{"id":1504,"date":"2006-09-05T01:13:45","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T09:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/well_if_he_didnt_come_up_with_it_who_did.html"},"modified":"2006-09-05T01:13:45","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T09:13:45","slug":"well_if_he_didn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/well_if_he_didn.html","title":{"rendered":"Well, If He Didn’t Come Up With It, Who Did?"},"content":{"rendered":"

De Tocqueville and political scientists young and old will have a field day with this — the Death Cheese Laws seem to be part of a natural order of things<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Charges have been dismissed against a Staten Island school bus driver accused of encouraging older students to bully younger ones to keep order.<\/p>\n

The rap against Michael Cianci of Parlin, N.J., was dropped Friday after Staten Island Assistant District Attorney Quentin Smith read a 10-page dismissal recommendation to Judge Alan Meyer.<\/p>\n

Cianci was arrested Jan. 31 and accused of creating a “Lord of the Flies” atmosphere on his bus.<\/p>\n

Authorities said he encouraged students in his so-called Death Cheese Club — supposedly named for the yellow school bus — to use headlocks on other students and push them around.<\/p>\n

But Smith said the district attorney’s investigation found that “Cianci was not the originator of the game based on the ‘Death Cheese Laws.'”<\/p>\n

The prosecutor said that Cianci admonished unruly students but “never physically touched any student.”<\/p>\n

“Although the district attorney’s investigation has revealed that [Cianci] may have at times exercised poor judgment in failing to maintain an orderly environment for the children riding his bus . . . not every instance of poor judgment gives rise to criminal liability warranting a criminal prosecution,” Smith said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Backstory: Working Slob’s Death Cheese Bus Stopped<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

De Tocqueville and political scientists young and old will have a field day with this — the Death Cheese Laws seem to be part of a natural order of things: Charges have been dismissed against a Staten Island school bus driver accused of encouraging older students to bully younger ones to keep order. The rap […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}