Elementary students try to hijack school bus

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | January 21, 2004

[fuquadukie]

Elementary students try to hijack school bus Friday, January 21, 2005

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Three 11-year-old boys and a 10-year-old girl tried to hijack their school bus near Punxsutawney this morning.

State police said the four hatched the plot yesterday. Just after 8 a.m. today, one of the boys pulled a knife from a book bag and held it near another student. He demanded driver Janet McQuown, 52, stop and get off the bus.

A police new release says she pulled over along Pine Tree Church Road in Oliver Township and "the knife was removed from the juvenile's possession." It doesn't say how.

The bus, with the hijackers and about 40 other children, arrived safely at Mapleview Elementary, where the unnamed offenders were taken into custody.

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The news release did not immediately say what the hijackers intended to do with the bus.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More details in tomorrow's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

[fuquadukie]

From the WTF?? department. Maybe they wanted to visit Punxsutawney Phil early?

[johniegrad]

I have a hard time believing 11 year old boys would be able to drive the schoolbus.

[101st-Eagle]

Was it a Wahhabi based school?

[clarissaexplainsitall]

You gotta fight for your right to party.

[MplsSteve]

LMAO!

[MplsSteve]

"The knife was removed from the juvenile's possession"?

Hopefully it was removed by the bus driver breaking the punk's wrist!

[Calpernia]

just damn ping

[EternalVigilance]

A police new release says she pulled over along Pine Tree Church Road in Oliver Township and "the knife was removed from the juvenile's possession." The bus driver proceeded to whip the perpetrator's *ss to within an inch of his short life.

Well, that's the way it should read, anyhow, and might have once upon a time in this country.

Followed by an even more memorable whuppin' upon Dad's arrival home from work...

And that would have been that!

[mountaineer]

I predict at least six weeks of suspension for these miscreants.

[Esther Ruth]

When I was a kid..... we were to afraid to just look at an adult cross-eyed. If an adult just said to some punk with an attitude "young man, that is enough", he was shamed into silence and submission. Someone or something is creating a lot of little monsters and we's in trouble, no military schools are going to be able to fix these little punks our society keeps churning out.

[CindyDawg]

This bus driver could teach the tazer cop a few things.:')

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

That's the problem now! I didn't even think of doing this kind of s**t. I was terrified of the school just CALLING my parents! That is sooo missing these days! I hope the bus driver doesn't get sued by the parents!

[Dog Gone]

This story definitely requires a follow-up article.

LIKE WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING?

[clarissaexplainsitall]

I see "Federal Bus Marshalls" coming soon to a school bus near you.

[TChris]

This bus driver could teach the tazer cop a few things.:')

Touché! :)

[mrs. a]

Kids steal the darndest things...

[vpintheak]

I was driving a tractor by age 6, and driving a pickup by age 10. This was not uncommon where I grew up. Boys living on the farm learned how to do this. Kids learn by watching pretty well, I think the punk could have easily done it.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

DU just said it was Bush/Rove's fault

/sarcasm

[Blue Screen of Death]

Even if they could drive the school bus, I bet they can't spell Punxsutawney.

[dead]

They were trying to escape from their big-government Marxist indoctrination center!

These actions just might represent the first shots in an uprising of free thinking conservative children determined to throw off the shackles of forced liberal group think.

Either that, or maybe they're just shithead punks or something.