Busload of California teens hijacked

[Rose Siding]

SANTA ROSA, California (AP) -- A group of American volunteers -- most of them teenagers -- were robbed by armed men while traveling on a service project in Guatemala and released unharmed, group leaders said Saturday.

The 13 teenagers and four adults were heading to El Salvador on Friday with the Sonoma nonprofit group Seeds of Learning when their bus was hijacked, executive director Katharine Hewitt said.
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The hijackers fired shots, boarded the bus and asked for a translator. One of the men pushed the driver aside and started driving, Bacon said.

With Bacon translating, the robbers asked passengers to hand over their possessions and made off with $11,200 which had been donated for the service project, and personal possessions including cameras and cell phones, Bacon said.

The group then headed to Antigua and was staying at a hotel there on Saturday night while deciding whether to continue on to El Salvador, where they planned to build a new school, Hewitt told The Associated Press. Almost all the students wanted to continue, she said.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/07/18/bus.hijacking.ap/index.html

[Downtown Hound]

1. Sheesh! I'm from Santa Rosa!

Glad no one was hurt.

[leesa]

2. I wonder what Girlie-Man Gropinator will do about it?

[Downtown Hound]

3. No doubt he will singlehandedly

grab a machine gun, parachute into hostile enemy territory, and tur-mihn-ahte those low lifes!

[Rose Siding]

4. If only they'd had a non-union bus driver!

:D