School Bus Drivers Join the Terror Watch

[kpete]

School Bus Drivers Join the Terror Watch
By BEN FELLER, AP Education Writer


NORFOLK, Va. -- The war on terror has a new front line -- the school bus line. Financed by the Homeland Security Department, school bus drivers are being trained to watch for potential terrorists, people who may be casing their routes or plotting to blow up their buses.

Designers of the School Bus Watch program want to turn 600,000 bus drivers into an army of observers, like a counterterrorism watch on wheels. Already mindful of motorists with road rage and kids with weapons, bus drivers are now being warned of far more grisly scenarios.

Like this one: terrorists monitor a punctual driver for weeks, then hijack a bus and load the friendly yellow vehicle with enough explosives to take down a building.

An alert school bus driver could foil that plan, security expert Jeffrey Beatty recently told a class of 250 of drivers in Norfolk, Va. After all, bus drivers cover millions of miles of roads. They know the towns, the kids, the parents

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-school-bus-drivers-terrorism,1,5008625.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

[Sparkly]

1. I don't know if this is a dumb question, but

wouldn't it be far easier for that same terrorist to use their own truck (or bus, for that matter)? What's the point of bus-jacking?

[TahitiNut]

2. Yep. Watch out for those hijackers with shoe-bombs.

:eyes:

[no_hypocrisy]

3. WTF is Homeland Security expecting: a reenactment of "Dirty Harry"

where the school bus is hijacked and the kids held hostage?

[davidinalameda]

4. kids have been terrorizing school bus drivers for years

[Spinzonner]

5. Those kids could be members of the Al Queda Youth ...

[Yogi]

6. As a school bus driver I ...

had to set through a meeting of School Bus Watch I was not impressed. Fear Fear Fear that's all bush*s got and they play it to the hilt.

[uppityperson]

7. Is this from The Onion? It is very funny satire.

Too stupid on so many levels. Maybe they should give classes to the kids that ride the buses also, since the drivers are focusing on the road and the kids, all those little observant kids could be watching out for terrorists waiting to busjack their buses! Add it to every state's DMV educational programs before you can get your car license renewed too. What a bunch of idiotic feel-good money wasting crap.