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Man buckles up his beer. . . but not his kid
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I've always heard of the "Darwin Awards" but this kinda takes the cake since it happened in Darwin Australia!


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DARWIN, Australia (AP) -- 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."

The driver was fined for driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle, and for failing to ensure a child was wearing a seat belt.

Alice Springs Police Superintendent Sean Parnell expressed shock at the incident in a statement released Tuesday.

"This serves as a timely reminder to all drivers to ensure they wear seat belts and ensure as is their responsibility that all passengers in their vehicle are secured in the appropriate manner," he said.


Fosters, its Australian for buckle up! lol



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Re: Man buckles up his beer. . . but not his kid [Re: Lndrydusting]
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Wow, the kid was ON THE FLOOR? For fucks sake, just put your beer in the trunk.

I hope some sort of social services gets involved. Poor kid...


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Re: Man buckles up his beer. . . but not his kid [Re: circularvortex]
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Hell, when I was a kid, we never had to buckle up. I used to sit in a lawn chair in our van(no back seats). 'Course today, that would be pretty shitty to do that to your(or anyone's)kid. Especially if beer took precedence!


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Re: Man buckles up his beer. . . but not his kid [Re: circularvortex]
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circularvortex said:
Wow, the kid was ON THE FLOOR?  For fucks sake, just put your beer in the trunk.

I hope some sort of social services gets involved.  Poor kid...


If he would have just put the kid in the trunk and left the beer where it was, the cop would've never known. :wink:


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Re: Man buckles up his beer. . . but not his kid [Re: WakeboardrB]
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WakeboardrB said:
circularvortex said:
Wow, the kid was ON THE FLOOR?  For fucks sake, just put your beer in the trunk.

I hope some sort of social services gets involved.  Poor kid...


If he would have just put the kid in the trunk and left the beer where it was, the cop would've never known. :wink:


:lol:

but seriously, that's a pretty messed up thing to do. I hope the cop didn't hold back verbally


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Re: Man buckles up his beer. . . but not his kid [Re: Jayos The Chaos]
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I hope some sort of social services gets involved. Poor kid...


This is actually a MAJOR topic in Australia at the moment (for the last year and a half). Well, not this specific case, but welfare of aboriginal people in the outback. They drink a huge amount, and child abuse is extremely prevalent. So they sent in the Army last year to sort things out. It's illegal to take alcohol into some towns out there, and they even have special petrol that can't be sniffed.
So, sad as it is, this story isn't very surprising.


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Re: Man buckles up his beer. . . but not his kid [Re: Jayos The Chaos]
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Jayos The Chaos said:
Hell, when I was a kid, we never had to buckle up. I used to sit in a lawn chair in our van(no back seats).


QFT

I NEVER had to "buckle up" as a kid.
I've even fallen asleep in the back window of many sedans.

Rode in the back of a pick-up truck lots too.


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Re: Man buckles up his beer. . . but not his kid [Re: niteowl]
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niteowl said:
Rode in the back of a pick-up truck lots too.


Good times........


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Re: Man buckles up his beer. . . but not his kid [Re: Jayos The Chaos]
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:yesnod:


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Re: Man buckles up his beer. . . but not his kid [Re: niteowl]
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niteowl said:
Rode in the back of a pick-up truck lots too.


Is that just "frowned upon" these days or is it actually a big no-no?

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Re: Man buckles up his beer. . . but not his kid [Re: PinballWizard]
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Does anybody else remember riding on their dad's lap as he drove, and feeling special that you were driving? Times have changed since I was a kid. We can't even fit our family in a regular sized car, because three car seats won't fit...


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Re: Man buckles up his beer. . . but not his kid [Re: PinballWizard]
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PinballWizard said:
niteowl said:
Rode in the back of a pick-up truck lots too.


Is that just "frowned upon" these days or is it actually a big no-no?


The Navajos around here do it all the time and I've never
seen them pulled over for it, I know I've ridden in the
truck bed tons of times, even recently..


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Re: Man buckles up his beer. . . but not his kid [Re: Vanguard]
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Wow... what a great father... :shocked:


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Re: Man buckles up his beer. . . but not his kid [Re: andrewss]
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The point isn't really that the kid wasn't buckled up . . . but that the beer WAS while the kid wasn't! The beer was being treated with more caution than the child.


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Re: Man buckles up his beer. . . but not his kid [Re: Lndrydusting]
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Lndrydusting said:
The point isn't really that the kid wasn't buckled up . . . but that the beer WAS while the kid wasn't! The beer was being treated with more caution than the child.


That because you can alwasy get a new child, not new beer...


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Re: Man buckles up his beer. . . but not his kid [Re: PinballWizard]
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PinballWizard said:
niteowl said:
Rode in the back of a pick-up truck lots too.


Is that just "frowned upon" these days or is it actually a big no-no?


I don't know if this varies from state to state or anything...but here it's fine as long as you aren't touching the tail gate.


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No statements made in any post or message by myself should be construed to mean that I am now, or have ever been, participating in or considering participation in any activities in violation of any local, state, federal, or fashion police laws. All posts are works of fiction.

For well you know that its a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder.

Under closer inspection I realised it was a funky ball of tits from outer space.


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Re: Man buckles up his beer. . . but not his kid [Re: Lndrydusting]
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The man loves his beer more then kids..:grin:

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Re: Man buckles up his beer. . . but not his kid [Re: Brainiac]
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[quote
That because you can alwasy get a new child, not new beer...


If only that were true.....


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Re: Man buckles up his beer. . . but not his kid [Re: circularvortex]
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circularvortex said:
PinballWizard said:
niteowl said:
Rode in the back of a pick-up truck lots too.


Is that just "frowned upon" these days or is it actually a big no-no?


I don't know if this varies from state to state or anything...but here it's fine as long as you aren't touching the tail gate.


Yeah it's legal here too.  Probably because it'd be impossible to stop all the Mexican landscaping companies from doing it anyway.

It's only legal in Alaska if there are seatbelts in the bed of the truck :lol:


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Re: Man buckles up his beer. . . but not his kid [Re: Lndrydusting]
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Lndrydusting said:
I've always heard of the "Darwin Awards" but this kinda takes the cake since it happened in Darwin Australia!


Quote:
DARWIN, Australia (AP) -- 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."

The driver was fined for driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle, and for failing to ensure a child was wearing a seat belt.

Alice Springs Police Superintendent Sean Parnell expressed shock at the incident in a statement released Tuesday.

"This serves as a timely reminder to all drivers to ensure they wear seat belts and ensure as is their responsibility that all passengers in their vehicle are secured in the appropriate manner," he said.


Fosters, its Australian for buckle up! lol




I loled for like 5 mins reading that.


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