“I was just playing that for a minute,”Worley said. “And after I was done, I looked up and everybody was gone.Then I looked out the glass door, and I saw the bus leaving.”

He pushed on the door to chase after it, but the door was locked.  Turned out, the manager of the bowling alley needed to make a trip to the bank in the hour between school groups, so he followed the class out and locked up behind them, said Manager Rob Rover.

Worley started to panic. “I just thought, ‘Oh, crap,’” he said. “I called my mom. I told her to call Sullivan East and tell them they left a kid at Belmont Lanes.”

Debbie Worley, who was home sick and had loaned someone her car, didn’t stop with the school; she called police, too.

“I would have busted a window out if I could have gotten there,” shesaid. “I was a basket case – so scared of him being there by himself in that big building he couldn’t get out of.”

Meanwhile, police arrived to wait until the boy was safely rescued. Then school officials showed up.

read full article here