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In December, a school bus driver in Del Valle, Texas, was running a half hour late on his route because he stopped to write up reports on unruly children. Several worried parents began to search for the bus, but when they found it they were not able to retrieve their kids because the driver had locked the doors, citing rules against discharging passengers except at official stops. The driver drove away with angry parents banging on the bus and hanging on the doors and with others chasing the bus in a 20-car caravan. After driving to the bus office, the driver fled from the bus, but at least one parent got in a good punch.
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In November in Waverly, Texas, high school football coach Larry Spacek and his assistant were suspended for their attempts to convince a 14-year-old boy to improve his grades so he could make the team. Spacek grabbed the boy and had started arranging to hang him by the neck from the ceiling of his office when the assistant, saying he had a “better idea,” grabbed the boy in a hammerlock and held a pistol to his head.
Patrick Pinnock, 30, was arrested for burglary in Hartford, Connecticut, in January when he broke into an apartment to get money for drugs. It was the apartment of two police officers, who were awakened by the noise and made a quick arrest.
