At the tender age of 11 I was put on an Academy bus at the Leonardo bus depot on Rte. 36 to go to a Giants game unescorted.some actually did, hence why the overcompensation after the news reports it. When I was a kid, I walked home from school by myself starting around 4th grade. Then there were all these kidnappings in the news, and the state started making stricter rules for young kids.
Didn’t know a soul on the bus.