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BASALT, Colo. —  High gas prices, congestion and global warming have made bus service in the environmentally conscious Roaring Fork Valley more popular — maybe too popular.

Thirteen preschoolers unknowingly got caught in policies aimed at accommodating more commuters when a driver asked a sheriff’s deputy to kick the kids off her bus last week.

The driver wouldn’t move for 20 minutes until Deputy Rob Lawson arrived, Lawson felt uncomfortable asking the kids to leave, and he ended up giving the kids stickers to make them feel better.

The trouble began when the 13 preschoolers and their three teachers got on the bus to go from Basalt to El Jebel before noon March 20. The driver told Lawson the children hadn’t paid fares, Eagle County sheriff’s officials said.

Trouble?  Okay — so they didn’t have their $1 to ride the bus - but is this women so incapable of thinking for herself that she has to call the law? 

Do you really want to ride on a bus with driver that allows pre-school aged children to fluster her to the point she has to call for help?

What happens when she gets to a yellow light?  Does she have to stop and check a manual on how to apply the brakes?

Stupid is as stupid does.