Over The Bridge

Today have a terrible story for you.

You may hate me and the story at the end...because it is not funny.
At all.

It's a true story a friend told me.(I can't verify for sure ,but it is possibly true)

Now here we go.

Sometime in the early nineties .

A man was traveling from Benue State to Onitsha.In the middle of the night journey, armed robbers struck.

They dare devils ,5 in number, shot sporadically in the air and forced the driver to stop the 16 sitter bus.
The armed robbers stormed into the bus and asked the passengers to bring  out all their moneys and drop it on the floor.

In 30 minutes ,they carefully ransacked all the passengers and the bus ,tearing open every space and corner in the bus, taking all the money on the floor and from the passengers.

As the armed robbers were about to step out of the bus, a young lady screamed out.

"someone did not give all the money o"

Informing the robbers that someone had not obeyed their orders.

The lady pointed to another woman who had a baby with her.


One of the robbers came back into the bus,looking red in the face. He had the kind of look harden criminal have when they are about to do something very sinister .He strolled slowly towards the lady with the baby.

As the armed robber came closer ,the expression on lady's face was that of one who just got a death sentence.

When the armed robber got to the lady , he pointed the silver pistol at her and dragged the baby from her grasp.

He looked at the baby , as another member of the gang checked the baby's diaper .


Turns out the nursing mother had hidden some money in her baby's diaper.

To everyone's shock the robber made a crazy statement.

"You have not learnt to talk or walk yet and you have already started stealing money" 

He was referring to the baby.


Suddenly  ...bang...

A gun shot rang right there in the bus...

Guess what happened?


The robber shot the baby point blank right in the forehead.

He passed the lifeless body of the baby to the mother and walked like a king out of the bus with his gang behind him.

"move"


 He screamed at the driver as he pointed the scary weapon towards the bus.


The confused driver screeched the car out of the stationary position and sped towards Onitsha.


For a few seconds everyone in the bus could not believe their eyes.

The mother of the baby could not stand the pain of seeing her baby die, she fainted a few seconds after the shot was fired.


No one uttered a word as the driver drove for almost 20 minutes.

When he got to benue bridge , he stopped the bus,walked to the lady that ratted out the nursing mother .He dragged her to the door as she kicked and screamed ,fighting to remain in the bus .

He overpowered her and pushed her outside the bus. She was still screaming, shouting and protesting. Seconds later , I did not hear her screams anymore.

The driver came back in ,breathing heavily like he just won a marathon race.

He did not need a soothsayer to tell him what had  happened .

The driver had pushed her over the bridge into the icy cold ,dirty river below.


No one made anything attempt to stop the driver.It was like everyone had secretly agreed to what he did.

The driver started the bus and drove away, like nothing happened.

The end.


My question is ...was the driver right?