. I may move to Wales.”
What must have been annoying was that once the toddler arrived in Shrewsbury the bus driver called the police, which meant he was never able to reach his intended destination. Two people have been released on police bail following the incident, which took place on Friday.
You can read the full BBC report here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-13894172
There is also a picture of a map if you are interested in that sort of thing.
