Driver straps in beer, leaves kid loose
Posted Tue May 13, 2008 9:33am AEST
Map: Alice Springs 0870
Police in Alice Springs say they were appalled to find a driver put a seatbelt around a carton of beer - but left a five-year-old child
unrestrained.
Officers stopped the unregistered sedan on the Ross Highway south of Alice Springs on the weekend.
They found the child sitting in the back seat without a seatbelt, but the driver had put a belt around a slab of beer.
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posted on May 14th, 2008 at 10:41 AM
that wouldnt happen in NSW
car forums. where a lot of peoples good intentions end up taking a good old car off the road forever never ever to see the road again.
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posted on May 14th, 2008 at 12:21 PM
Front page news here in Darwin today.
Only in the NT.
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posted on May 14th, 2008 at 03:57 PM
I have to agree with VWKG. Only in the NT could this happen. I have the story which ran in the NT News today.
Beer strapped in, not boy
TARA RAVENS
14May08
TERRITORY police were shocked when they pulled over a driver who had put a seatbelt around his slab of beer -- but left a five-year-old boy
unrestrained.
The child was sitting on the console between the front seats.
The 30-can carton of VB was strapped in between two adult passengers. Superintendent Sean Parnell described the incident as "mindboggling''.
The arresting officer, Constable Wayne Burnett, said he had never seen anything like it.
"This is the first time that beer has taken priority over a child,'' he said.
Const Burnett said the driver "just looked at me blankly'' when he was handed a $750 fine for driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle, and
failing to ensure a child was wearing a seatbelt.
The car was stopped south of Alice Springs, during a police traffic blitz on the weekend. Ten drivers were caught for drink-driving during the
crackdown.
