Re: My bus caught on fire this morning
 

More of a GD-thread, I guess
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Re: My bus caught on fire this morning
 

Oh, well last time I checked school buses hand engines i the front...

Re: My bus caught on fire this morning
 

Then I suppose that was in the '40s, all somewhat big buses have had rear or mid-engines for dozens of years? :confused:

Re: My bus caught on fire this morning
 

For some reason we are using the same bus that broke down withen the day after it was a burning mess. It doesn't smell very good right now, I walked onto it and it smelled like gunpowder this afternoon. When I stepped off the bus the whole air smelled like gunpowder too. Now instead of being the kids from the burning bus we are the kids from the smelly bus.

My have we fallen from grace...

Re: My bus caught on fire this morning
 

Rofl.

I remember on one of the old buses I used to catch, it broke down as it was making it's way up the driveway of the school on our way home. Well, it wasn't too good when we had a large column of cars behind us..

Re: My bus caught on fire this morning
 

Many many buses, including school buses, have engines in the rear. All the buses at Rutgers University have the engines in the rear, save for the much smaller F 350 buses that are used for special needs people. Around my neighborhood I see many school buses for different schools, some with engines in the front, a few with them in the back (which, seem much older). I don't think too many newer buses come with engines in the back anymore do to safety reasons: there's usually an emergency door at the rear.

On topic: as for this "near death experience," I don't want to belittle you but I think it was nothing to worry about. Sure, being stuck in a bus filling up with smoke isn't fun but no one was hurt, the driver stopped in time and got you kids off, police and EMT's were on the scene, and you got to school. Proof that there was nothing serious: you are still on the same bus. For all the driver knew, it could have just been an exhaust kickback that caused a "bang." Sure, it was scary, but not a near death experience.

My near death experiences: My father and I were driving to my aunt's house for Thanksgiving when we were T-boned by some asshole in a honda. We were going 75 on the parkway when we were hit which, caused us to do a couple flips, land on the roof of the truck, and slide down the road. Without seatbelts we both could have been flung from the truck and ended up as roadkill.
My other near death experience: skin cancer.

Re: My bus caught on fire this morning
 

here is a pic of a school bus with the engine in the back

http://tntplanet.com/roxbury/Busses/Thomas699-1.jpg

Re: My bus caught on fire this morning
 

Sure you didn't misunderstand something, I said I haven't seen any buses below museum-age have front engines?:uhm:

Just to show why I didn't understand the claim of front engined buses, an ordinary, ten years old Finnish bus, which I have seen used also as school bus (we don't really have any special buses for that purpose, it's just ordinary buses hired for the specific time and route):
http://killerpop.irc.fi/tsb/720540/l...jat_39_001.jpg
(As a matter of fact that would be the same one I sometimes went to school with years ago when it was quite new.)

Re: My bus caught on fire this morning
 

Not had any problems on public transportation myself but if we are talking about general motoring near-death things then, on the way back from a trip to cornwall me and my dad was driving back to london at about 110-120 mph when out of the blue, the oil tank under the rear of the car ruptures, just like that, oil is sent flying everywhere and we're left drifting in the fast lane at over 100 mph, just lucky that there were no other cars near our rear and we was able to coast over to the hard shoulder.

Re: My bus caught on fire this morning
 

Eh...well yeah my bus driver was either an ex heroin user or loved his weed. He'd always take a sharp Connor at 100mph.thank God for all thoughts fat chicks that sat on the left side of the bus!