"She was just keeping the dog company."

We all rode in boxes on top of our parent's van, and now it's suddenly illegal? Nanny state!

Dang. I was really hoping they'd spend more tax dollars incarcerating her.

So it's a customized van.... sweet!

My turn to ride on the "observation deck"!

Judge should make the mom and the daughter wear helmets at all times with stickers on them explaining why.

From TFA: Knott reportedly told police the box wouldn't fit inside the van so her daughter was sitting inside to weigh it down on the roof.

At least the kid can stay at home with Alabama man.

Gulper Eel: Cardboard box? She was lucky.

We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!

There was this really hick rural town that I used to pass through once in awhile. Multiple times I spotted the same old rusty pickup truck slowly driving around town. There was always a fat teenage boy sitting in an easy chair strapped down behind the cab, facing backwards. It was eerie and I always meant to get a dueling banjos tape to play during the next sighting.

Well done, subby, well done.

Like my man Johnny C used to say, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."

And it was a nice box.

It was a nice box and it was from Wallmart. If the nice box from Wallmart doesn't fit in the car, you stick it on the roof and put a kid in there. Not just any kid (they might fall off), but your kid who will hold on tight, or no twinkies. I said NO twinkies.

Damn, the penalty for putting a 13-year old on the outside of a car sure is harsh:

The sentence began immediately and she also has to complete 40 hours of community service, attend a parenting class and driving school followed by two years probation.

Imagine if she'd done something REALLY mean to that kid, like making her do her homework or not letting her date until she was fifteen or something. She probably would have fried.

mephisto6: Like my man Johnny C used to say, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."

Will nobody think of the Christmas trees?

Trolling Stone: Will nobody think of the Christmas trees?

If you drive under some trolley lines and your kid gets cut in half, can you just put the top half in a bucket of sand in the living room and hope no one notices? Who wants to think about the farking trees now??

mephisto6: Like my man Johnny C used to say, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."

Used to is the key phrase. Not sayin' much these days.

//just sayin'

A quick GIS only found something from Honduras, but the central American migrants here in Texas put their kids in pickup beds all the time ....

A quick GIS only found something from Honduras, but the central American migrants here in Texas put their kids in pickup beds all the time ....

it wasn't in the bed of a truck, it was literally on top of a minivan.

ParaHandy: A quick GIS only found something from Honduras, but the central American migrants here in Texas put their kids in pickup beds all the time ....

FFS, you can't understand a two three-letter words in the farking headline? TOP of her VAN

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: I blame it all on Michael J. Fox's charismatic and irascible performance in the 80's comedy Teen Wolf.

The damage caused by that film over the years must be incalculable by now...

I doubt that would stand up in court. I'd say the chances are shaky at best.

FigPucker: Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: I blame it all on Michael J. Fox's charismatic and irascible performance in the 80's comedy Teen Wolf.

The damage caused by that film over the years must be incalculable by now...

I doubt that would stand up in court. I'd say the chances are shaky at best.

A verdict would shake things up, really rattle the foundations of American case law, upsetting those who teeter on the brink of collapse, and send prior verdicts tumbling on weakened joints. Prepare to see justice not only blind and naked, but totally hammered on martinis.

The van in question?



Maybe there's more to this story.

Flissss: At least the kid can stay at home with Alabama man.



AL-UH-BAH-MUH MOI-AN!

damn hillbilly you're suppose to put the box in the attic...


/meh
//ROLL TIDE!

As the article states, the daughter was just weighing the box down so it wouldn't slide off. I fail to see the problem here.

It can't possibly be more dangerous than the dingaling I saw driving down the road with six mattresses on top of his car with NOTHING weighing them OR tying them down. In the interests of driver safety, I'd have been glad if there'd have been a kid or 2 on top.

Kids can be replaced pretty easily.

louiedog: There was this really hick rural town that I used to pass through once in awhile. Multiple times I spotted the same old rusty pickup truck slowly driving around town. There was always a fat teenage boy sitting in an easy chair strapped down behind the cab, facing backwards. It was eerie and I always meant to get a dueling banjos tape to play during the next sighting.

Sounds like you were driving around the 'burbs of Scranton, PA. Last summer when my brother and I were in that area, we were behind a pick up truck for miles and miles that had an assortment of lawn furniture in the bed with a bunch of guys sitting there wearing bib overalls staring vacuously at us through the windshield. My brother asked me "do you hear banjo music or is it just me?" "No", I said, "I hear a farking symphony. Lets get the hell out of here before we start squealing like pigs".

People need to mind their own damn business!

Impressed while covering the story !

What, no "Dumbass" tag?

I like seeing things with the "dumbass" tag.

It would seem that now the fashionable thing for the under-10 set is to...be in a box...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdUH8AZ1-a8

^^ PS, NSFW language in that vid :D

Repeat/follow-up news.. We had more fun with the original article.

I dunno why she's getting in-trouble though, there was a clothes hanger hook attached to it... that box wasn't going ANYWHERE.

Thankfully, the officer pulling her over had x-ray vision, and then claimed that the kid stood up or something.

This family approves.

ParaHandy: A quick GIS only found something from Honduras, but the central American migrants here in Texas put their kids in pickup beds all the time ....

Considering that the real population of Albertville, AL is likely 50% illegal immigrants, this makes total sense.