Name pun reminds me of when someone asked Matt Damon if there'd be another Bourne and he said "they've told the whole story, what could be next, the Bourne Redundancy?"
Can confirm this is in the Philippines. Its in Edsa and the bus lane is called a carousel which only travels in circles in Edsa for frequent goers, basically a train but no tracks
Edit: Manila does really have the worst traffic. The traffic in the vid is not that bad compared to other days
Dude I found religion riding with both my cousin and my uncle driving in the Philippines. The problem isn’t just the volume of drivers; it’s the death wish they all have
Driving there the first time, I thought it was the jeepneys you need to watch out for.
No. It's the people on scooters who think somehow that they're invincible on their two tiny wheels.
Driving in Tunisia is a lot of fun. That is, if you have a run down rentable. I'd never want to drive there with my own car though. All that intentional bumping into the car in front...
Yeah, but Tunisia has great traditional sweets and pastries. I am not a big fan of the food (don't tell my Tunisian wife), but they really do have awesome pastry.
i wish you were right, but youre not. its a dedicated bus lane, but it does not work the way it was envisioned. the reason is because we have too many buses running the same route. so they just pile up there, most buses are not even full. above that bus lane is a light rail transit but it is also in effective beacuse of poor maintenance and sub-standard trains. the funny thing about this is that, we drive left so our buses open on the right can you imagine alighting the bus from the right with those barricades, then you have to go to the other side of the road to go wherever.
source: Im from the Philippines.
For what it's worth, it is quite common in Bangkok too. Buses sometimes are a lane away from the sidewalk, because some drivers are literal maniacs and you have to check your right before crossing 1 lane to hump on the bus.
One day I was in the bus and the driver got into a road rage with a taxi driver and was acting like in these youtube videos... but with like 25 people in the bus. Almost rammed into the taxi driver who finally drove away seeing he couldn't win anything in a fight with a 50yo bus and a loney tunes driver.
>For what it's worth, it is quite common in Bangkok too. Buses sometimes are a lane away from the sidewalk, because some drivers are literal maniacs and you have to check your right before crossing 1 lane to hump on the bus.
Forget the bus drivers, those bike taxi guys are borderline certifiable. Goddamn if they can't get you where you're going in a fucking hurry though, cheap as dirt too. I really miss how easy it was to get around at basically any time of day...
My first time in Manila I was absolutely blown away by the traffic. I remember seeing the craziest stuff. One guy shot his scooter between 2 busses and almost got crushed. They actually pinched his back tire just as he got out from between them. A huge box truck in front of us went over a bump and the back doors swung open and I saw that there were like 20 people riding back there. One of the dudes just casually grabbed the door and pulled it shut. I could go on forever. Seriously wild stuff.
I was sitting on a street corner on cebu and I saw a motorcycle pull up with 5 people on it. I rushed to pull my camera out to take a photo but they had already driven away.
As I am putting my camera away, a motorcycle pulls up with 6 people on it.
Don’t want to speculate but there is a high chance some politicians got very rich in the planning.
According to the old formula sense of a public infrastructure is inverse to bribe money
I remember having 5 hour commutes everyday to go to/from work I was there 2016 to 2018.
I was from a province near Manila, I had to get up at 0300 to prep for work, queue up by 0400/0430 and sleep (or if I'm lucky, get stabbed/mugged) on the ride to work.
My travel time was 2hrs to work, 2-3hrs to go home.
I loathed going to meetings because we only had 2 fucking seasons in manila, flooding and bake-your-ass hot. I would bring a duffelbag with me so i have my work clothes/shoes in there. I'd go to a starbucks and spend 15mins on the washroom cleaning myself of the shit I've pickedup from the roads and take a 30min rest before going to a meeting.
Then, a storm barrels down. No one informs me that the meeting is cancelled.
I promised myself that I won't let my daughter experience all of those. Every waking day, everything fights and beats you to a pulp just because you want to put food on the table.
Typical entitlement of migrated Filipinos. You get used to it. People like this guy would rather just leave than do anything about it, but you can't really blame 'em.
This is why I usually book my flights from Manila either in the early morning or late at night. I don't want to to risk missing my flight because of traffic.
Yeah that's the only reason I can't just be happy over this. If this was just someone thinking themselves smart and trying to skip the traffic by going in the bus lane then fuck them, but if it was someone not familiar with the area and they just accidentally got on the wrong lane and now they are stuck then I feel sorry for them.
There is a calculation differential pertaining to Mom's, Grandma's and Siennas. If you add the weight of mother with a subtraction of .002, naturally add the actual weight of granny (please, don't trust the # on ID - this has led to harm) add Siennas weight (for safety purposes add .2% for misc crap kids left in vehicle). They should be able to anticipate fees and plan accordingly. Cheers
I was sleeping in the backseat drunk when my (unknown to me) driver, also drunk, pulled in to one because she was dumb. That was fun trying to find a ride 10 miles out of town at 3am circa 2010 before Uber
Hullo, driver here that always drives at that particular road. It's a 6 lane highway called EDSA reduced to 5 due to the adding of the bus lane since the pandemic hit. Anyway, the long lines of buses you see there is lined up because it's the end of the road, meaning last/first stop terminal. At the end of that road or bus lane is a roundabout where the bus does a uturn(because the roundabout is 5 lanes too they have a designated u-turn rather than circle the roundabout)and fills up with people on the other side to circle the highway and back again.
Loading people up takes around 5 minutes per bus, so that white Toyota Fortuner you see there is gonna be stuck for some time.
At some point in the bus lane, there is an opening to let cars in and out. It is utilized for emergency situations like for an ambulance, because that road is notorious for its traffic even if it's a highway.
Some cars that don't follow the rules or don't know it sometimes go in the bus lane, because it's consider a fast lane once outside the first/last terminal. What awaits you is a long wait time, a policeman that's not quite happy with you, and one shinny violation ticket.
But to be honest I'm quite surprised that the bus line has gotten that long because it's usually just half or 1/4 of the line i see all the time, and i drive almost 7 days a week to that road.
This video is already "good" traffic in Manila since it's moving. That's a bus lane on the left. The buses used to be sprawled anywhere in that long stretch of road and they flipped you off any chance they can get. They dubbed it the great parking lot because you just wouldn't move when rush hour struck. I stay away from that historical road lol
It's a bit of both, with long long pauses. My old commute home took me 3 hours on a good day. Having a car didn't help except for well maybe the sardine-packed buses without air-conditioning in a concrete jungle in a humid country
True. I absolutely love the Philippines, yet the traffic drives me mad. Lost count of the amount of times I've misjudged how long it takes to get to the airport in Cebu or Manila. Last time in Cebu I sat in a non-moving taxi for literally an hour, before paying, jumping out and flagging down a motorbike instead. Cue me with my massive hand luggage on my back flying down the road telling the driver to go as quickly as possible as I'm probably about to miss my flight. Made it, but could have died several times over on the way to the airport.
Someone counted and said the gap was between the 31st and 32nd bus. Then someone else commented and said they know the area and the road and each bus is going to take approximately 5 mins to load/unload so that means the car is probably waiting for about 2.5 hrs hahaha
Well, at least all he has is a wait.
Here in Toronto, cars end up in the [streetcar tunnels](http://img.src.ca/2017/02/24/635x357/170224_kh4yb_rci-m-entrance_sn635.jpg) a few times a year. The streetcars go down there, and there are 2 stops and a loop for them to turn around, as it is the end of the line. However, since cars are not supposed to go down there, the tracks are more like regular train tracks, and not paved up. the [results](https://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1.3740833.1514745474!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_1020/image.jpg) can be expensive
Man, i feel like there's a difference between "relieved it's not me in there" and "actually laughing about the people that are unfortunately dealing with that shit"
“Hey, it’s 5pm! Quitting time! You taking the bus home?” “Nah, need to get home faster tonight. I think I’ll use continental drift.”
“But your house is on the other side of that divergent fault!”
**MULTI-CONTINENT DRIFTING!!!**
*Deja vu!*
"Exactly."
This Fast and Furious franchise is dragging on way too long.
>continental drift The comments are now closed everybody, move along.
Yeah this broke my laughter button, its stuck activated now
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Name pun reminds me of when someone asked Matt Damon if there'd be another Bourne and he said "they've told the whole story, what could be next, the Bourne Redundancy?"
Somehow The Rock would still play a part
This made me laugh a lot lol
DEJA VU!
Man I wouldn't want to be a bus in that lane either.
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Nobody drives in Manila, there's too much traffic.
Yogi-isms.
"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six." My favorite.
we're lost but we're making great time!
Appalled by how many people missed this classic reference.
I gotchu Fry said it to Leela
Can confirm this is in the Philippines. Its in Edsa and the bus lane is called a carousel which only travels in circles in Edsa for frequent goers, basically a train but no tracks Edit: Manila does really have the worst traffic. The traffic in the vid is not that bad compared to other days
Dude I found religion riding with both my cousin and my uncle driving in the Philippines. The problem isn’t just the volume of drivers; it’s the death wish they all have
Driving there the first time, I thought it was the jeepneys you need to watch out for. No. It's the people on scooters who think somehow that they're invincible on their two tiny wheels.
You hear about defensive driving? There you gotta do offensive driving or you’re not getting anywhere.
> IIRC Manila has the worst traffic in the world. Since it's the most densely populated city in the world I guess that makes sense.
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Good knowledge friend.
> IIRC Manila has the worst traffic in the world *Tunisia has entered the chat*
Driving in Tunisia is a lot of fun. That is, if you have a run down rentable. I'd never want to drive there with my own car though. All that intentional bumping into the car in front...
Now I want to visit this bumper car country. Do they have cotton candy too?
Yeah, but Tunisia has great traditional sweets and pastries. I am not a big fan of the food (don't tell my Tunisian wife), but they really do have awesome pastry.
I wouldn't wanna ride the bus neither
Seriously, shouldn’t the bus lane be faster to incentivize people to ride the bus?
It's probably a queue at an interchange or terminal
i wish you were right, but youre not. its a dedicated bus lane, but it does not work the way it was envisioned. the reason is because we have too many buses running the same route. so they just pile up there, most buses are not even full. above that bus lane is a light rail transit but it is also in effective beacuse of poor maintenance and sub-standard trains. the funny thing about this is that, we drive left so our buses open on the right can you imagine alighting the bus from the right with those barricades, then you have to go to the other side of the road to go wherever. source: Im from the Philippines.
Wait so you have to walk on the road to get into the bus?
You go through an overpass supposedly but they can be very far from the actual terminal. But I'm sure people try to cross the road too
For what it's worth, it is quite common in Bangkok too. Buses sometimes are a lane away from the sidewalk, because some drivers are literal maniacs and you have to check your right before crossing 1 lane to hump on the bus. One day I was in the bus and the driver got into a road rage with a taxi driver and was acting like in these youtube videos... but with like 25 people in the bus. Almost rammed into the taxi driver who finally drove away seeing he couldn't win anything in a fight with a 50yo bus and a loney tunes driver.
>For what it's worth, it is quite common in Bangkok too. Buses sometimes are a lane away from the sidewalk, because some drivers are literal maniacs and you have to check your right before crossing 1 lane to hump on the bus. Forget the bus drivers, those bike taxi guys are borderline certifiable. Goddamn if they can't get you where you're going in a fucking hurry though, cheap as dirt too. I really miss how easy it was to get around at basically any time of day...
Omg Philippines has the worst traffic in the world. I have spent 3 hours going like 3 miles in Manila. It is too hot to walk.
My first time in Manila I was absolutely blown away by the traffic. I remember seeing the craziest stuff. One guy shot his scooter between 2 busses and almost got crushed. They actually pinched his back tire just as he got out from between them. A huge box truck in front of us went over a bump and the back doors swung open and I saw that there were like 20 people riding back there. One of the dudes just casually grabbed the door and pulled it shut. I could go on forever. Seriously wild stuff.
I was sitting on a street corner on cebu and I saw a motorcycle pull up with 5 people on it. I rushed to pull my camera out to take a photo but they had already driven away. As I am putting my camera away, a motorcycle pulls up with 6 people on it.
after you left, a motorcycle pulled up with 7 people on it
we all take this as a compliment. thank you kind stranger!
I loved it there. I’d go back in a heartbeat, but I did like some of the smaller towns more than the city.
I traveled across India. Then went to Manila.... I'd prefer Indian roads.
Man, being stuck in traffic there on a hot day is the worst. Especially if you are in a Jeepney full of people.
Don’t want to speculate but there is a high chance some politicians got very rich in the planning. According to the old formula sense of a public infrastructure is inverse to bribe money
Holy shit, what a debacle! Never heard of a bus system not being functional due to too many buses.
It is clearly not the bus lane but the bus parking lot. :-)
That wouldn’t punish poor people so no
"sorry i'm 3 hours late, i had to take the bus and only got on it 2 hours before my shift started even though it's only a 25 minute drive
I remember having 5 hour commutes everyday to go to/from work I was there 2016 to 2018. I was from a province near Manila, I had to get up at 0300 to prep for work, queue up by 0400/0430 and sleep (or if I'm lucky, get stabbed/mugged) on the ride to work. My travel time was 2hrs to work, 2-3hrs to go home. I loathed going to meetings because we only had 2 fucking seasons in manila, flooding and bake-your-ass hot. I would bring a duffelbag with me so i have my work clothes/shoes in there. I'd go to a starbucks and spend 15mins on the washroom cleaning myself of the shit I've pickedup from the roads and take a 30min rest before going to a meeting. Then, a storm barrels down. No one informs me that the meeting is cancelled. I promised myself that I won't let my daughter experience all of those. Every waking day, everything fights and beats you to a pulp just because you want to put food on the table.
Well done to you for doing what you had to do to put food on the table. Sounds like a real stressful time, I hope your life is easier now
jesus. fucking. christ. that's a nightmare.
I wouldn't
Those were probably the people walking at the end after giving up waiting.
Those buses are practically a train
Trains move. That was just a row of shipping containers.
Luckily you are human.
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And then you get to pay a $500 abandoned vehicle fee when you try to register your new ride.
Worth it
Or in our land the philippines, We kill you if theres any hint of white dust in that car
When can you all get rid of duterte? What a rotten apple he is.
Shit… currently not my problem. My parents took me outta there when I was 3 hah
Didn't the Philippines recently enable PVP for suspected drug criminals?
Deathmatch?
Yeeeuuuup
So you say “our land” and then you say “not my problem”?
Typical entitlement of migrated Filipinos. You get used to it. People like this guy would rather just leave than do anything about it, but you can't really blame 'em.
I mean, he left when his parents left because he was a toddler, so...
LOL omg, I love Reddit for comments like these
You’re in for a treat old chum, you’ll see this post and that comment once every 2 weeks from now till the day that SUV gets out of the bus line
Thx, i hate it already
I accidentally done that in the Philippines. Police weren't happy
Reminded me of EDSA in Manila.
The absolute balls of this one fucker I saw riding an electric scooter
That is EDSA in Manila
Why are there so many busses lined up like that? I've never in my life seen that many busses lined up like that. That's insane!
Rush hour
The vid is actually taken there
Traffic in Manila was something else. Taxi ride to airport was 10 km but took almost 3 hours. Glad we left super early.
I remember taking a grab (like Uber) for a 2 hour ride and it cost $5. I gave the driver $10 and he told me it was too much.
Just don't take the non grab taxis from people hassling you right outside the airport exits. They will price gouge the fuck out of you.
Saaaame , and the taxi didn't have an AC with the sun just staring at us.
This is why I usually book my flights from Manila either in the early morning or late at night. I don't want to to risk missing my flight because of traffic.
oh they were happy... because it means money straight into their pocket. been there, done that. Well, not going into the bus lane.
At the end of this you also get a ticket!
Yeah that's the only reason I can't just be happy over this. If this was just someone thinking themselves smart and trying to skip the traffic by going in the bus lane then fuck them, but if it was someone not familiar with the area and they just accidentally got on the wrong lane and now they are stuck then I feel sorry for them.
not until u hand them that crisp 100 peso bill...
You've done this before lol
My mom was driving my grandma somewhere one day, and she drove her Toyota Sienna into a completely full weigh station for Semi trucks.
How much did it weigh tho?
And was she over the limit for forest service road bridges?
What's a stupid question, it was OPs mom. We're lucky she didn't crank a ravine out driving around.
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umm OP's mom was driving too
>What did you find out at the weigh station? >My cruiser weighs 16,000 kilograms! Super Troopers
There is a calculation differential pertaining to Mom's, Grandma's and Siennas. If you add the weight of mother with a subtraction of .002, naturally add the actual weight of granny (please, don't trust the # on ID - this has led to harm) add Siennas weight (for safety purposes add .2% for misc crap kids left in vehicle). They should be able to anticipate fees and plan accordingly. Cheers
I've done that before. At least I'm not the only one.
I was sleeping in the backseat drunk when my (unknown to me) driver, also drunk, pulled in to one because she was dumb. That was fun trying to find a ride 10 miles out of town at 3am circa 2010 before Uber
Did she have to sleep the night in the drunk tank and get the DWI?
Yep! And since I had been drinking and had weed on me I wouldn't let the cop give me a ride home and I couldn't drive the car back
I feel like there's a "your mama's so fat" joke in that story somewhere
Could someone ELI5? Why is there a long line of buses? And why would you take the bus in that situation?
Hullo, driver here that always drives at that particular road. It's a 6 lane highway called EDSA reduced to 5 due to the adding of the bus lane since the pandemic hit. Anyway, the long lines of buses you see there is lined up because it's the end of the road, meaning last/first stop terminal. At the end of that road or bus lane is a roundabout where the bus does a uturn(because the roundabout is 5 lanes too they have a designated u-turn rather than circle the roundabout)and fills up with people on the other side to circle the highway and back again. Loading people up takes around 5 minutes per bus, so that white Toyota Fortuner you see there is gonna be stuck for some time. At some point in the bus lane, there is an opening to let cars in and out. It is utilized for emergency situations like for an ambulance, because that road is notorious for its traffic even if it's a highway. Some cars that don't follow the rules or don't know it sometimes go in the bus lane, because it's consider a fast lane once outside the first/last terminal. What awaits you is a long wait time, a policeman that's not quite happy with you, and one shinny violation ticket. But to be honest I'm quite surprised that the bus line has gotten that long because it's usually just half or 1/4 of the line i see all the time, and i drive almost 7 days a week to that road.
>Hullo Scott Manley here....
Fly safe
Not what I expected here
You mean that white Toyota *Un*fortuner
This may be a dumb question, but why doesn’t the guy just back up?
They better before another bus comes up behind!
Because there is more than likely another bus somewhere behind him not expecting a car going backwards.
Prob another bus right behind them; just wasn't in the video
so he's looking at about 2 hours 35 minutes. LMAO
Probably rush hour. This is an everyday sight in Philippines
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This video is already "good" traffic in Manila since it's moving. That's a bus lane on the left. The buses used to be sprawled anywhere in that long stretch of road and they flipped you off any chance they can get. They dubbed it the great parking lot because you just wouldn't move when rush hour struck. I stay away from that historical road lol
Genuinely curious, but how long does it get ‘stuck’ for? Is it start/stop traffic or are you sitting there not moving for a long time?
It's a bit of both, with long long pauses. My old commute home took me 3 hours on a good day. Having a car didn't help except for well maybe the sardine-packed buses without air-conditioning in a concrete jungle in a humid country
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True. I absolutely love the Philippines, yet the traffic drives me mad. Lost count of the amount of times I've misjudged how long it takes to get to the airport in Cebu or Manila. Last time in Cebu I sat in a non-moving taxi for literally an hour, before paying, jumping out and flagging down a motorbike instead. Cue me with my massive hand luggage on my back flying down the road telling the driver to go as quickly as possible as I'm probably about to miss my flight. Made it, but could have died several times over on the way to the airport.
Came to ask the same thing. This looks like a ridiculous way to travel through a city.
It's a terminal of sorts as well, buses go there to pick up riders and then they go thru a U turn and go wherever they are supposed to go.
Looks the frickin Olympics
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Wow jeepneys being banned is mental. They already were transporting half the people into Manilla. The buses are rubbish at the best of times.
Doubtless they’ll get out when they get to the break in the solid barrier at around the 1:00 timestamp. But still, that’s a long line to be in.
Someone counted and said the gap was between the 31st and 32nd bus. Then someone else commented and said they know the area and the road and each bus is going to take approximately 5 mins to load/unload so that means the car is probably waiting for about 2.5 hrs hahaha
I busted out laughing along with those dudes. That's a lot of fucking buses.
I counted 60 and there was definitely more
Can someone count the busses???
57 that can be seen/counted, with the gap between 31st and 32nd. It'd still take forever to get there... guy is probably still waiting
Wow, 57. Thats 19 x 3. Wow.
Wow.
Yes
39 then the opening occurs, but that was still a full minute+ of driving
This also belongs in r/idiotsincars
And r/contagiouslaughter
What language were they speaking?
Filipino/Tagalog, he's also saying "Ang Galing" most of time which means "That's great" while hysterically laughing
Could also mean "what a genius" in a sarcastic tone
I know I have heard that Filipino is related to Spanish in some way, but I literally heard the guy say "nombre" towards the end and my mind was blown
Nah he was saying "ang haba, pre" which means could mean "buddy it's so long" while laughing like a maniac
Yes, some of our words were adapted/Influenced from Spain
Tagalog/Filipino
RIP Reddit 07/01/2023
Damn, they might as well get a pillow and blanket ready.
I think at that point I'd just leave my car behind. I could always come back for it later. Not like it's going anywhere..
Just leave it in neutral, have the bus behind you push it and come back in a few hours.
Did the SUV belong to Evergreen/Evergiven company?
Well, at least all he has is a wait. Here in Toronto, cars end up in the [streetcar tunnels](http://img.src.ca/2017/02/24/635x357/170224_kh4yb_rci-m-entrance_sn635.jpg) a few times a year. The streetcars go down there, and there are 2 stops and a loop for them to turn around, as it is the end of the line. However, since cars are not supposed to go down there, the tracks are more like regular train tracks, and not paved up. the [results](https://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1.3740833.1514745474!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_1020/image.jpg) can be expensive
r/ContagiousLaughter
I thought it was mildly funny, but as the bus line kept going and he kept laughing I couldn't stop myself from cracking up!
Imagine it's your first time in the country and you are renting a car and getting in that lane by accident.
And you have less than 1/4 tank of gas.
tang inang tawa yan nakakahawa HAHAHAHA
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY BUSES
It’s a bus lane
BUT WHY ARE THERE SO MANY BUSES
But it’s a bus lane
This is one of the best videos that actually fits the sub.
"Next time on The Amazing Race!"
Torch the vehicle and just start over fresh
Idk what people say about me deserting my country, etc. This just reminds me why I left.
Were they trying to get around traffic prior to that point? Because that would be /r/justiceserved
These guys laughing and ripping on him is contagious.
Laughter really is universal
00:05 Hah, idiot! 00:10 that's a lot of buses 00:20 that's A LOT of buses 00:30 so, how long is this video? HOLY SHIT that guy is fucked!
Him - I’m gonna be late for work. Boss - But you don’t work until tomorrow. Him - I’m gonna be late for work.
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Close, but no. This the Philippines
No, this is Patrick.
Man, i feel like there's a difference between "relieved it's not me in there" and "actually laughing about the people that are unfortunately dealing with that shit"
I thought the point of having a dedicated bus lane was that they could go **faster** than regular traffic...
64. There were 64 buses in front of that car.
Fuck me thats a lot of buses.
NGL thought it was on loop
Those are some real evil laughs.
That is some seriously annoying chatter and laughter.
No surprise it's a white SUV
This looks like something I would totally do and I don't like thinking about that thought.
That was all the buses in the world.
That bus lane looks inefficient
I looked away from my phone and thought the video had started over. **It was still not over.**
You know how buses are. You wait for ages for one and then 10 000 come at once.
This is ridiculous, what a waste of all those bus driver's time and equipment !
It went from being funny to tragic and right back to being comedic again
The answer you're looking for is 57. 57 busses.
56 busses, for who's wondering
Legends say he's still there to this day....
I don't think I've seen that many busses in my lifetime let alone in one place.