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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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KEYWORDS: bus; culturalentropy; driver; greyhound; stranded
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To: servo1969

Will be interesting to learn of her personal details.


61 posted on 11/21/2011 8:19:32 AM PST by pabianice (")
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To: UB355

Did you ever read Atlas Shrugged? This would not have been out of the ordinary for that story. Everyday people were abandoning their jobs as well, such as the train passengers left stranded. It was the first thing I thought of.


62 posted on 11/21/2011 8:22:18 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: servo1969

At least they didn’t get thrown under the bus.


63 posted on 11/21/2011 8:29:08 AM PST by arderkrag (Georgia is God's Country. LOOKING FOR ROLEPLAYERS. Check Profile.)
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To: Vigilanteman

He was not 14. He was 20 with a criminal record longer than your arm and wanted by the police. He stole the bus to keep from getting picked up by the cops and took others with him to Houston so he wouldn’t blow his cover.


64 posted on 11/21/2011 8:30:22 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Hacklehead

You’ve ridden busses.


65 posted on 11/21/2011 8:35:30 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: MrEdd

“You’ve ridden busses.”

LOL. I was stabbed on a bus in high school.


66 posted on 11/21/2011 9:06:47 AM PST by Hacklehead (Maniac has responded with a scornful remark.)
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To: humblegunner

Pasenger could not have started it. Greyhound builds in a special set of switches to allow pushbutton starter to engage. The driver needs to his certain dashboard buttons in a certain sequence to start the bus.


67 posted on 11/21/2011 9:52:29 AM PST by cyclotic (People who live withing their means are increasingly being forced to pay for people who didn't.)
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To: null and void
"I can never find Sandra Bullock when I need her. Me neither, dammit.

Can Sandra Bullock drive a bus????
68 posted on 11/21/2011 1:04:46 PM PST by askrenr (HOOAH! It's an Army thing.)
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To: askrenr

I suspect she could drive mine...


69 posted on 11/21/2011 1:06:19 PM 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: servo1969

The reason is obvious to me. She was driving beyond the alloted hours specified by the law. She had no choice but stop the bus and turn it over to another driver.


70 posted on 11/21/2011 1:12:08 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: HiTech RedNeck; humblegunner
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.

She may have driven the bus to her hometown.

71 posted on 11/21/2011 1:24:44 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (New gets old. Steampunk is always cool)
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To: Larry Lucido
I can never find Sandra Bullock when I need her.

Me either. But what has that to do with this situation?

72 posted on 11/21/2011 1:26:25 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (New gets old. Steampunk is always cool)
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To: Oztrich Boy

73 posted on 11/21/2011 1:30:02 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: servo1969

On occasion, “A person’s gotta do what she gotta do”.


74 posted on 11/21/2011 1:36:30 PM PST by xrmusn ((6/98) If govt involved, the more outlandish a scheme appears, the truer it probably is.)
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To: servo1969

Sikeston? Just go to Lambert’s (home of throwed rolls) and chow down!! http://www.throwedrolls.com/


75 posted on 11/21/2011 6:11:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The buzz here in Cape Girardeau is why the hell did the cops force the driver to get back on the bus and drive it when it was obvious there was a problem?

“Move that bus!”


76 posted on 11/21/2011 6:21:25 PM PST by magritte
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To: magritte

Do you know Rusty, by any chance?


77 posted on 11/21/2011 6:34:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nope, but I do get a chance to talk to his brother on occasion...very sharp guy...


78 posted on 11/21/2011 6:37:32 PM PST by magritte
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To: magritte

Isn’t it funny that he’s the one that didn’t go to law school, yet he’s, by far, more successful than anyone in the history of that family?


79 posted on 11/21/2011 6:43:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The whole family has been blessed with tremendous analytical skills. Steel-trap minds and a gift of gab. Rush was fortunate to stumble onto the right path to use those skills in his own unique way. Don’t think he would lasted long as a lawyer!


80 posted on 11/21/2011 6:53:42 PM PST by magritte
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