Toddler’s Stinky Diaper Gets Him (and Mom!) Kicked Off Bus
Photo: Veer / The BumpWe’ve all been there: Your baby poops at a pretty inconvenient time and you cross your fingers, hoping no one around you notices before you can find the nearest ladies’ room with a changing table. Well, for Nichole Hakimian, someone did notice, and it got her kicked off a public bus in Seattle, she says.
Hakimian was taking her one-year-old son to a doctor’s appointment for an intestinal illness, and was told by the public bus driver she had to get off because of the smell of her son’s dirty diaper.
“He had just pooped in his diaper as soon as I got on, because he was having diarrhea,” Hakimian told KOMO News. “And right after that, she told me I had to get off the bus.”
“She says, ‘Your baby — he smells really bad, and it’s not fair that we all have to smell that,”‘ she said. “I said, ‘My son is sick. I’m taking him to a doctor’s appointment.”
The driver let Hakimian and her son off the bus about a half mile away from her son’s doctor’s office.
To me, there are two ways to look at this story — maybe the bus driver was being insensitive and mean, or maybe she was concerned about the health of her bus riders. What do you think?
Is a smelly diaper cause for getting kicked off a bus, or did the bus driver cross the line?
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Too harsh from the bus driver!
I think the bus driver crossed the line. The baby was sick, going to a doctors appointment & the mom couldn’t control the timing anymore than he could control the bus drivers reaction. I feel bad for the mom. I don’t see how the smell of a baby’s diaper could be a health concern to others. It’s not like the mom & baby were on the bus route all day with a stinky diaper. Heartless, selfish people (the bus driver & anyone else who complained)
I feel that’s a bit harsh and annoying. The baby was sick and going to a doctors appointment. There are people that cram on to buses all the time that are poorly dressed ( breast hanging out or other parts), people with extremely bad body odor, and just rude people that use inappropriate language in front of young child all the time on the bus that don’t get kicked off. That’s just not right. Plus last time I checked bus windows open. Sad thing is I deal with this all the time living with my child’s grandparents. The only place I’m allowed to change her or store dirty diapers till trash day is the room we share because “the scent offends them”.
I agree the bus driver crossed the line ….
So next time someone brings smelly food on the bus, or has really bad body odor, or simply put on WAY too much perfume, we can request they get booted off the bus??
Too much, and really they were only a 1/2 mile away. What a shame.
THAT IS INSANE! WHEN YOU ARE ANY KIND OF PUBLIC PLACE YOU ARE TAKING A CHANCE OF GETTING SICK OR SMELLING SOMETHING NOT PLEASANT! THAT POOR CHILD COULD NOT HELP HAVING A DIRTY DIAPER SICK OR NOT! OBVIOUSLY THE BUS DRIVER AND PEOPLE ON THE BUS WHO COMPLAINED DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN IF I WAS ON THAT BUS I WOULD OF SPOKE UP FOR THE MOTHER WHO WAS JUST TRYING TO GET HER CHILD TO THE DOCTOR!
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This is This is a shame!