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
The nanny state
I still hold that two bus rides plus kindergarten are too much to ask of a little fella like that.
This story is several days old. I would like to know what happened to the bus driver.
Public school kids don’t have enough sense to know where they live?
I’m with you. I started walking in pre school. My kids walked a single mile in the mornings with a neighborhood group of about eleven kids they loved it. We organized afternoon pick ups.limit government involvement as much as possible.
5 YEAR OLD KINDERGARTNERS FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL...............
Hopefully he’s no longer employed as a bus driver...................
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Don’t know what their house looks like? Anyway, bus driver’s negligence.
So, two five year olds were lost and ringing doorbells, and nobody even opened a door and tried to help?
We walked home.
And … “Oklahoma mother says her 5-year-old son and her boyfriend’s 5-year-old daughter.”
I see the problem.
Not The Bee has some liberal nanny state staffers.
I was a school bus driver. One year, 2005, the first day of school, I let off a 1st grader at the wrong stop. One stop early. Had about 70 kids on board, still, totally my fault and responsibility. The kid made it home with little delay. Got chewed on real good by the boss. Could have been a lot worse.
Also found a 6-year-old sleeping in the back of my bus after I had completed my stops and had parked back at the bus yard. Anytime you left the bus after having kids on board, whether it was one kid or 8o, you walked back to the back door, looking at and under all seats.
It was dark. I walked back and all of a sudden, this little head poked up in the very back as I was about halfway down the aisle. Brought him up to sit next to me and informed dispatch I was “goin back out”. By that time the cops had been called and a full-scale search was on. Took me about 15 mins to get to his home. By the time I walked him to the door everyone knew he was coming back on my bus. There were two cops standing there with his mother. I made light of it just saying he must have been tired. The cops gave me a death stare. They wanted me out of the boy’s presence immediately and I walked away. All my tapes were reviewed and I’m sure the boy was interviewed.
It was a great job, except for episodes like this.
In one school district, out of many I attended, the busses were owned by the drivers and they contracted with the school board.
The bus drivers were very strict and told us so. If we acted up or defaced the seats in any way we would be kicked off the bus permanently and the parents would have to pay for any damages........................
My mom had me walk home the first day of first grade, I turned the corner and had no earthly idea where I was. She had pinned a card with my name and address to my coat. A lady heard me crying and came out of her house and walked me home. Shocking how careless my mom was.
I see help wanted ads for school bus drivers. The pay is good, but I would never want that job.
In this case, the parents have a car, and they weren’t at work. They were waiting with their car for their children at the bus stop.
Why wait at the bus stop? Who not pick the children up at school themselves?
In Texas it’s a whole new ball game with millions of criminals crossing our borders. A few years back men in pickup trucks were stopping to “talk” to children as they were being dismissed from school. Nobody in their right mind would let a child walk home from school anymore. Open borders have made Texas HELL.
Yep, it's definitely ruled out for a retirement destination for that reason only.
LOL. My mother never got involved this either. Of course, I had older brothers and sisters, being the 1970s, there was an army of kids in the neighborhood, all going to the grammar school, and back home, at the same time.
It helps if you like kids. I do. If you don’t like kids the job is hell.
I enjoyed the split shift. No heavy lifting. Plenty of down time on the clock. Could work 20 hours to almost 40 hours a week at my whim. YMMV.
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