woman lets daughter ride in box on top of van

[Amby 490]

An Alabama woman has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after police say she let her daughter ride in a cardboard box on top of their van. Albertville Police spokesman Sgt. Jamie Smith said the 37-year-old woman was arrested Sunday after police received a call about a minivan on a state highway with a child riding on top.

Smith said the woman told police the box was too big to go inside the van, and that her daughter was inside the box to hold it down.

Smith said the mother told officers it was safe because she had the box secured to the van with a clothes hanger.

The 13-year-old daughter wasn't harmed and was turned over to a relative. A jail worker said the mother was out on bond Monday.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...mp;type=bondage

[The_Dude 1,142]

An Alabama woman has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after police say she let her daughter ride in a cardboard box on top of their van. Albertville Police spokesman Sgt. Jamie Smith said the 37-year-old woman was arrested Sunday after police received a call about a minivan on a state highway with a child riding on top.

Smith said the woman told police the box was too big to go inside the van, and that her daughter was inside the box to hold it down.

Smith said the mother told officers it was safe because she had the box secured to the van with a clothes hanger.

The 13-year-old daughter wasn't harmed and was turned over to a relative. A jail worker said the mother was out on bond Monday.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...mp;type=bondage

Rednecks, whatcha gonna do?

[Peikko 1,575]

Oh my!

No doubt this woman believed her statement too. Glad no one got hurt is all I have to say

[Nagishkaw 510]

Good grief! ####### was that woman thinking....if she even had to capability to think?

[Amby 490]

I read a longer version of this last night. She said it was a box of clothes that would have blown off without the girl's weight holding it down.

Edited October 6, 2009 by Amby

[Peikko 1,575]

Right, she is that stupid but stupid isn't malicious - although the consequences can be similar.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

I read a longer version of this last night. She said it was a box of clothes that would have blown off without the girl's weight holding it down.

So b1tch used the kid as a weigh for her laundry??? #######

[The_Dude 1,142]

I read a longer version of this last night. She said it was a box of clothes that would have blown off without the girl's weight holding it down.

So b1tch used the kid as a weigh for her laundry??? #######

I know, why the ** didn't I think of that. Stupid me had to make 2 trips. Lesson learned.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

I read a longer version of this last night. She said it was a box of clothes that would have blown off without the girl's weight holding it down.

So b1tch used the kid as a weigh for her laundry??? #######

I know, why the ** didn't I think of that. Stupid me had to make 2 trips. Lesson learned.

[Amby 490]

[Heracles 417]

I read a longer version of this last night. She said it was a box of clothes that would have blown off without the girl's weight holding it down.

You're joking right?

Edited October 6, 2009 by Booyah!

[Amby 490]

I read a longer version of this last night. She said it was a box of clothes that would have blown off without the girl's weight holding it down.

You're joking right?

no I'm serious. let me see if I can find it before the person I'm tutoring gets here.

[Heracles 417]

I read a longer version of this last night. She said it was a box of clothes that would have blown off without the girl's weight holding it down.

You're joking right?

no I'm serious. let me see if I can find it before the person I'm tutoring gets here.

####### has happened to common sense.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

In Australia, if you let your kids ride in a box on top of a van, the parents are stripped naked from the waist down, bent over a chair and flogged. A second offense results in life in prison.

[Amby 490]

I don't know where the hell I read that, but I can't find it now. I'll find it later on. Here's something a bit longer.

ALBERTVILLE, AL (WAFF) - A woman was arrested after police discovered a teenager inside a cardboard box on the roof of a vehicle.

Jackie Denise Knott charged told police she had a good reason. Albertville police said the mother told them she was trying to carry a cardboard box, but it wouldn't fit in her minivan. She claimed her daughter was just making sure the box was secure on the van roof.

Drivers in Albertville couldn't believe what they saw Wednesday morning. A minivan was driving down U.S. Highway 431 with a large cardboard box on the roof. But it wasn't the box that raised concern - it was the 13-year-old sitting inside of it.

Many drivers called police and officers quickly pulled Knott over. Albertville police arrested her and charged her with endangering the welfare of a child. Officers said her reasoning behind her actions was astonishing.

"The box was too large to get in the van, so more or less, she needed a paperweight," said Albertville Police Officer Jamie Smith.

Officers asked Knott about the safety of the child and she responded.

"She told the officers she had the box tied to the roof with a wire clothes hanger," Smith said

The child was not hurt. She was turned over to a relative's custody at the scene and DHR is investigating.

"For the child's sake, more than anything, nothing turned out bad," Smith said. "Obviously a gust of wind, an 18-wheeler passing by could have thrown the box off the top of the van. It could have turned out very bad."

Knott was transferred to the Albertville jail where she posted a $500. WAFF 48 News tried contacting her, but were unsuccessful.

http://www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=11259745#