Smart move by a 7th grader on school bus
 

His father said he did not have a cellphone to distract him so he was watching the driver when it started.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/michigan-7th-grader-pulled-off-230515795.html

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Wow. Good for him for averting a potential disaster.

That young man was excellent.

"I don't care, someone call 911". Perfect.

I saw that on the TV news .... calm, cool, collected and awesome :)!

Awesome.

The news didn't have the full video with sound either....

Even better the 2nd time!

Great kid. Take control when the adults are not in charge. Do the right thing.

If I had to wager, it would be that his parents are solid people who have imparted a keen sense of "do-the-right-thing" on their son.

Great job, kid!

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Wow, nice catch from the kid. Although it sounded like several kids realized what was happening.

It's kind of crazy that the bus driver realized that something was wrong, but didn't stop right away. I guess there's a difference between "feeling dizzy" and knowing that you're about to be unresponsive.

Come to think of it, that could have been me. (driving while dizzy, not the seizure/attack/whatever that occurred in this instance)

Many years ago, I was leaving work, and when I got out of the elevator on the ground floor, I turned left and immediately felt a little dizzy. I drove home like that. I'm fairly certain now that my abrupt turn out of the elevator probably gave me benign positional vertigo. But driving home like that was really dumb, and, IIRC, my wife told me that when I got home.

Although the TV news had a shorter video with no audio, they interviewed his parents ....

They were proud, proud, proud!

And should be :)

Beautiful, that made my day. Good man.

I think there are far more kids like him that are aware beyond expectations than people realize.

Society points out the "squeaky wheels" and the great ones go unnoticed...until they act in a responsible manner. And even then, they don't always get recognized.

It's the "bad apple" adage. Great kids are everywhere. My son is 23, and many of his friends from his teen years were...uh...lets just say not the best. As I get to know them better now, I can see mature, motivated adults making their mark in life.

Bunch of little screaming babies and one kid with a head on his shoulders. I wonder what the 911 dispatcher thought of that. I didn't follow the link but I hope the driver is OK.

Stealing Dad's car skills paid off!

I'm surprised at that kid.

This is 2023, "Shut the f#% up and call 911! Somebody get this on TicToc STAT!!"

Quick thinking kid...deserves a lot of praise.

Thinking back to when I was a 7th grader on the school bus....I remember a couple different situations.

One winter morning the lady driver was turning the bus around and backed too far into a snow bank and got it stuck. No one had cell phones then, so one of the kids hiked over to his fathers farm and came back with a tractor and pulled us out. (likely never see that happen again.):)

The other thing I remember....a friend of mine and myself got into a fist fight and were thrown off the bus for the rest of the season. My parents were not pleased.

What is with all the screaming, the bus is already stopped!

Filming for YouTube? I know it's pretty popular for city people to come to my lake and when they catch a fish they freak for the camera. Can hear it for miles.

They are only 7th graders.
With all that's happened to school kids in the last few years....I'm not surprised they screamed.

Saw another interview on the news at noon with his dad .... kid started sitting in his lap "driving" on the country back roads starting at age 4.

I was an experienced driver at that age too fwiw .... thanks dad :D!

edited: not 4 .... at 13 ;)

We had a bus driver just about pull a 180 in icy conditions in a circle just like this one once. I think several of us cheered and she giggled. I have to think that there she likely had a pretty big pucker moment.

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When you're a kid, and an adult looks like they are dying, that might be a cause for many kids to freak a bit.

Growing up in a rural/farm area....all the guys had driven for years before we had to take drivers ed.

The instructor for the four of us in his car slept about half the time while we drove...and the drivers ed cars were all '3 on the tree' cars.

I was certainly driving a car by 13 ... not on public roads, but private roads and long driveways, etc.

The first time that I ever drove, I was 13. It was in the winter in Japan with plenty of snow on the ground in a right hand drive car with a manual transmission. It was somewhat of a suburban rural kind of area. The idea of us getting into an accident in Japan did not please my dad, so he discontinued lessons until I was 15 and we were back in the US.

Driving a 3 on the tree truck on a farm at 13, tractors too. Even drove the old D2 Cat. But I wasn't allowed to drive the John Deere. For good reason. You can flip one of those straight over backwards on top of you more easily that one would think. Exposed flywheels on both sides makes one respect a JD. It was probably a 1955 model.

Don't know how we drift so much from the topic. What can you say? The kid was great, but it took him a minute to really grasp that the bus driver wasn't driving. But he did, that's enough.

"I'm an excellent driver."

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The exposed flywheel/starter on the left was enclosed just after WW II when John Deere went to 100% electric starting. The clutch/pulley on the right was a feature right up to the end of production.

The first tractor I drove was a Ford...don't know the model number.
It had a starter button on the floor pan.

I saw that many were enclosed. That could have been, actually. But the pulley for a flat belt drive was not, of course. Now I don't remember how the JD started but the D2 had a 2 cylinder gas motor that was started with a rope. Once warmed up a bit a clutch lever was moved to engage the 4 cyl deisel. Ran that for a moment to build oil pressure and open the fuel cock. Off and running, disengage the gas motor and shut it down. The thing ran for 10 hours or more when working the fields.

Me, I just drove around in circles until I was told I was messing up the grade of the farm land. Damn kids, you know.

They all probably know how to put up a Wordpress site, though.

Great job, kid! I wonder if he's a Scout?