School bus hijacker gives up after kids ask too many questions
The 18 children on the bus nagged themselves to safety
after their school bus was held up.
Children are
inquisitive little beings. They’re known to bombard parents with countless questions every day like ‘Are we there yet?’ ‘Why must I go to school?’, ‘Why
can’t I swim after I’ve just eaten?’, and so many more. However, in one
particular situation, their inquisitiveness helped them get out of a school bus
hijacking.
In a recent interview with Good Morning America, Kenneth
Corbin, a school bus driver from South Carolina, shared how the 18 children he
was transporting nagged themselves to safety after an armed hijacker held the bus
hostage.
Kenneth explains that Army trainee Jovan Collazo tried to commandeer the bus after reportedly escaping from custody. He managed to get onto the bus and held a gun to Kenneth’s head and told him to drive him to the next town.
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However, during this process, the children started asking the gunman a whole lot of questions that ultimately led him to abort his mission.
Kenneth reveals that the kids asked if he was a soldier
before they asked him questions like “Why are you doing this?” The kids also
asked if he would hurt them or the bus driver, to which Corbin remember him,
saying, “no, I’m putting you off the bus.”
The bus driver revealed that a slew of questions hit the hijacker with the inquisitive kids asking everything from his plans to his motive. Suddenly, the hijacker snapped. “He sensed more questions coming, and I guess something clicked in his mind, and he said, ‘Enough is enough already,’ and he told me to stop the bus,” Kenneth said in the interview.
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“When they started questioning him, it seemed to frustrate him because his main objective was to get to the next town. I think we were on the road for about six kilometres.”
Jovan Collazo was subsequently arrested and the M4 rifle he was carrying proved to have no bullets inside of it. He is now facing almost two dozen charges, including 19 counts of kidnapping, and single counts of armed robbery with a deadly weapon and carrying a weapon on school grounds.
Collazo’s public defender Fielding Pringle said: “These are obviously not the actions of an individual who was thinking clearly or rationally with an intent to escape. These are the actions of a very troubled young man.”
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