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My hero is a bus thief - Houston Chronicle (Priceless Photo)
Houston Chronicle ^
| Sept. 1, 2005, 10:29PM
| By RICK CASEY
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."
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Jabbar Gibson rescues NO citizens on 8-31-05
![](http://images.chron.com/content/news/photos/05/09/01/katrina_renegadebus.jpg)
New Orleans school buses:
![](http://home.mchsi.com/~idkfa/bus2.jpg)
New Orleans public transit buses:
![](http://home.mchsi.com/~idkfa/bus1.jpg)
Count 'em and weep...
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: buses; busing; evacuation; hero; jabbargibson; katrina; nagin; neworleans
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To: joinedafterattack
so will the city of New Orleans DEMAND the Federal Government PAY for their flooded buses?
Whay is the dollar amount of this mayor's incompetence.
Those water logged buses are now Democrat Paperweights.
To: joinedafterattack
This guy should be given a battlefield promotion and sent back to N.O. to do the job that that idiot mayor cannot do.
62
posted on
09/04/2005 11:31:11 AM PDT
by
Sometimes A River
("The leaves have broken on Lake Ponktran" - WKAT 1360 AM Miami Newsreader)
To: FlingWingFlyer
I hope some folks remember this young man and offers him a real opportunity for a future. What an example! GO Jabbar!
63
posted on
09/04/2005 11:31:55 AM PDT
by
brushcop
(We lift up our military serving in harm's way and pray for total victory and a safe return.)
To: FlingWingFlyer
I missed the interview. I wonder if anybody has it on the Internet. I bet it would be a keeper.
64
posted on
09/04/2005 11:34:06 AM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(Impeach Judge Greer - In memory of Terri <strike>Schiavo</strike> Schindler - www.terrisfight.org)
To: savedbygrace
Oh, I don't doubt that Mayor Nagin would love to charge him with grand theft auto, operating an unlicensed jitney service, operating a passenger conveyance without a commercial drivers' license, etc, etc.
65
posted on
09/04/2005 11:36:33 AM PDT
by
mvpel
(Michael Pelletier)
To: joinedafterattack
Give the kid a medal, at least someone did assume some leadership.
66
posted on
09/04/2005 11:42:27 AM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Lutheran, Conservative, Neo-Victorian/Edwardian, Michael Savage in '08! - Any Questions?)
To: joinedafterattack
Link to article in Monroe, LA paper about 100's of school buses from across the state, getting to within 10 miles of downtown NOLA, 60 HOURS before landfall and the city/state govt would not allow them in - would not give them an assignment to evacuate - in some cases would not even acknowledge their presence..
Buses were in Kenner, LA by 600pm FRIDAY - Aug 26th. After a week of sitting at a truck stop with other EMS crews / ambulance teams and rescue personnel - the Ouachita Parish School Supt called his people home..
SICKENING
http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050903/NEWS05/50903002/1060/NEWS05
To: Acts 2:38
"("The leaves have broken on Lake Ponktran" - WKAT 1360 AM Miami Newsreader)"
A true Ted Baxter moment indeed
To: savedbygrace
Put the people in the bus on the jury.
As the late Johnny Cochran would say
If the passengers live you must forgive.
To: pandemoniumreigns
I need to start writing them all down, that poor girl never gets it right.
70
posted on
09/04/2005 11:57:02 AM PDT
by
Sometimes A River
("The leaves have broken on Lake Ponktran" - WKAT 1360 AM Miami Newsreader)
To: joinedafterattack
Originally, it was reported that Gibson hot-wired the bus. After I saw the interview, I learned that the bus depot was open, key box available to anyone who took the initiative. The folks who wait on government to solve their problems can't complain for their own lack of action. There was an interview with a passenger (a white guy) from the bus who called the man a hero....a true hero indeed.
71
posted on
09/04/2005 11:58:03 AM PDT
by
RasterMaster
(Saddam's family were WMD's - He's behind bars & his sons are DEAD!)
To: Ronaldus Magnus
"If anyone wants to take the lead and put a scholarship together for this kid to go to bus driver's school to get his Commercial Driver's License (assuming he doesn't already have one or a better profession), please count me in for a donation."He'd never driven a bus before!
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posted on
09/04/2005 12:00:45 PM PDT
by
RasterMaster
(Saddam's family were WMD's - He's behind bars & his sons are DEAD!)
To: joinedafterattack
I love that young man. Greta asked him if he still talked to the people that he drove to the Astro...and he said "yes." Greta asked him what he says to them, and he replied "I tell them I love them."
And concerning that last picture that you posted, joinedafterattack, one poster defended the mayor's "plan" to use the city buses to evacuate the citizenry out of New Orleans before Katrina hit, saying the following to another poster who questioned it:
"You are wrong. They used city buses." And a little later insisted: "There were buses picking up people all over the city."
BS
73
posted on
09/04/2005 12:00:58 PM PDT
by
Miss Behave
(Beloved daughter of Miss Creant, super sister of danged Miss Ology, and proud mother of Miss Hap.)
To: flixxx
74
posted on
09/04/2005 12:02:14 PM PDT
by
Dante3
To: joinedafterattack
"Count 'em and weep..."...is exactly right.
Bump.
75
posted on
09/04/2005 12:02:36 PM PDT
by
Miss Behave
(Beloved daughter of Miss Creant, super sister of danged Miss Ology, and proud mother of Miss Hap.)
To: JustaCowgirl
You bet. They will probably try just to keep the hatred machine moving right along.
To: joinedafterattack
That kid has real leadership potential!
77
posted on
09/04/2005 12:04:47 PM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
To: DJ MacWoW
That kid has real leadership potential! Indeed. Well said.
He will do well in life.
78
posted on
09/04/2005 12:06:20 PM PDT
by
LibKill
(Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. - Benjamin Franklin)
To: joinedafterattack
If we can figure out where to send it, I am ready to send a check to this young man to show him how proud we Americans are of him.
To be used for his family, education, whatever is needed.
79
posted on
09/04/2005 12:07:40 PM PDT
by
girlangler
(I'd rather be fishing)
To: joinedafterattack
What part of "illegal" don't you understand............?
Whoops. Sorry. Thought I was in an immigration thread /sarcasm
Seriously, This kid is a class act. Hats off to him.
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