Yeah, I remember that. Anybody remember what year that was? Something weird ... several years after that Chinchilla buried bus incident, I was sick at home with the flu and was watching an old rerun of Mod Squad. The plot of the program was about a guy who kidnapped a busload of school children and buried it with the kids on it, with plans to ransom the kids. I remember thinking at the time that that particular episode of Mod Squad was on TV before the real Chinchilla bus incident, and it was pretty obvious to me where the perp got the idea for such a horrible crime.
The Chowchilla incident happened in 1978. "The Mod Squad" was off the air long before that.