Brickbat: When You Get on the Whiskey

Mary Coletti, a bus driver with New York's Lakeland School District, has been charged with felony drunk driving. Coletti sideswiped a telephone pole while driving a bus with 35 students on board. Police say a breathalyzer test showed she had a blood alcohol level of 0.13 percent.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

So is the brickbat here the government agent (bus driver) endangering citizens (children) on their way to mandated government service (school) or is the brickbat the elevated charges the state (prosecutors) are heaping on a citizen (bus driver) "for the children" or is the brickbat telephony infrastructure being damaged by yellow government conformity conveyances?

[Almanian!]

It's government all they way down, isn't it?

[Princess Trigger]

You don't asks the questions here.
Judge N asks the questions.

[pan fried wylie]

in this case, isn't actually endangering children a valid invocation of "for the children".

[JeremyR]

.13 isn't that drunk. Before the hysteria of the '80s, .15 was the limit in some places.

Maybe that's the "Brickbat"

[UnCivilServant]

Question - how many people at 0.13 are able to function well enough to properly walk, let alone drive? That has to be a small subset of functional alcoholics.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

I know Dr. Johnny Fever can.

[straffinrun]

The NSA is just pissed from all the pinging in ears she made when she swiped the telephone pole.

[Andrew S.]

This seems totally unfair. I mean, you'd have to get drunk to deal with a busful of kids, wouldn't you?

[UnCivilServant]

Not drunk, stoned out of your mind on happy pills.

[straffinrun]

Otto?

[Gordilocks]

Hey, Bart-Dude!

[Libertarian]

Or roofies (south park bus driver).

Hey! I'm starting to see a trend here!

[Gordilocks]

A few too many Irish Coffees to start her day.

[pan fried wylie]

racist.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Why is everyone focused on school bus drivers behaving badly, when there are so many examples of regular motorists being involved in accidents?