Eight chicago school buses stolen - reduced to scrap

[Lyon Wonder]

Eight Chicago school buses were stolen overnight early morning Friday and when Chicago police tracked their whereabouts they found of what remained of the eight buses in a scrap yard as shredded scrap metal.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290467/Eight-Chicago-school-buses-worth-250-000-stolen-overnight-shredded-story-pile-scrap-worth-less.html

Eight school buses in Chicago's Far South Side neighborhood were stolen last night and driven to a salvage yard, where they were shredded into a two-story "˜pile of scrap', local authorities said.

The 40-foot-long buses, capable of seating 75 people each, were stolen from the Sunrise bus company yard a few neighborhoods away from the scrap yard and were not discovered missing until this morning.

The name of the Sunrise bus company could be seen among the shards of metal found at SRV Metal Scrapper, police told reporters.

"˜There was a pile of shredded school buses about two-stories high,' one police official told the Chicago Tribune.

Engines and transmissions from the buses had been cut in half, and the seats were tossed in a "˜big pile of scrap,' that official said.

When cops arrived at the scrap yard, several people who apparently worked there scurried into a building on the grounds, the police report stated.

Four people were arrested throughout the day on Friday and taken into custody, including the owner of SRV Metal Scrapper.

[Brandon]

Yeah, that took some serious big ass brass balls to pull off.  One bus is big enough, but eight was gutsy.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-school-buses-stolen-20130308,0,1140694.story