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ARTICLE · 27 JULY 2022

Car-jacking offences in New South Wales

Car-jacking, or "stealing a motor vehicle or vessel with assault or with an occupant on board", is a criminal offence.

AustraliaCriminal Law

Kids will be kids – carefree, candid, and just about all of the time, curious.

And now, in an unexpected series of events, these turned out to be the very characteristics that helped bring a school bus hijacking in the United States to a halt, namely in a bunch of school children simply pestering their hijacker by “asking lots of questions”.

According to news outlets, the incident unfolded on Thursday 6th May 2021 when an army trainee boarded a school bus in South Carolina, before pointing a rifle at the driver and ordering him to drive to the next town.

The hijacker then ordered all 18 students on board the bus to stand at the front of the vehicle.

However, this proved to be the man's greatest downfall.

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