"A few of us - like three to five - quickly just tried to futilely grab the bus near the wheel arch, which is where the guy was, and lift it up," Zoheb says.
When the driver collapsed from a fatal heart attack about 8 a.m., Mr. Lawrence, 30, grabbed the wheel of the bus, which was headed east on Jerusalem Avenue in North Merrick.
Thinking, OK, no problem, I'll take the Metro Red Line from Universal City to Hollywood and Highland, walk the long block to Sunset, and grab the #2 bus out to Palisades Charter High School at Temescal and Sunset where the graduation was taking place.
One of the rabbis on our Federation mission grabbed the microphone and asked the bus driver to stop in front of an old apartment building.
"Thanks Mom!" Grabbing the bag, the child dashes to the bus and we both move on with our days.
Last July, more than 150 angry Israelis stormed outside his home, throwing stones and chanting "Arab lover!" and "Death to the Arabs!" A short while earlier, a Palestinian had grabbed the steering wheel of a bus traveling along the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway, plunging it into a ravine and killing 16 people.
"I made sure the bus was secure, went back and grabbed the student," Maxville, who'd just let another student off the bus, told ABC News.
The court heard yesterday that Turtak grabbed the woman while she waited at a bus stop in Beeston, Leeds.
Long after Jay-Z and Beyonce had stopped their all-out, hands-in-the-air dance-along to the vibrant album, West became excited when a city bus drove by and grabbed the microphone to remark on the fact that the event was "out here in the middle of New York City blasting music and nobody is shutting us down".
Then, en route to his bus in Sioux City, Mr. Kerry grabbed the stick.
