boston.com- State officials said yesterday that “roughhousing’’ caused a Winchendon nurse and a Gardner contractor to tumble from the bathroom window of a fast-moving bus after an all-day pub crawl, killing one of the men and seriously injuring the other.
But with the investigation ongoing, state officials provided few new details yesterday about what happened Saturday in the moments before Thomas D. Johnson of Gardner and Seth N. Davis of Winchendon fell from the window as the bus traveled west on Route 2 in Shirley.
“I would just say we’re still investigating the entire incident,’’ said Tim Connolly, a spokesman for Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr., declining to more fully characterize the roughhousing or elaborate on how or why the window opened.
With the bus held at the State Police barracks in Leominster and detectives continuing to investigate, friends and family of Johnson mourned the death of the 31-year-old tiling contractor and retired Marine.
Davis, 34, a registered nurse, was released yesterday from UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, his mother said.
The bus, owned by Colonial Tours, Inc., of Natick, was traveling at 60 miles per hour when the two men fell out, landing in the far-right lane about 10:20 p.m. They were near the end of a 12-hour beer lovers’ expedition, a 200-plus-mile roundtrip from the Gardner Ale House with stops at the Wachusett Brewing Co. in Westminster, the Redhook Ale Brewery in Portsmouth, N.H., the Cape Ann Brewing Co. in Gloucester, and The Tap in Haverhill.
When I was a kid, I always thought that the bus driver was an asshole because he would always yell at us to stop roughhousing. Turns out he was saving out lives. I owe Ernie a big apology.
What the hell were these guys doing in the bathroom together? Have you ever been in one of those tour bus bathrooms? They're fucking tiny. What kind of "roughhousing" were these guys up to? Did they have their pants on when the ambulance arrived? They really must've been wasted.
When I was a kid, I always thought that the bus driver was an asshole because he would always yell at us to stop roughhousing. Turns out he was saving out lives. I owe Ernie a big apology.
What the hell were these guys doing in the bathroom together? Have you ever been in one of those tour bus bathrooms? They're fucking tiny. What kind of "roughhousing" were these guys up to? Did they have their pants on when the ambulance arrived? They really must've been wasted.
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