This 20 year old did what Mayor Nagin did not. "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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To: joinedafterattack
2 posted on
09/04/2005 10:40:47 AM PDT by
flixxx
To: joinedafterattack
"Improvise. Adapt. Overcome."
3 posted on
09/04/2005 10:42:23 AM PDT by
dfwgator
To: joinedafterattack
Good on him!
4 posted on
09/04/2005 10:42:31 AM PDT by
Mike Darancette
(Mesocons for Rice '08)
To: joinedafterattack
I said it before, I'll say it again, "Jabbour for Mayor!"
5 posted on
09/04/2005 10:43:04 AM PDT by
mtbopfuyn
(Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
To: joinedafterattack
This kid didn't have to wait for Bush to tell him what to do!
6 posted on
09/04/2005 10:43:52 AM PDT by
Blzbba
(For a man who does not know to which port he is sailing, no wind is favorable - Seneca)
To: joinedafterattack
Too bad Mayor Nagin didn't have as much common sense as Jabbar Gibson.
I hope that sooner or later the MSM discovers that New Orleans did have a written emergency plan to cover the evacuation of the poor, but that the idiot mayor of New Orleans ignored it, and allowed the evacuation buses to be ruined by the flood, forgotten.
The city leaders had at least two full days to use these hundreds of buses to evac the poor, exactly as their own emergency management plan called for.
Here's the southeast Louisiana evac plan supplement, most recently revised in 2000. Go to page 13, read paragraph 5. It states:
5. The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating.
7 posted on
09/04/2005 10:44:01 AM PDT by
Travis McGee
(--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
To: joinedafterattack
Now thats an American, not putting up with bureaucratic B.S., taking matters into his own hands, and acting for the benefit of others at some personal risk.
This young man could just as easily have wandered around in waterlogged Wal-Mart's grabbing X-Boxes or DVD's. But he did not and acted on his own initiative for the betterment of others. I suspect it has something to do with how he was raised by his mother.
9 posted on
09/04/2005 10:46:42 AM PDT by
Arkinsaw
To: joinedafterattack
Jabbar Gibson, demonstrating for the Mayor of NO and the Governor of Louisiana what leadership and initiative are all about.
10 posted on
09/04/2005 10:47:07 AM PDT by
JustaCowgirl
(The left thinks the Cm in Chief should step aside and let Cindy Sheehan make foreign policy for us.)
To: joinedafterattack
What a guy. He saw a need and did the deed. Good for him. Americans have resolve and resourceful.
The wrong ones are in power.
To: joinedafterattack
Monstrous! I want Mayor Nagin tried at the Hague for crimes against humanity. Here in upstate NY, if there's a flood, we haul people out in road crew dump trucks if we have to.
13 posted on
09/04/2005 10:51:26 AM PDT by
Ostlandr
(NeopaganNeocon)
To: Peanut Gallery
16 posted on
09/04/2005 10:54:21 AM PDT by
Professional Engineer
(As an Engineer, you too can learn to calculate the power of the Dark Side.)
To: joinedafterattack
No, no, no. He didn't steal it , he BORROWED it. We can rewrite the headline to say: Young, black hero borrows schoolbus; saves people, bus from death by drowning.
Now the school has at least one bus if it ever reopens.
17 posted on
09/04/2005 10:55:26 AM PDT by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: joinedafterattack
Some people know how to get $hit done.
To: marblehead17
19 posted on
09/04/2005 10:56:39 AM PDT by
marblehead17
(I love it when a plan comes together.)
To: joinedafterattack
GWB could make quite a statement by inviting this fellow to the White House and parading him infront of the cameras saying this is what American 'Can Do' attitude can accomplish.
To: joinedafterattack
I saw an interview with Jabbar Gibson on FOX News Channel. He is the genuine article. He saw something that needed to be done and he did it. Like a poster said above, he didn't need President Bush to tell him what to do. That's what makes heroes. I consider him an American hero. "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." He personifies that.
23 posted on
09/04/2005 10:58:30 AM PDT by
FlingWingFlyer
(We did not lose in Vietnam. We left.)
To: joinedafterattack
The question is: Will he be charged with a crime? I heard he might be.
24 posted on
09/04/2005 10:58:34 AM PDT by
savedbygrace
("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
To: joinedafterattack
he wasn't stealing.
The people stealing were the ones looting from stores before and after the hurricane.
This young man saw a resource that was unused and abandoned by an incompetent government. He commandeered the bus and did what the government failed to do- he acted.
New orleans could have used many more like him. Too bad nobody like him was in charge of the government down there.
26 posted on
09/04/2005 10:58:55 AM PDT by
flashbunny
(Defending the free market on free republic is like having to defend the flag at a VFW convention.)
To: OKSooner
27 posted on
09/04/2005 10:59:58 AM PDT by
Honeybunch
("Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." ~Rudyard Kipling)
To: joinedafterattack
I REALLY LIKE this kid. There is hope ...
28 posted on
09/04/2005 11:00:30 AM PDT by
manwiththehands
(If the left offends you, stick around. They are just getting started.)
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