<p>I’ve read a couple of articles about this today. I find this absolutely terrifying and wonder if these guys were conducting a test run:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/may/21/052105789.html[/url]”>http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/may/21/052105789.html</a></p>
<p>that does seem really odd- I think it is one thing for adults to board a bus with their children, but if you don’t have any children on teh bus- you don’t belong on it & that is a safety issue not a race/religion issue</p>
<p>Right. Grown men don’t need to be on a school bus and especially not wearing a black trench coat in Tampa, FL. There is no good reason for them being on that bus.</p>
<p>I hope the FBI is investigating this. If they “wanted to see a high school” they could have boarded Metro. Why would students who were attending a university want to visit a high school? Highly suspicious. Thanks for posting - I hadn’t seen anything this.</p>
<p>Here’s an update: <a href=“http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBDJDFFFNE.html[/url]”>http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBDJDFFFNE.html</a></p>
<p>Also, bail has been revoked. I have to confess that this particular story really resonates with me and scares me half to death. College Confidential is another way of showing that much of America is a totally child-centric culture and surely our enemies have to know that our kids are our soft underbellies.</p>
<p>Why did the bus driver let themon in the first place…</p>
<p>say, hey, dudes, can’t ride this bus, you need to get off</p>
<p>this is probably harmless</p>
<p>I don’t know about harmless. Harmless people don’t need to lie to police and they don’t have their bail revoked.</p>
<p>^She likely told them not to get on but let the police do the physical confrontation.</p>
<p>I find this story quite worrisome. It’s possible that there is a benign explanation, but the men clearly knew that the bus was going to a HS, and their shifting explanations for wanting to go to the HS don’t ring true. It sounds as if the driver stayed calm and did the right thing.</p>
<p>I certainly hope that this will be thoroughly investigated.</p>
<p>I can only imagine how parents in that area are feeling.</p>
<p>This is certainly unsettling, esp. if they gave conflicting reasons for going to the school (I’m assuming they were interviewed separately) and also lying about their country of origin.</p>
<p>School is ending soon & wouldn’t that be a time frame (similiar to the Russian elem. school situation though that was the START of the school year) that terrorists might believe conducive to overtaking a school. Lots more activities, maybe things a little lax with procedure, cause after all, only one more week of school left, etc.</p>
<p>I hope this is fully investigated and at the very least, schools stay on the alert with security measures.</p>
<p>But why did the driver let adults, from anywhere, in the bus in the first place…</p>
<p>hey, guys, this is not a city bus, so, off you go</p>
<p>The men were released today. Which I hope is a good sign.</p>
<p>After watching a recent “Everybody Loves Raymond” episode where Raymond gets on his d’s school bus to find out about a bully, I wondered if adults are just allowed to board school buses.</p>
<p>Does anyone know??? It seems odd that any school bus driver would just allow some adult to get on and ride the bus.</p>
<p>I wonder if there will be a time when kids will have to have pictured ID cards hanging from their necks in order to board school buses.</p>
<p>this whole thing seems like a potential problem because most school bus drivers aren’t really in any position to prevent one or more adults from coming on a bus.</p>
<p>This sounds like one of those “dry runs” that we’ve been told that terrorists do first to see what they will be facing. (there was a similar incident on a plane last year where some middle eastern men kept taking bags into a bathroom and the passengers noticed.)</p>
<p>I still want to know… what are the policies for who can get on a school bus – and how can a bus driver be expected to stop someone???</p>
<p>Yes! American loves its children and terrorists know that.</p>
<p>I don’t know what the regulations are elsewhere, but no adults on school buses ever, under any circumstances without prior written approval (such as a class trip).</p>
<p>I read one more thing about this last night (I don’t have a link yet but I’ll try to find one) which was that the two men in question told the police that they had planned getting on the school bus. In other words, it wasn’t a matter of qccidentally getting on the wrong bus.</p>