No injuries are reported after a nine-year-old boy stole a city bus in Saskatoon and managed to drive it for a couple of blocks Saturday morning.
Meanwhile, the Transit union is feeling their oats.
H/t: Plainzdrifter and @tammyrobert.
No injuries are reported after a nine-year-old boy stole a city bus in Saskatoon and managed to drive it for a couple of blocks Saturday morning.
Meanwhile, the Transit union is feeling their oats.
H/t: Plainzdrifter and @tammyrobert.
Seems to me the obvious question is “WTH is a 9 year old doing wandering randomly through the bus yards?” Good question for his parents and an even better question for every transit employee who saw him and did nothing.
Alternatively, it’s like hitch hiking while somewhere out there the “Manson family” is driving around looking for someone to pick up.
your question has too much common sense in it and therefore must be ignored by the leftist intelligencia!
Saskatchewan: the armpit of Canada
James Walker wrote: ”Saskatchewan–the armpit of Canada” (End of quote!)
For a nine year old boy to get in a city bus, figure out how to start the diesel engine, release the brakes and place it in drive is quite a feat. And he did drive quite a distance before he hit a couple of parked cars, and that could be the result of his legs being too short to properly apply the brakes.
At nine years old, I drove a grain truck to and from the combine. It didn’t have an automatic transmission or power steering like these new trucks and buses. It had a straight gear transmission that demanded double clutching.
As for comments like James Walker’s, they usually come from idiots (to quote my late Dad) ” who couldn’t whittle a broom handle to shove up their asshole.”
Plainzdrifter: Kate seems to like to put down people who rely on mass transit, or people from certain areas of Canada for the sins of the few (Nova Scotia)…I just thought I would return the favour.
Where were all the noble Saskatchewaners ready to stop this assault on mass transit sensibilities ?
Read the story again. The engine was left running (sometimes maintenance techs have to do that sort of thing). It is yet to be determined if the park brake was engaged or not. Obvious conclusion: blame the mechanic, natch. The kid and his parents had nothing to do with it. Right?
James Walker, the so-called few who live in Nova Scotia are on the verge of electing the Liberals. The ones who won’t allow fracking despite NS’s poor economy. I am tired of busting my butt working so that my tax dollars go towards those mooches who have an opportunity to do better economically, but refuse to do so–preferring to worship at Suzuki’s Church of Climatology.
I’m assuming that the people who wrote replies to James Walker’s comments know that he is from Nova Scotia. Now that is funny that a guy who comes from the ”poor provinces” who live off transfer payments from ”the haves” would refer to Saskatchewan as the armpit of Canada.
My grandfather once took a transient off the highway and gave him a job on his farm. He was from Sydney, Nova Scotia. Before he left, he took his jackknife and carved the following words on one of the boards in the barn. ”Thanks John–will always be grateful to you. Signed, ************ Sydney, NS. Guess not all of them are bad.
As for the kid who stole the bus, I find a lot of humour in such a deed. I’m 65 and I still get fantasies about stealing a locomotive from the track when they leave them idling.
PS: What I really mean is ”fantasies about taking a locomotive for a joy ride.”
Imagine the feeling of having two V-16s in front of you!
Saskatchewan frequently experiences the effects of the feds “affirmative” action program for crime.
By the time, he’s a teen, this kid will be car-jacking tractor-trailer units on the Yellowhead and number 1 highway.
Given this 9yr. old’s reaction to the police responding to the incident, it appears he may come from a family all too familiar with criminal activity and procedure.
There are members of a subgroup, who neglects to parent their children.
They were likely sleeping off a night of partying when the auto-theft occurred at 10am. on a Saturday.
@Rick Flare WOOOO:
David Suzuki is from Western Canada, not from Nova Scotia.
Please name any individual Nova Scotian who has ever blocked economic development (besides an idiot politician or American import Elizabeth May)…I defy you.