Teenagers hijack two school buses from a parking lot in Brooklyn: it didn't work the first time

The bus hijacking operation took the guys about 40 minutes. But this time was not enough for the police to detain them. And this despite the fact that there were witnesses of what was happening. The edition writes about it New York Post.

Early in the morning of Labor Day, September 7, several boys made their way to a school bus stop in Brooklyn and attempted to steal several vehicles.

Jenny Hoffman, 35, witnessed the scene with her boyfriend. According to them, teenagers around the age of 12 or 13 climbed over the barbed wire fence to get into the parking lot. To avoid injury, the guys prudently covered the barbed wire with a T-shirt. This action was filmed on camera by Hoffman.

The car park is located on Otsego Street just off Sigourney Street in Red Hook. As soon as the teenagers were there, a real comedy began, which lasted 40 minutes. They could not figure out how to overcome the obstacle in the form of a gate and leave the parking lot by bus.

At first they tried to drive out in front. Then they made as many turns, changed the course of direction, gave up for a while, talked to someone on the radio and finally decided to leave, backing down and breaking down the gate. “I think it didn't work out as easily as they planned,” Hoffman said. - They took a break. They kept getting in and out of the bus and saying something like, "How are we going to open this gate?" - and then they returned. They made many turns. It was definitely a non-professional job. I'm surprised they did it at all. "

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To discourage the students, Hoffman's boyfriend approached them and asked what was going on. Those were afraid that the eyewitness was going to call the police and asked him not to. They said: “Our father said that we have to take these buses out by any means possible, and we are doing this. Please do not call the cops, he will be in trouble, - Jenny relayed their conversation. "The impression was that someone set them up."

The guys then left the damaged bus parked on the street, but drove off in two others, who were also parked in the parking lot, according to cops and witnesses.

Leonard D'Amico, general manager at Jofaz Transportation Inc., which owns buses, said the company has had buses in the area since 1994 "and we never had any problems." “I don’t understand how they were not caught, because it took them so long,” said D'Amico. - This is madness. Now I need to buy a new fence and pay someone to guard the area. "

It is not known if the cops found the two missing buses. “We have GPS on all of them, but one of them could be a new bus that we didn’t have GPS on,” D'Amico said.

As of Monday, September 7, the young scammers remained at large.