ONE DEAD IN SHOOT-OUT OVER SCHOOL BUS
CHICAGO (AP) A passer-by was shot at while
witnessing the get-away of a gang of school
bus thieves. The 35 year old Lincoln Park
man, whose name is not yet being released,
was apparently a witness to the successful
theft of a Lincoln Park High School bus early
this morning. According to other witnesses,
the victim saw the group of men running out
of the bus garage toward one of the large
yellow school busses kept in the lot. For
unexplained reasons, he began to laugh
hysterically, witnesses said. The indignant
thieves reportedly stopped, asked him why he
was laughing, and when he was unable to answer
(as he was doubled over with laughter), one
of the men (described only as "the bald one")
shot him.
The men then proceeded to enter and drive
away one of the large yellow school busses. No
one attempted to stop them. Due to a fire
set in the bus garage's office complemented by
the monstrous bureaucracy of the Chicago Public
School System and the mysterious disappearance
of several large yellow school busses over the
last few years, police report it is unlikely that
they would be able to put out an APB for the bus
without bringing school transportation in the
Chicago metro area to a standstill. Police are
asking that citizens keep an eye out for a
suspicious looking group of men in their early
twenties, driving a school bus. Parents are advised
to accompany their children as they wait for the
school bus for the next several days.
Inside the bus garage, an overpowered security
guard was found duct-taped to his desk with several
donuts stuffed into his mouth. According to the
security guard, two men burst into the office
early this morning, overtook him as he attempted
to flee and taped him down before taking several
sets of keys and setting fire to the cardboard
box containing bus garage records. According to
the guard, these men had the appearance of hardened
criminals and are armed and potentially dangerous.
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