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Drunken Bus Driver Briefly Strands Billikens Basketball Team in New York
A bus driver stranded the Saint Louis University basketball team on Wednesday night in New York when she went on a drunken joyride, authorities say.
The Billikens had just lost a road game 70-55 to St. Bonaventure in Olean, New York, and they were getting ready to head back to the Midwest when they realized their ride was gone.
Radio announcer Bob Ramsey, who travels with the team, started live tweeting the debacle of the "nutty bus driver."
Link to tweet
New York State Police chased the runaway driver, eventually stopping her and the grand tour bus about 35 miles away from the St. Bonaventure campus in the tiny town of Randolph in far western New York.
Read more: http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2017/02/09/drunken-bus-driver-briefly-strands-billikens-basketball-team-in-new-york