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  1. Firster says:

    Haha! I wich i had that in my school!

  2. Hobbes says:

    How is this a fail?

  3. Jaezaus says:

    Bike WIN!

  4. Demut says:

    Well, at least one of them is laughing.

  5. BondFan4518 says:

    I wonder what a “medium co-education” is.

    • Rox says:

      It’s all boys, but some mannish-looking girls are allowed.

    • Jude says:

      Medium refers to what language their education is done in. So in this case, their primary language would be English. Co-education is a school that’s of mixed gender.

      And yes this picture is real, I’m not from India, but I have lived there. Unfortunately many kids are in this kind of situation, and it’s not funny, they may look happy, but I guess they don’t know any better, the people do the best they can with what they got.

      • BAW says:

        They’re probably happy that they are at least getting an education, unlike lots of children their age and even younger in that part of the world who have to work.

        And they are being transported in a way that does not pollute or use up finite natural resources.

  6. Strommi says:

    When they see how Americans travel to school, they’ll shit bricks

  7. CommieSmiley says:

    This is not fail, this is win. Talking about making those kids fit in that trasportation.

  8. RagnarokianAD says:

    Can someone explain why there’s always 5000 comments on a picture but all of them seem to be just wasted space?????

  9. junipa says:

    environmental win

  10. berko says:

    Plenty room in there for a few more, look how much bag space there is on the roof. Bless them

  11. Notter says:

    לבאבא פנית לא טעית
    באבא

    Why is the writing on the door in hebrew?
    that looks like india or something

  12. DrB says:

    School? Meh. They just write that on the side of the pie factory cart – they go quieter that way.

  13. Omer says:

    OMG a child dealer

  14. Sparky says:

    Maybe this is just the vendor who delivers the food to the restaurant where children are eaten for free. Maybe.

  15. joiex says:

    the moral: Private School is better.

  16. J'hn1 says:

    Now that is President Messiah’s example of new Green Jobs (even if it isn’t here yet, it is coming)

  17. Loz says:

    I got a new computer and failblog is functioning as it should again!
    Everyone cheer! Let me behold your resplendent avatars!

  18. CWR says:

    This may be even more of a fail than it seems at first glance – that’s not the school bus…that’s the school itself.

  19. Sparky says:

    “The captain has turned off the ‘Fasten Seat Belt’ sign, so please feel free to move about the cabin if….oh, no… no wait. Um, never mind.”

  20. RankMyTyping says:

    The one kid looks happy! …and the one next to him looks how he should look, very scared

    • The Moomin says:

      He’s the one that paid for all the other kids to be kidnapped.
      (59.6 wpm, I’m above average :D )

      • Sparky says:

        I got 85.8. Not too bad I suppose.

          • Sparky says:

            Sorry; wasn’t trying to beat you. Just wanted to see; it’s been a while since I’ve done one of those.

            • The Moomin says:

              Just don’t bring the average up :D

              • Sparky says:

                Naw, no chance of that happening. I’ve had enough of the test for now. I do typing for a living so I probably could avoid more speed/accuracy testing for this weekend and not miss it; I get enough of it for 40+ hrs/week!

                And it’s a piece rate kind of thing, with errors lowering the $$. So I’ve got a pretty good incentive to be fast and accurate. I’d like to be faster, of course.

                • Sparky says:

                  (More-info-than-you-wanted-to-know-fail. I was still coming down from a typing buzz from that speed test. :-)

        • Zurack says:

          Is it bad if I’m ranked 1st of my country?

          • Sparky says:

            Bad? It’s great! You get the key to the city….er, I mean, country. And I think a tickertape parade is in order too.

  21. JasonK says:

    That’s kinda sad…imagine the classrooms…

  22. Sparky says:

    Yay; just got a 90.6. A little better. I’ll leave it at that. Cool test. A little weird with the words moving like that, but still cool.

  23. name says:

    how is that fail? thats supposed to be a win.

  24. rachel says:

    Pics like this make me glad I live in America.

  25. graham says:

    Environmental win?

  26. Mike says:

    I actually think that this one should be removed.
    They re doing what they can with what they have.

  27. Vermin says:

    EPIC WIN!!!

  28. Jack Watson says:

    LOL, priceless dude. Thats too funny!

    RT
    http://www.anon-tools.cz.tc

  29. Ibbits says:

    can you imagine what the short bus looks like?

  30. ghouck says:

    Why are so many pictures on Failblog just simply not fail. Obviously this, if it’s even real, is from a not totally developed country doing what they can. I see no fail.

    • AC says:

      Absolutely. It’s an eco-friendly win. Bit of a cultural awareness fail too- I believe those things are fairly common and unremarkable…

    • shadow says:

      I definitely agree with ghouck. I was going to say the same thing! This country obviously just doesn’t have a ton of money, and I see no fail in trying to get these kids to school any way they can!

      • CowPies says:

        Then why bother looking at it!? I would have rather been crammed in a tin can than had to stand in -10′f for 30min waiting for the bus at 5am. Wonders of living in the middle of nowhere…

        But still, that looks impractical, as the load appears too great for the vehicle. Imagine the stopping distance on that bike, let alone the effort to get it moving at all!

        I got a giggle anyways…

      • musicalchef says:

        Exactly what I was thinking. What are they supposed to do, make them all walk a mile to school because they can’t afford a Western-style bus and their parents don’t have cars?

        Now that I think about it, this isn’t so different from some of the public transportation used in India by the adults to get to work!

    • LouZha says:

      Is obviously a fail cuz each & evry one of those kids aint being driven to school in a Hummer or some other “safe” SUV, while eating cheese doodles.
      :S

  31. noob says:

    is the door locked? that would be sweet. i wonder if the guy that took the photo stopped to ask the children if they liked it better than walking…

  32. feckless says:

    The bus driver must have legs of titanium. I wonder if he is Lance Armstrongs’ successor?

  33. Mike says:

    Pffft, that’s nothing compared to my school’s condition…

    What country is that, by the way?

  34. sheri says:

    the country is Nepal, and it is still developing, so the fact that all they have is school buses attached to bikes is not really all that funny

  35. Sayam says:

    This is what happens in my country (India) and it’s not a bus anyways. We call it “bagghi”…. Whatever!

  36. HowlHMS says:

    I’ve seen this before on another website, and they have more awesome fail pictures from India. This is from India actually – you can see New Delhi on the side of that yellow schoolbox.

    Hm, India halfway developing in the rural areas, same as Africa, which is why you see contraptions like these. In Nepal, where there is more tradition and a hell lotta yaks, they probably use a bull-drawn cart… But maybe I’m just watching too much TV.

  37. ili says:

    I would like to see this thing going uphill

  38. My required name says:

    To be politically correct, apparently you cannot call something a “fail” if the person/organization/country is doing the best they can.
    Discuss…

  39. Armor says:

    I’d like to know why the driver is standing idly by, potentially engaged in conversation, while he’s got a tin can full of kids he’s supposed to be towing.

    • My required name says:

      He also works tech support, and he just got a call on his cell phone, so it would be illegal to keep driving until he’s finished the call.

  40. johnny says:

    that’s really more sad than funny, to be honest. not funny at all.

  41. sleepyhead81 says:

    Why is this fail? These poor kids are getting education and being transported on the way to the school. The alternative is walking a long way through dangerous traffic or worse not attend school and work instead. I can see such transportation may be viewed as humorous by ignorant Americans who has never left their country, but that does not mean this is fail.

    • Sidhe Cat says:

      Yeah, yeah, all of us here know that. :) We are here to have an enjoyable time together, and the picture gives us a place to start; to laugh, be silly, and have fun with each other. THAT is what FailBLOG is all about (note the heading of every comments section that says “x# Failures in communication.”) There are untold thousands of websites where you can go care, lament, and empathize to your heart’s content. This is not one of them. Laughter is the best medicine, and we specialize in it. :)
      (Psst… not everyone here is American, nor are the Americans here ignorant. Well, the trolls are <ignorant.)

    • Gorgon Medusa says:

      This reminds me of the old ISIRTA joke:

      “Why are you riding that ?”

      “Oh, it’s quicker than walking”

  42. Geekatron says:

    o m g

  43. kitta57.4 says:

    Frugality win?

  44. Sam says:

    tfrrff

  45. deathbal101 says:

    superman could just come and steal that thing.

    see: action comics fail

  46. Singh says:

    lol this happens all over india, it only happens at schools which r small

  47. heleit says:

    just in case you were wondering, the hebrew on the window says, basically “ïf you chose to come to baba (the name of the shop) then you made the right choice”.

    a literal translation wouldn’t make sense..it’s a saying in hebrew..

  48. T-Squared says:

    I’m not sure this is a fail, cause this might be in a place where they can’t afford real buses.

  49. wixdom says:

    main bazar in pahar ganj!!!!!!!

  50. maximum says:

    It’ shopped cause all the signs around it are in hebrew but the cart says it’s in New Delhi.

  51. dima says:

    the writing is in hebrew but it takes place in india where many israelis visit.

  52. Michelle says:

    And I thought the Philippines (my home country) had it bad…-_-

  53. Required says:

    I don’t get why this is a fail? Is it because third world countries are so much poorer than the United States? If you’re going to make fun of them, have a better reason; this is a good reason why I’ve never liked this site.

  54. winner says:

    its fail because their school bus doesn’t look like our school buses.. silly third world, when will they ever learn..

  55. shun says:

    lol the magic school bicycle

  56. Craig says:

    Holy crap and I thought I had it bad..

  57. JK says:

    This is not fail, this is poverty.

    There are a lot of countries where even going to school is considered a great privilege, or a miracle. They dont have time to care about school-bus, they have lot more serious problems than that.

    Maybe its a photoshop, but what i said is also true.

  58. Emily says:

    Okay… that’s not a fail! That’s sad, that’s how they live. I love this website, but I think it’s really irresponsible of the administrators to show this, a culture being mocked.

  59. POTUS270 says:

    people shouldn’t be joking about this sort of thing

  60. Sean says:

    KIDS FOR SALE, I GOT FRESH KIDS FOR SALE, GET EM WHILE THEIR HOT! KIDS FOR SALE…

  61. sisyphusredux says:

    And this, my friends, is an environmentalist’s wet dream.

    sigh

  62. Hunter says:

    The driver must have leg muscles of steel. I bet he gets all the ladies.

  63. dudewiththebling says:

    at least theyre helping the environment

  64. Ultimadonut says:

    maybe it’s some secret operation dealing with the organs of little children. You must shoot this man!

  65. poo says:

    i done a poo

  66. Gina says:

    i have one word: HYSTERICAL

  67. Biz says:

    UN tries to propagate that we are all the same. Are we? There are a lot of these examples where somebody is living from $1 per day. It is FAIL.

  68. jill says:

    Not really fair. India is doing the best they can with their resources. They’re the second most populated country in the world; obviously there will be lots of poverty.

  69. ralph says:

    chitty chitty bang bang wannabe

  70. cheappower says:

    Уважаемый автор, а вы случайно не из Москвы?

  71. Rob says:

    Reminds me of my own bus trips to school. The bus was always packed (maybe not this bad, though…)

  72. Mike da Mesiah says:

    This is a very common sight in India,specially back-ward hell like BIHAR. The school i used to had lotsa buses but the kids who couldnt afford the monthly bus fees of Rs200 had to take these “rickshaws”. They usually put no more than 6-7 (depending of kid’s age) as its illiegal to put more than that.
    Maybe these kids just crammed themselves in for a funny snap.
    Feel sad for them anyways :D

  73. Mike da Mesiah says:

    Notice that there is no more than 6 or 7 school bags :) These kids are just having fun while the rickshaw is parked.

    If its was a snap of a “moving” rickshaw, that guys is going to JAIL. And New Delhi is friggin strict about child safety and traffic. Even if its crowded market area like Paharganj .

  74. Dane says:

    How odd that there is Hebrew on the shop behind the ‘bus’ in New Delhi.

  75. Alex says:

    This is not a School Bus Fail. A School Bus Fail is when you give 50 kids a nice bus with air conditioning and comfortable seats and wonder why all the seats and past the 5th row are all scratched, ripped apart and scribbled over.
    Thats all the kids deserve

  76. milqito says:

    Earth Day win.

  77. poody says:

    Was this that in Florida?

  78. klaatu42 says:

    The bars on the bus go up and down, up and down, up and down, the bars on the bus go up and down…

  79. Julie says:

    thats really sad..lol

  80. Julie says:

    thats sad but funny..lol

  81. Nix Sands says:

    Gud nuuuz, no deezl Xhaust fur de kiddehs. Bad nuuus, drivr had a brekfast burrito.

  82. smiley says:

    you get a box of children! and you get a box of children! and you get a box of children! EVERY BODY GETS A BOX OF CHILDREN!!

  83. Akash says:

    Lol! I have traveled like that myself! It’s not a fake! :)
    Ahh, those days! ;) :D

  84. Alex58RO says:

    Kidburger or burgerkids

  85. Kur0 says:

    WIN. I hate kiddies.

    • Akash says:

      Lol! No. That’s India. The school’s name (as written on the vehicle) means “Child Temple Public School” (translated as is). And it also clearly says it’s in New Delhi. That’s not in Afghanistan, isn’t it? :P

  86. poop says:

    that was lol funny

  87. surfer dude says:

    haaaa haaaa

    stupid kids y don’t they ride themselves


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