Steven “emergency slide” Slater had nothing on William Cimillo, a Bronx bus driver who woke up one morning in 1947 and realized he had had enough. From the NY Times:
…fed up with the daily annoyances and nonsense of it all, Mr. Cimillo, 38, climbed behind the wheel of his bus one morning in 1947 and took a 1,300-mile detour.
“He disappeared for two weeks,” recalled his son Richard Cimillo, a retired firefighter who is now 75. “They picked him up in Hollywood, Fla.”
…Back in 1947, there was an interstate all-points bulletin for the missing bus. But no one reported any Cimillo sightings until he himself did the honors. He had apparently run out of money. He sent the office a telegram asking for $50. “I think he was playing the horses down there,” his son said. “They sent down the detectives to pick him up.”
Asked why he did it, the busman would explain: “This New York traffic gets you. It’s like driving in a squirrel cage.”
The real kicker comes at the end though:
As for William Cimillo, he wound up receiving what could be seen as the ultimate punishment — an outcome that might give Steven Slater chills. They gave him his old job back.
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