Comments on: 64 Worst: Neighborhood Film Shoots vs. Asshole Bus Drivers

By: nickc71

nickc71 — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:39:14 +0000

LA bends over and takes it up the A$$ for the film industry without enough restrictions… Speaking of which, why 9 days for the Hollywood Blvd. Oscar Holdup BTW?? Good god what they erected couldn’t have required the blocking of the street for that long.

Busses get traffic off the road and provide transportation for people who need it. Aggrivated drivers who dont let them back in the road after a stop need to be taught a lesson somehow… This is much more beneficial to society – and the burden is a lot less…

Now if you had 23 year old girls on cell phone drivers vs. Neighborhood filming – I’d kinda have to switch sides…

By: heatseeker

heatseeker — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:43:00 +0000

Yeah the driver are bad sometimes. But I really don’t like having to pay
an extra $1.00 even thought I have a bus pass, just because the bus I take rides on the freeway, that should be included in the price of the pass. What the hell.

By: verytasse

verytasse — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:10:51 +0000

Film shoots keep income in our city, providing employment and trickle down income for thousands. Better here than Canada or Romania, Bulgaria or wherever.

By: robb0995

robb0995 — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:05:14 +0000

I agree on the movie shoots. They create jobs. As much as we roll our eyes about the “industry”, it is a huge part of our local economy and get a little bit of a bye for that reason.

Selfishly, though, the filming has never impacted me all that much. They do shoot in my neighborhood, but the signs are up for days ahead of time and it’s never caused me a problem.

Having said that, the bus drivers aren’t all that bad either. They have timetables to keep and no one will ever let them in, even though it means being behind a bus for 1/10 of a mile before they pull over for the next stop. Good bus drivers learned how to control the space and get their jobs done. It’s no different in any other city.

By: keithh

keithh — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:44:51 +0000

I would have picked the bus drivers – until I started riding the bus.

From that perspective there are a lot more ass-hole automobile drivers out there than bus drivers.

By: marshall

marshall — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:09:15 +0000

I’ve worked with lots of shoots as a location, or as a neighbor to one, and I’ve only really been shat on once, and that was a Paris Hilton/Russian Mafia related incident that had very little to do with normal industry operations.

But I’ve seen bus drivers do any number of stupid, life endangering things over the years as they cut off cars and bikes, race to beat lights and my favourite, rush through their route so they can park at a stop near the airport to get a burrito while the passengers wonder what the hell is going on – every Thursday, same driver, same burrito.

By: faboomama

faboomama — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:36:48 +0000

Filmshoots, but it’s a toss up on what part: The No Parking signs posted for weeks on end for a shoot that never happens or the obnoxiously loud workerbee (usually on a radio or mobile) who wants everyone trying to get by that they work in The Industry. Luckily, I’ve never had to deal with noise issues.

I can forgive angry bus drivers. There aren’t that many of them and if I had to drive LA streets and deal with the public every single day, I’d be pissed off too. As it is, I just need to drive SoCal streets and I fantasize about outfitting my MINI with flamethrowers, a cowcatcher and something that’ll crap oil and/or thumbtacks out the back. I also want a large hand that’ll punch other cars off the road.

By: doran

doran — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:24:58 +0000

One generates jobs and income. The other endangers lives. Easy call.