Woman Arrested For Having 9 Passengers In Her Car

[matcom]

<snip>

NEWHALL, Calif. -- A woman was arrested after the California Highway Patrol officer who pulled her car over found nine people crammed inside, including two children in the trunk.

"I have never heard of this," said Officer Wendy Hahn. "There was no room left in the car, so she puts two of the kids in the trunk. We're trying to get people to buckle up, and this is what we find."

Lavern Dunlap, 35, of Glendora, was pulled over about 8 p.m. Friday after another driver reported seeing a woman closing the trunk of her Toyota Corolla with two children inside as the vehicle sat parked on a shoulder.

Dunlap told the officer she was heading to her sister's house in Palmdale, about a 60-mile trip.

The officer discovered a 15-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl in the trunk, four children in the back seat, an adult in the front passenger seat with a child on her lap and Dunlap behind the wheel. No one was wearing a seat belt, she said.

Dunlap was booked on suspicion of child cruelty and was released. She is scheduled to appear next month in court.

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/05/24/woman_arrested_for_having_crowded_car/

[bertha katzenengel]

1. Newhall, CA: That's where I went to college!

What a fucking moran!!

[SmokingJacket]

2. Were they clowns?

Because then it's okay.

[TheDebbieDee]

8. LOL !

[DrDebug]

3. The record is still 32 people in a VW Beetle

The old record of Guinness Record of 25 was finally beaten

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20050102-1101-guinness.html

[Spinzonner]

4. Not fair

the kids were cargo

[jswordy]

5. Good morning to the Walter Cronkite of strange DU news -- matcom!

Heh...booked on "suspicion of child cruelty"...NOW THAT IS FUNNY!

[Shell Beau]

6. I think she should have

been arrested. Putting kids in the trunk is not a good idea. I am so claustrophobic I would've had a heart attack. Still this is dangerous. What if the car had been rear-ended? Too dangerous to risk IMO.

[formernaderite]

7. I actually have a Libertarian streak in me....

and hate seat belt laws...but I'd definitely enforce anti-trunking laws.

[Zuni]

9. the kids in the trunk thing is kind of disturbing

but as a person who has ridden in a trunk, voluntarily, it is a weird experience

[AllegroRondo]

10. Heck, we did more than that for the drive in movies

on carload night we could cram 12 people into a pinto.