A teenager in Forsyth County, Georgia was arrested earlier this month for breaking a school bus window with a milkshake. That’s right, a milkshake.
Nicholas Jones, 19, was reportedly driving on Dahlonega Highway in the opposite direction of the school bus when he threw a mint chocolate milkshake at it. The driver of the school bus said he saw a “large green blob come out of nowhere” before his window shattered. Jones told police his friend, who was a passenger in his car, made a bet that Jones would not throw the milkshake. He was charged with first-degree criminal damage to property and the disruption of public schools.
Joyce Bernard of Serena, Illinois has retired after a nearly half-century career as a school bus driver. Bernard told The Times that it is not uncommon to hear she has driven three generations of students within the same family. She also said that when she started as a driver 1967, school buses were not equipped with radios for communication with the transportation department. She added that if a bus broke down in the middle of a route, the driver would have a trustworthy student walk to the nearest store with a note asking for help. Bernard added that what she will miss the most about her job is spending time with children.
A school bus driver in Snohomish, Washington unintentionally drove a student to an elementary school 80 miles north of the school he regularly attends. The child attends Central Elementary in Snohomish, but a bus dispatcher accidentally gave the new bus driver the address to Central Elementary School in Ferndale, which is 80 miles away, and 17 miles from the Canadian border. Andy Muntz, spokesperson for the Snohomish School District calls the incident “an honest mistake.”
Meanwhile, a school bus driver in Arizona is facing 45 charges after an incident inside a school bus. Carol Capas, a spokesperson for the Cochise County Sheriff’s office said driver Colleen Weinstein pushed three students inside the bus. She reportedly pushed one student down the aisle, another over a seat, which caused him to hit his head on a window and pushed another student into a seat. Weinstein has been charged with 20 counts of disorderly conduct, 20 counts of endangerment, two counts of threats and intimidation and three counts of aggravated assault.
