Posted on 11/21/2011 6:28:38 AM PST by servo1969
A Greyhound bus driver got off her bus in Charleston, Missouri and walked away. She left the passengers stranded for 8 hours before another driver took them to St. Louis.
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Passengers say it was a travel nightmare. A Greyhound bus bound for St. Louis was stranded all night at a truck-stop after the driver got off the bus and never came back.
Passengers say the first problem on the trip happened in Sikeston. They say the driver kicked a passenger, 65, off the bus in Sikeston because she didn’t like what he was saying. The bus continued North on I-55. Around Cape Girardeau, the driver pulled over and stopped the bus on the side of the road. She told passengers she was leaving. She locked the door and went outside to wait for a ride. Passengers called 911 and police ordered the driver back on the bus.
But instead of heading north to St. Louis, she turned the bus around. She got off the interstate in Charleston, MO and got off the bus for good. The passengers were stranded at a truck-stop. They called Greyhound for help, but it took hours to get a new driver. They ended up spending the night on the bus.
“She did it twice,” passenger Danyel Thompson said of the bus driver. “She locked us in on the side of the highway and then the second time she just left. It was horrible.”
They finally arrived in St. Louis just before noon, nearly 12 hours after they were scheduled to arrive.
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If you don't have a CDL, you could be arrested.
Time for Greyhound to copy the airlines & install ‘locked doors to the drivers’ seat’.
Bus drivers should be protected from disruptive passengers -who can cause accidents - worse than texting or cell phone use.
Or increase employment by hiring ‘bus attendants’ like the airlines. Raise rates to accommodate the added staff.
“I really want to hear the driver’s side of this story. The video of the passengers being interviewed makes me suspicious. Isn’t it odd that nobody talks about what was actually said during the trip?”
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I’m guessing this driver has experienced this sort of alleged passenger abuse in the past. She may have even reported it reported it to Greyhound and the cops, but in ACLU/lawyer ruled America, nothing was done.
She probably just came to the conclusion that it just wasn’t worth the trouble dealing with these types any more, uttered f#%k it and punted.
“Cape Girardeau”
Must be Rush’s fault!
Take the Bus and leave the driving to Us (passengers that is.....)
The “Fasten Seatbelt” light was still on, what would you have them do?
Nobody had anything to say about any exchanges between the driver and passengers?
It's traditional to read articles before commenting on them.
Since, oh, about the 1950’s.
At least they used the buses this time before being stranded and beefing about a rescue...
Willie's cousin?
LOL. You haven't been around long enough. Its pretty standard practice to know everything about every person in an article, and to be able to comment fully on it, just by reading the blurb or even just the headline.
The same place the driver went, presumably.
The heroic stalwart driver seems to have been able to brave the wilds, why not the passengers?
There may have been a strip mall half a mile away, who knows.
I've had that happen several times while riding a bus. Usually though the wait was only for an hour or so.
Only thing I could say to those Greyhound passengers is “Be glad Greyhound isn't an airline!”
Well we aren’t told where the driver went, but for all we know he/she/it called a bedfriend to come get him/her/it, or maybe even rented a car. A getaway for one is a little easier than a getaway for a busful.
“Old greaser” hubby would’ve just hot wired the fool thing and drove off.
:)
I think that both Greyhound and the driver are in heap big legal trouble over this.
If the driver was truly having a problem with a passenger, she should have contacted police when she stopped in Cape Girardeau and had the police deal with it. If someone was heckling her or bothering her in any way, she could have requested that the police remove the passenger from the bus by police, and it would have been the police’s call, not her’s.
According to the KSDK news report, the driver was heading north to St. Louis via Sikeston and Cape Girardeau (the I-55), but at Cape she turned the bus around and headed south to the junction of I-55 and I-57, and then went east a few miles to Charleston (my google aerial map shows two truckstops at the I-57 exit for Missouri Route 105), where she abandoned the bus. The legal terms “false imprisonment” and “kidnapping” come immediately to mind. I’m sure there are also some criminal sanctions buried in federal motor carrier law.
If I were a passenger on the bus, I wouldn’t settle for a refund of my ticket. Greyhound is liable for the misconduct of its employees, and the passengers were clearly falsely imprisoned when they were taken to a place not on the route and abandoned. False imprisonment is an intentional tort which can occasion punitive damages.
Willie showed up recently in a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal Article on a proposed trolley project.
Dunno, sounds like they took a vote and opted to camp out on the bus. They had cell phones apparently, which is how they summoned Greyhound.
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