Not a good start of the day.

It has been common knowledge to foreigners that NZ is a safe country. Unfortunately, now I know that it might be not. This morning I got on the bus (7:20 am) to school as usual. The bus stopped at a bus stop, had picked up the customers of the stop and was going to move away (at this point I was reading my book). Suddenly there was a big bang from the other side of the bus. BANG! BANG!! Someone was hitting the window pane violently from the outside. Nobody knew what on earth happened. The third time was so violent that the windowpane was broken! Some glass fragments spreaded out toward us and, needless to say, all of us cried out, "WHAAAAAaaaaaa!!" Lest there should be more trouble with us, the driver accelerated the bus away from the crazy guy. Even at the next bus stop, the driver noticed that the guy was coming toward us and thus just told those new customers, "just get on the bus and don't pay the busfare now please! Hurry up! There's a crazy man following us." Also those who had sit near the broken window warned the new customers not to get too close to the window (and the seats since there'd been some fragments on the seats). Having moved about 2-3 bus stops and also assured that the man didn't follow up, the driver told the customers that they could pay the bus fare now. Whew... Arrive at the transport centre, the driver told a "worker" (or administrater? or might be his boss??) what had happened to us, and the "worker" telephoned somebody else (might be police or the bus company) about the accident. We could see from outside that the window pane was badly dented. I'm not sure what happened after that. What I'm sure now is that NZ is not necessarily as safe as what I've thought.