Bus driver quits job after flattening snowman

Tabnabs

A bus driver in Champaign-Urbana has quit after officials with the transit agency saw an online video of the driver running over a snowman in the middle of a street.

The video is posted on YouTube. It shows the bus veering toward the snowman on the University of Illinois campus and running over it.
The video was posted after a snowstorm earlier this month and shows only one other vehicle on the street at the time. That car steered around the snowman moments before the bus hit it. It isn't clear who built the snowman or shot the video.

Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District spokeswoman Jan Kijowski said the driver has resigned. She refused to identify the driver or discuss the resignation

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That kind of prank brings the Luas to a halt!

Mark200

The bus driver was doing everyone a favour by getting rid of something in the middle of the road.

ibarelycare

Any news on the snowman's injuries?

Lirange

Isn't that were Ruu lives?

orourkeda

He should start knocking down cyclists.

AntiMatter

ibarelycare wrote: »

Any news on the snowman's injuries?

He's said to be in bits.

The_Kew_Tour

I hope this was discussed above all issues today on Joe Duffy show.

koHd

Mark200 wrote: »

The bus driver was doing everyone a favour by getting rid of something in the middle of the road.

It says he veered into the middle of the street though? Can't watch the video. Do they mean road when they say street?

FatherLen

murderer!!!:mad:

Tabnabs

koHd wrote: »

It says he veered into the middle of the street though? Can't watch the video. Do they mean road when they say street?

Hard to tell exactly, but it looks like he veered onto the opposite side of the street to take the snowman out :eek:

snubbleste

Quick someone call CSI:Champaign-Urbana

Kimono-Girl

Dyflin wrote: »

Hard to tell exactly, but it looks like he veered onto the opposite side of the street to take the snowman out :eek:

that was my taking of it too.



dangerous driving just to hit the snowman...

poor mr. snowy he didn't see it coming!

senordingdong

adrian280582 wrote: »

I hope this was discussed above all issues today on Joe Duffy show.

No, Joe should beb usy talking about the other snowman.

Gerry Ryan.

hiscan

The lads in the tree with the mobile phones certainly weren't expecting that to happen,they only caught one car:)

Tabnabs

Maybe we could hire that guy to drive the Luas?

The current crop of drivers will have a big yellow streak when it comes to these situations

http://twitpic.com/3c9jdx

briano

orourkeda wrote: »

He should start knocking cyclists.

Yawn

I suppose it's better than "he should start knocking your ma"

senordingdong

briano wrote: »

"he should start knocking your ma"

Yerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Run_to_da_hills

Proper order, what if there was a 4 year old child hiding behind the snowman or if the snow man contained a bomb. :eek:

phill106

In a possibly unrelated story, a small child is missing in the area.
Last seen in a frosty the snow man costume.

Any info, please contact your local police

Sticky_Fingers

AntiMatter wrote: »

He's said to be in bits.

Don't mind his moaning, he was always a bit flaky.

Wossack

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Proper order, what if there was a 4 year old child hiding behind the snowman or if the snow man contained a bomb. :eek:

or if it was a snowchild? wont anyone think of the snowchildren!?

AnonoBoy

Wait, why did he resign?

jayteecork

Why the f did he reisgn over that?

whirlagigwitch

Not sure why they resigned but i'd say both their heads are melted.

shrewd

ibarelycare wrote: »

Any news on the snowman's injuries?

:D:D:D..,brilliant LOL

grizzly

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Wait, why did he resign?

Because if he had hit an oncoming car his court defense of "taking out Mr Frosty" may not have been strong enough to melt the heart of the jurors.

Helix

for the people who dont quite get it, as was mentioned he drove at a fair bit of speed onto the wrong side of the road to run over a snowman

not really great conditions to be on the wrong side of the road to begin with

bradlente

its snow joke

Wossack

Sounds like he lost his cool alright! I'd say the review panel were fairly frosty

Still, snowman should be without a job in this climate

jayteecork

He's not blind. He saw that there were no cars coming and he didn't have to swerve out that much.

Bet ya there were people egging him on on the bus.

orourkeda

briano wrote: »

Yawn

I suppose it's better than "he should start knocking your ma"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfi8fT9oHkQ

senordingdong

bradlente wrote: »

its snow joke

There's snow end to this...

jayteecork

They must have given him the chance to resign before they fired his ass.

It'll probably take him a while to cool off.

Bazzo

:cool:Looks like that bus driver.... lost his cool:cool:

YEEEEEAAAAAHHH

youcancallmeal

Poor guy had snow chance