Posted on 08/31/2023 8:08:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
Oh man, this one'll give you nightmares if you have little ones, so fair warning.
VIDEO AT LINK...............
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Fox News @FoxNews · Follow Video shows 5-year-old boy ringing doorbell, seeking help after let off at wrong bus stop in 105-degree heat foxnews.com
Video shows 5-year-old boy ringing doorbell, seeking help after let off at wrong bus stop in...
An Oklahoma mother says her 5-year-old son and her boyfriend's 5-year-old daughter were dropped off at the wrong bus stop and wandered around in 105-degree heat trying to get home.
10:10 PM · Aug 29, 2023
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Mom Kelly Mulholland took to TikTok last week to explain the ordeal, and I feel like you need to at least watch the first few seconds of it just to hear the kid's voice on the Ring doorbell, so here you go:
"Would you help me find my mommy."
Now that's enough to make a grown man tear up a little. Not saying that's me, but hypothetically, you know, like someone might tear up.
This was these kids' first time on the bus, and I'll assume the driver's first day of the year as well, if not, his very first day.
So it sounds like the bus driver just completely biffed it here and let the kids off at the wrong stop. No excuses, he didn't check the tags on the kids' backpacks which would've told him it was the wrong stop; and he also dropped them off without a parent present (not to mention the fact that it was 105 degrees out). 100% on the driver here, and I'm not just saying that to make him look bad.
More from the story:
When she went to pick up her kids at the bus stop they were supposed to be dropped off, the bus was an hour late and the kids were nowhere to be found. Mulholland said it was an older kid on the bus - not the driver - who told her that her kids had been dropped off at a previous stop.
Mulholland said the bus driver could not tell her where he dropped off the kids and didn't know the name of the street.
Sounds like maybe I do want to be upset at the driver. However, I'm gonna skip that whole stance because it's played out.
Remember that Ring doorbell the kid was sobbing to?
She said she went back to her car to tell her boyfriend what was happening. At that moment, a car pulled up and asked her if she was looking for two kids, she said. The driver explained that he had gotten a notification from his Ring security camera that showed two kids asking for help.
Mulholland said she drove to the driver's house, but the kids were not there. They then enlisted the help of neighbors to find the children.
In the meantime, I kid you not, these two 5-year-olds — one, the son of Kelly, one, the daughter of her boyfriend — in 105-degree heat, took turns ringing doorbells throughout the neighborhood they'd been dropped off in. One stood watch at the sidewalk, while the other approached the given home.
They did this for about an hour in 105-degree heat.
AN HOUR!
Crazy that neither of them passed out, or worse.
The kids were eventually found "a few houses down" from the owner of the Ring doorbell footage and about half a mile from the bus stop where they were dropped off.
Man, can you imagine?
That'd be like the longest hug of my life.
When kids go missing it's not just about the 105-degree heat, or the fact that they're confused and lost. Your brain will play all sorts of tricks on you in these situations, putting your kids in the back seat of a trafficker's vehicle, or at the jaws of a pit bull. There's no telling what was going through these parents' minds.
I'm so glad they found them, and so glad that Ring doorbells exist.
Parents, please make a plan with your kids so they know what to do in situations like this. It's always someone else's kid until the one time that it's yours.
Here's part 2 of that TikTok video if you're interested.
https://www.tiktok.com/@kellymulholland95/video/7270262085244751150
#1) If A small business does something like this, there’s calls for ta, feathering and death threats.
#2) The government does this and there’s calls for empathy for the poor ole’ underpaid bus driver.
Homeschoolers never have these problems.
my kids rode the bus once and that was enough of that.
There are regions in the US where the police have the ability to commandeer your ring doorbell for enforcement purposes. It’s surveillance state equipment. I’m glad the kids were safe but I don’t want police watching cameras throughout the neighborhood, who comes and goes in your house etc.
Praising God these children found safe havens until they could be reunited with their families.
Yes, even little kids can be coached on what to do in situations like this. And there are ways to hide the parents’ contact info in the kid’s clothing, just in case.
Bus driver should be keel hauled.
I’m only in my 50s, and I WALKED to school (or biked when there was no snow) every.single.day. even in kindergarten
When exactly did it happen that every child needed a government taxi-service to get to school?
Here in my county, the cut-off is 2 miles from the school...............
A while back there was a ‘request’ from some local LEO officials to have all the ‘RING type’ door cameras linked to the PD’s.......................
Kids who need that level of checking (which, yes, would be most 5-year-olds) should not be riding school buses.
We rode the bus. Every year there were little snafus but not major and they were quickly cleared up. Broke down and effed up is what this country is. Totally.
We never have to worry about "school shooters" either - fat chance anyone makes it into our "school" that doesn't belong here.
Or there should be an aide riding the bus to keep tabs on the little ones (like age 5 thru 8); the driver can’t drive and do that too safely
Or maybe dragged around the route behind his own bus, with a dozen lashes at each stop to help him remember where they are.
Exactly, this incident is just another reason to homeschool your children.
“We never have to worry about “school shooters” either - fat chance anyone makes it into our “school” that doesn’t belong here.”
Ditto that.
On the first day of school Mom Dad or a friend should have been following the school bus. This kind of thing happens all the time the first day of school even the first week of school.
A person who was really on top of things would have found out the route of the school bus and taken the kids beforehand around to show them where they would be let off so that they could tell the bus driver this isn’t our stop.
As a parent grandparent and great-grandparents you have to know that you have to be proactive. You quiz the kids and ask them what they would do in different circumstances. It’s a tough world out there and kids need to be prepared and we need to prepare them and not expecting any state to take care of them.
Too me it’s just more than I’d want a little boy like that to have to deal with—before and after a day of kindergarten.
Kind of curious that he and the boyfriend’s daughter weren’t sticking close to each other, however.
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