Posted on 09/04/2005 10:39:33 AM PDT by joinedafterattack
"When he arrived at the Astrodome about 10 p.m. Wednesday, 20-year-old Jabbar Gibson modestly confessed that he had commandeered a school bus in New Orleans, then picked up about 70 passengers before heading out for the 13-hour trek to Houston." <!-- DIV.b2 { margin: .75em 0px; } -->
Jabbar Gibson rescues NO citizens on 8-31-05
New Orleans public transit buses:
Count 'em and weep...
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
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Thank you much.
Give Jabbar Gibson the mayor's paycheck!
I agree. This kid is worthy of help.
oh-my-gawd... how pathetic is that? but it's funny that you just walked away... why bother with such mentality...
in any disaster, there is always SOMEONE who steps up to the plate and shines heroically... Jabbar Gibson is that person in this catastrophe... tears come to my eyes when i look at that picture of him driving that bus with those people in it... this story has restored something in my soul...
Priceless...What a great line.
This kid should be doing the morning TV shows as a hero. I know this will never happen but their is hope.
~keep hope alive~
I like your uncle Jimmy already.
Sadly, I'm saddled with an automatic right now. Can't wait to get rid of it.
>>I suspect it has something to do with how he was raised by his mother.
And his father, I bet.
For what, the crime of not consulting a lawyer first or the crime of using common sense?
Why would the National Guardsman say that? Who was preventing help from not entering NOLA?
I heard many other citizens heading down to help in NOLA were also turn away. WHY?
This is the $64,000 dollar question.
How ever did we learn semaphore so fast? We cheated! I made sure we got a few letters wrong, too. We did a few other things, positive and negative. Threw at least one tough competing patrol off -- faked a staged "rescue" they had to do so that they missed the real one.
Later I joined the Order of the Arrow, they had an pre-entry overnighter test where you had to sleep out on your own, and do a bunch of tests and such. I was a rainy night, you had to have a blazing fire going by 11pm. I was one of the only ones to have a fire -- why? I used small parrifin firelogs I had boiled together at home with rolled newspaper and candle parrifin. Made them to look like fat twigs. It worked.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is your first real hero of the situation.
Depends on the ammo budget.
If you follow the rules
You go, Jabbar! Woo-hoo! Drove the bus to Houston, alright!!
Finally, someone in New Orleans with leadership skills.
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I should have used the term 'seating capacity'
This kid deserves a medal!
I saw the young man being interviewed and he was asked if he had ever driven a bus before and he said no. He picked up people along the way and got around 80 to safety. God bless him. A hero for sure.
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