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HollisterBus
Senior Member
USA
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 Posted - 02/08/2005 : 6:00:05 PM
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| How would you like to start a Monday morning off like this! You walk into your bus parking lot and find 16 of your 20 buses with broken windshields. All on the drivers side. We had to call off school Monday (2/07/05). We replaced 16 windshields in 9 hours. 6 where were all ready cut. The other 10 had to be cut out on the parking lot. I have heard of tires being cut before but, this was a really tough challenge to prepare for the next day of school. But we did it. Has anybody else had someting like this happen? |
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CountGirl
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 02/08/2005 : 7:45:39 PM
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Yup. Two years ago vandals accessed by secured railroad tracks at a traffic crossing, continued on three to four miles, stood on the tracks to get aim, shot across both our security fencings, and broke out ten buses back and back-end windows with rocks. Ten buses affected - nine spares, only one route was disrupted [late pickup/arrival time] because they had to use one bus for two runs. Some of the drivers chose to keep their interior items as "prizes"...darn, those rocks were BIG!
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Give me a yellow object. Yes. Right now. I need my yellow chocolate, for goodness sake! |
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Peter
Top Member
USA
1057 Posts |
Posted - 02/09/2005 : 7:57:28 PM
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Our former dispatcher previously worked at a 50 bus terminal for the same company on the other side of town. One night near the end of school, kids slashed tires and broke windows on the majority of the buses at that terminal in hopes of getting school cancelled. When the dispatcher arrived at 5 AM, he immediately got on the phone to other terminals requesting buses and drivers to deliver them. They ran every route that morning using the borrowed buses and there were some very surprised and disappointed kids.
Now in the spring, a number of drivers at that location take turns camping out in the lot on strategic nights to deter vandals. Management figures it's cheaper to pay them for surveillence than to pay for repairs. No incidences of year-end vandalism since they started this system. |
Spicer is nicer. |
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busmech67@aol.com
Senior Member
USA
79 Posts |
Posted - 02/09/2005 : 9:20:55 PM
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| We had that every Monday in Pittsburgh for years. Hired a security company,they stole more than they saved,we used spares to block daily busses,only choice,( no cameras),Police where no help. |
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Johnny C.
Active Member
USA
39 Posts |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 1:13:30 PM
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I remember very well this happening a few years ago in a town closeby. some teens thought it would be fun to smash windows with baseball bat and spray paint "schools closed" down the sides of the buses. until they got caught.
school was open, and those little sh!ts got expellled.  quite the happy ending for the transportation department. |
This message endorsed by Johnny C., what idiots do not want to see! |
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YardBird
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - 02/11/2005 : 5:01:06 PM
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| Two years ago for us, too. Couple kids spray-painted 60-odd windshields and we had to close schools for the day while we scraped them clean. |
Sure! I'll pick your kid up closer to the house... Widen your front door!
"I LOOOOOVE MY UNION!" |
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BlueBird44
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 02/13/2005 : 4:13:37 PM
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One of our contractors a few months after getting her new bus some kid was drunk and happend to wonder on her property and busted the windows out of her bus and I think bent the stop sign. So when she woke up the next morning she had to call the police and quickly find a spare bus to drive and pick up her students.
A few years ago students in a nearby district went and let the air out of all the special ed buses and a couple regular ed buses. They where caught in the process and they where made to stay and help and try to get all the buses back on the road. The shame was that those students where suppose to be getting some big end of the year treat which they where all looking forward to but they missed out because regular ed students thought it would be funny to mess there buses up. The kids felt really bad after it. |
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Jake
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 02/22/2005 : 1:26:27 PM
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I know this has nothing to do with window smashing, but last year someone sliced over 66 of our about 1,200 buses. Their are about 60 buses at a coupound, so one whole compound was effected. Funny fact, but they even sliced some of the non working (in repair shop's) buses tires. All od that compounds buses were 2 hours late. Good thing the janitor came in early and noticed all of the buses with flats!
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Chris
Top Member
USA
1013 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2005 : 4:15:46 PM
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Just a few weeks ago while on a sport trip one of our drivers had an emergency window broken out. Sad, too, because it was one of our 2004 IC FE's. But, before that he got the back bumper caught on a guard rail, and pulled about a third of it backwards. He must have had a fun day, bus was a sight.
After that I talked to our mechanic about vandalism of our buses, and he said all he could remember was around the end of the school year he went to the lot and all of our buses had missing tire stem caps...whoever did it thought that would cause the air to leak out of the tires. Little did they know...Morons. |
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marty
Active Member
USA
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Posted - 02/25/2005 : 04:35:34 AM
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| a neighboring district had the windows broken and tampax put in the fuel tanks. took 6 months to find all the "fuel" problems. |
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no3foreternity
Senior Member
USA
67 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2005 : 08:12:23 AM
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| 2 yrs ago at my terminal (50 buses) someone "broke in" overnight and cut all the brake lines. Both air and hydrualic brake buses, front and rear lines. I say "broke in" because the fence around our term. only goes 2/3 the way around the property. A few years before that we had 2 buses shot with BB guns and rocks but only a few windows were damaged and we had spares to cover those 2. |
I say "Good Morning" and call them by name,and in return I'm told the same,they go sit down and think of a rule to break,but are quickly subdued when warned of the actions I'll take. They've learned to follow the rules can be safe and can be fun........and after the high schoolers it will be the elementary run! |
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IC RE 1629
Top Member
United States
5097 Posts |
Posted - 09/08/2005 : 02:13:21 AM
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| I don't know of any incidents of more then one bus getting vandalized at a time. But alot of different things have been done to different buses. Smashed windows, stolen items, one bus had it's fire extinguisher discharged all over the inside of the bus, etc. |
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Bluebird62
Top Member
USA
530 Posts |
Posted - 09/13/2005 : 3:04:33 PM
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| The day before Christmas Break last year, my lot was vandalized. They put gravel in 27 fuel tanks, broke windows, bent stop arms, and stole license plates. It was a chaotic morning, but we got 'em all to school on time. We installed locking fuel doors that afternoon on all of the buses and have been in the clear ever since. I was extremely thankful that they didn't get to our twelve brand new Bluebird All-Americans. |
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