Spot on Adrian. Everyone fofeits their right to privacy when they choose to enter a public place. 

Also the driver has indeed comitted a public order offence as well as in my opioion looking incredibly stupid.

I'm a big lad, can look after myself and have been photographing buses for 27 years so its water off a ducks back for me. I feel sorry for the many young lads who persue this hobby who might be intimidated by behaviour from staff.

I always make a point of reporting such incidents as it is unacceptable, this adds to a v from stagecoach sunderland and hunters and a 'shouter/toys out of the pram' from stagecoach south shields. My collection seems to be increasing these days. When i first started nobody cared. There are relatively few incidents with the big 3 as they rightly consider such behaviour as misconduct.

Wonders of modern technology driver was repirted to GNE before the bus would have got to Low Fell!

Off topic slightly but if any members are approached by the police my advice would be 'be nice' tell them what your doing and show them your photos. You dont necessarily have to do all of this but it gets you back to taking photos fastest as it easily demonstrates that you are doing nothing wrong. Ive had four or five of them too. One officer couldnt believe that anyone would take photos in washington, make of that what you will!!!