LONDON: A British Asian teenage girl was thrown off a bus by a woman conductor for ‘wearing too much make-up’ to have a child’s ticket, according to a media report.
Zahra Sadiq was told by the conductor on a National Express bus in Birmingham last week that she was wearing too much makeup to be 15 years old and that her ticket was not valid because she ‘didn’t look like a child’.
“When the conductor checked my ticket I showed her and never dreamed there would be a problem. She asked how old I was and I told her, then she asked me to get off the bus,” Zahra told the ‘Daily Mirror’.
“The conductor just refused to believe I’m only 15. She said, ‘look at the state of you, with all that make-up and contour – you’re not 15’,” she said.