serious question

hmonkey · May 2013

is this REALLY what 29 and 30 look like?
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/05/28/police-girl-rode-with-dog-in-cage-on-turnpike/

(yes, that is what i got out of this story)

ReturnOfKuus · May 2013

It's time for a Logan Echolls quote:

"Rode Hard, meet Put Away Wet."

This is right across the river from me.

6fsn · May 2013

When you are 29 and 30 and think it's okay to put your kid in a cage in a truck, yes.

hmonkey · May 2013

i kind of want to see what the 10yo looks like. probably closer to 25.

NOLABridesmaid · May 2013

Yes, some people have very HARD lives.

PMeg819 · May 2013

I'm almost 30 and I swear if I look that bad I hope someone tells me. This is also why I'm okay with spending a lot on my face products. If I ever get on the news for something, I want them to say "that woman doesn't look like the sort of 30 yo who would do whatever. I'd peg her as 22."

ReturnOfKuus · May 2013

PMeg, I'm sure that even if you looked like that, you'd take the damn cigarette out of your mouth before the press took a picture.

PMeg819 · May 2013

I would. And I'd fluff my hair a bit.

hmonkey · May 2013

and the cigarette is broken.

EVEN THE CIGARETTE HAS HAD A VERY HARD LIFE.

ReturnOfKuus · May 2013

I am guffawing at that.

PMeg819 · May 2013

Even the cigarette was rode hard and put away wet.

zsazsa-stl · May 2013

Reporter: Can you tell us why a boy was tied to the roof of your car?

PMeg: Well, he really likes wind, and rope and going to Wal-Mart, so I didn't think it would be a big deal. It's his 10th birthday and we were out of room inside the car because of all the ammo we just bought for his birthday party. He was having fun. I just want my son to be happy.

Reporter: Your son?!?! Surely you aren't old enough to be his mother. I thought you were the babysitter or a sister.

PMeg: (tosses hair) Honey, a little moisturizer and sun screen go a long way.

Reporter: (turns to camera) We'll have more on this this fountain of youth in handcuffs at 11. Jim, back to you.

kerbohl · May 2013

I remember riding in the back of the pick-up with the dog, and we didn't have a cage or seatbelts - just open air! Ah, country living!
Now I'm thinking back to all the fun I had in cars in my childhood and thanking God my parents were never arrested for it . . .

6fsn · May 2013

country living =/= turnpike

kerbohl · May 2013

Very, very true. We were always on the back roads. But despite that, there were always so many police cars around, so I'm sure my parents could have still gotten into some trouble.

Dreamsofrain · May 2013

hmonkey said:
and the cigarette is broken.

EVEN THE CIGARETTE HAS HAD A VERY HARD LIFE.

I think that the broken cigarette is pretty much a reflection of these people and they way they live their lives.

alikatt17 · May 2013

if she's 29, then I'm 18.

zsazsa-stl · May 2013

It's legal here to let kids ride in the back of the truck IF it is your family's only mode of transportation and the cab is already full of young'uns.

PirateBarbie · May 2013

hopefully the landscapers in TX don't see this report - or they'll strike until someone gets them a cage that's strapped into the back of the truck.

i see pickup trucks with 2-3 guys in the back on a daily basis.

jadedemon · June 2013

Has no one though of asking the kid what happened.

hmonkey · June 2013

she's only 10. how would she know what happened in the first 20 years of her parents' lives?

DG1 · June 2013

kerbohl said:

Very, very true. We were always on the back roads. But despite that, there were always so many police cars around, so I'm sure my parents could have still gotten into some trouble.

Yes, or you could have just as easily had an accident on a back road and been killed or paralyzed.

This whole "It's just country roads" thing is mind-bottling. SIL and NBIL said the same thing about letting Niece sit on the back of the convertible on the ride home. Because, you know, no one ever has accidents close to their house or off of major highways.

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