Boy, 12, steals school bus and takes it for joyride

This 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.