About 20 minutes ago I saw a transit bus on the freeway in San Jose area. The front message board said "CALL POLICE 911" and the rear message board (much shorter, for route numbers) said "911" as well.
This market resolves to "Yes" if I or someone else finds information (police report, news article, police scanner broadcast) confirming that this was a crime in progress. I intend to spend at least a few minutes searching later this week. Otherwise, it will resolve to "no" in a week.
Update with more information: After I saw it I called CHP. They seemed to take it very seriously and said they would alert their officers.
I'm reasonably certain that it was a crime in progress, but finding confirmation may be difficult. I'm upgrading the market to incentivize others to help search for confirmation.
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Resolving "no" on the basis of:
1. CHP reports from the time period in question don't mention a hijacked bus, although I reported it to CHP.
Nothing in the news that I could find within the past week
Nobody else was able to find any reference to the incident either.
I count this as not being able to find confirmation and nobody else did either. Accordingly I am resolving "no" as previously described.
I searched through this website: https://ca-17.com/incidents/2024/09/07/index.html which has CHP incident reports from today. I was not able to find any referring to the bus I saw. Unless someone objects for finds new evidence I will probably resolve "no" at the end of the week.
@AndrewMaxwell I think I worded that badly btw, I didn't mean the rest of the article was funny, I just found that preview strange.
Article:
https://www.sanjoseca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/32/
Search:
https://www.sanjoseca.gov/residents/site-search?q=Police%20blotter#!#K9bTay5jzq
So from what I can tell online, some bus drivers think that these systems can be accidentally triggered too easily and these messages are usually false alarms. And even if it wasnt, I imagine finding evidence will be a bit of a struggle. I think this will resolve NO.
@kevor You mean this? https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/vta-panic-button-false-alarms/3578158/ I agree; seems like false alarms are a big problem for San Jose buses in particular, and also I've had trouble finding information about previous emergency events.
