Meg Rayner, a media adviser, got on the number 12 tram at Crown as it headed to East Melbourne just after 8am on Tuesday.
At Swanston Street, a man and a woman got on the tram. The woman was smoking a cigarette.
“She ashed over another passenger and we were all choking on the smoke, so I tweeted Yarra Trams and asked them to kick them off,” Ms Rayner said.
Yarra Trams responded to say they would tell the driver. Two stops later the female tram driver came down to ask who was smoking.
“The couple denied it, but we all said it was them,” Ms Rayner said.
The couple were swearing at the tram driver, so Ms Rayner “politely” told them not to speak to the tram driver that way.
It was then that the couple turned on her, she told 3AW.
“This man and woman started screaming at me and calling me a dog and a mongrel and stuff I wouldn’t say on air,” she said.
The man then said the couple would get off, but the woman continued to berate Ms Rayner, saying: “If you make me get off I’m throwing my soup at this b–ch, I don’t care if she’s on crutches”.
“So, as she’s walking off the tram she hurled a cup of hot soup at me,” she told Fairfax Media.
“I pulled my scarf over my face to protect myself as I didn’t want to get scalded,” she said.
Passengers had previously opened a window to let the cigarette smoke out. As the couple got out of the tram the woman threw her frozen Coke at Ms Rayner and two more passengers, splattering them.
The couple, in their 30s, got onto the next tram, Ms Rayner said.
Ms Rayner said the tram driver “did such a good job” in getting the aggressive passengers off.
“The tram driver was an absolute legend, she was so firm and calm despite two very angry and disrespectful passengers,” she said.
But Ms Rayner was shaken by the incident.
“I have walked into work in tears,” Ms Rayner said.
She said the scarf had helped to protect her from the scalding soup and she did not need medical attention.
Source: Kicked off number 12 tram, smokers throw soup at injured ‘b–ch’ who complained
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