One adult with autism in NYC

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Of course, I know this is serious........but at the same time, I just found it so funny, I just had to share it.

Here are the escapades of one adult with autism.......one could say he is "out and about" in the community! gosh, maybe they should just give him a job with the Metropolitan Transit Authority.

Bus Vanishes, NY Transit Impostor Arrested Again The Associated Press

A man who commandeered a subway train at age 15 and has repeatedly posed as a transit worker was arrested again Tuesday on charges he stole a bus in New Jersey and drove it to a New York airport. Darius McCollum, 45, was stopped by police officers Tuesday morning in Queens while driving an empty New York Trailways bus, authorities said. McCollum, who lives in Harlem, has been arrested 26 other times. Over the years, he has donned Metropolitan Transportation Authority uniforms and cheerfully collected fares, cleared trash from tracks and put out underground fires. But he's also driven MTA buses and trains. Trailways' vice president of marketing and traffic, Anne Noonan, said she didn't know if McCollum had been seen previously in the area where the 52-seat bus was stolen. The bus was taken from a maintenance facility in Hoboken, N.J., earlier Tuesday. It was tracked using GPS to New York, where police stopped it around 9:15 a.m. on an entrance ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway, which connects Queens and the Bronx. The New York Police Department says the keys were in the ignition and McCollum essentially walked to the facility, got on the bus and drove away. Police say he told them that he went to F. Kennedy International Airport and drove around Queens. He didn't pick up any passengers, and he wasn't wearing a uniform, they say. His mother, McCollum, said he's autistic and doesn't mean to harm anyone. She said she didn't believe he had stolen the bus. "All he has to do is put his nose in New York and they'll pick him up," she told The Associated Press by phone from her home in Winston Salem, N.C. Darius McCollum became a New York sensation as a teenager when he commandeered a subway train full of passengers in 1981, taking the controls and piloting it to the World Trade Center. It turned out to be the first of many forbidden rides. By the mid-1990s, frustrated transit officials posted thousands of wanted posters in trains and stations so riders could report McCollum sightings. But riders who ran into him found him simply friendly and helpful. The MTA New York City Transit agency's security department has had McCollum on its radar and MTA spokesman Fleuranges said employees have been on the lookout for the "career transit worker wannabe."