Dayton Bus Driver Arrested On Drug Charges

When I first saw the headline for this story, I thought; “Geez, they caught some poor schmoe with a little bit of reefer and now he’s going to lose his job and maybe go to jail.” Of course, I pictured him in my mind as “Otto” from the Simpsons, but anyway…

It turns out that this dude sold a kilo of cocaine to undercover cops. Let me repeat that; a kilo… 1000 grams… 2.2 pounds of cocaine!

Holy crap, how much are they paying school bus drivers these days that they can afford kilos of cocaine? And how is it that a city the size of Dayton has that kind of supply? I mean seriously, this isn’t L.A. or Atlanta we’re talking about, it’s Dayton Ohio, a city of ~165,000 people. That’s a gram of coke for every 165 people in the whole city. I find it hard to imagine that 1 out of every 165 Daytonians (Daytonites?) has the desire (not to mention the disposable income) for a gram of cocaine.