Mother Values A Box More Than Her Daughter
An Alabama mother has been charged with endangering the wellbeing of her teen. The teen was riding in a cardboard box on top of her van down a highway. Albertville cops arrested the 37-year-old mother. Police collected a number of phone calls that a minivan on the highway had a child riding on top.
The woman when questioned by cops reported that the box was too large to fit in the minivan and they required it. So, the only thing to do was situate the box on top of the van. She said that the box would have fallen off so she had her daughter get in the box in order to grip it down.
When police questioned the woman about how safe that was for her daughter she disclosed that she had secured the box with a coat hanger. So what I am trying to recognize from this story is how a clothes hanger would secure the box.
Maybe she bent the hanger around the rack on the roof of the minivan and then poked it through the box so the girl could clasp on or something. Whichever way, this is the most stupid thing I have heard a person do in a long time. I grant this mother the “idiot of the week award.”
Even though the 13-year-old girl was on the top in the box she wasn’t injured. The mother was out on bond shortly after the incident. What doesn’t make sense to me is why she couldn’t flatten the box or find a cord to tie it on.
It seems like a large jump to go from it won’t fit in the car to jump on top and I will attempt to drive home carefully. I wonder what the rest of her family thought of the occurrence. They possibly thought it was okay just like the mother.
Not only was this stupid but it was extremely dangerous. The girl would have landed on the road if for any reason her mother would have slammed on the breaks. She would have gotten road rash, in all probability have head trauma, and possibly been struck by her mothers or anothers vehicle.
This situation could have turned into a tragedy but fortunately it didn’t. It makes me speculate if this lady is one of those parents that drives around with her children on her lap rather than in a car seat. It is illegal for children not to be restrained while sitting in the car because it’s unsafe.
Some guardians just don’t take their children’s safety seriously. If anything would have happened there wouldn’t have been anything to protect her. The mother in the car had a seatbelt, airbags, and the metal on her car to protect her but this girl had zero. This cardboard box wouldn’t have stood up to anything. And she would have flown out of it beforehand. I hope that the law comes down hard on this lady because she is freaking mad!
Diane Johnson graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Utah and enjoys writing about current events, politics, college degrees, online education, and the office.
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