Posted on 11/29/2013 3:09:33 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
As a boozed-up school bus driver careened down Columbus, Ohio, city streets, terrified children yelled “She’s going to kill us!” cops and witnesses say.
Tia Denton, 51, was nearly three times over the legal .08 blood alcohol content limit and way off her route as she took turns too fast and dropped of her young charges Monday.
Concerned parents and district transportation officials took notice and called cops about the erratic — and tardy — driver, the Columbus Dispatch reports.
One witness said her three grandchildren, ages 6, 9, and 10 years old were an hour late and dropped off by the disheveled Denton, who asked the kids, none older than 12, for directions and could not properly operate the school’s blinking “Stop” sign arm.
As the witness followed the bus, children pulled down the bus windows and yelled “She’s going to kill us! She’s going to kill us!”
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Something like this just happened in my home town. A bus driver was relieved of duty due to driving drunk with 20 kids on the bus. She was sent home. She continued to drink and went driving again. She then got into a serious head on collision. Just a few weeks later a teacher was removed from her class. She was drunk when she showed up for work. I am not sure what is happening these days or if it was always this way but it’s not good at all.
She of the preferred protected race? Some way will be “fashioned” to “protect” her job.
Airborn school buses are cool.
weeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Not the least bit good. But threads like this lead to interesting comments.
But three ... do
Mine did that in the ‘80s, and loved to take wild curves so we’d all be sitting on one side of the bus and land on the other. Another one would stop for an ice cream truck and let us all get out and buy us a fudgesicle.
Nowadays they’d be tried as sex offenders.
“...boozed up Columbus bus driver...”
I didn’t know Columbus was an alcoholic bus driver?? All this time, I just thought he discovered America...
Silly me...
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