Kids yelled at their Drunk Bus Driver to STOP! Video

ALFRED, N.Y. (WIVB) - She was drunk behind the wheel with more than three dozen kids aboard her school bus. Now she's going to spend a lot of weekends in jail.

One student on the video screamed, "Put on the brake!"

This is surveillance video of the dangerous school bus ride last May in the Alfred-Almond school district in Allegany County. 55-year-old Martha Thompson had a blood alcohol content of .15. At the time, she thought the children were overreacting.

In the video, you can hear Thompson say, "Will you guys stop?"

To which a student replies, "Well, you're not okay and I know it."

The bus hit high speeds, ran over a mailbox, and started rolling backwards downhill.

A student shouts, "Turn the bus off!" "No," says Thompson. "You're backing into the freaking ditch, you're making the little kids cry...Stop!" screams another student.

Finally, the children opened the emergency door in the back of the bus to get out, despite Thompson pleading against it.

Thompson hollers, "You can't get off the bus!"

Now, she'll spend the next 12 weekends in jail on her guilty plea to 37 counts of child endangerment and driving while intoxicated.

Allegany County Assistant District Attorney Michael Finn said, "I think this was a just and appropriate outcome in this case. A potential tragedy was averted by the grace of God, and thankfully none of the passengers, nor Mrs. Thompson, was injured as a result of this sequence of events."

Defense attorney Thomas Trbovich, "She made a very bad judgment."

Her attorney blames her behavior on a little alcohol having a bad reaction with Thompson's medication.

"She's embarrassed. She's very sorry to the children. She never, ever would intentionally put any of those children, especially her own in any type of risk and now she's getting the help that she needs," said Trbovich.

In addition to 12 weekends in jail, Martha Thompson will be on six months of home electronic monitoring, five years probation and mandatory alcohol counseling.

0:55 lol?
0:55 lol?

awww, i love how ...
awww, i love how she comforted the? little kid. :D

lol? they are so ...
lol? they are so scared

They handled this ...
They handled this so well! I am proud of them! Like true adults! They saved not only? the passengers but others on the street and even comforted those children!

I would have got ...
I would have got on? my damn cell phone and called the bus station and told them what the heck was going on. I would not let someone drunk drive a bus.

@ian77efc? maybe ...
@ian77efc? maybe the fvkin l o l at the end of my text might have been a FVKIN CLUE as to i was OBVIOUSLY JESTING you must be an american and unable to understand humour or basic fvkin english ,ill rephrashe in your language would you like fries with that drunk bus driver

@JediTat are you ...
@JediTat are you freakind? stupid can ya not tell by the sarcastic tone in my text i was fvkin joking jesus christ jeditat sort ya head out go have a s**te relax a little ffs

THIS ISSHH IS CRAZY ...
THIS ISSHH IS CRAZY I DRIVE BUSES.. I WOULD NEVER? PUT KIDS THRU THIS.. SMH..AND SHID YOU SHOULD PULLED THAT YELLOW AIR BRAKES

@MrNico739 me too.. ...
@MrNico739 me too...?

They obviously ...
They obviously don't know what their doing, its kind of sad to make up excuses, why not pull the driver out of the seat, turn? off the bus, and call the cops.

idk y that girl in ...
idk y that girl in the frount is all yellin? n s**t... but when the other chick trys to get off the bus, her dumb ass stays on!

Who of them? is ...
Who of them? is drunk?!

@sadlkafjowiejf ...
@sadlkafjowiejf yea well last yr a guy got in a car drunk drove around town crashed with a man going home on christmas eve? and the not drunk man died

My rules if you can ...
My rules if you can get in the car and start it your safe too drive? :D

i thought that ...
i thought that crazy lady was? gonna flip it in reverse when they were getting out that back

errm whats going? on
errm whats going? on

i was so confused ...
i was so confused at the begginging lol i ws like y r they telling her to stop? whats wrong haha ?

I woulda? ditched ...
I woulda? ditched that b***h

indeedaronomy?
indeedaronomy?

thats? why there ...
thats? why there are escape hatches.

This is disgusting. ...
This is disgusting. I believe that before drivers actually drive the kids home, they should talk to a teacher to say 'I'm taking the kids home' and the teacher would be able to say? yes or no. The girls are saviors.

lmao if i was in ...
lmao if i was in there and i new that bus driver was drunk. she would be off that seat? and kicked off the bus just for the fact shes risking young kids lifes.

I feel proud of ...
I feel proud of these girls. Obviously, there is still some good people my age, That rather than looking our and worrying about themselves, they help and? comfort the children. Excellent. I hope that these girls- especially the one in the grey sweater- will be a happy and sucessful person later on in life. She deserves that.

I would have gotin ...
I would have gotin a fight with that? laddie

I'm teaching my kid ...
I'm teaching my kid to play Grand Theft Auto at age 5, so if his driver is smashed he? can get home, and maybe pick me up a prostitute on the way.

@ryan6627? just ...
@ryan6627? just type it in like i did and when u post it ..it will automatically be blue

is this in? Ohio?
is this in? Ohio?

My bus? ride in a ...
My bus? ride in a nutshell

Man is that was me ...
Man is that was me i would have told her off pullers? her off the bus and stop that f**ken bus myself its not that hard its the big pedal!

The? older girls ...
The? older girls are very responsible the one girl clearly said i know there something wrong with you.

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