Police say intoxicated couple used boy as designated driver

[Auggie]

(10-06) 12:15 PDT San Anselmo, Calif. (AP) --

Police say a Marin County (CA) couple with several drunken-driving arrests between them let a 13-year-old boy drive them home to avoid another DUI.

San Anselmo Police Sgt. Rob Schneider says the incident occurred after the three had dinner at a downtown restaurant Sunday night.

Officers investigating a vehicle stalled on a major thoroughfare discovered the underaged driver. Schneider says the boy claimed he stopped because he was "freaked out" and refused to drive further.

Thirty-two-year-old Heather Choulos of Mill Valley was charged Monday with child endangerment and contributing to the delinquency of a minor — both misdemeanors. A message left at a number listed for Choulos was not immediately returned.

LINK: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/06/national/a121519D92.DTL&tsp=1

[YOY]

1. Call me a Eugenicist again but...(insert standard "parenting license" comment here.)

n.t.