Mayhem on California school bus as parents smash inside and kids forced to climb out windows

A California school bus descended into chaos when furious parents broke their way into the vehicle and children climbed out the windows when the driver refused to let them off.The wild scene unfolded Monday along Highway 49 in Calaveras County when students were reportedly kept aboard for about an hour, KCRA 3 reported.The footage shows one child squeezing through a window to escape, followed later by a parent climbing through a window and confronting the driver.The tense confrontation unfolded as other students remained inside, creating a chaotic scene with children using the windows as makeshift exits.One 12-year-old aboard the bus said kids were initially screaming and excited about getting off.“Everybody was screaming and stuff because they were excited to get off the bus,” the student said.The child said the trouble began after the bus stopped and another child climbed through a window.

“That’s when the bus driver was like, ‘Sit down, roll up the windows,'” they said.The driver told the children they would need to wait for law enforcement before leaving, according to the student.That decision enraged some parents who arrived at the scene after their children called them from the bus.California's top news, sports and entertainment delivered to your inbox every day.

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Never miss a story Nichole Wellington said her son was frightened, prompting her to drive to the bus and demand that he be released.“I went right to the door and I was like, ‘Dude, open the door.Let me have my kid.’ And he’s like, ‘I’m not doing that,'” Wellington said.

She eventually told her son to climb through a window to get out.“If he would have handled that situation and gave the parents their kids that were there.I think it probably would have went a little bit differently than it did,” Wellington told the s...