Eleven-year-old student locks out driver, takes school bus for a joyride

[Kadie]

Eleven-year-old student locks out driver, takes school bus for a joyride

Friday, January 14, 2005

(01-14) 12:38 PST NORTON SHORES, Mich. (AP) --

An 11-year-old boy took the wheel of a school bus after locking the driver out, and went on a spin that left behind a trail of smashed mailboxes and broken utility poles.

No one was injured in the incident Thursday, officials said.

"I think we're all blessed in this one," said Terry Babbitt, superintendent of Mona Shores Public Schools.

The boy, a student at Ross Park Elementary School, was being taken home from school when he got off the bus at the wrong stop, Babbitt said.

The student ran up a driveway and into a garage. After the driver and a transportation aide got out to chase the boy, he dashed back into the small bus and started driving.

more...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/01/14/national1538EST0627.DTL

[merwin]

1. Sounds like something I would do as a kid... n/t

[politicaholic]

3. what? take the short bus or drive it?

Notice it was a "small" bus. This kid probably had some problems.

[aden_nak]

2. Que up the "unfounded link to kids who play video games" machine!

[DrWeird]

8. Oh, post 7.

But how do you tell the jokesters from the jokers?

[underpants]

4. Crafty little punk huh?

:-)

[Ian David]

5. Whatever problems the kid had, the busdriver had more

How do you lose your bus to an 11 year old kid?

[HCeline69]

6. Bart! n/t

[LoZoccolo]

7. I think videogames are responsible for this.

Specifically, the Grand Theft Auto series.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. The scary thing is you're probably serious. (nt)

[ooglymoogly]

9. another flew over the cookoos nest

he'll have this to brag about the rest of his life and will be a made man with his school mates. that's one plucky kid