Sentenced: Bus Driver Charged After Leaving Kids At Pennsylvania Gas Station, Walking Away

[Sugar Cookie]

A bus driver has been charged with 26 counts of endangering the welfare of children and one count of DUI after leaving dozens of students stranded at a gas station.

The incident happened Friday afternoon in Pennsylvania.

The bus driver, identified as Lori Ann Mankos, was driving the regular bus route when she reportedly pulled into a gas station after a disturbance on the bus.

WFMZ reports that Mankos parked the bus, got out and walked away. She allegedly handed her keys to a gas station employee before leaving the scene.

Some of the students on the bus were allegedly joking about the Mankos’ driving and ultimately asked her to get off the bus.

Many of the children were picked up at the gas station by their parents, according to the news outlet. Others were driven home by another bus driver who was called in by the district.

None of the students were harmed.

Bus driver charged after leaving kids at Pennsylvania gas station, walking away

BATH, Pa. – A bus driver has been charged with 26 counts of endangering the welfare of children and one count of DUI after leaving dozens of students stra...

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[Jaded]

I'd probably do the same, except for the fact that you couldn't pay me enough to be a school bus driver.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

I own a bus (this is actually my second one) I love driving it.

That being said, there is no fucking way I would drive a school bus full of kids.

I think the schools need to pay a second person to help the bus driver when the kids are acting up. Also that second person could get out and hold up a stop sign and help the little ones get safely across rural roads.

and one count of DUI

No sympathy for her tho.

 

[Old Man Metal]

Some of the students on the bus were allegedly joking about the Mankos’ driving and ultimately asked her to get off the bus.

Fucking asshole kids.

and one count of DUI

Fucking asshole driver.

Give them all detention. Together. On the bus.

 

[McDanel]

Fucking asshole kids.



Fucking asshole driver.

Give them all detention. Together. On the bus.

My mind was somewhat open until I re-read and caught the DUI. Of course, was she drunk at home when they found her? They still need to prove she was DUI while driving.

 

[EyEgOrE]

At least she pulled over and walked away, instead of beating the shit out of the kids or just driving the bus off a bridge or into a wall. I wonder what age/grade these kids were.

 

[Old Man Metal]

They still need to prove she was DUI while driving.

Yep. I would have walked away from that bus and gone straight to the nearest bar and started drinking.

 

[cubby]

i've wanted to do that with my own two kids, nevermind a busfull. Minus the DUI part.

A friend of mine who's kids were suspended from riding the bus made her sons walk home the first day. Don't sound so bad, you say, but they had to walk every step of 15 miles in a hot Georgia summer. They never were suspended again. One of them is a lawyer now, The other one I'm not sure about but I do know he's not in jail or on drugs or freeloading off of her, so I don't think she did too bad with them. The third son is in the Navy and I think he's in Japan right now.

 

[LFODBiker]

She's a hero - That was the act of someone that correctly recognized that she was nearing the edge of her patience and had to do something before loosing it and driving the demon-spawn off a cliff.

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[Totemic]

I want to know when they tested her for the DUI. Also, if no officer actually saw her behind the wheel, they can't prove it.

She realized she was at wits end, parked the bus, walked away. This could have turned out a whole helluva lot different.

 

[McDanel]

Yep. I would have walked away from that bus and gone straight to the nearest bar and started drinking.

I was thinking of a pint from the first convenience store I saw, and chugging it while I walked. You're fucked, you know you're fucked, so fuck it.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

@Satanica

The attorney for a woman accused of endangering dozens of children on her school bus says the police version of events may not tell the whole story of what happened to Lori Anne Mankos and how she handled it.

That’s why attorney John Waldron had the 44-year-old woman evaluated by a psychologist. He said he plans to review surveillance video, and possibly audio, from the school bus to determine whether her behavior warrants criminal charges.

According to court papers, Mankos was pushed to the limit by the students’ behavior. She was yelling, cursing, driving erratically and speeding, according to court papers. The children "related Mankos said she wanted to kill them,” troopers said.

Then she pulled over at a Sunoco gas station at 109 W. Main St. in Bath, handed the bus keys to an employee there and abandoned the kids.

Waldron said the incident resulted from mounting tension caused by the misbehavior of children on the bus.

“She had been complaining to the bus company since the time she had been on this route and was having problems with some of the students. Nothing was done,” Waldron said. “And the stress was building up and building up and we believe she couldn’t take it any more.”

Waldron said Mankos suffered a mental breakdown. He’ll review the psychological report and review the surveillance video, then decide how to proceed with the case.

A DUI charge has been dropped while 35 new charges were added.

She may have abandoned a school bus full of kids, but did she endanger them? DUI charge is dropped.

The attorney for Lori Anne Mankos wants to review surveillance video

www.lehighvalleylive.com

 

[Satanica]

How could anyone wonder if she endangered them? Isn't that pretty obvious. I do think the bus company or school administration should've at least tried to resolve her complaints. Really, they could've just banned the troublemakers from riding the bus and that should've stopped the problem.

 

[McDanel]

You think kids are running amok at school? Wait till they're on the bus. The driver can't do anything but drive, rendered helpless. The video and audio off the bus is essential to have some sense of what happened here. I also note the DUI was dropped.

 

[Sue sue]

How could anyone wonder if she endangered them? Isn't that pretty obvious. I do think the bus company or school administration should've at least tried to resolve her complaints. Really, they could've just banned the troublemakers from riding the bus and that should've stopped the problem.

She stopped at a gas station she could have left them in a field or ram a tree. She could have called the cops. I think every bus needs another adult to monitor the students

 

[Sejanus]

 

[Ripley]

Middle school kids in packs are feral animals

 

[Sugar Cookie]

 

[Freyja]

I say drive the bus into a lake.

 

[Metalfan]

Hilarious

 

[Josh P]

I've seen pictures of text added around the Kenworth emblems on trucks. It says this job ain't fuckenworth it. That applies here.