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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
This sentence caught my eye. Potentially eating food on a bus is a life endangering activity. How many times has your bus gone over a bump too hard? Say that happens while you have something in your mouth--choking is a definite possibility. Or like someone pointed out above--what if the kid had hit the end of the stick on something when the bus came to a sudden stop and injured himself? What if a woman has a very hot cup of coffee and spills it on someone, causing burns? What if someone in the bus is allergic to what you're eating and has an anaphylactic reaction? If someone were trying to eat cooked shrimp on that bus, my roommate would be in a world of hurt--and the medical bills the eater would face from the incident would certainly add up to more than a $300 fine.
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Ok, let me get a little more specific, It's not a life endangering activity to OTHERS. The allergic reactions of other people are just as likely to happen in a restaraunt as well, which is also a public setting. The coffee thing, could happen in a restaraunt or diner as well, but you don't see any fines for having a cup of joe in them.
The rule is about keeping the bus clean, not the general safety of the public. And as I stated before, my personal belief is that public service would be a far better deterent than a monetary fine. The kid is going to understand why he shouldn't have a sucker on the bus a lot better if he spends 20 hours cleaning gum and candy off of bus seats than if his dad pays a $90 fine.