I'm still extremely heated over this whole ordeal. I fumed the entire 10-minutes from the bus stop to my house.
I rode the bus home, as I usually do. This kid who was wearing a medical face mask got on the bus and sat near the front. At the next stop, a large, obviously drunk and possibly drugged out man sits 2 seats from the kid. He starts muttering gibberish. Then he tells the kid to shut up. Mind you, this kid has said nothing the entire time. Then the man starts whispering something into the kid's ear. I think he was asking the kid why he was wearing the face mask, but then his tone changes and he tells the kid to shut up and that he's going to shoot the kid, while making gun gestures with his hand. People just sat around shaking their heads or burrowing their heads deeper into their books or newspapers. I'm mad that I sat there watching the whole thing. Finally, the man starts pulling on the kid's face mask, so I spoke up "Dude... seriously, keep your hands to your goddamn self!" and the bus driver finally notice what was going on and pulled the bus over. The man pulled on the kid's hoodie and the bus driver told the man to get off the bus. Since the man was ignoring him, the bus driver called the police. About 5 minutes later, the police lights came around the corner and the man got off before the police had to escort him. Once the drunk man got off, I asked the kid if he was ok and he just shook his head 'yes', clearly shell-shocked from the whole ordeal.
So this leads me to ask why no one else said anything? I'm still mad at myself for waiting so long to speak up too, but I was getting so heated that if that man had touched the kid one more time, I was ready to kick the man off the bus myself... good thing the bus driver took action.
Why didn't anyone even say "Yeah, man, stop." Or just "Leave him alone... he didn't do anything to you!"
It makes me mad that people don't help other people out. For me, I'm always ready for a fight... but only if it's for a good reason, a just cause.
People are cowards. Why?!