I’ve noted before that Viennese bus drivers are a particularly malevolent form of life. Sure, occasionally a nice one slips into their ranks, but overall, I’ve seen the coldest, most viscious and surely most aggressive public transit abuses carried out by bus drivers.

I’ve seen them leave women with babies in strollers standing in the cold because they were too slow to move into the correct door with their strollers. I’ve seen them flat-out refuse to stop for people waiting at the stop, throw seemingly nice people off of the bus while telling them they had no right to ride with “normal people”, and I’ve seen worse. But today, I saw the best one yet.

A woman, attempting to get into the furthest-back door of the bus with her dog, managed to convince the tiny dog to climb in just in time for the bus driver to close the door and start to leave: dog inside, lady outside—both connected by a leash! She yelled out an alert, and people on the bus yelled, but the bus driver ignored them. About 10 meters on, he finally applied the brakes and opened the doors. The woman, who was running alongside while still holding the leash, shot the driver a dirty look as she climbed on. He just stared her down cold, put the bus in gear and hit the accelerator hard—ensuring she and all others who were standing would lose their balance.