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Drunk driven home by 9 year old daughter

  • 20-10-2011 12:57am
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15375320

    A man has appeared in court accused of child abuse after Michigan police found him in the early hours of the morning, apparently drunk in the passenger seat of a van with his nine-year-old daughter driving.
    Shawn Weimer, 39, was caught on CCTV in a petrol station, bragging to the shopkeeper about his daughter's driving skills

    She should have driven him to the police station. :pac:


Comments

  • #2
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    What a tool.


  • #3
    Sauve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,646 ✭✭✭✭Sauve


    It obviously wasn't her first time driving either, which is the worrying bit.
    Poor kid.


  • #4
    enfant terrible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,620 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uD6kxnlzPw


  • #5
    tvercetti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,060 ✭✭✭tvercetti


    bloody women drivers!!


  • #6
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,405 ✭✭✭Dartz


    How is that child abuse?

    If I was 9 and my da asked me to stay up late and let me drive the car and bought me cokes in the pub, I'd be having a ball


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  • #7
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    It's crazy, and reckless, and a whole load of other things ... but is it actually child abuse?


  • #8
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    Dartz wrote: »
    How is that child abuse?

    If I was 9 and my da asked me to stay up late and let me drive the car and bought me cokes in the pub, I'd be having a ball

    you'd probably be having a pair of balls, same sort of suspect scenario


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    randylonghorn wrote: »
    It's crazy, and reckless, and a whole load of other things ... but is it actually child abuse?

    +1, misuse perhaps.


  • #10
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    I think it's kinda cool...

    and by 'kinda cool' I mean DOWN WITH THIS SORT OF THING.


  • #11
    The Highwayman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,227 ✭✭✭The Highwayman


    Next stop luv, KFC


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  • #12
    zuroph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    Wouldn't have even been noticed if it was his son,

    women drivers :rolleyes:


  • #13
    The Scientician
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭The Scientician


    Maybe she grew up on a farm, my cousins were driving when they were 8.


  • #14
    The Highwayman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,227 ✭✭✭The Highwayman


    The Scientician wrote: »
    Maybe she grew up on a farm, my cousins were driving when they were 8.


    And sleeping together at 10 :)


  • #15
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    child neglect, not abuse.


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
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    Overheal wrote: »
    child neglect, not abuse.

    He's not neglecting her, he's giving her free driving lessons. :p


  • #17
    HazDanz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,300 ✭✭✭HazDanz


    Overheal wrote: »
    child neglect, not abuse.

    Neglect is a form of child abuse.


  • #18
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    randylonghorn wrote: »
    It's crazy, and reckless, and a whole load of other things ... but is it actually child abuse?
    Yes, according to Wikipedia

    "In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Children And Families (DCF) define child maltreatment as any act or series of acts of commission or omission by a parent or other caregiver that results in harm, potential for harm, or threat of harm to a child."


  • #19
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    would they rather he drove drunk? Pff, damn government are never happy

    it was probably an automatic anyway. A drunk four year old could drive an automatic like.


  • #20
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    My daughter is nine, its about time she started picking me up from the pub, its only fair after all the lifts I've given her to ballet, hockey etc.


  • #21
    Hobbes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    Sauvignon82 wrote: »
    It obviously wasn't her first time driving either, which is the worrying bit.
    Poor kid.

    Depends where you are in Michigan. Some parts of you couldn't go anywhere without a car. So having a nine year old able to drive is a good thing.


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  • #22
    Coriolanus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    Better that she was driving her da around than out joyriding imo.


  • #23
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Sorry, but this gives me Lols.

    Damn backstabing petrol pump boy...squiler!

    My misses was teaching me how to drive when I was 17 ( she was 21 ), she should be jailed too!!! She was abusing me!!! *cries*


  • #24
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    When the kid grows up she can come to Ireland. There she can get a good job as a chauffeur for government ministers. That largely consists of ferrying drunks from one function to the next.


  • #25
    FortuneChip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,814 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    He made his 9 year old daughter give him a ride?

    Disgraceful


  • #26
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,082 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    Sorry, but this gives me Lols.

    Damn backstabing petrol pump boy...squiler!

    My misses was teaching me how to drive when I was 17 ( she was 21 ), she should be jailed too!!! She was abusing me!!! *cries*

    You're legally allowed drive when you're seventeen.


  • #27
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    chopperbyrne wrote: »
    You're legally allowed drive when you're seventeen.

    Not in this country, where I came from originally ;)


  • #28
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,082 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    This country being Ireland, then yes you are legally allowed drive at seventeen.

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/travel_and_recreation/motoring_1/driver_licensing/learner_driving_permits_for_cars_and_work_vehicles.html


  • #29
    johnayo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭johnayo


    Deleted User wrote: »
    He's not neglecting her, he's giving her free driving lessons. :p

    Ah sure, it keeps her off the streets/:eek::eek::eek:


  • #30
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    chopperbyrne wrote: »
    This country being Ireland, then yes you are legally allowed drive at seventeen.

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/travel_and_recreation/motoring_1/driver_licensing/learner_driving_permits_for_cars_and_work_vehicles.html

    Okay.... I am not from Ireland...Originally


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  • #31
    positron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,430 ✭✭✭positron


    Is this her?

    http://www.boomtron.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/kick-ass1.jpg


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