Chicago: 8 school buses stolen, shredded into 'big pile of scrap'

Well, this is an interesting crime. They should have accounted for the GPS systems.

 

Ecoterrorists who want the city to convert to hybrids, that's my guess.

 

Since the scrap yard workers fled, my guess is that they were in on a scheme to sell the metal.

 

Where I went to school, that would have been the senior prank.

 

Shit worked in Goldfinger.

 

Junkies. When they get wind of a possible source of scrap metal, I only wish I had their never-say-stop work ethic.

 

Bonnett, president of Sunrise Transportation, estimated his loss at $250,000. Four of the buses were equipped with wheelchair lifts for special education students, he said.

As scrap, the buses probably would be worth $1,500 to $3,500 each, said Joe Pickard, chief economist for the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries in Washington, D.C.

"It seems like a lot of effort for not a big return," Pickard said.

But Gary Bush, a police officer for 32 years before he began keeping track of thefts for the institute, said thieves will take whatever they can.

"Anything that can be stolen, has been stolen," he said. "Literally anything of any value is a potential target."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-school-buses-stolen-20130309,0,5180883.story

 

Did he not get the invitation?

 

Good to see Frank Durbin on the case.

 

Nothing to see here. Please move along.

 

Is this some kind of bus?

It's very impressive, yes.