Sitting in a bus, driving through the dark forests of Finland last week, my carefree flicking of a magazine was interrupted by a young man in his early thirties. Shouting abuse, insult and direct threats to his wife/ girlfriend over the phone, this man told her “just you wait until I get home, I’ll get the axe I’ll cut everything to pieces”. After asking him to switch off the phone and stop shouting, I received my fair share of the verbal abuse as well. After a good hour of barking down the line, his phone ran out of battery power and he proceeded to sit quietly, sulking in his seat. Astonishingly enough, he managed to borrow a phone from a fellow (male) passenger and the abuse continued.

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