What's more important? Beer or Child???

[Paolo]

i know...silly question, good to have proof people are getting it right though hahahahaha
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/driver-straps-in-beer-not-toddler/2008/05/13/1210444396258.html

A Northern Territory driver has been fined by police after he strapped a seatbelt around a carton of beer but left a five-year-old child to sit on the floor of his car.

The man was pulled over on the Ross Highway, south of Alice Springs, about 3.30pm on Friday, when officers on patrol noticed the vehicle was unregistered and uninsured.

But what they found inside the car shocked them.

Four adults occupied the car with two in the front and two in the rear seats.

The carton of beer was buckled safely in the rear centre seat between two of the adults, while the five-year-old boy crouched on the floor.

"The concern is about people's priorities," a Northern Territory police spokesperson said.

"You get a lot of people riding around without seat belts in remote communities here but it is very unusual to see someone go to the trouble of strapping in a carton of beer instead of a small child. That is the shocking thing."

The driver has been fined $750.

 

[marinermick]

this is bound to make newspapers all around the world - especially the UK

 

[clarence]

Bottles or Cans......it makes a big difference.

 

[Sym]

Well surely bottles as they are more likely to break..
Hah it's just funny

 

[Mariner Girl]

They are SOOOO intelligent up there in the Territory. Didn't even occur to them to use the boot - for the beer, not the child. 

 

[Sym]

It was probablty filled with more alc..or a child

 

[Paolo]

They are SOOOO intelligent up there in the Territory. Didn't even occur to them to use the boot - for the beer, not the child. 

in the boot it can slide around and break.....on a seat with a belt around it, it will be secure. They made the right choice

 

[Ted]

$750 for an unrestrained child in an unregistered and uninsured car?

 

[dru]

Supposedly they were more worried that the carton was going to be taken off them, so they offered the Kid instead 

I thought I saw an article yesterday about this where they said it was a carton 30 beers pointing to it being tinnies but I may be mistaken, can't find the article again (it was longer than this one).

 

[loyalist]

i could understand if it were a carton of premixed spirits as that is now expensive but for beer this is just a poor choice

 

[marinermick]

i could understand if it were a carton of premixed spirits as that is now expensive but for beer this is just a poor choice

maybe they were a case of darwin stubbies

 

[Paolo]

Homer Simpson: Here's to alcohol, the cause ofand solution toall life's problems

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

Maybe the light sentence was a reward for waiting until he got home to crack open the case?