2 + 2 = 17
This gun/school bus story doesn’t add up, either.
Porter County police, while concerned that a girl with a gun got on a school bus Wednesday afternoon, said they are relieved to find the weapon was just a BB pistol.
…Police said the incident occurred about 2:40 p.m. Wednesday. The girl, who recently left the Washington Township schools to become home schooled, got on a Washington Township bus at its first stop. Also getting on the bus was another former Washington Township student, a boy who now attends school in Kouts.
The bus driver didn’t know the pair no longer attended Washington Township, police said.
The girl didn’t display the weapon or threaten anyone with it, and she and the Kouts student got off at the next stop.
I drove a school bus for two years. Unless the school day has changed dramatically since the olden days, you don’t pick kids up in the afternoon. There’s no way they should have been allowed on the bus at the first stop. Something’s fishy.
Fortunately, the schools and the police seem to have handled this properly (so far). Let’s just hope that the worst that comes of this is that she’s told she’s not to get on any more school buses.