Daily News | Carjackers were no match for a brave SEPTA driver and his 15-ton bus
a Fishtown carjacking last week on a late-night run by using his 40-foot bus to box in and scare off the would-be robbers.
A daylong rain had stopped and few were outside. Looking to his left, DeShields said, he saw three men who looked to be in their 20sIn a flash, DeShields angled the bus across West Thompson Street, leaned on the horn, flashed the blinkers and shouted out the windows.Carjacking continues to plague Philadelphia. Here’s how young carjackers say they get away with it.
Under SEPTA policy. bus operators must keep themselves, passengers, and others safe, and they are discouraged from intervening in a crime. But within that framework drivers are allowed to use discretion, transit authority officials said.a day off from his regular 4:30 p.m.-to-2:05 a.m. shift. “My coworkers were laughing and teasing me, saying, ‘We heard you were Batman.
DeShields said he agrees the policy makes sense. “I don’t recommend people go out and fight crime, and I don’t have any kind of training for that,” he said. “But as a citizen I think you need to help out if you can. See something, say something.”
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