[Opinionated Blowhard]

What you are pointing out is just how passive we have become as a nation. The bus driver walks off? 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.

[EyeGuy]

“Its the new American Way.”

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Maybe for SOME Americans.

[Molon Labbie]

At least they used the buses this time before being stranded and beefing about a rescue...

[Right Brother]

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

KINDA LIKE THIS?

[Salamander]

“Old greaser” hubby would’ve just hot wired the fool thing and drove off.

:)

[HiTech RedNeck]

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.

[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.

[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.