Harry Posted September 6, 2010 Share #1 Posted September 6, 2010 Darius was right. It is easy to steal a bus. Just four days after mass-transit menace Darius McCollum swiped a Trailways bus from a Hoboken depot and drove it through Manhattan to Kennedy Airport, I nearly repeated the act. In broad daylight Saturday, I returned to the same depot and retraced his footsteps. Only good sense - not guards - kept me from driving off. Motor coaches from numerous bus lines sat in the sun, some of them with their doors wide open. They were almost crying out to be taken. A fence topped with barbed wire circled the bus depot, but it might as well have not been there. They left the gate open. I didn't see any security guards - only a few drivers and mechanics. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/09/05/2010-09-05_untitled__2bus05m.html#ixzz0yi7QsUrd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRG Posted September 6, 2010 Share #2 Posted September 6, 2010 Oh lord. That's the only reaction I have to offer after reading that excerpt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted September 6, 2010 Author Share #3 Posted September 6, 2010 We did it again. For the second day in a row, a Daily News reporter boarded a bus just ripe for the stealing at a Trailways depot in Hoboken, N.J. Yesterday it was my turn to visit the lot that's a favorite of transit-obsessed Darius McCollum. It's where he swiped a Trailways bus last Tuesday that he used to give flight attendants in Manhattan a free ride to Kennedy Airport. Surely, there'd be stepped-up security at the depot, I thought - stern guards, snarling dogs, "No Trespassing" signs. Something. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/09/06/2010-09-06_for_2nd_straight_day_news_finds_trailways_bus_with_key__boards_it_at_nj_depot_bu.html#ixzz0ylDXaspi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R44 CNG Posted September 6, 2010 Share #4 Posted September 6, 2010 Again!!!!, I don't get why newspapers sometimes post stuff like this, its just telling another obsessed crazy dude that there's a free bus waiting for them in the lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R110B Posted September 6, 2010 Share #5 Posted September 6, 2010 Wirelessly posted via (Mozilla/5.0 (Danger hiptop 4.6; U; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920) Wow this is sad how do just leave things so openly takeable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill from Maspeth Posted September 6, 2010 Share #6 Posted September 6, 2010 I wonder if some bus fan "armed" with a camera would have been ignored too? Just a thought! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Louis Car 09 Posted September 6, 2010 Share #7 Posted September 6, 2010 Oh we will see more runaway buses down the road after tis story.Oh and im sure someone in security is losing their job after this story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubwayGuy Posted September 6, 2010 Share #8 Posted September 6, 2010 Failways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan05979 Posted September 6, 2010 Share #9 Posted September 6, 2010 Do these large fleet of buses use keys to start them up? Sometimes security is nowhere to be found because they get too "comfortable" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NX Express Posted September 7, 2010 Share #10 Posted September 7, 2010 There is probably going to be a shakedown of the security staff at the Trailways depot. What's even worse is that someone snuck onto a bus three times in a week...and there was no security any of those times.:eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNIGHTRIDER3:16 Posted September 7, 2010 Share #11 Posted September 7, 2010 Trailways ain't the only ones , What about LGA hmmm23ave and for years and years nobody said A word ...... Stupid Press Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RokuSix Posted September 7, 2010 Share #12 Posted September 7, 2010 Oh, American Media. How you encourage rabid transit fans and pubescent teenagers to march over there and steal buses for jollies! The rejects of the world would safely assume the area was secure, that is, until you run off and perform your "exposé" that you probably learned how to do while majoring in communications at some prestigious New York university. Your parents in suburbia would be proud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Louis Car 09 Posted September 7, 2010 Share #13 Posted September 7, 2010 Failways.LOL "Failways" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo M 201 Posted September 7, 2010 Share #14 Posted September 7, 2010 What a bunch of f***ing @$$holes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GojiMet86 Posted September 7, 2010 Share #15 Posted September 7, 2010 So now they're showing people how to steal buses. Nice (sarcastic). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BZGuy Posted September 7, 2010 Share #16 Posted September 7, 2010 Wirelessly posted via (Mozilla/5.0 (Danger hiptop 4.6; U; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920) Wow this is sad how do just leave things so openly takeable? That could be any garage for any company. Trailways is not the only ones who do that. The only time I've seen them crackdown on locking the doors was last year during a terror alert. And they had to back down on that because it was winter time and the locks were freezing. I don't why they don't turn off the battery....you can't open the door with the battery off,even with the air dumped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R68 Subway Car Posted September 8, 2010 Share #17 Posted September 8, 2010 There are no words that I can use to describe this stupidity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FamousNYLover Posted September 8, 2010 Share #18 Posted September 8, 2010 Everytime when I go on overpass at Flushing-Meadow Park, I see all buses at Casey Stengel Depot are opened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theaveragejoe Posted September 10, 2010 Share #19 Posted September 10, 2010 guess nothing news wise is happening in NYC now lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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