Feb
An Alabama mother is charged with endangering the welfare of her adolescent. The young person was sitting in a cardboard box on the roof of her minivan down a highway. Albertville police force arrested the 37-year-old mother. Police received a number of phone calls that a minivan on the highway had a child sitting on top.
The woman when questioned by cops disclosed that the box was too large to fit in the minivan and they needed it. Consequently, the only thing to do was situate the box on top of the van. She said that the box would have dropped off so she had her daughter get in the box in order to hold it down.
When police questioned the woman about how safe that was for her child she revealed that she had secured the box with a dress hanger. So what I am trying to know from this story is how a clothes hanger would secure the box.
Maybe she bent the hanger around the rack on the top of the minivan and then stuck it through the box so the girl could clasp on or something. Whichever way, this is the most stupid thing I have heard anyone do in an extended amount of 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 compress the box or find a cord to attach it on.
It seems like a major jump to go from it won’t fit in the car to jump on top and I will strive to drive home cautiously. I wonder what the rest of her relatives thought of the event. They possibly thought it was okay just like the mother.
Not only was this stupid but it was very dangerous. The girl would have landed on the street 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 automobile.
This situation could have turned into a heartbreak but coincidentally it didn’t. It makes me wonder if this lady is one of those parents that drives around with her children on her lap instead of in a car seat. It is against the law for children not to be restrained while riding in the car because it’s dangerous.
Some parents just don’t take their children’s safety seriously. If something 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 nothing. 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 absolutely nutty!
Diane Johnson graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Utah and enjoys writing about current events, politics, college degrees, education online, and the office.