News | WorldBoy, 12, steals school bus and takes it for joyrideSebastian Mann7 May 2016This was the moment a 12-year-old boy stole a school bus then went on a joyride through the streets of a US city.Footage captured from a car behind the errant vehicle shows it veering across the road and mounting the kerb before stopping at a busy junction.The young crook was only halted in his tracks when a passenger in the trailing car got out and hopped on the bus as it waited in traffic, Bangor Maine Police Department said.Public-spirited John W. St Germain then wrestled control of the “blue, rolling missile of destruction” from the youngster before officers arrived at the scene and arrested him.Read MoreSchoolchildren have lucky escape after school bus goes up in flames on way to lessons in north LondonBoy, 4, forced to walk home after school bus drops him at wrong stop half a mile awayGirl banned from school bus because she is not baptisedIn a Facebook post the police force said: “The young man was taken into custody and John continued on his day.“[John] probably saved much property damage and even injury or death to an innocent driver.”Police said there were no passengers on board the bus during the joyride.MORE ABOUTMaine