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Credited to wisn.com
A 4-year-old Milwaukee boy was at home with his mother Tuesday night after spending hours alone on a cold school bus.
Tuesday morning, Cantrell and another little boy rode the bus from day care to the 68th Street School. When the bus pulled up, one boy got out, but Cantrell stayed on.
Four hours later, Rachal got a call that Cantrell never made it to school. School officials said they thought the boy was absent.
"What do you mean he didn't get off the bus?" Rachal said she remembers asking.
Rachal said she was afraid her son had been kidnapped, but school officials said Cantrell was found later, still on the bus, which was parked right in front of the bus driver's home.
A manager from the Laidlaw Bus Company said he was found standing on a seat crying. Their bus driver was immediately fired and arrested by police. She could face child neglect charges.
Rachal said there's no excuse for what happened.
"It only takes a few seconds to check a bus, and this bus was small. (It) had like five rows of seats," Rachal said.
"There's no telling what was going through his mind. He was said he was looking out the bus to see if he could see his friend, you know, any familiar face," Rachal said. Cantrell told his mom that he cried on the bus and didn't sleep.
Cantrell was examined at Children's Hospital and is doing well, but Rachael said it could have been serious. She said her son has a condition where his blood sugar can dip very low if he doesn't eat or drink regularly.
Police and child protective services are investigating the case.
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My son used to ride with that same company last year and on the short buses as well. They switched bus companys this year...although I don't know exactly why.
But anyways, What hell? She could face child neglect charges? She should face child neglect charges! I agree. There is no excuse for that at all. Besides, it was one of the small buses. How the hell do you overlook a 4 year old child on a small bus, let alone any size bus? Common sense would tell you, that you need to always make sure there is no exsisting persons on a bus. How do you overlook something like that?
I just got off the bus with the grumpiest old lady ever. This fat bitch was just so horribly mean to the bus driver I actually felt sorry the the poor guy.
But the good news is that CATA, our local bus system, was just voted number 1 in North America by the National Transit Authority. The sytem isn't perfect (a couple months aago I wrote a blog about how late the buses start on Sundays) but it is a good system.
Obviously the drivers a proud of this acheivement and are bragging about it. When the women got on the bus the bus driver got an earful about how the ranking was wrong.
The Women spent the entire bus ride telling the driver how he wasn't doing his job right. I felt so bad for the guy I stuck up for him. I've got to hand it to the guy, he really took one for the team. As the women stood there and complained he didn't say much other then the diplomatic stuff like "you cant please everybody".
And he's right you just can't. Personally I have very few complaints about CATA I mean I wish he buses ran more on Sundays but it is understandable why they don't. I told the women that she could always just take a cab if she didn't like the buses.
I just don't get it. People some people are just never happy.
Anyways, tommorow and most of next week I'll be at the shoe store while my father takes some time off for a shoe repair confrence and a little vacation.
Then the week after that I have a job painting a freind of the family's house. So I'm going to be very busy. Yeah!
Thanks,
Mark
Cheeko the Cheeky Cat!!
I met first met Cheeko when I went to visit Eagle after he had nagged and nagged for me to stop by. Sick of being asked, and seeing he hadn't showed his nutcase self I got into my car and drove over. I arrived at the house and wandered up the pathway, Eagle came towards me, arms opened ready to embrace me in a hug. Behind him I saw a little ball of fur hiding in the garden. After a quick 'friends' hug I advanced forth towards the ball of fur, off it scurried away from me..
"DINNER!" I exclaimed in utter amusement and chased after it.
To which came the response from one of the boys, "Can I marry you?"
Over the next couple of weeks I bonded with Selena's little ball of fur and sadly watched it getting thrown around, tossed about like a rag doll by the boys.When he was hurt Selena's brother paid for him to be taken to the vet and on return with a broken leg we nursed him back to health. As our friendship grew stronger and closer and our stupidity of doing random things blossomed.. so did our protection of one another, mostly against Eagle.
The randomity of everything eventually led to Selena moving away.. Which though it was sad, awas the best that could be done for her.. Lucky for she escaped Eagle.
After a period of time I came to be at her old house for dinner with my a friend who had come to adopt me as his little sister and the boy I was told I was seeing.. It is funny how if you hang out with someone for a while and do things with just the two of you you become 'exclusive'.
As I sat in the loungeroom, Eagle came in annoucing the cat was going to a girl I didn't know who just so happened to be Selena's enemy and a cat hater! I called Selena and arranged for Cheeko to come with me. Which alas turned out to be the biggest mistake as I was sick with one working lung and allergic to cats.
After a dreadful time of the cat living with me and me almost dying a friend, who which was the one I was meant to be exclusive with took Cheeko to his house to cat-sit. This cat was protected from animal haters and with much effort looked after... Each of us doing out part.
So the time came when Selena's brother was to bus it to the city and give her little friend back. When he was handed back, once again his leg was hurt. None of us have bothered to ask how.
So there was Selena's brother had Cheeko hidden in his bag and stood at the bus stop, the bus arrived and the man looked him up and down.
"You'll have to put that bag underneath," the bus driver said, nodding towards the bag in which Cheeko hid..
"Can't I take it on with me, " Selena's brother, Raoul argued.
The bus driver shook his head and the bag was placed under the bus, Raoul paced back and forth watching the bag, with the other bus riders staring at him, convinced he was a mad man.
Pacing back and forth he fidgetted, would Cheeko be alright?
Then suddenly the bag went SMACK to the left and SMACK to the right.. As Cheeko fought about inside. The bag bounced around and the bus driver looked at Raoul.
"Is it a cat or a dog?" he asked with a straight face.
"A cat," Raoul replied hopefully.
"If it was a dog I'd let ya take it but not a cat."
Though we doubt this is true, Raoul took the cat from the bag looked at in disgust and tossed it on the ground, boarding the bus.
So there Cheeko was left, on the side of the road. Alone and soon to be forgotten.
After all our effort, he is gone, no where to be found.
Would you trade away your job for the chance to give the president "the bird"? Everytime I turn on the TV, the talking heads keep telling me that the economy is doing great and that there are plenty of jobs. So I say screw it. Go for it! You can easily find another job. Now read this story:
Issaquah bus driver appeals firing for "flipping off" President Bush
Manuel Valdes
Seattle Times
Thursday, November 2, 2006
An Issaquah school bus driver fired for allegedly "flipping off" President Bush during a visit to Seattle in June is appealing her termination.
According to Issaquah School District officials, the incident happened when a district school bus stopped for the president's motorcade while returning from a field trip in Seattle.
As the president waved to the school children from his limousine, the bus driver made an obscene gesture, said Sara Niegowski, a spokeswoman for the district.
Bush was in Seattle attending a fundraiser for Congressman Dave Reichert, who was riding in the same limousine.
Reichert campaign officials confirm that Bush told Reichert about the gesture and that the congressman later called Issaquah's superintendent to let her know about the incident.
But the district had been informed by other staff the same day it happened, Niegowski said. It investigated and found evidence pointing to "unprofessional conduct" from the driver, she said.
The 43-year-old driver, with the district since 1999, was fired in September. "This incident has to do with the responsibility of an employee who is supervising students to act professionally and serve as a role model for appropriate behavior," said Issaquah Superintendent Janet Barry. "This was part of a pattern of behavior with this particular bus driver, not an isolated incident."
The fired bus driver filed a union grievance last month for wrongful termination. She has declined to be identified or interviewed.
Chris Dugovich, a spokesman for the Washington State Council of County and City Employees, said it wants the district to re-evaluate its decision.
"There's only one individual who saw this and it happens to be the president of the United States," Dugovich said. "We're interested in saving her employment."
Barry said she personally knows Reichert from his days serving as King County Sheriff when they discussed school resource officers. Reichert called as a courtesy, Barry said.
"He never discussed his view or suggested what action he thought would be appropriate to take," Barry said. "He reported the incident believing — rightly — that I would want to know this occurred, that as a steward of children and public resources, one of my employees had acted inappropriately in her job capacity."
Barry reiterated that the decision to terminate the employee was not motivated by any political reason.
"If the bus driver had made the gesture to a driver who cut her off on a local road, we would have taken the same action," Barry said.
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