5.13.2008

And the award for Father of the Year goes to...

this idiot.

An Australian driver who secured a carton of beer in his car with a seat belt but left a 5-year-old child unrestrained was fined 750 Australian dollars ($710; €460), police said Tuesday.

Constable Wayne Burnett said he was "shocked and appalled" when he pulled over the unregistered car on Friday in the central Australian town of Alice Springs.

The 30-can carton was strapped in between the two adults sitting in the back seat of the car. The child was also in back, on the vehicle's floor.

"The child was sitting in the lump in the center, unrestrained," Burnett told reporters Tuesday.

"I haven't ever seen something like this before," he said. "This is the first time that the beer has taken priority over a child."

What. A. Moron. With Moron Friends to boot.

Now I don't feel so bad about my little trips through the drive-thru liquor store with Will singing "Don't You Want Me Baby" in the back seat.

Properly secured in his booster car seat in the back seat. Thankyouverymuch.

*goes off whistling*

4 comments:

Jen said...

That's pretty darned sad.

Anonymous said...

Sadly, this isn't an isolated incident. I read something similar to this in a local paper a few weeks back. Beer seatbelt? Check! Baby unrestrained? check.

Sick.

And speaking of sick... h ow are you feeling today?

Miss Janey said...

He may be a bad father, but hey, he knows what his priorities are.

mrpeenee said...

I love "Don't You Want Me Baby."

I was workin as a waitress in a cock tail bar.

That much is true.