This Instagram Account Collects Funny And Strange Things Spotted On Public Transport (40 Pics)
This page is the best-kept secret of the entire 'Humans of' series. Heck, maybe of the entire internet. Humans of Trolleybuses (Humans of Trūlai) offers a glimpse into the funny side of Lithuanian public transport, and it's really colorful, too. Extravagant clothing, questionable luggage, funny situations, they feature it all.
The creator of the page, Rokas Stasevičius, said he started it after one memorable encounter. Rokas was taking a trolleybus when one of the passengers, a drunk, was smoking inside of it, singing chanson songs and, after being kicked out of the vehicle, waved Rokas goodbye with a smile on his face. This pretty much sums up what content to expect from Humans of Trolleybuses. If you're still not convinced that it's bizarre in the funniest way possible - check the interesting photos below.
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“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
For the most part, Humans of Trolleybuses relies on its community. "At the height of the page's popularity, it was receiving about 15-20 funny photos per day," Rokas told Bored Panda. "To decide if a particular picture is worth a post, I'm trying to figure out whether it would enrich social media or trash it. At first, I consider the originality of the photo/video. It can't be a repost or something lame in general as the idea behind the project is to create unique, independent content that isn't toadying to anything or anyone."
"Ideally, the photo/video makes up for about half of the entire gag. The other half is the caption, so, the more interesting and abstract the image or recording is, the more freedom there is to create a captivating caption."
"The best captions usually come spontaneously, during the first viewing of the submitted material," Rokas added. "If you're overthinking it, it might end up too complex, forced, and only you and a couple more people can understand it. I don't have one rule on how to craft the perfect caption, I just try to feel it out, make it something that compliments the picture/video without overpowering it."
Today is also a tougher period for Humans of Trolleybuses. Rokas attributes the lower number of submissions and posts to the transition the page is making from Facebook to Instagram. "I believe that it's only a matter of time before the project becomes what it recently was."
He thinks that many people are drawn to Humans of Trolleybuses probably because they relate to the trolleybuses themselves. "It doesn't matter how uncomfortable or slow this mode of public transportation is. People sympathize with tit and people need quality content which can also be funny."
When she used to call me on my cellphone
To be fair, there's no thief thinking "I'm going to rip that spray bottle out of his hands."
When the other girl wears the same dress on prom as you
Meanwhile in Klaipėda
>you’re not hungry
>this baba asks you if you’re hungry
>what do you do?
I can't tell if he didn't notice his shirt was see through in a different lighting, or if he was doing this on purpose. If it is on purpose, I don't know anyone who can pull off this look.
Dobby is no longer a free elf, he has a master
Anyone here old enough to remember when Mike Myers did Coffee talk on SNL? This woman looks exactly like Linda Richman.
I think her death by grommet top needs attention. The dog is great but her top?
How do you keep war with a jacket like that or dry for that matter.....I guess "very carefully"
no, it is a VIRINGO. a Peruvian hairless dog. very expensive one i see
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He better go see Bosley Hair Design! Or maybe he's just the president in disguise?
I think this is common for a particular dog breed. The one that is known for winning ugliest dog contests quite often... at least as they get older.
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I think it's Ok. It might be a mixed breed, or a rescue like mine, which was nearly starved to death when he was a puppy and has very little hair, but he is now very happy and well looked after.
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I think it might be one of those Chinese crested dogs that just have a bit of hair on their heads and are supposed to be mostly bald
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Her hair do reveals that her name is Karen which makes it understandable why she dresses as a seat in public transport.
If it's stupid but it works, it ain't stupid
"Shine bright like a trolleybus"
Relax fm
Note: this post originally had 61 images. It’s been shortened to the top 39 images based on user votes.
I have a problem with the growing trend of taking someone's photo without their permission and posting it online. It's creepy, invasive and rude.
as a former cosplayer, I can say that people like the plague doctor and the cultist are perfectly cool with it. and usually when you have an interesting animal to take around like a rat or a crow, you are also cool with the attention. and the chick with the cat is obviously fine with it or she would have stopped them, I mean shes facing them and is clearly privvy to it. the one where its just a coincidence that three women are wearing the same clothes on a bus, maybe you have a point, but not likely. most people dont give a fuck.
OK. cosplayer Alan. What is up with cosplayers in a public place screaming at me and my friends about not taking their photos without asking them. I like to take candid photos, and have pretty much been yelled at in a nasty way by these rude people. Now if they would at least use a little civility, I would agree to not bother them.
if youre out in public, theres most likely a camera on you anyway..
That is very true... in public and in all stores.
if faces are not in picture or people in the photo obviously aware of taking it and look like they're ok with that - I think it's fine. About other cases - totally agree
I hate to tell you this, but out in a public place, you have no expectation of privacy - at least in the United States. Yes, people can take your photo and use it any way they want, other than using it to advertise something. Look up "Street Photography"
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Don't go outside then
How do you know he didnt ask permission to take their photo?
There are some curious and some funny pictures, but quite a few are really just shaming people. Bored Panda has tons of posts against shaming fat people, against shaming disabled people, against shaming poor people...but shaming people with odd looks on busses is all right...
I'm tired of the word shaming.
funny and strange things is shaming huh? i just think "that is interesting" rather than feeling eww.... or something discouraging
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calm down bro. the only 'shaming' I see here, is the hilarity of people inintentionally wearing the same clothing in the same place at the same time. the rest is just "huh, thats kinda interesting."
I don't know man, half of those are just making fun of poor or quirky peoples. Dont find that funny tbh
define making fun of. to me, its taking an interest in. and those people are often happy to have interest taken in them, especially when its their pet or their clothing that makes them interesting.
Taking pictures of people without their permission and then posting them just to make fun of the subjects is rude, mean spirited and creepy. You have no idea what the back story is or why they were doing what they were doing.
Yup, it makes me sick. Can we please shame the people discreetly taking photos of random people because theres something slightly off about them or whatever so that the world can laugh at them.
When are we going to start to admit that most of these posts are no longer community-submitted. The employees of the site are cobbling together images/things that are 'similar' into these collections and claiming someone else took them/gathered them as a project. A few of these images are from actual projects (like the woman matching the seats) and more than a few of these have shown up in other posts with different, unrelated names for a while now (such as 'Cats in Public' or similar names). Go look at the posts, almost none of them are user-submitted anymore and almost all of them are from the same people who tout themselves as employees. Been following for years, but have only started to see this pattern happening in the past year.
Never heard the term Trolleybuses before. In Australia we call them trams. EDIT: Omg what is wrong with me tonight. I am not being very observant.
These don’t run on tracks they are buses that run off electricity when they are on the line and engines when they off. They were popular in the Soviet times
We got them in Holland as well.
Ahhhh got ya. we have one of those called the Adelaide O’bahn and we call it a busway.
There's one in Boston... I think we'd call it a tram or a bus.
they were around in Australia, and in Melbourne they were absolutely called trolleybuses, but they were replaced with a decent tram network
This is the most eastern-european post I ever seen on boredpanda! :D
Many of these weren`t even taken on the trolleybus, but rather on the subway, buses or trams. Moreover, I think many of these photos weren`t even taken in Lithuania, as the author states.
My daughter started taking public transportation to go to school this year. She got off the bus one day and said it saw someone drinking vodka! Right from the bottle!' Oh sweetie, that's the tamest thing you're going to see on buses!
SCP 049 still makes me nervous
Nice to see people are the same around the world. Even in Chicago, people get on public transportation with items that are just as strange as these photos. LOL!
Love it!!!!!
How do I add one to this list! There's a guy who gets my bus who has an electric mobility scooter with a hen and 4 chicks who sit on his head - I have to share!!
I'm disappointed my favorite one didn't make it on there. This man is on a bus with a 30 gallon tub of Cinnabon icing with a look of pure satisfaction on his face. I want to know how he got it on the bus, how he got it or why. Most importantly, I want to know if he's willing to share it. \ man-on-bus...e981c6.jpg
Can you please obscure the faces of people you're photographing without consent? They willingly consent to being in public and on CCTV (which isn't generally plastered all over the internet), so please have some fucking respect if you're going to put people online without them knowing.
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I have a problem with the growing trend of taking someone's photo without their permission and posting it online. It's creepy, invasive and rude.
as a former cosplayer, I can say that people like the plague doctor and the cultist are perfectly cool with it. and usually when you have an interesting animal to take around like a rat or a crow, you are also cool with the attention. and the chick with the cat is obviously fine with it or she would have stopped them, I mean shes facing them and is clearly privvy to it. the one where its just a coincidence that three women are wearing the same clothes on a bus, maybe you have a point, but not likely. most people dont give a fuck.
OK. cosplayer Alan. What is up with cosplayers in a public place screaming at me and my friends about not taking their photos without asking them. I like to take candid photos, and have pretty much been yelled at in a nasty way by these rude people. Now if they would at least use a little civility, I would agree to not bother them.
if youre out in public, theres most likely a camera on you anyway..
That is very true... in public and in all stores.
if faces are not in picture or people in the photo obviously aware of taking it and look like they're ok with that - I think it's fine. About other cases - totally agree
I hate to tell you this, but out in a public place, you have no expectation of privacy - at least in the United States. Yes, people can take your photo and use it any way they want, other than using it to advertise something. Look up "Street Photography"
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Don't go outside then
How do you know he didnt ask permission to take their photo?
There are some curious and some funny pictures, but quite a few are really just shaming people. Bored Panda has tons of posts against shaming fat people, against shaming disabled people, against shaming poor people...but shaming people with odd looks on busses is all right...
I'm tired of the word shaming.
funny and strange things is shaming huh? i just think "that is interesting" rather than feeling eww.... or something discouraging
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calm down bro. the only 'shaming' I see here, is the hilarity of people inintentionally wearing the same clothing in the same place at the same time. the rest is just "huh, thats kinda interesting."
I don't know man, half of those are just making fun of poor or quirky peoples. Dont find that funny tbh
define making fun of. to me, its taking an interest in. and those people are often happy to have interest taken in them, especially when its their pet or their clothing that makes them interesting.
Taking pictures of people without their permission and then posting them just to make fun of the subjects is rude, mean spirited and creepy. You have no idea what the back story is or why they were doing what they were doing.
Yup, it makes me sick. Can we please shame the people discreetly taking photos of random people because theres something slightly off about them or whatever so that the world can laugh at them.
When are we going to start to admit that most of these posts are no longer community-submitted. The employees of the site are cobbling together images/things that are 'similar' into these collections and claiming someone else took them/gathered them as a project. A few of these images are from actual projects (like the woman matching the seats) and more than a few of these have shown up in other posts with different, unrelated names for a while now (such as 'Cats in Public' or similar names). Go look at the posts, almost none of them are user-submitted anymore and almost all of them are from the same people who tout themselves as employees. Been following for years, but have only started to see this pattern happening in the past year.
Never heard the term Trolleybuses before. In Australia we call them trams. EDIT: Omg what is wrong with me tonight. I am not being very observant.
These don’t run on tracks they are buses that run off electricity when they are on the line and engines when they off. They were popular in the Soviet times
We got them in Holland as well.
Ahhhh got ya. we have one of those called the Adelaide O’bahn and we call it a busway.
There's one in Boston... I think we'd call it a tram or a bus.
they were around in Australia, and in Melbourne they were absolutely called trolleybuses, but they were replaced with a decent tram network
This is the most eastern-european post I ever seen on boredpanda! :D
Many of these weren`t even taken on the trolleybus, but rather on the subway, buses or trams. Moreover, I think many of these photos weren`t even taken in Lithuania, as the author states.
My daughter started taking public transportation to go to school this year. She got off the bus one day and said it saw someone drinking vodka! Right from the bottle!' Oh sweetie, that's the tamest thing you're going to see on buses!
SCP 049 still makes me nervous
Nice to see people are the same around the world. Even in Chicago, people get on public transportation with items that are just as strange as these photos. LOL!
Love it!!!!!
How do I add one to this list! There's a guy who gets my bus who has an electric mobility scooter with a hen and 4 chicks who sit on his head - I have to share!!
I'm disappointed my favorite one didn't make it on there. This man is on a bus with a 30 gallon tub of Cinnabon icing with a look of pure satisfaction on his face. I want to know how he got it on the bus, how he got it or why. Most importantly, I want to know if he's willing to share it. \ man-on-bus...e981c6.jpg
Can you please obscure the faces of people you're photographing without consent? They willingly consent to being in public and on CCTV (which isn't generally plastered all over the internet), so please have some fucking respect if you're going to put people online without them knowing.
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