10-year-old crashes van while driving drunk parents home
Reality shows and the Internet have not created a more ridiculous world, they have only promoted the outrageous things that are already going on. You're a dad in Tennessee who's had 15 brewskies and an unknown quantity of other liquor, your female company is under the influence of something and has a pocket full of pills, and you need to get home. Thankfully there are three kids in the group, and the 10-year-old is probably straight up enough to drive the van. But who knew the kid would think 90 mph was an appropriate cruising speed and then flip the van over? A few police later – after the woman has tried "to swallow as many pills as she could" – the adults got a much more relaxed ride to the pokey and the kids got passport into state care. It's a good thing the proud papa was wearing his lucky beer T-shirt, or things really could have gone wrong. Thanks for the tip, OM617![Source: Fox News]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
KeatMP 3:33PM (10/09/2008)
Is that really the shirt he was wearing??
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Geeky1 4:19PM (10/09/2008)
According to the local radio station (it made national news, I'm nowhere near TN) this morning, yes, yes it is.
mkevin88 4:21PM (10/09/2008)
no, autoblog has used the picture before.....still doesn't make this situation funny
WhyNotTheOM617? 9:34PM (10/09/2008)
@mkevin88:
The picture is authentic and is the mugshot taken after the incident. If autoblog has used it before, please dig it up. That would be quite strange if it were used before.
Michael 3:33PM (10/09/2008)
I don't really know what to say.
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TJ 3:33PM (10/09/2008)
We have legislated Darwin out of the social gene pool.
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Alvin 3:44PM (10/09/2008)
Some people shouldn't be allowed to reproduce.
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Kimura 5:56PM (10/09/2008)
Some? More like the majority of the population!
Mi key 3:43PM (10/09/2008)
Who would've of thought letting a 10yr old drive you home when your drunk would end so badly?
I mean Really.
Who?
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Ian B. 4:03PM (10/09/2008)
Tennessee. Say nothing more.
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the friendly grizzly 5:10PM (10/09/2008)
And Ian? You are from where...?
Frank 8:39AM (10/10/2008)
Al Gore is from Tennessee. Makes sense.
j 6:17PM (10/09/2008)
you killed kenny! you bastards.
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Will 4:03PM (10/09/2008)
What do you call it? ... The Aristocrats!
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Erik 4:13PM (10/09/2008)
I don't understand how crap like this goes on every day and yet not a soul would dare say (in a serious manner) that some people deserve to have their right to reproduce taken away. When someone proves themselves dangerous to society, the court takes away their right to interact in society. So, when someone proves they are incapable of resposibly raising children, wouldn't it make sense for the court to take away their right to produce more children?
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Jeremy 5:25PM (10/09/2008)
Erik, what you are suggesting is called eugenics and the reason people don't bring it up is because it has been done before... in Nazi Germany (and even in the US as recently as 30 years ago). Removing the "unfit" and their offspring to "improve the race" is Darwinism taken to it's ugly yet logical conclusion. This is in stark contrast to the Biblical Christian worldview. Allowing any government to decide who is "unfit" is something we should all be very afraid of.
J M C 3 9:21PM (10/09/2008)
Thank You Jeremy for that little oasis in a desert of ignorance.
Kevin 4:14PM (10/09/2008)
I heard a very similar story from a cop in (very) rural Ontario about 2 years ago. A 12 year old girl was often called by her mother to come pick her up at the local watering hole when she was done drinking. One night she got caught going a little too fast on the way to pick up her mother and led the police officer in question on a high-speed chase over some gravel covered country roads. The cop had no idea who was in the car and eventually had to resort to ramming the vehicle off the road and into a ditch (P.I.T.?) only to run up to the suspect vehicle and drag a very scared 12 year old out of the car. Later investigation of the whole thing found that all the neighbors knew about this (it happened often) but nobody ever really bothered mentioning it because it was so far out in the country they figured it didn't matter... and it was safer for all involved anyways. The kid had been doing this for years apparently.
Yeehaw!!
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benzaholic 4:21PM (10/09/2008)
I'm curious who's the OM617 that provided the tip for this story.
That's one of the most glorious engines ever made.
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WhyNotTheOM617? 9:32PM (10/09/2008)
I am he.
Yes, the OM617 is brilliant.
One of mine has 267k and not a hiccup.