Most Buses are covered in registrations, licenses, permits, and ID tags. Leftover space is given to advertisements. If a tax is missed, or a registration expires, the bus gets shut down. There are two options for a bus owner in such a situation: go out of business, or join White Bus.
A quiet man stands at a busy bus stop. Buses come and go, and small crowd quietly gathers around him. A small white bus with black windows flies by. The quite man is unmoving. A police car flies by. His small crowd shrinks.
Time passes.
The bus returns from the other direction, and overshoots the bus stop by ten paces skidding to a halt. Its doors appear to have been surgically widened to allow double file passage. A white faced wad of people is ejected and the small quiet crowd is catapulted in.
The bus is gone.
I have witnessed the Brazilian black market of public transit.
Sweet! Sounds dangerous! What a sight to SEE though! :)
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