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What the...?!: Woman drove 70 miles with kids locked in trunk
A cop stopped a Toyota compact and found Laverne Dunlap, 35, in the car and a passenger in the front seat with a 10-year-old boy on her lap and four children, ages 5 to 17, wedged in the backseat, none of them wearing seat belts. "When the officer asked to look in the trunk, [Dunlap] said, 'absolutely,' and sure enough there were two kids in the trunk," says an officer. (Los Angeles Times)
May 26, 2005 | Permalink
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Woman, who had five youngsters and another adult in the vehicle's seats, is arrested. She said she didn't have enough room everyone
And apparantley the online paper doesn't have enough room for prepositions. Sad, really.
Posted by: Tony | May 26, 2005 9:02:05 AM
So they arrest her and then release the kids to the "adult passenger, someone who was allowing the whole thing to go on in the first place. Brilliant!
Posted by: | May 26, 2005 9:07:23 AM
Another example of why sterilization should be an option. Some people just should not breed. Especially if you can't fit them all in one ride.
Posted by: | May 26, 2005 9:26:29 AM
This brings to mind an incident when I was teen and we managed to stuff 10 people into an old VW beetle. Our argument was it was so old it didn't have seatbelts. Now that I'm a parent, I regret it. But back then, seeing the expressions of bystanders at the circus when we unloaded... Priceless!
At any rate, I was a *teen*. These people allegedly are adults. They need to act like it.
Posted by: Soo | May 26, 2005 9:27:48 AM
They didn't need a seat belt!
If the airbag had deployed, it would have pushed somebody out the window!
Posted by: Russ | May 26, 2005 9:43:10 AM
somebody's been watchin "The Sopranos" too much.
Posted by: | May 26, 2005 9:44:22 AM
Back in the days of Drive-In movie theatres this was actually quite normal behavior.
Except of course the passengers in the passenger compartment part.
Posted by: msuspartan1981 | May 26, 2005 10:10:25 AM
What do you expect her to do, drive an uncool station wagon?
Posted by: 10467 | May 26, 2005 10:26:45 AM
This world has gone bat-shit crazy.
Posted by: Rhino | May 26, 2005 10:47:52 AM
Of course putting the children in the trunk is good for safety! Then they can't roll down the windows and fall out... or open the door... its PERFECT! Why havent MORE parents thought of this sooner!!!!
Posted by: | May 26, 2005 11:04:14 AM
Why do those with the least to offer genetically feel the most compelled to spread their DNA around?
Posted by: Glenn Becker | May 26, 2005 1:15:10 PM
Why do those with the least to offer genetically feel the most compelled to spread their DNA around?
There's a line in a monty python skit where Eric Idle says "Well, I'll have a bunch of bloody babies and they can bloody well care for me." I think that kind of thinking keeps 'em coming. That or a diminished understanding of birth control.
Posted by: | May 26, 2005 2:11:52 PM
>>Why do those with the least to offer genetically feel the most compelled to spread their DNA around?<<
I remember reading the other day about viagra being covered by medicaid - a connection perhaps?
I figure abortions aren't covered by federal programs, but birth control perhaps? If you give the guy in a trailer free pills so he's constantly walking around with a hard-on the least you can do is pair it up with some birth control pills for her so she doesn't have to cram all her kids in a trunk...
Posted by: not_a_punk | May 26, 2005 4:16:50 PM
I figure abortions aren't covered by federal programs, but birth control perhaps?
Many insurance programs cover Viagra but not birth control. Sigh.
Posted by: electricity | May 26, 2005 10:18:13 PM
Calls to mind another Monty Python bit.. from the Meaning of Life.
Ev'ry sperm is sacred
Ev'ry sperm is great
If a sperm is wasted
God gets quite irate
Evidently this line of reasoning isn't limited to just the evangelical fanatics hellbent on outbreeding us heathens.. (sigh)
Posted by: | May 26, 2005 10:37:51 PM
I allus figured it wuz 'cause the Holee Bahble done said "be fruitful and multiply" & who wants to get into a pissin' match with the lord?
Posted by: Glenn Becker | May 27, 2005 8:31:22 AM
How unfortunate that you need a license to cut hair, but only working ovaries to have a child.
Posted by: Amy Alkon | May 30, 2005 12:58:03 AM
That's alotta kids
Posted by: woo man | May 30, 2005 4:03:37 AM
Does anybody else find it depressing and/or alarming that if you call 911 to report someone putting children into the trunk of a car, it takes the CHPs an HOUR to respond?
I know they're stretched pretty thin, but come on! What if it had been a kidnapping in progress?
Posted by: akeeyu | May 30, 2005 7:12:42 AM
