MSNBC: Drunk mom driver lets her 1 year-old steer car!

[npincus]

"Green registered .11 percent alcohol in her bloodstream.... her third DUI this year... her two other kids, 5 & 8, were in the car at the time... she said she was returning some dvds and thought it would be fun if the kid drove"

WTF?

[bdamomma]

1. how sick.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. My dad let me do that when I was about three

but he had his hands near the steering wheel at all times in case I screwed up. And he was always sober. But that was back in the 1950s, when there were a lot fewer cars on the road.

[glowing]

4. We let our 3 yr old do this on our dead end street.. and yes, we are

entirely sober and have our hands on the wheel and are travelling at the grand total of maybe 5 mph...

[Warpy]

5. Mine was half in the bag and nursing a beer

and my earliest memory of it was when I was about nine.

I couldn't see over the dashboard and just guesstimated where the road was by watching the opening in the trees overhead.

It was on a country road with very little traffic and he was there to grab the wheel, but I know his reaction time wasn't what it should have been.

I think this happens a whole lot more than anyone suspects.

It's a wonder any of us survive childhood!

[AndyA]

6. My Dad let me do that as well.

I was sitting on his lap, and we were in the parking lot of his office building on a Saturday, so there were no other cars around. It was great fun! I've always been car crazy.

When I was learning to drive as a teen ager, I was taught to parallel park between trees on a vacant lot near our lake house. We called it "Don's Supermarket parking lot" (his name is Don).

He taught me a trick that guarantees a perfect parallel park every time, and it always worked, but I hardly ever parallel park so I've forgotten it. I'll have to ask him if he remembers.

Of course, no one had been drinking at the time, and we were in a controlled area without other cars or objects to hit, which makes a *HUGE* difference!

[Fleshdancer]

3. Those poor kids

They don't deserve this. :(

[book_worm]

7. Instead of jail I hope they put her in a treatment program.