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Ohio school bus driver explosively QUITS after after being tormented by bully kids

A school bus driver's explosive resignation is caught on camera as she quits in desperation and bellows at bullying students who sprayed perfume hoping to trigger her asthma.

Jackie Miller has become an unlikely hero for scores of people and has even inspired T-shirts after footage showed her standing up to the bullies on the school bus and telling them to "shut your mouth".

She then emphatically declares "I'm done with this s**t!" and throws up her hands before quitting after 15 years as a driver and two years working in the town of Amherst in Ohio, US.

Jackie spoke to local media and revealed her exasperation over relentless naughty behaviour from a group of kids on her school bus run - and is adamant she has been bullied out of a job.

Footage of Jackie has gone viral online and seen her become an unlikely hero, with a GoFundMe page launched to help her out.

Livid Jackie raises her finger at the students (Livid Jackie raises her finger at the students)

A local shop has even started selling T-shirts with her exasperated outbursts written as slogans plastered on the front of them, with proceeds going to school bus driver associations.

And thousands of commenters have rushed to defend Jackie and what many deem to be her understandable response to what is a dangerous situation for an asthma sufferer.

Jackie told local media outlet 3News that she would not take back what she did or said and felt justified - though she did regret it.

Jackie speaks to 3News (Youtube/@WKYCChannel3)

The footage shows her stomping down the bus aisle having been told by a pupil that perfume had been sprayed.

She demands to know who had performed the reckless act and blasts: "How much more do you expect me to f*****g take?"

Jackie is adamant she can "freaking smell it" when every kid begins denying being the one who sprayed it.

One of the T-shirts being sold for Jackie with her foot up your a** slogan (Mistakes on the Lake)

Jackie begins pointing the finger at individual pupils and says: "I'm sick of you, I'm done with it. I'm gonna start f*****g kicking some serious a**."

"Do you hear me? My foot's gonna be so far up your a** it's gonna dangle out your f*****g nose."

More denials are heard from the students, but Jackie repeats that she can clearly smell it and reminds them "I'm allergic to that s**t."

She adds: "I ought to walk off this bus right now and let you people walk the f**k home."

Jackie told 3News that the same bunch of kids had deliberately sprayed perfume on the bus just a month before.

They had cruelly hoped she would be caused to have a nasty asthma attack.

Jackie said: "She sprayed perfume on the bus and I had a horrible asthma attack.

Jackie would not take it back (Youtube/@WKYCChannel3)

"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."

Defending her actions, Jackie told how the group of pupils had been tormenting and provoking her for years,

She had finally reached her wit's end when the perfumed was sprayed for the second time.

Jackie was having no more from the kids (Youtube/@WKYCChannel3)

She added to the local media outlet: "I'm sorry for the way this went down, I truly am. 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 superintendent of the Amherst schools claimed disciplinary measures had been taken against students after the incident on the bus.

Jackie has quit the job (another screenshot from the bus video)

The owner of Main Street Threads, the store making and selling T-shirts to support Jackie, said she felt sorry for the bus driver after seing the footage.

Jacqui Adkins said: "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."

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