‘I’m done with this sh**!’ Distressing moment Ohio school bus driver resigns ‘after being tormented by bully students who triggered her asthma by spraying perfume’ – as her rant inspires T-SHIRTS
- Jackie Miller said she was sorry for her reaction but that she wouldn’t change it
- She lost her temper after students sprayed perfume she was allergic to
- Miller said the month prior the students had done the same thing and forced her to have an asthma attack, and that for two years they’d been harassing her
An Ohio school bus driver resigned in despair after screaming at students who sprayed perfume on her bus and caused her to have an asthma attack while driving.
Jackie Miller was filmed telling students to ‘shut your mouth’ in the town of Amherst where she’d worked for the past two years, before finally declaring ‘I’m done with this s**t!’
The driver of 15 years quit after the incident, throwing up her hands on what she told local outlets was incessantly bad behavior from a specific group of students on her line, who she claims bullied her out of a job.
As the video racked up millions of views, Miller became an unlikely hero scores of people leapt to her defense over what they felt was a fair reaction to a dangerous situation. A GoFundMe page to support her, and a local store even started selling t-shirts with her infamous exasperated declaration printed on it and donating the proceeds to school bus driver associations.
Though Miller later told 3News that she regretted the incident, she said that she would not take it back and that she felt her behavior was justified.
Miller said she was sorry for how she reacted, but that she wouldn’t change what happened
Miller was caught on camera berating students after they sprayed perfume on her bus
In the video, Miller could be seen storming down the aisle of her bus after a student told her that somebody had sprayed perfume.
‘How much more do you expect me to f*****g take?’ she yelled, then demanded to know which student had done it.
All the students denied spraying anything, but Miller insisted she could ‘freaking smell it.’
‘I’m sick of you, I’m done with it,’ she said, pointing out individual students. ‘I’m gonna start f*****g kicking some serious a**.’
‘Do you hear me?’ she yelled. ‘My foot’s gonna be so far up your a** it’s gonna dangle out your f*****g nose.’
As the kids kept denying they’d sprayed perfume, Miller insisted she could smell it, saying ‘I’m allergic to that s**t.’
‘I ought to walk off this bus right now and let you people walk the f**k home,’ she said.
A t-shirt with Miller’s quote on it. A portion of the sales are going to Miller to help her out
Despite the severity of her reaction, Miller later defended her actions, telling 3News how just a month prior the same group of students had intentionally sprayed perfume on the bus and caused her to have a serious asthma attack.
‘She sprayed perfume on the bus and I had a horrible asthma attack,’ she said.
‘I had to stop the bus, grab my inhaler and try to get my lungs to open up again. I had all the kids open up all the windows they know this.’
Miller explained that those students had been intentionally provoking her for years and that when the perfume was sprayed again after the first incident she’d finally had enough.
‘I’m sorry for the way this went down, I truly am,’ she said. ‘I do apologize for my actions, but I won’t take it back.’
‘This is a plight of all bus drivers, we are treated in the worst possible sense of the word,’ she added. ‘We are treated with such lack of respect.’
The Amherst schools superintendent told 3News that students had been disciplined following the incident.
The owner of the local clothing store Main Street Threads, Jacqui Adkins, said she felt for Miller after seeing the video and decided to make t-shirts to support her.
‘We all kind of just felt for her in that moment. We’ve all had bad days, we’ve all gone through hardships and our hearts just went out for her,’ she said.