Police cite breast-feeding driver for endangering

[eppur_se_muova]

KETTERING, Ohio—Police in Ohio say a woman has been charged with child endangering after another motorist reported she was both breast-feeding a youngster and talking on a phone while driving.

Police in the Dayton suburb of Kettering say the caller told them he saw the woman Thursday.

Officer Michael Burke says authorities used a license plate number to track down 39-year-old Genine Compton.

He said the woman told officers she was breast-feeding and wouldn't let her child go hungry.

Burke said the legal concern is that Compton had a child in her lap while driving, not that she was breast-feeding in public.
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more: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/03/01/police_cite_breast_feeding_driver_for_endangering/




Got a new entry for the not-to-do list ...

[HopeHoops]

1. "Oh, and I was hungry too so I had this cheesburger and I needed a ciggy, you know..."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. She was on her way to the Olive Garden

and there was a pit bull in the back seat.

[sakabatou]

4. Did we also mention she had a Palin 2012 sticker?

[lunatica]

3. What would she do if she suddenly had to pee while driving?

I hope never to be following her...

[Deja Q]

5. How many wrongs can we envision here? (And a solution since I do more than complain!)

1. On the cell phone: since everybody else is, nobody's concentrating. Therefore - DUMB.
2. Breastfeeding a baby: She is looking down more often than forward. Therefore - DUMB.
3. Breastfeeding again: Shouldn't the infant be in a car seat, or at least tethered to a string and used as a makeshift kite? Therefore - DUMB.
4. If there was an accident, baby would die a bloody horrid death. So, let's weigh the outcomes for Junior suck-a-lot: Hungry for a few more minutes and alive, or fed and dead. Hey, that rhymes! But all rhyming aside, I have one conclusion - DUMB.


DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB!


So, my solution? Simple: Attach a hose to her boob and connect it to the feeding attachment on the carseat. Junior can suck on the hose... of course, the wingers will think that will make him gay...

[philosophie_en_rose]

6. Or she could give the kid a bottle.

Or stop somewhere to breastfeed.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. WHAT?!? You mean actually interrupt her busy life to do just one thing at a time?

That's throwback thinking, man! :sarcasm:

[Bucky]

8. Notice how the article just glosses over the fact that her "child" was a pit bull

Specifically, a Delaware pit bull.