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Driver Gets Off Bus in Rural Missouri & Leaves Passengers Stranded For 8 Hours
thegatewaypundit.com ^ | November 20, 2011 | Jim Hoft

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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To: 1rudeboy

Well that’s a big mistake.


41 posted on 11/21/2011 7:22:49 AM PST by HIDEK6
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To: FourPeas
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.

42 posted on 11/21/2011 7:25:08 AM PST by HIDEK6
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To: FourPeas

“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.


43 posted on 11/21/2011 7:28:51 AM PST by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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To: FourPeas

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


44 posted on 11/21/2011 7:30:30 AM PST by HeadOn (If you've never done anything wrong, run for office - the liberals will make up something for you.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
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.

45 posted on 11/21/2011 7:30:52 AM PST by sjmjax (Politicans are like bananas - they start out green, turn yellow, then rot.)
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To: humblegunner

I can never find Sandra Bullock when I need her.


46 posted on 11/21/2011 7:31:35 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: servo1969

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.


47 posted on 11/21/2011 7:44:26 AM PST by GLDNGUN
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To: Right Brother
That is the first thing I thought about, love that video.
48 posted on 11/21/2011 7:47:43 AM PST by annieokie
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
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.

49 posted on 11/21/2011 7:49:52 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
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.

50 posted on 11/21/2011 7:51:21 AM PST by Albion Wilde (A land of hyper-legalisms is not the same as a land of law. --Mark Steyn)
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To: Retro Llama
Retro Llama
Since Nov 15, 2011


It's traditional to read articles before commenting on them.
And you would know about FR "tradition" ... how?
51 posted on 11/21/2011 7:54:34 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: cripplecreek
"Mankind is doomed."

You got that right.

Pussified as well...

52 posted on 11/21/2011 7:57:06 AM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political party's in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: servo1969; All

Greyhound’s national slogan:

“Buses. Mass transit for mass murders.”


53 posted on 11/21/2011 7:58:06 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: servo1969

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.


54 posted on 11/21/2011 8:01:37 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: humblegunner; All

“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.


55 posted on 11/21/2011 8:02:02 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

Uhhh... yeah.


56 posted on 11/21/2011 8:03:46 AM PST by humblegunner (The kinder, gentler version...)
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To: Right Brother

ROFLMAO!


57 posted on 11/21/2011 8:06:30 AM PST by F.J. Mitchell (Cain is able to deliver.)
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To: EyeGuy
(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!

58 posted on 11/21/2011 8:10:10 AM PST by Albion Wilde (A land of hyper-legalisms is not the same as a land of law. --Mark Steyn)
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To: servo1969

Straight out of Atlas Shrugged...


59 posted on 11/21/2011 8:10:32 AM PST by null and void (MSGT Dean Hopkins USMC (ret) WWII-Korea-Vietnam 11/9/1925-10/22/2011 My hero, my Dad)
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To: Larry Lucido
I can never find Sandra Bullock when I need her.

Me neither, dammit.

60 posted on 11/21/2011 8:16:19 AM PST by null and void (MSGT Dean Hopkins USMC (ret) WWII-Korea-Vietnam 11/9/1925-10/22/2011 My hero, my Dad)
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