Driver Gets Off Bus in Rural Missouri & Leaves Passengers Stranded For 8 Hours

thegatewaypundit.com ^ | November 20, 2011 | Jim Hoft

[HIDEK6]

Well that’s a big mistake.

[HIDEK6]

Memphis to St. Louis on a greyhound bus sounds like a tough clientele.

You think that's tough, try the bus from Memphis to St. Joe.

[EyeGuy]

“Memphis to St. Louis on a greyhound bus sounds like a tough clientele.”

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(ANY inner city) to (ANY other inner city) on a Greyhound bus sounds like a tough clientele.

[HeadOn]

Any bus originating or terminating in Memphis is likely very difficult clientele.

[sjmjax]

Had a passinger taken control and drove the bus to a nearby town/hotel, he/she would most likely these days be in jail charged with Grand Theft, Kidnapping, Reckless Endangerment, Operating a Commerical Vehicle without a CDL and god knows what other charges & Lawsuits.

Yeah, you're right. We are being trained to be passive and helpless.

[Larry Lucido]

I can never find Sandra Bullock when I need her.

[GLDNGUN]

I’m not sure why you want to jump to the conclusion it had something to do with race. Don’t you think if it did, the passengers would have been sreaming holy hell about their “racist” bus driver? Jesse Jackson would have been down there by now. The fact that nobody is even hinting that race has anything to do with it would lead me to the opposite theory that you posed.

[annieokie]

That is the first thing I thought about, love that video.

[Vigilanteman]

This story reminds me of the young man, 14 years old or so, who gathered his neighbors on a school bus after Katrina and drove them to the Astrodome in Houston.

Don't remember the particulars, but he'd heard about Houston's offer on the radio and found one of the few busses which Mayor Nagin hadn't mustered into the underwater zone, so just put two and two together and took action.

[Albion Wilde]

Sit passively in the bus and wait for someone to do something. Don’t take matters into your own hands. Sit there until someone saves you, then bitch and moan about how horrible the situation was. Its the new American Way.

That was my exact impression of the Katrina situation.

Yet, police are still telling people not to take matters into their own hands. When you are facing a bullet seconds away, police are only minutes away. Sometimes thirty minutes.

[oh8eleven]

Retro Llama
Since Nov 15, 2011

It's traditional to read articles before commenting on them.
And you would know about FR "tradition" ... how?

[SZonian]

"Mankind is doomed."

You got that right.

Pussified as well...

[catnipman]

Greyhound’s national slogan:

“Buses. Mass transit for mass murders.”

[Jack Hydrazine]

I think I would have fought the bus driver for the keys, started the bus up, and driven the rest of the way to the next major station even without a CDL and the chauffeur endorsement. Are those Greyhound buses Class A or B rigs?

Even if I got arrested the passengers would be happy.

[catnipman]

“The heroic stalwart driver seems to have been able to brave the wilds, why not the passengers?”

From your description of the driver, I see that you assumed she must have been an OWS protester and that she walked off and left the bus stranded as an act of solidarity with the progressive heroes of Zuccotti Park.

[humblegunner]

Uhhh... yeah.

[F.J. Mitchell]

ROFLMAO!

[Albion Wilde]

(ANY inner city) to (ANY other inner city) on a Greyhound bus sounds like a tough clientele.

Here on the east coast, we have the Chinatown buses. Chinatown to Chinatown, starting in DC, then on to Philly, New York and Boston. It's just $35 round-trip, with mostly immigrant passengers who, being Asian, are focused on their own mission and don't bother you. Many don't even speak English yet, so a couple of bows and smiles and whities are tolerated well enough.

The buses are older, but so what? They run. In DC, Chinatown is over near the 7th St NW entertainment district. In Philly, Chinatown is smack next to Center City, with an inexpensive city parking lot near 10th and Race. In New York, it takes you into lower Manhattan through the garment district and lets you off in Chinatown, which is next to Little Italy. Lots of fun!

[null and void]

Straight out of Atlas Shrugged...

[null and void]

I can never find Sandra Bullock when I need her.

Me neither, dammit.