OMG, they've killed Frostie: Bus driver forced to resign after mowing down snowman left in middle of the road
Near miss: A passing car sees the snowman and steers wide of its frosty form
OMG, they've killed Frostie: Bus driver forced to resign after 'brutal murder of snowman' left in middle of the road
By
Paul Thompson
15th December 2010
A bus driver has been forced to resign after veering into the wrong lane to flatten a snowman.
The
public transit bus can be seen in a YouTube video deliberately crossing
on to the wrong side of the road to demolish the sculpture built on a
quiet residential road by students.
The incident was filmed on the on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana.
Will he swerve? The bus driver has a clear view of the snow sculpture and room to maneuver past it
The video starts with a car travelling on the correct side of the road, having to slow down and precariously make its way around the obstacle.
Then from the other direction appears
the bus, driving on the wrong side of the road, before hitting the
snowman full on.
The students can be heard shrieking
with laughter.
Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District spokeswoman Jan Kijowski said the driver has resigned after the incident was posted on the internet.
Flattened: But the snowman's short life comes to a sudden end as the Champaign-Urbana driver careers over him
Kijowski said the district had laid down the law to all the drivers.
'Whenever an incident occurs, we try to use it as a teaching opportunity to remind the operators what are the safe and good choices that can be made,' Kijowski said.
The video, called 'Insane Bus Driver Brutally Murders Snowman', has received over 25,000 hits since being posted on December 4.
Minutes before the bus approaches a car can be seen slowing down and driving round the snowman obstacle.
Hit-and-run: The bus speeds away as the onlooking college students bemoan the fate of their statue
The creators of the video are
then heard screaming 'No!' in the background as the bus deliberately
drives into the four foot high snowman.
More than 800 people had joined a Facebook page devoted to reinstating the bus driver.
'Help the Bus Driver who killed the evil snowman, get his job back,' one of the comments says.
Some people said the bus driver,who has not been identified, prevented an accident by demolishing the road obstacle.
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