The Ritz-Carlton Los Angeles has a hole in its front wall. Someone stole a city Metro bus, hijacking it with a BB gun late last night, ordering the driver to go to several locations. Inside the wall of the Ritz-Carlton may have been one of them?
There were no other passengers on the bus. It’s not clear why the driver lost control, but he collided the bus with cars, “including one at an intersection where another Metro bus driver stopped just as the hijacked bus ran a red light and crossed the intersection.” Then the bus crashed into the Ritz.
The bus’s driver was injured. So was a woman in a vehicle struck by the bus – it hit two Mercedes and an SUV. The hijacker headed off after the crash, found a bike, and tried to ride off into the sunset but was arrested.
NEW: A metro bus driver has crashed into the side of the Ritz-Carlton in Downtown LA, after a man pulled a gun on him. Police say the driver hit several parked cars before hitting the hotel. Two people who live nearby tell me the crash sounded like a bomb going off. @KFIAM640 pic.twitter.com/uPR9Y8an00
— Blake Troli (@BlakeTroli) March 21, 2024
A Los Angeles Metro bus hijacked by a BB-gun wielding man crashed into the Ritz Carlton in Downtown Los Angeles late Wednesday night. #citizenapp #citizen #losangeles #downtownlosangeles #crime #safetyalert pic.twitter.com/wOfyt9SYl5
— Citizen (@CitizenApp) March 21, 2024
The motive for the hijacking is unclear, but LA media refers to the suspect as “unhoused” (homeless). Surely this involves Keanu Reeves somehow, other because of The Matrix or Speed.
(HT: Ken A)
Typical California drivers .
Liberal SHIT. Give us back our president and everything will be alright.
Do you know what we call having a homeless person hijack a bus and then having that bus running into a Ritz-Carlton in LA? Thursday afternoon. This is not a big deal and any other reaction is a sign of weakness.
California – the land of fruits and nuts.
Why the hell don’t we just sell California to either Mexico or Canada? Then we can wall it off.
@J.C. – Great idea, but ix-nay on the Border Wall as long as a Democrat is in the White House. Every single Democrat Leader has walls around their own home, and they’ve even elected walls around the Capitol on several occassions, but they will not allow a wall on the Border. Feel free to vote otherwise next November !
Formerly unhoused, now housed. Just trying to get a ride to better accommodations. Probably was going to get a room on points. Now getting a room for free.
TJ too bad walls don’t work. Just ask the French after they spent billions on the Maginot Line to keep the Germans out. In 1940 the Reich’s troops simply went through, around or over it. Build them as high as you want and someone will find a way to break it down.