A Raeford, North Carolina, mother says she feels relieved after receiving a guilty verdict in connection with her actions in January, when she boarded a school bus she says was speeding through a residential neighborhood. Mindy Brumfiel says the bus appeared to be traveling more than 40 miles an hour in a 15 mile per hour zone, and so when it stopped, she got on. After the bus driver asked her to get off, she said she wouldn't until she got her own daughter off -- then proceded to call the driver and idiot and tell him he was speeding. The driver, a substitute bus driver and school custodian, had apparently taken a wrong turn and come back into the neighborhood he'd just left, drawing the attention of mothers who had just seen their children board.
Brumfiel says she had no idea it was trespassing to get on the bus -- she assumed they were public property -- but says she feels no particular remorse. “I can be guilty. That’s fine. The whole reason I’m here is because I was on the bus. I’m guilty for being a mom.”
Apparently the trespassing provision exists because some parents do get onto school buses with bad intentions -- the article mentions a mother having boarded a bus with a gun, and another parent getting on to attack a student. Still, Brumfiel's actions don't seem out of line to me. What would you do, if you saw a speeding school bus with your child on it?
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