Shocking moment a woman appears to inhale Butane gas while sitting on a bus
Passenger ignores pleas from driver and fellow bus users to get off service in Trafford Bar, Greater Manchester
THIS SHOCKING video shows a woman appear to inhale Butane gas while sat on a bus.
The passenger brought the service to a halt as police were called to the scene at Trafford Bar in Greater Manchester.
The footage shows the woman holding a hissing canister while another woman wearing sunglasses uses a newspaper to clear up a smashed wine bottle on the floor.
She is joined by others who help to clear up the mess while the bus waits. At one point, the driver approaches the woman and asks her to leave but she appears to fail to understand his request.
Passengers wait to board the service while the woman, who appears to be in her forties and is wearing a black trousers and a vest top, continues to casually inhale her gas.
When one passenger confronts her, asking her to "get off the bus and let people go where they are going" she replies with an obscenity before returning to suck on the yellow canister.
Even when other passengers comment on her gas, she continues.
But she does notice the camera - and asks the filming be stopped, to which the owner responds "we’re in a public place we can do what we want".
Eventually, when the broken glass has been picked up and newspaper used to dampen the spilt wine, she agrees to leave.
As she finally leaves, other passengers make plain their disgust - but also accept she "needs help".
A spokesman for Stagecoach Manchester said: “We can confirm there was an incident on June 23 involving a disruptive passenger on one of our services.
“Our driver took the correct action to deal with the incident and the police were informed”.
Butane’s intended use is as a fuel - for example in cigarette lighters - and also as a propellant in aerosol sprays like deodorants.
Inhalation of butane can cause euphoria, drowsiness, narcosis, asphyxia, heart and blood pressure problems, memory loss - and when abused directly from a highly pressurised container ‘death from asphyxiation’.
It was the cause of 52 per cent of solvent related deaths in 2000.
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