Sheriff: Man told not to smoke on bus sets driver's hair on fire, leads wild 95-mph chase
What began as one man’s trip to the supermarket for two gallons of milk — in, of all places, Georgia’s dairy capital — spilled over into a 95-mph police chase through two counties.
All because, as the Putnam County sheriff tells it, a man named Michael Douglas Freeman wanted to smoke a cigarette on a bus — and because Freeman had apparently been drinking more than milk.
Freeman, a retiree who lives near the northern shores of Lake Sinclair, was a passenger on a Putnam Transit bus Friday afternoon. He had ridden the bus into Eatonton on Friday morning and was toting the milk he’d just bought.
About 3:30 p.m., when he was almost home, Freeman lit a cigarette, Sheriff Howard Sills said. The woman driving the 20-seater bus with Freeman and another man on board promptly told Freeman to put out his cigarette.
Read more here: http://www.macon.com/news/local/article130744334.html
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That was quite a story! 
He made the other passenger and the driver get off before he took off in the bus - at least that's how I read it. It said he even threw the driver's purse after her.
I'm considering borrowing this story and posting it on GasBuddy, the only other online board I participate in. It's not the sort of place where you can have discussions. It's not set up that way. The point is to post local gas prices so people can see the cheapest places to buy gas, but there's also a section for posting relevant articles, and this one is about transportation... 
The participants on GasBuddy seem to mainly be retired folks - from all over the US and Canada - who like to cruise around and keep up with local gas prices. So this story might be a big hit with them. 
