Drunk father lets 8-year-old son drive pickup: police
ReutersBy Kathy Finn | Reuters – 20 hrs ago
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A drunk father allegedly allowed his 8 year-old son to drive his pick-up truck on a southeast Louisiana highway on Saturday while he slept, until patrol officers pulled over the boy, police said.
The boy was driving the Chevrolet truck on Interstate 12 near the town of Holden, with his father in the passenger seat and his 4 year-old sister in the back seat, Louisiana State Police said in a statement.
A passing motorist noticed the pick-up truck was being driven erratically and called police.
When Louisiana state troopers pulled over the truck in Livingston Parish, they found the 8 year-old boy behind the wheel and interviewed the father, 28 year-old Billy Joe Madden of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, police said.
Police said they determined Madden was drunk and that he had been sleeping while his son drove the vehicle, en-route to Dallas, Texas.
Madden was arrested and booked into jail on two counts of child desertion, parent allowing a minor to drive, open container and two counts of no child restraint and no seatbelt.
Madden remains in jail at Livingston Parish Detention Center in lieu of $1,474 bail, said sheriff's deputy Dustin Sanders at the facility.
Both of Madden's children were turned over to child welfare authorities and were awaiting the arrival of a family member who could take custody of them, police said.
(Reporting by Kathy Finn; Writing by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Tim Gaynor)
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Dobro, verovatno je bio automatic.
Citao pre neki dan o onoj crnkinji sto je pretrcavala ulicu sa (svojim) detetom (najblizi pesacki prelaz bio pola milje daleko), udario ih pijanac i pobegao. Covek pre toga imao u rekordu 2 x hit and run, ako se dobro secam. Uhvatili ga, dokazali mu da je pijan itd. covek dobio pola godine zatvora.
Zanimljiviji deo je da je majka deteta dobila 3 godine za taj isti slucaj.
Racunaju valjda, slawen ce to sigurno znati, da je majka napravila istu glupost sa pretrcavanjem puta (tj. sa naterivanjem sada pokojnog deteta da sa njom taj put pretrcava) kao sto je ovaj Billy Joe redneck napravio sa spavanjem na sedistu dok mu dete vozi pick-up truck.
Zalosno-suluda vest:
http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-suv-crash-girl-driver-dead-story,0,615575.story (http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-suv-crash-girl-driver-dead-story,0,615575.story)
Ubio devojcicu, najverovatnije jer je i sam ubiVen/nozem-uboden vozio.
Nothing good ever happens in Brooklyn.
Sometimes at night, when Victor and I are crossing one of the magnificent bridges here, I turn around to look at it (basically looking at CHASE Metrotech building and other sister firms and their buildings there, shining in the night) and even then it gives me the creeps...
Quote from: Hate mail on July 31, 2011, 09:18:49 PM
Racunaju valjda, slawen ce to sigurno znati, da je majka napravila istu glupost sa pretrcavanjem puta (tj. sa naterivanjem sada pokojnog deteta da sa njom taj put pretrcava) kao sto je ovaj Billy Joe redneck napravio sa spavanjem na sedistu dok mu dete vozi pick-up truck.
I'm out of business, remember?
Nowadays I'm just a regular guy, like rest of you.
The Incredibles - Insurance Inc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC_97F2Zn9k#)
Except I'm jobless. :mrgreen: