Sorry, that should have been “Or was SHE just being a b****?”
I think that both Greyhound and the driver are in heap big legal trouble over this.
If the driver was truly having a problem with a passenger, she should have contacted police when she stopped in Cape Girardeau and had the police deal with it. If someone was heckling her or bothering her in any way, she could have requested that the police remove the passenger from the bus by police, and it would have been the police’s call, not her’s.
According to the KSDK news report, the driver was heading north to St. Louis via Sikeston and Cape Girardeau (the I-55), but at Cape she turned the bus around and headed south to the junction of I-55 and I-57, and then went east a few miles to Charleston (my google aerial map shows two truckstops at the I-57 exit for Missouri Route 105), where she abandoned the bus. The legal terms “false imprisonment” and “kidnapping” come immediately to mind. I’m sure there are also some criminal sanctions buried in federal motor carrier law.
If I were a passenger on the bus, I wouldn’t settle for a refund of my ticket. Greyhound is liable for the misconduct of its employees, and the passengers were clearly falsely imprisoned when they were taken to a place not on the route and abandoned. False imprisonment is an intentional tort which can occasion punitive damages.