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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.

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

True story. A bartender friend of mine had a black gentleman come into her bar and order a “Hennessy and Yoo-hoo.”

She told him they didn’t carry that.

He then asked for a “Couvassier and Yoo-hoo.”


81 posted on 11/22/2016 10:26:40 AM PST by Scarpetta (ue)
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To: jaydubya2

Yes with special training and endorsement for school bus driver.


82 posted on 11/22/2016 10:28:00 AM PST by stansblugrassgrl (PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION!!! YEEEEEHAW!)
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To: Zakeet

Is he also a good husband to his child’s mother?


83 posted on 11/22/2016 10:30:30 AM PST by madprof98
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To: madprof98

Which child
Which mother


84 posted on 11/22/2016 10:32:01 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Does America still have lots of safe closet? No)
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To: mewzilla

From 2015, Texas, same company...

Dozens of students hurt in Crowley ISD bus crash

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/School-Bus-Crash-Reported-in-Fort-Worth-301471101.html


85 posted on 11/22/2016 10:32:37 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: Zakeet

Is Johnthony his muzzard name?


86 posted on 11/22/2016 10:33:07 AM PST by Bigg Red (To Thee, O Lord, I lift my soul. Thank you for saving our Republic.)
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To: Zakeet

Some people just need to die.


87 posted on 11/22/2016 10:39:35 AM PST by Mark was here (We came We saw She died.)
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To: alternatives?

“Is he married to his son’s mother?”

I think the position is baby daddy.


88 posted on 11/22/2016 10:39:43 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Deplorable and loving it.)
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To: DaveA37
“Yes, he has that aura of reliability and integrity all around him.”..........."

"Guess your computer posted a different photo than mine did."

Some people can spot sarcasm without them posting the < /s> :-)

89 posted on 11/22/2016 10:41:43 AM PST by Spunky
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To: healy61

Well, she’s the one that named him Johnthony. She may have had issues herself.


90 posted on 11/22/2016 10:42:30 AM PST by John W (Under One Year And Counting!)
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To: Boogieman

Do you want to prohibit alcohol, the 3rd leading cause of highway fatalities, also?<<<

Can’t do that. It would be raciss.


91 posted on 11/22/2016 10:44:36 AM PST by PrairieLady2
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Well, there’s only so much in a name. For example, I work with two black ladies, who are cousins, who both have “normal” American first names. One of them is hard working, honest, and pretty smart. The other is a shiftless idiot who is always trying to get others to do her work and blaming her mistakes on other people.

So I think a stupid name can easily ruin someone’s life, but a normal name is no guarantee they won’t ruin it anyway.


92 posted on 11/22/2016 10:46:03 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: jimmygrace

I was trying to figure out who he looked like. You nailed it. Did his mother run out of “A”s when she named him?


93 posted on 11/22/2016 10:48:02 AM PST by Terry Mross (This country will fail to exist in my lifetime. And I'm gettin' up there in age.)
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To: jaydubya2

AFAIK, ALL State/Provincial jurisdictions in the US and Canada (most definitely Canada) require ‘commercial’ licenses and special ‘school bus’ certification. In addition, I believe that almost all bus companies and boards of education require and provide training. The company I work for requires a 40 hour training program, including both classroom and ‘hands on’ training.

In AB, a ‘bus’ license is ‘Class 2’ and with it, I am licensed to drive any vehicle up to a semi or a motorcycle. AFA a ‘school bus’, two days of additional training and a ‘road test’ is required within 6 months of obtaining the ‘Class 2’ license, to continue to drive a school bus (the ‘S’ endorsement) in AB. This is pretty much standard in Canada and, I believe, in the US, to wit, a ‘commercial’ license with a ‘school bus’ endorsement.

FWIW, there is a shortage of school bus drivers because, it is really only a part time job though, for the hours you work, the pay is not bad. With my employer, I am paid by the ‘run’, so I loathe snowy roads and don’t mind when certain kids are away, reducing my stops and time driving. IF you can supplement your regular ‘run’ hours with ‘charters’ and other runs, it can be lucrative. For many of the laid off ‘corporate’ workers in Calgary, such a job is ‘beneath’ them and not all retirees want to, or can, handle driving kids. Unfortunately, with all the Middle East immigration to Calgary, we have a lot of people who still drive like they are in Cairo or Damascus. In the US, you have to hire people like Johnthony, whereas in Canada, you have a lot of Muhamed’s, Abdullahs and Jameelahs. Oh well, all the more to try to bring to Jesus!


94 posted on 11/22/2016 10:49:05 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: Scarpetta
Wow. What a waste of good Yoo-Hoo.

;-)

One of my grandfather's friends used to mix single malt Scotch with Milk. Called it a "Brown Cow".

Still makes me shudder. And cry a little.

95 posted on 11/22/2016 10:49:11 AM PST by wbill
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To: Zakeet

It’s amazing! All of the mothers of some very bad boys who get killed or maimed always say glorious things about their evil spawn. They were such wonderful children....blah...blah...blah.

It’s just God’s way of taking out the trash, whether by accident or via capital punishment or permanent cages to keep those wonderful children from the public in the name of safety and law and order.

Never fails! Travon was a wonderful child too.


96 posted on 11/22/2016 10:58:22 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Zakeet

I’m pretty sure he was referring to Schlitz Malt Liquor...

;-)


97 posted on 11/22/2016 10:59:09 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Thanks, that’s very helpful!


98 posted on 11/22/2016 10:59:50 AM PST by jaydubya2
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To: Scarpetta

At my house we occasionally use Yoo Hoo to mix “Brown Russians”


99 posted on 11/22/2016 11:01:00 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Zakeet

Oh man. That’s just a nasty thought.


100 posted on 11/22/2016 11:14:06 AM PST by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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