As I get older I see the same stories being rinsed and repeated for regular public consumption. This story from 2020 shows how bus and trains in the midlands have had similar measures in place for some time: https://www.wmca.org.uk/news/new-set-of-byelaws-to-clamp-down-on-anti-social-behaviour-on-the-buses/ and this one from April 2025 outlining the Lib Dem plans for £1000 fines and travel bans https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly5g7v2qddo was so popular that the Tories recycled it and trumpted it as a great new idea in August 2025: https://news.sky.com/story/ban-passengers-playing-loud-music-on-public-transport-say-tories-13417519 None of them look at enforcing the rules that are already in place. There already exists bylaws to prohibit this kind of behaviour but zero thought about enforcing them.
Why bother enforcing when you can simply preach!
none of them look at enforcing the rules that are already in place
Which is nye impossible. The public transit around me can’t even enforce fare evasion, not saying they should, but it shows how hard it is to enforce something like this.
Laws like this require shame to enforce it, sort of like indoor smoking bans. The people on the bus have to say “stop blasting your tik tok” , if we do that enough, people will understand it’s unacceptable behavior.
Will I do it? Hell no, I’m not that confrontational, but the rest of us definitely should.
the punishment should be a week in the stockade in the town square where people pelt you with rotten fruit, but this is a good start
Nah, people just come by one hour at a time and blast their favorite Playlist.
Why?
Just have a public jukebox and people can pick songs that are played out into headphones around the offender.
[Cues up Cotton Eye Joe 300 times]
Nah, a couple of Ed Sheeran tracks and they’ll be screaming for mercy.
… and up next, “The Birdie Song” 300 times
I’m a Monster…
after that I’m putting on “Crazy Frog” for 300 plays.
If they were still conscious, I’d recommend 300 plays of Black Lace’s “Agadoo”.
Found Satan ☝️
Good news if it was actually enforced. I vote that bus drivers use the tannoys to say, “Hey, who’s that plonker on the upper deck playing AI slop? Turn it off, you muppet!” I don’t know what they should do when they get inevitably ignored.
(It’s nearly always AI slop revenge stories or bhangra (might not be bhangra exactly, I’m Indian but I don’t actually know the different genres. Desi stuff anyway.))
In my experience its constant scrolling tiktok. You get to hear the AI lady saying “watch what happ-” “when my br-” “pov you’re-” “askin-” “im in love with my new set of-” “when the-” “going to-”
I’m getting enraged thinking about it.
Oh my fucking god I feel like I had PTSD for a second reading you comment.
You should be fined £100 for making me read that
And just like that, the cost-of-living crisis and rampant societal inequality was solved forever.
