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JK
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Posted - 02/08/2008 :  11:08:17 PM  Show Profile  Visit JK's Homepage  Reply with Quote
By Wendell Edwards

Feb 8, 2008
KHOU-TV 11 News
HOUSTON -- A Spring Branch school district bus was shot up Thursday, police said. All because the bus driver refused to let a student aboard who was still eating her breakfast.

“She had oatmeal and the bus driver informed her that it was against school rules,” said Spring Branch ISD Police Chief Chuck Brawner. “They had some words and then she decided to get off the bus.”

The incident all started Thursday morning in the 9000 block of Kempwood.

Officials said after being denied by the bus driver, the student got off the bus, went back home and told her mother and boyfriend.

What the couple allegedly did next may surprise you.

“They called transportation and told the dispatcher they were going to get the bus driver,” said Brawner. “The mother of the student started looking for him in one vehicle and the suspect was in another vehicle.”

The boyfriend caught up with the bus at the intersection of Bingle and Hempstead Highway.

There were no kids aboard, only the driver, who told police he saw the boyfriend walk toward the bus carrying a gun.

"According to the bus driver, he pulled a weapon and shot one time at him,” said Brawner.

The boyfriend, Kendall Thomas, admitted to police he was angry and that he tracked down this school bus. However, he denied he pulled a weapon.

“He said he threw a bottle of perfume at it,” said Brawner.

Police didn't find a perfume bottle, only a bullet hole.

"Four or five inches more and he would (have) struck the driver,” said Brawner.

Thomas has now been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, all over a bowl of oatmeal.

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Posted - 02/08/2008 :  11:40:06 PM  Show Profile  Click to see william's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
Anyone this stupid does not deserve to have children. The child protective people would do this child and any others a real disservice were they to leave them with these two idiots. If they would have gotten the child up earlier or cooked her food earlier, this could have been avoided.

You're going to commit a felony against a driver and you call transportation to inform them of your intentions. Unbelievable, but just shows the mindset of these two idiots.

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Posted - 02/09/2008 :  01:08:11 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The amount of rage people have is amazing. I have been seeing a lot of it lately, but this is really over the top. I wonder is mommy and boyfriend are doing a lot of drugs causing this over reaction. Don't blame the oatmeal. Probably the meth!
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Posted - 02/10/2008 :  7:02:24 PM  Show Profile  Visit JK's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Man accused of shooting school bus over oatmeal to face judge

KHOU.com staff report

Feb 10 2008
KHOU-TV 11 News
HOUSTON -- The man accused of shooting at a Spring ISD school bus over a bowl of oatmeal is expected to face a judge Monday.

Police say Kendell Thomas was upset that the bus driver wouldn’t let his girlfriend’s daughter on board with her breakfast.

The driver said it was against school rules.

Thomas was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Luckily, no one was hurt.

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