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Speeding Tennessee school bus driver asked kids if they were 'ready to die' before fatal wreck
NY Daily News ^ | November 22, 2016 | Meg Wagner

Posted on 11/22/2016 9:30:21 AM PST by Zakeet

The Tennessee school bus driver charged in a wreck that killed five elementary school kids allegedly asked the students if they were "ready to die" as he raced down a narrow Chattanooga road, a parent said.

Johnthony Walker was speeding "well above" the posted speed limit and lost control of the bus before it flipped over and wrapped around a tree, police wrote in an arrest affidavit.

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Walker, 24, is charged with five counts of vehicular homicide for the deaths of five Woodmore Elementary School students: three fourth graders, a first grader and a kindergartner. None of the children - four girls and a boy - have been identified.

Another dozen students remained hospitalized Tuesday morning, six of whom are in critical condition.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: accident; chattanooga; education; iohas; schoolbus; thugculture
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To: Zakeet

Put him on trial for murder.


101 posted on 11/22/2016 11:20:46 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: fella

Assuming he is found guilty and doesn’t get off with a ridiculously light sentence from a liberal judge, he will be a reason for Tennesseans to keep Democrats out of the governor’s mansion—to prevent him from getting a pardon.


102 posted on 11/22/2016 11:22:56 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: NonValueAdded

There’s always a post or two that show how deep the demoniac runs.


103 posted on 11/22/2016 11:25:57 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("I ask that prayers ... be offered for *everyone*, for kings and for all in authority." -1 Tim 2:1-3)
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To: hanamizu

Back in 70s and 80s, students could get school bus driver jobs in SC.


104 posted on 11/22/2016 11:31:30 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: I want the USA back

“This piece of $hit got the job only because of his protective pigmentation.”

How would you know?


105 posted on 11/22/2016 11:50:05 AM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Mercat

Was his background checked for recent visits to a mosque?


106 posted on 11/22/2016 12:12:37 PM PST by Boowhoknew
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To: Zakeet

Now-—WHERE did I put those horse clippers & the blade wash? Gotta be here somewhere. May just have to use dull scissors & rusty razors........& use them dry.

ARE there NO dress codes in working for the school district???


107 posted on 11/22/2016 12:40:31 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Well, he wouldn’t be the first black who attempted NASCAR, but I doubt that that hair would stay under his helmet.


108 posted on 11/22/2016 12:43:28 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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I forgot. What Amendment defends the right to drive a school bus full of kids?


109 posted on 11/22/2016 12:45:41 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Well, I just happen to be reading “The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens that Made England.” My ancestors took revenge to an artform.


110 posted on 11/22/2016 12:46:24 PM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #MyPresident)
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To: Zakeet

I have been leaning towards the attitude more & more that the black community suffers from a complete case of DENIAL. It is obviously a very contagious disease, and there is no cure. No one is apparently looking for a cure, either.

Also- the definitions I have learned in my 77 years & the definitions in my 1656 copy of Webster’s Dictionary are certainly NOT the same as the definitions the black community uses all the time.

If this ‘young man’ were a clerk in a store I was in, I would leave & go elsewhere.

RESPONSIBLE????? HOW???

RESPECTED??? BY WHOM???????

The divide between the whites & the blacks in this country has gotten larger & larger.

I also am totally convinced that I CAN NOT FIX STUPID.


111 posted on 11/22/2016 12:57:48 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Scarpetta
True story. A bartender friend of mine had a black gentleman come into her bar and order a “Hennessy and Yoo-hoo.”

Well, that was a fellow with a taste for the finer things in life. After all, who doesn't like chocolate milk's delicious, watery cousin?

;-)

112 posted on 11/22/2016 1:03:50 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: HiTech RedNeck; Boogieman

Nobody should be on pot unless they have cancer or for some other type of pain relief.

Pot makes you stupid, lazy, and forgetful, don’t believe me just look at Gary Johnson:

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/09/08/gary-johnson-what-is-aleppo.cnn

Don’t buy into the hippie BS propaganda that booze is worse than pot, because it isn’t.

The kids would have had a better shot if the driver was on Meth or Cocaine.


113 posted on 11/22/2016 1:15:21 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Zakeet

He was probably working on his rap lyrics as an aspiring rapper on the drive.


114 posted on 11/22/2016 1:19:57 PM PST by Organic Panic (Gentrification in America. Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: Boogieman

If it only saves one child....


115 posted on 11/22/2016 1:20:43 PM PST by Organic Panic (Gentrification in America. Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: Rebel2016

The demographics of the school are 94% “african american” with 90% of all students on free lunch.


116 posted on 11/22/2016 1:22:07 PM PST by Organic Panic (Gentrification in America. Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: mewzilla

Here, any licensed driver can drive students around in a school van if there are 7 or less students.


117 posted on 11/22/2016 1:22:59 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Rome2000

Except of course, when it is.

Any social intoxicant is unwise to be used in situations where alertness is paramount. Any.


118 posted on 11/22/2016 1:55:00 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Zakeet

He showed premeditation. He deserves the death penalty. He gave the death penalty to innocent children.


119 posted on 11/22/2016 1:57:26 PM PST by Crucial
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To: Organic Panic

But, ya know, he had to LIVE in order to be able to present them to the world. Or was this where life imitates art?


120 posted on 11/22/2016 2:00:56 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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