NJ students text parents their school bus driver drunk

[RamboLiberal]

A New Jersey bus driver has been charged with drunken driving after a middle school student texted home with "Mommy I think our bus driver is drunk she's not driving right."

Westhampton police Sgt. Stephen Ent says Carole Crockett had a blood-alcohol level of 0.25 percent, five times the legal limit for operating a commercial vehicle.

Some of the 25 students on the bus called and texted their parents Tuesday afternoon to alert them. Twelve-year-old Dominic Rodrigues tells NBC Philadelphia ( http://bit.ly/srQgMv) that kids were yelling: "I don't want to die today!"

Parents called Westhampton Middle School, which alerted police. Officers say they found Crockett at another school trying to pick up more students.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/11/10/national/a184423S58.DTL#ixzz1dMuHIzX5

[Aerows]

1. Holy Crap!

.25? Isn't that like pretty much obliterated? Did she even remember picking up the kids?

[saras]

3. How drunk she was varies - drunk to extremely drunk

With a .25 level, she'd likely be completely nonfunctional if she were a very light drinker.

The fact that she got as far as she did with that high a blood alcohol indicates that she gets drunk a lot.

Either way not good.

She was too drunk to remember to call in sick, apparently.

[pnwmom]

2. Cell phones can come in handy, can't they? n/t