Reply #93: Thanks for the link. It sounds to me like several of the passengers were EXTREMELY brave.

[Zuiderelle]

They did try to go back to help the victim, and they blocked the killer from exiting the bus.

Oliver said a truck driver then arrived at the scene and handed out wrenches and crowbars to several men. The small group gathered around the door to the bus and prevented the man from exiting until police arrived.

Seems to me that the best thing to do would be to help as many people get off the bus as possible. There is no way that enough people, even large strong people, could have prevented that boy's killing. I'm sure he was dead before people even realized what was happening. And even so, the aisle of a bus wouldn't give anyone the leverage necessary to subdue a crazy man with a knife. If they didn't first get everyone off, the man would likely have flailed wildly in self-defense, injuring and killing others in the process.

I suppose some hero here would have run over the seat backs past all the passengers to subdue him by gripping his knife in their own hands.

I for one am impressed by how well everyone on that bus handled this nightmare.