Belt the beer, hold the toddler
Police in Florida arrested a moron who seatbelted a 24-pack of Bush beer into hear car, but was driving around with an unrestrained 16 month old girl and her mother in the back seat. The driver, who was found to have ‘pipes’ on her, said she did not know why the toddler was unrestrained. Shortly thereafter the driver refused to take a breath test for alcohol.
Police pulled the driver over after running a red light and subsequently arrested for driving under the influence and driving without a license among other things.
Possibly even scarier, the police released the child to the care of the mother after the incident! It seems as though there is frighteningly few repercussions for the mother. Hopefully it’s just hasn’t been mentioned in this Yahoo! News story.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Police have arrested a motorist they say had a 24-pack of beer strapped in with a seat belt but had a 16-month-old girl unrestrained in the back seat with the toddler’s mother.
Tina D. Williams was pulled over in St. Augustine on Sunday for allegedly running a red light.
A 24-pack of Busch beer was strapped in with the passenger-side seat belt, according to an arrest report. The girl was in the back seat with 20-year-old Amber Tedrick, who is the toddler’s mother.
Williams, 46, said she didn’t know why the child wasn’t restrained.
Williams refused to take a breath test and a deputy found two metal pipes commonly used to smoke drugs in her purse, authorities said.
Williams was charged with driving under the influence, child abuse, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving without a license, a jail official said. She remained in the St. Johns County jail Tuesday after bail was set at $31,000.
The jail did not have the name of her attorney. It was not clear if Tedrick would face any charges, but the child was released to her care, according to The Florida Times-Union.
via Sympathypain
oh please.
the poor mother was completely out of food and had no other way to get to the store to feed her child. You’re telling me you’d go _hungry_ instead of take a dumb risk? Sounds like this mother was in a pretty tight spot and made a bad decision from from pretty crummy choices.
that’s not a reason to go calling social services.
HAHAHAH. Man, I hope that comment is dripping with as much sarcasm as I think it is.
Just to fill in everyone else, the mother was getting food for a Superbowl party, not to feed her child. And yes, I’d go a little hungry during halftime rather than carpool with a drunk crack addict, whether or not had I had a kid with me.
actually not really. no sarcasm intended.
actually, it’s an example of two people reading, apparently, the same story. I read about a woman who got pulled over drunk with booze in the car and a women who’d hitched a ride with her infant son to go pick up groceries.
In which case you’re being harsh to the mother.
In the story I read she didn’t know they were going to the bottle shop, and she didn’t realise there weren’t going to be seat belts, and she didn’t realise there was going to be joy riding and red light running.
The devil is in the details I suppose.
From that perspective I can understand a mistake and a difficult situation for the mother. However, most of the instances of this story seemed to indicate that the two knew each other.
http://jacksonville.injuryboard.com/motor-vehicle-accidents/woman-straps-beer-into-seatbelt-baby-is-not.php?googleid=14839
Possibly different stories?