There was consternation, if not outright panic, on a municipal bus in Granada when one of the passengers began to threaten fellow passengers with a knife.

This line-4 bus was working its way along the Avenida de Andalucia when the Policía Nacional decided to cut the traffic and board the bus after receiving calls from passengers.

It was six in the evening when the man snatched an eager-looking knife from his rucksack and brandished it in an unhealthy manner. What was apparent was that the gentleman was delirious, out of his mind, space trucking or as the police report puts it, “not in charge of his mental faculties.”

The passengers managed to ‘quietly’ let the driver know what was happening – they didn’t want the knife man to get even more excited, so nobody ran screaming down the bus. Before you could say, “steady on, old chap,” everybody, including the driver, was frantically phoning the police – everyone except the knife man, who was otherwise distracted by the technicolor performance taking place inside his cranium.

Anyway, the police boarded, relieved the man of his knife, supplied him with handcuffs and invited him down to the police station.

The Number Four Line is not renowned for such incidents, which is more common on the routes through the Almanjaya and La Chana districts, where drivers are more accustomed to dodging incoming RPG’s and the buses are fitted with a rear gun turret, for example.

(News: Granada, Andalucia – Photo: Antonio Vera)