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Having a ball?

Maria Depina, in purple scrubs and her name tag, works the evening shift and left home early to get her 6-year-old son Eliezer when the doors shut for the day at the Holland.

“The bus broke,” Eliezer said as he sat in the backseat of his mother’s car. “No. They are on strike,” Depina responded.

Lynn Bennett of Dorchester said she had already arrived at work when her mother called and told her that the bus never came. It took her an hour to get back to Dorchester and drop off her 6-year-old son at the Holland.

“I had to take the whole day off from work,” Bennett said as she picked up her son. “It didn’t make sense to go back when school gets off at 2 p.m.” ...

Police officers working the overnight shift were ordered to continue working and to scour the streets for kids left in the lurch by the strike. Scores of officers patrolled the streets, some of them just advising children what had happened and others actually giving them a lift.

“Kids had a ball, thought it was fun,” said one police officer.

- Boston parents struggle to get children to school in wake of bus drivers’ surprise strike, Boston.com, October 8, 2013.

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