Mike Ehrmantraut really dropped the ball on this one. He was always so careful in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, but his senility must be making it hard to keep his cover. 😂
It's really weird, and after you mentioned it. He goes from calm and answering to yelling random stuff back to calm and deep breathing to answer when asked. Like flipping a switch
"His sugar level is good." "His beer intake is not." "I did NOT go to a hospital!" "Sir, we're at the hospital." "Holy crap." This video has some pretty hilarious dialogue 😂😂😂😂
This is some kind of delirium. He could have been drinking but this is more than that. Sounds like hallucinations, agitation beyond alcohol, and is unable have lucid conversation.
My busdriver back in the 80's was a known alcoholic but for whatever reason, parents and the school district let it slide. He passed out behind the wheel one morning on the way to school and so two of the older kids put him in a seat and one of them drove the bus the rest of the way to school! He used to rage at us all the time too. He would walk up and down the aisle screaming at all the kids, big and small, about whatever reason he felt like that day. I grew up in a small rural community and that was the way it was, but thankfully we don't put up with any of that nonsense anymore.
The fact that he was able to walk and speak coherently with a BA that high is amazing. Most of us would be fighting for our lives in the hospital. His poor liver.
That’s what an er doctor said to me before I got sober. My relative with me and the doctor was surprised I was standing let alone talking. But I had the drive to do my best to cover it up so I did my best. I was over 3 times the legal limit
I am the same way, thats why I do not touch hard liquor. I will be walking and talking and driving just fine. No idea myself how wasted I am, but the next day I have no memory of whatever stupid shit I got into. Some people are just built to be alcoholics.
@@ddysprks Most people couldn't even walk if they managed to be conscious with a BAC of .32.....let alone drive a school bus with 40 kids lmao. He's got an insanely high tolerance for alcohol. I think it's safe to argue that he's been drinking for years. If he couldn't even show up to court sober after his felony DUI, why would showing up to work be any different....... He's going to destroy his liver if it isn't already shot.
@@ddysprks it’s not speculation to say that someone with that high of a BAC is a longtime drunk. Someone who isn’t an alcoholic wouldn’t be able to stay awake much less drive a bus. He’s able to do so because he’s been an alcoholic for many years.
I feel sorry for the lady that smelled the alcohol on him. She just didn't want to assume the worst of a coworker. Totally understandable, but now she's left questioning her judgement because it ended up endangering a bunch of kids. I hope everything worked out OK for her.
My sister had covid, while she was only slightly sick for a few days her sense of smell and taste were pretty much gone for like 4 months. I don´t blame the lady for smelling "something" and not telling. However, I can´t believe no else ever noticed something about this dude.
@@hanshansen5058 I had a similar experience. I guess that's why I feel so bad for her. It's just totally disorienting to lose two of your senses. Such an easy mistake to make in that diminished state.
Good on his colleague for immediately owning responsibility and being honest about maybe having smelled alcohol on him when talking to the police. I can understand why she was hesitant to speak up initially. Hope she doesn't lose her job over this.
@@DHGxMcFlurry I was hospitalized with covid for respiratory failure. Was in there for a little over a week. Still haven’t been able to smell or taste the same since. That was 3 months ago. Ijs
@@DHGxMcFlurry I had COVID and couldn’t smell anything at all. I could pour bleach and not smell it. It has been 2 years, and I still have trouble identifying smells.
Finally a reasonable sentence for DUI, child endangerment and resisting arrest, 18 months imprisonment and lifetime ban from driving, operating a motor vehicle or working for a school district. BTW, the "I am terribly sorry" part is just good acting. These officers were beyond professional.
That was the realization that he got caught in the court room for the very thing he was being charged with. Might as well not have a trial at that point, and they pretty much didn't.
@@conformistbastard9842 in some states, you can get 36 months ACTUAL TIME SERVED (2x 18) for VEHICULAR HOMICIDE and be back in society. It's a crazy world man.
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This is a good example of the power alcoholism has, & how hard it is for an alcoholic to stop drinking on their own, regardless of legal & personal consequences. Hope he gets help.
For that high a blood alcohol level, that's a given or he would have been unconscious or dead. The detox in jail must have been very hard on him... but he deserved it. He could have gotten those kids killed. He's lucky that he doesn't have their blood on his hands. I wouldn't have a problem if some of the parents beat the crap out of him.
Totally. My jaw dropped when the results of the breathalyzer came in... and that was 2 hrs after initial contact (one of the documents shown indicated an ~14:20hrs contact). Golly, this could have been SO much worse. Thank God he didn't kill anyone whilst driving.
My mom was a maintenance drunk. And she acted a lot like this guy. The repetition, the hysteria, the protestations that he is in control. Ive seen it all
@@RandomPerson-nd2ey When it starts, it starts as 'just being forgetful' or 'easily confused' . loved ones of these people can be in denial or maybe couldn't afford him to not work anymore. alcohol consumption to any degree, can amplify symptoms while intoxicated, when he sobers up, he could have less severe symptoms
@@BMWiE-lz3nu Actually, his BAC was 0.32, which means 1/3 of ONE percent of his blood was alcohol. If 1/3 of his entire blood was alcohol, his BAC would be 33.333. The highest BAC ever recorded was in Poland and the guy had a BAC of 1.43 (1.43%).
I really like the part where he’s screaming that he was never at a hospital, and they point over to the building next to him and tell him he’s at the hospital right now. And he just looks at it and says “holy crap” like he just saw God 😂
@@dontwatchtv5797 Dementia can exhibit very similarly to the way this guy acted. There are many different levels of dementia. if I didn't know this guy was drunk out of his mind, I would have called dementia, too.
I can relate to post COVID smell. I legit thought my house was on fire and had to ask my kids if they smelled fire. They looked at me like I was crazy. 💀
@@sephiek923 ayyy that’s not to bad, it’s been 6 months and I can’t smell milk, and most soda tastes like it came out of a fish tank. Most of the fabric softeners smell fishy too. I’d rather be smelling a fire.
@@imoffendedthatyouareoffended I had C0V1D September of 2021 and my smell is still screwed up as of October of 2022... I sometimes randomly smell a smell I would compare to a dead body. (I'm a retired Sheriff, that's how I know the smell... 😂) The doctor told me there are people that might never get their smell fully back. 😭
I also smelled electrical fire with covid. one day a few weeks later i smelt it again and opened my freezer . it was completely black inside with that same smell. It really was my fridge on the fritz lol
I work in a memory health clinic, I administer the testing and the docs interpret and give diagnoses. As you can imagine, the majority of our patients are typically suspected to have dementia/Alzheimer’s. This man reminds me of so many of my patients that I’ve had in the past. We use the same word that the judge used to describe the patients like him - impaired. Obviously adding alcohol to the mix is not helpful. I hope this man gets the treatment/management/help that he desperately needs.
His bac was 3x the legal limit. I'm almost wondering if he was stuck in a type of loop and just used to grabbing a beer from the fridge or ordering another at the bar because its just a habit that he remembers. We had a friends mom who ate a whole pie to herself because she didn't remember eating the piece before that. She had Alzheimer's.
I was thinking he was having a stroke or could he be diabetic (that sweet smell when it’s ketoacidos -could be wrong on the term ) and possible memory issues…adding drinking to mental and health isssues can make a leathal cocktail
Exceptional editing, EWU. I greatly appreciate that-it really helps with the pacing and keeping it so much more interesting than watching raw footage of each camera one after another. 👏 💯
Mark was not trying to be entertaining or faking. Mark has some serious alcohol and emotional issues. Most addictions are rooted in rejection, self hate, guilt and the need to be loved. This does not excuse him for endangering the children but i think he did care.
My Dad has the same problem it came to a head this spring he got fired from his job for drinking stayed drunk for a month came home got really drunk one night grabbed a gun started shooting stuff in his yard and threatened to kill himself that was enough for me and I decided that he needed to finally suffer some real consequences after dodging DUIs for decades I worked out a plan with the cops went in started talking to him secured the guns while I had the phone on speaker and they put him on a 3 day hold sent him to a substance abuse ward and he was there for a week. He kept it together for a week after that then started drinking again now he owns a bar 5 hours away and only calls me when he needs something whatever I tried.
@@CenlaSelfDefenseConcepts that's rough..I hope he works on getting sober but there's not alot you can do. I've been considering going to a support group for people with loved ones battling addiction. it's hard to work up the courage though. if you have any in your area, I would consider giving it a try. it might help atleast a little. good luck to you
@JDCardwell80 congrats, man!! That's really awesome. Not an easy thing to do by any means. I've been clean since 2017 and it's been the most peaceful 7 years of my adult life!! Keep it up! Life is too good, even in it's worst moments clean/sober, to ever go back to using!! 🖤
This exact same thing happened to me when I was a kid. Our bus driver was drunk. She ran a stop sign and broadsided a car turning it upside down in a ditch. She was arrested and taken to jail. One kid got a bump on the head but no one was seriously injured.
My bus driver was drunk and hit a deer. Fortunately it was while she was on her way out to the first stop. After that stop, she turns around and picks up kids. But, when we passed the deer dying in the ditch on the way back with a bus load of kids, she stopped and let kids get out and touch the deer. It was still alive. She's luckly AF the deer didn't have one last dying kick, or it could have killed one of the kids. She got away with it, too.
It really is a nightmare. My dad was an extreme alcoholic. When you have that much alcohol in your system, you depend on it and you have been for a long time. Everyone who knows him, including his employees and coworkers, knew he was a functioning alcoholic. Once he started detoxing, his body went thru extreme detox which would have probably killed him if he didnt received medical aid thru it. My dad would drink liquor ALL day, become very violent and fall asleep usually around 3am every night. Even the days he drank over a gallon of liquor he would wake up about 4 hours later shaking because the alcohol was leaving his body. It usually took 2-3 beers to get him to where he could get up and get ready to leave. (And Repeat) EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Until he finally drank himself to death. Pretty unfortunate...
A reminder of how frustrating it is to be a cop dealing with people under the influence. I grew up with a non-violent alcoholic parent and this is not outside the bounds of how an alcoholic acts. I hope that jail gets him sober.
Jail is proven to be one of the worst places to sober up in order to prevent relapse. Jail as an answer to someone’s personal problems is an archaic understanding of criminal justice.
@Tyler I’m going to hell for laughing at this comment but dude that was funny to me. PS to be clear….nothing about this situation is remotely funny to me…. Just this comment for some reason. 🤣😂🤣
It could have been diabetes. Countless times people are arrested for drunk when they're having a low. A few people actually still have a record when they had a bac of 0.0 too.
Diabetic ketoacidosis can make your breath get a fruity alcoholic smell to it. It’s also a life threatening condition, where some of the outward signs can mimic an extremely impaired individual. But, this guy was just plainly a hardcore alcoholic if he was still walking around with BAC of that level.
Idk if that's all from alcohol. It reminds me of my stepdad who was recently diagnosed with dementia. He is nowhere near this level of forgetfulness but it scares me to death that will be. It scares me for him too, because he knows it's coming and that's the worst part. To know you're literally losing your mind and there is nothing you can do. It breaks my heart because he is one of the best people I've ever had the honor of knowing and has been the greatest Papa in the world to my child and my nephews. He has always loved my mom more than life itself and completely changed her life for the better, he took us in and treated us like we were his own kids (more than what my stepmother has ever done) and my brother and I were already grown and out of the house when he and my mother met. They've been together for almost 20 years and I wish they had another 20 years together. He was supposed and hopefully will still be able to walk me down the aisle along with my dad as he has been honestly, more of a dad to me than my own father most of the time even though my dad has always been in my life. Sorry for the rant, it just looks so familiar the way he keeps realizing he doesn't remember. ETA: now that I am more than 4 minutes in and have seen more of his drunken stupor and shenanigans, this is definitely not dementia. But I still don't think it's ALL alcohol.
He thought he was getting arrested for an "Ambulance Test" because he left the ambulance There is definitely something more going on in this guy's brain, not sure what
My Grandfather had dementia really bad to the point I was somewhat relieved when he passed away he didn't have to deal with that mental torment anymore he passed 6 months after my grandma his body was strong but his mind went my grandmother's mind was sharp as a tack but her body failed.
I don't think he was drunk at all, i agree with you, he wasn't dragging his words and he was really confused and scared, but whatever the important thing is that no one got injured
While I know he was absolutely in the wrong, I can't shake the fact that I think he may have dementia or some form of Alzheimer's, my grandmother had it and it can lead to being extremely irritable because at times you can have zero idea of what's going on or why. Like, you can remember the here and now, but you can't physically piece it together and it can make you panic and act extremely irrationally. The part about him escaping the ambulance makes me especially concerned because he talked about being afraid and not understanding what is going on. I am honestly very concerned for his health otherwise and I really hope that when he admitted to being "impaired" on the stand, he meant alcohol and not some other form of impairment that was misunderstood.
Also, to add to what I said, zoning out can be a big part of it because they are always trying to keep up and get their brain to work, but it just won't. Understandably, a lot of this can also come as a result of way too much alcohol, but it makes me wonder why he drinks in the first place.
My daughter complained about the bus driver. Turns out that he was driving drunk. I started taking her to school because the school wouldn't do anything about it. This was in the late 90's in Arkansas. 😡
Well policing has changed drastically since the 90’s so I can see why this was swept under the rug. Really can’t get away with drinking and driving niw and days, especially a school bus driver smh
I'm thinking it's a mix of alcohol and dementia honestly. I've dealt with quite a few people with dementia before, sometimes they're all there and sometimes they're not. Had people that I took care of for months that still didn't know who I was, but could recall things from 50 years ago like it was yesterday. They also in my experience have a hard time with what may or may not be acceptable behavior.
Honestly one of the most sad things I've seen in a while. Especially the ending of him at his hearing, poor guy probably has so many issues he didn't know what to do and just resorts to alcohol.
@zinger777and he needs help. Resorting to alcohol is a terrible option for any one, especially for someone with mental issues. He’s a danger to himself and others.
@@napatora Brain so rewritten that it needs alcohol to function. Doesn't mean problem involved with consumption of alcohol disappear. They never do. You still drunk, still unfocused and still pretty much unconcious. Him going off the rails is basically realization that all of that about to come crashing down on him.
Thank-you! I don't believe that I had previously heard about this case. Thank goodness no one was hurt or killed. And I hope he got help for his drinking problem.
As someone who has worked with dementia patients, I get why a lot of people want to believe there is more to this than just alcohol. But logically thinking, considering this went to court and he was jailed, he would of had some sort of evaluation to determine whether dementia or anything else psychologically had a playing part in this incident, if there was any inclination of that. The fact that it was never mentioned, a family member has never confirmed it nor was it given as a defence in court AND he also stood up in court and admitted to his behaviour being the result of alcohol, I think it’s unfair to find excuses for this man’s actions that endangered countless children. This definitely seemed like impairment due to a high intoxication level and there’s no evidence that it was due to dementia. Unfortunately, my dad was an alcoholic and died due to the effects of long term alcoholism. It’s definitely a disease that deserves empathy. But it’s wrong to just label and assume that this man was suffering from dementia to try to excuse his actions
If you have worked with dementia patients, then you should be aware that extreme alcoholics can exhibit symptoms of dementia due to deterioration of the brain (long term deoxygenation). It just depends on the degree of alcoholism and personal chemistry.
Honestly, I hope that lady wasn't fired. I had covid 8 months ago and I still can't smell or taste food correctly. Some things I can't smell at all, other things I get a smell confused with another smell.
Alcoholics can be an exhausting nightmare to everyone they know. I also pray that he gets the help he needs and sobers up, as much for his family’s and friends’ sake as his own. I speak as a recovering alcoholic.
@@GradKat I fully agree! I've been called a nightmare, as well as quite a few other colorful descriptives and expletives during my drinking career! I'm just glad that I haven't heard anything close to those bad names in quite awhile but not long enough to remember how they made me feel. Much respect to you for sharing and Strength and Love in your continued recovery, keep doing the thing! I too live in recovery and am grateful for this video, just reminding me that nothing's really changed "Out There" and that The Game is the same only the players have changed. And the pain only gets worse. The promises... 💯💙🙂
Nothing will change with this guy. He's too far in the cycle already. His wife is an enabler and trying to cover up the fact that he's a Non-Stop drunk
@@descargaelbano love how you know so much about some stranger. I hope everyone around you has so little faith and such little compassion for you when you’re at your worst. I guarantee you’ll be begging for help and understanding when you fall off that high horse at some point in your life.
I agree. The fact that alcohol is even legal confuses me whilst they’re trying to ban the preferred flavor of cigarette of specific communities (menthols). Cigs are gonna be banned when they don’t impair anyone and yet they praise alcohol despite it killing thousands of innocent people every year. It feeds one of the worst addictions known to humans and this man is at the mercy of his choices. He can turn his life around just like we all can. I helped someone I love dearly get sober after 30 years of alcoholism. It’s never too late to stand up for yourself and realize you deserve better. Everyone deserves a second chance at life. Everyone.
I was getting a coffee and a school bus driver decided to get a coffee too while finishing his route. He left a small child unattended in the bus with the engine running and parked illegally in the parking lot. I asked him why he was leaving a small child (little girl) unattended in the bus and he got very angry however, a woman also getting coffee heard everything and had even more of an issue with it than I did called the bus driver supervisor informing her that she was a detective for local law enforcement and she needed to deal with her driver. He was removed from his job very promptly.
@@ffhhhbbfxfggggfdddffffffff lol that happened to me once on the public transit bus once lmaooooo. Lucky for me the bus stopped before getting to the garage and let me out about 5 minutes from my house.
@@ffhhhbbfxfggggfdddffffffff Lol. Did that in middle school. Got a ride home with all the elementary school kids staring at me doing the 20 questions bit.
This is so very sad. I'm sorry it took this for his alcohol dependency to be recognized. I wonder why family & friends remained silent since he drove a school bus every day. Surely they were aware that he was an alcoholic.
Man this kind of thing makes me sad. Personally I think most addicts, be it alcohol or drugs, should be sent to mental health facilities instead of prisons.
If he really is that bad of an alcoholic it’s likely (due to the way he’s behaving) he has wet brain, which isn’t mental health, it’s literally a physical problem with his brain at this point.
@@quindalyn2155 Hey…I totally 100% agree! I was just saying for the physical part of Wet Brain you need an actual hospital, not a mental health facility. He can be in the prison hospital if he does indeed have that. Did you see where he even showed up drunk for court? Ugh!
@@quindalyn2155 morality and consequences mean nothing to someone with addiction issues. I’ve seen people get 7 DUIs and still get behind a wheel. Treating addiction is the only way this gets better
Watching this makes me feel sorry for the cops who didn’t lose their cool with him. And sorry for his poor wife. Thank God the kids on the bus were okay.
Why would anyone feel sorry for the Poe cops for being professional and not beat th hell out of him ? Any other person would be in hospital, from the cops beating ! NOT talking up for the man drinking, but come on the boss lady said her job was on the line-she said herself ! Then blame it on Covid, bs how did he pass the physical and he probably just started drinking lol
@@jonothandoeser, a lot of cops wear concealed body armor, worn under the shirt. It tends to make you look really rotund (mine did), but if it stops bullets and knives, I don’t think many care.
I am an alcoholic and have been in recovery for 27 years. I have NO sympathy for him because he knew for years that he was drinking and driving many school children around. He had the choice to get into recovery and not only did he decline to do that, but even if he had decided against getting help, he also had the CHOICE to stop driving large numbers of children on a regular basis.
But he's also clearly got something else wrong with him. It's not just booze it's dementia. He might not even remember drinking most days. When he says he didn't drink today outside the hospital, I don't think he realises he's incorrect. He seems to have truly forgotten. This man has more going on than drinking.
Yep. When you allow your self destructive behaviors to start hurting/endangering others, that's when I lose all sympathy. Drinking and driving is always a CHOICE.
@@whelkpeopleofdoomconsider that if someone is non compus mentis, and honestly thought they only drank two, that their “choice” isn’t actually made in the same good faith as someone who is all there. Alcohol can speed brain aging and there can be a lot of complications.
I live in flagler, I've been arrested by these cops before I got sober and they treated me better than I probably deserved lol. One of them genuinely apologize for having to take me to jail when I got caught stealing hygiene products bc I was a homeless addict, this cop acknowledged the broken system, that taking me to jail wasn't the solution to any problems and I'll never forget that conversation. He made me feel like a human again and I've been sober since 2016. Probably a little bit thanks to them
As someone who's had a close family member suffer from dementia in her final years, this was painful to watch. He had that same look of horrified confusion that she would have, as she yelled with a shaky voice "WHO ARE YOU" to me. Almost on the verge of tears, shouting confusedly, becoming really belligerent. I'd try to get her to take her tablets, gently place my hand on her shoulder and she'd scream "YOU'RE HURTING ME" and try to hit me. It came in episodes, some days would be fine. Then some days slowly she'd lose it. It's quite possible the alcohol this man had was taken in his confusion, maybe he thought he was on holiday, or on a day off. This type of behaviour is totally different from the delirium of a chronic alcoholic, something my uncle passed away from. Also too, the company, school and many others vouched for Mark, that he was otherwise a normal, caring and functioning member of the community, not an alcoholic. That's what's so scary about dementia/alzheimers. Episodes of total amnesia. In which usually they're horrified in their own confusion. "ALL I CARE ABOUT ARE THE KIDS ON MY BUS" was heartbreaking.
youre dead right! my mum has early onset dementia and this video made my blood boil. this should NOT be on the internet. this guys struggles are not entertainment to be monetized....disgusting. unsubbed
He showed up to court drunk also. Are you saying THAT was an accident too? The man is a drunk, who may have mental issues in the early stages due to old age. Not the other way around.
This hurts to watch I feel so bad for everyone involved. This man is struggling with something, and the alcohol is not helping in all of this. I pray for the kids who where on that bus, the staff that has to handle the blow out from this situation, and for the man, that he gets help and his life takes a turn for the better after this situation.
@MCV yea ur probably right but it's still sad as shit this guy genuinely believes he did nothing wrong that type of brain problem is just horrible to see
@@FLSubie i know many heavy alcoholics that don't act like they have mental issues... this guy has actual mental problems, I'm sure the alcohol doesn't make it better but whatever is wrong with him isn't solely caused by alcohol, its very obvious.
@@FLSubie Amen. My brother has been a serious hard-core alcoholic since he was 15 with the exception of a stint in the Navy where he was required to remain sober and once for about a year as he fought to get custody of his kids from his ex, a very unstable woman at the time (she's settled down now and is a good mom). His other sisters and I have watched him go from a really happy guy with a bright future to an embittered old man (61) who is estranged from all but one of his sisters, both of his children, has lost one wife over the drinking, and is currently in the process of losing another. His brain has definitely undergone changes and his thought processes are often baffling. He doesn't make new short-term memories for the most part and only really talks about stuff that happened over 30 years ago, mostly to try to convince people that he was never wrong, etc. It's been sad to watch but nobody can help him unless he wants to help himself.
Exactly!! Nah EWU I don't find this man "entraitening" How he call this man multiple times in this videos . That's sad. God knows what is life was or is and why he would assume this quantitative of alcohol in the morning. Maybe he lost someone, maybe suffers from depression or early dementia and you people on here really don't pass the vibe check. Yes, he could have done something terrible with the school bus full of kids (again not his intention but indeed his fault, a bit of his ignorance, negligence and problems with his life) but now he no longer has a job and he's been prosecuted, I don't see why you all should be the judges to other people lives. And I find distopian that people have to laugh at this guy misadventures from the comfort of their middle class home without at least noticing that he's not full there, that he's struggling, he doesn't remember a thing he said 5 secs ago and that's not being drunk, that could be early stage of dementia. People from here have no empathy whatsoever
As someone working in Healthcare, specifically with Medicare Age Patients (Senior Citizens mostly/Geriatrics), I guarantee this patient has shown signs of Dementia or Alzheimer's to friends/family. I've seen this so many times. It's so heartbreaking and scary to see. I've seen it professionally and even with my own grandparents.
My uncle that's i think 62 or 63 years old has dementia purely from repeated alcohol abuse & is in permanent care due too it since about 1.5 years ago after probably close too 9 years of attempts at him to stop drinking for more then a few months. Got too the point where he stopped eating & went just for buying booze until he was all skinny the last 3 years before he couldn't convince rehab anymore to let him leave because he'd forget things more & more and had no recollection of where he was & had too guess how old he was. Government just dropped the ball entirely despite our entire family's efforts & attempts too have him admitted more permanently into rehab like 6 years ago because all he knows & cares to do is too buy booze & drink Even his ex wife who got divorced in like 2012 tried to help for a bit & we eventually just gave up collectively as it's his life too throw away then as he didn't listen to anyone anymore.
Keep justifying driving, with near alcohol poisoning, a school bus full of kids with “oooo poor old man must be suffering a disease.” Very likely he’s just an old drunk that cant kick his 30year old habit. Probably has no dementia. & has just been drinking every day for the last 30 years & its just now spilling over to him getting caught or not caring when he drinks & is going to work drunk ALL BECAUSE HE JUST DOESNT CARE. Not because he has a disease.
Ahh brings back memories of when my middle school bus driver (Cheryl) used to drive our bus drunk and tell us all about her a-hole husband 🤦🏼♀️ she drove us drunk into a telephone pole in front of my house one day and got brought off the bus by cops. never saw her again 👋🏻
same exact thing happened to us in Louisiana. that driver was crazy telling us the things she told us abt her husband. she also had a very obvious OBSESSION with my dad and he had to call the school board several times but nothing got done till she ran into a pole right after she picked us up
WV? Sounds like our activity bus driver in the evenings. She was this big trucker gal with bleach blonde hair that always had a cigarette stuck, yes, stuck, to her bottom lip. I'm pretty sure it was somehow fused with her lip.
@@henrygreer610 wow, the part ab her obsession and the school doing nothing as well, now I see why my parents were so adamant about me not riding a bus 😬
I had a similar issue to the lady that may have smelled alcohol when I worked in IT. A VP called me asking how to mask her IP address and make it look like it was coming from Canada. I said there is a way to do this but that's something we have to discuss with the IT manager. She said not to get them involved. I talked with my coworker immediately and he said we need to go talk to security because of the possibility of selling classified information. I was thinking that too but I knew if I was wrong she could be wrongfully fired and end her career from an accusation I made. Security got involved and we locked her account until we got the whole story which was that she was working on a merger project with a Canadian company and wanted to test if they could access our network, it was considered inside company information which was why she couldn't tell me the details or involve other people. I felt awful but everyone including the VP assured me that was the appropriate thing to do and she was sorry for putting me in that situation, ironically I got a big bonus from her budget even though she wasn't part of my management line.
Years ago I knew a fellow who was a school bus driver. I though he was sober because I sometimes saw him at recovery meetings. His wife who also worked for the school district knew he was drinking and driving the school bus. He only got caught when he drove the school bus to the liquor store. Someone ratted him out finally.
Hmm some people it can I know highly functioning alcoholics in fact I'm one myself people need to stop demonizing alcohol I would never put children's lives at risk or raise a hand or yell at my wife.
@@allysaurus96 Definitely not I've worked hard in my life and it's paid off all I'm saying is alcohol hasn't effected that or the relationship with my wife and kids one bit I've always just loved a drink from a young age.
My mom is an alcoholic and I’ve seen her like this way too many times growing up, I hope this guy gets some help he’s too old to be acting a fool out there like that. Things like this remind me why I never overdo anything
@@StacyNels42Uno she got a dui and then one of those scram bracelets and she quit for a few months but now she’s back at it full force without skipping a beat. Sometimes we have great days but I gotta admit I’ve never heard anyone call me stupid or dumb more than her
@@KaraTheGirlieidk his coworkers were saying how they smelt something on him and at his court hearing they thought he was drunk too idk either way hope he finds the light in the darkness
@@joshuaebblestien it was definitely both, normal drunk people aren't that out of it usually. He was scared and confused, I've worked with people with dementia for a long time. I hope he is okay.
How you can tolerate these people repeating themselves 100 times then you STILL listen to them ramble on is beyond me. I would never be able to listen to this for so long. You have amazing patience
The more patient they are they more committed to conviction they are. They are letting themselves prove over and over again to the judge or jury who might watch this later what the truth of the situation is.
I always wondered why drunks repeat themselves then once when I was drunk at a party a long time ago, with everyone talking I kept repeating myself because I didn’t think people were listening to me or hearing me and I felt like what I had to say was important or profound and I immediately caught myself and was upset with myself for it because it reminded me of my Mother but it also gave me a bit of insight into why drunks repeat themselves over and over like that. I don’t drink and haven’t in a long time, I never wanted my Daughter to see me drunk like I grew up with my Mother.
I have an Uncle Joe, too, and my mom (his sister) thinks that he's got dimensia. I haven't seen what he's acted like firsthand, but my mom's told me about it, and it sounded quite a lot like how Mark was behaving in the video. Only not tired and a little more irritable than normal.
Well, he’s addicted to alcohol…while it was very dangerous for the kids & others to drive while drunk…his outburst at the end tells me he’s locked into hell with addiction…he truly loved driving those kids,but his addiction has got him beat…I hope he gets the help he needs & life is treating him well…😢
Was so weird reading all the messages about poor old guy propably just having dementia and just being worried about childrens safety. Did you even watch the video to the end? The poor old guy was four times over the alcohol limit, surprised that he wasnt passed out! And on top of that, showing up to court drunk, and getting 18 months of prison! So nice to have all the amateur psychologists and doctors making diagnosis via RU-vid-videos 😅
Most people actually mention that dementia in combination with alcohol is a deadly mix and that some forms of dementia can actually be caused by alcoholism. I have yet to see anyone pointing out that he shouldn’t have consequences and there are concerns that he should get the underlying condition, whatever it may be addressed. Did you even read the comments fully or just go rage bait? Maybe you need to go back to the 3rd grade and practice reading comprehension.
A school bus driver in my area was found pulled over and passed out drunk with kids on her bus several years ago. A year before this, I worked at a school where she transported special needs children. The kids had made several complaints about her and their parents had submitted complaints to the bus garage but she was never disciplined or fired because it is so hard to find people willing to drive a bus these days. I hope she was fired after being found drunk though.
Yea, I've seen that in my city, also, constantly hiring school bus drivers. Maybe it's hard finding people to drive because kids are violent and non respectful now days?
No doubt. It's one thing to look the other way if that guy was doing a job that didn't involve hurting anyone else but himself (which is still unacceptable) but jeez, putting children in direct harm is unbelievable. Someone should've stepped in and tried to prevent it
my bus driver in first grade was always drunk and that was scariest when you have a turn that a bus can barely make in the best of circumstances. It was a hairpin turn its almost a 360 there was a power pole that had to be avoided in between the two roads, and then on the opposite side he was turning towards was a ravine a very very deep ravine! sometimes he hit a tree that was above the ravine, that thankfully saved our lives quite a few times. i didn't know it was a problem when i was 6 and 7 i just know he smelled bad, later learned like beer lol we got a new bus driver half way thru the year not sure what happened but i was very happy about it!
Working in retail firearms sales I declined to sell firearms to many people because they smelled of beer. DWI is common here with parents routinely driving around drinking beer with their children in the vehicle!! I have a family member who used to do this. Parents think nothing of doing this around here. Notice the guy has absolutely no issue with drinking and driving a school bus full of children!! He has done similar things all his life and the people he works for know he does this.
My best friend's Aunt did that, he was primary school. She _totaled_ a 70s' era Cadillac 🤯 Ran into the back of a Parked Car. Said the metro bus wasn't safe lol
This is literally my childhood with my father. Making sure he was breathing at night, calling an ambulance multiple times a week just to have them tell me that they can’t help because he isn’t consenting to go to the hospital when he’s completely incoherent, coming home after work at 5PM and can’t find him because he’s in the backyard on the ground crying out “I’m dying. I’m dying. I can’t get up.” When he was simply hammered. I understood him because I love him and I have done intervention after intervention and finally, it’s worked. After 25 years. It’s a hard experience, but he is sober now. However, I can’t keep him from the truth he lived that he does not remember. He hurt a lot of people and he needs to redeem himself. Driving under the influence is the worst thing anyone can do. For your family, for the strangers driving around you, your future. And ESPECIALLY in this case, THE CHILDREN!!!!!!! Everything matters when we get behind the wheel. This really aggravates my soul…because this could have easily been him….and I would never have forgiven him.
I'm glad your father got sober, he won't be able to get back the lost time but he'll in time be able to have his soul back. I'm a recovering alcoholic, believe me when I say he'll never actually be able to express the internal guilt he feels over the harms done. That's something we're very good at, feeling guilty. We often drink over it, then do more things wrong, then have more to feel guilty over. It's a very vicious cycle. I'm not saying that he's innocent, he's not, I'm not, no one is. But addiction is a spiritual malady, and only spiritual solutions can fix it. That is why when people truly recover, it's like they're an entirely different person. God bless, I'm glad you have at least some time with him that doesn't involve alcohol.
its stuff like this that makes me think that not everyone should be a parent and having a kid is seen to much as a necessity in life when it really really is not. like let's be blunt with this...... if your not financially, metally, and willingly able to have a kid then dont fucking have one. i hope your happy now at least.
@@mho... Are you on drugs? He committed a crime, and endangered the lives of a bus full of children while he was at it. I'm a recovering alcoholic, and I'll be the first to tell you that drinking is a choice. It's not like he woke up and his brain chemistry made him have a BAC of 4 times the legal limit. You've never been that drunk, I know because you wouldn't be here to talk nonsense.
I can't help but feel sorry for him. There's something going on to his mental state. I'm so glad nothing else happen to those children. I had been in sort of the same thing. It's called dementia. I wear patches now and it helps. I will get worse on time. I hope he gets the help he needs. The police is handling this so good.
You're wrong. There's something wrong with his spiritual state, and that is why he cannot control or manage his drinking. This is an impossible concept for a non-addict/alcoholic to fully understand. Medicine has tried (and failed) since the dawn of time to cure alcoholics, medicine still has no actual fix that works. All of the programs that actually do help people cure this issue, are spiritual in nature and don't involve medication. Spiritual solutions for spiritual problems. His alcohol level suggests he had a roughly 1 liter per day habit of 80 proof alcohol. I know, I lived that way for a long time. It's a cycle that is impossible to get out of if you don't see yourself as the problem. And alcoholic dementia is a thing, if you drink like that for decades it does very severe permanent damage to your nervous system.
If my kids were on that bus, the only help he would need would be picking up every single one of his teeth off of the ground...he was HEAVILY INTOXICATED. This has NOTHING to due with dementia, even if he does, alcohol induced dementia is the worst. He is clearly a seasoned alcoholic if he can still function with such a high BCA. This man has absolutely no business operating any kind of motor vehicle at all, and he definitely has zero business being around children. He is lucky that he did not injure or kill someone. I have zero sympathy for this old man, period.
I'm alcoholic, drank extremely heavily for 10 years before getting sober. When I tell you not to feel sorry for this guy, DO NOT feel sorry for this guy. Pity and getting away with shit keeps a person in this kind of living hell. He endangered the lives of a bus full of children. If this was my sons bus driver, I would be the one having to explain myself to police. You're clearly not a parent, and clearly have no first hand experience with addiction.
I get a lot of people in the comments are suspecting this is not only intoxication but dementia, but this dude doesn’t look like he should be operating a bus full of students in the first place.
