[Slap] The return of the common sense delivery system ...

[dancefloorlandmine]

From today's METRO - Britain's youngest drink driver is identified as being a 12 year old girl who got pissed off with the family Christmas, and took her dad's semi-auto Corsa, while having a blood alcohol level of 65 (drink-drive limit being 35). Banged the car hard into several kerbs and so on, and was retrieved by the police. The sentence of a hearty slap shall be delivered unto her mother, who said:

"Now that we know what happened, it's not the law's business."

Wrong! Your daughter was a) pissed and b) in "control" of a lethal weapon. It is very much the law's business.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I saw that. The parents are clearly totally irresponsible.

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

[boggles]

[kathbad]

Saw that in the local paper this morning. She was trying to get to very near where I work.

It is just horrifying.

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Curious: Does this bring child neglect into play? Letting your daughter drink that much for a start? They may not have 'let' her of course but then where else did she get it?

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Well, there's nothing in law to prohibit allowing your child to drink at home.

The report said she was twice the drink-drive limit, but in someone that age, that could be as little as two glasses of wine.

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Mmm, good point. I was just curious.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I certainly think the parents were irresponsible in allowing her to leave the house unaccompanied when she had been drinking, though! I know I was allowed the odd glass of wine when I was in my teens, but my parents wouldn't have dreamed of letting me wander off alone after it.

[redcountess]

She's bloody lucky that something didn't happy to her - the two girls murdered the other year wandered off from a family barbecue. As for her BAC, I though it could have just been from the brandy cream, but alcohol burns off in cooking, doesn't it? Unless it was liqueur chocolates. I don't understand the English BAC levels, in Australia the legal limit is .05 if you're on your full licence and .00 for learners (and those driving with them) and probationary licence holders, as well as possibly lorry drivers.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Depends how much brandy you put in the brandy butter. My father has a tendency to make the stuff so that it visibly sweats alcohol as it comes out into a warm atmosphere ... rather good, but there's definitely still alcohol going on!

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what the actual levels are, but it works out the equivalent (for an average adult) of about one and a half pints of beer, or two small glasses of wine. Personally I think driving with any alcohol in one's system is fucking stupid, though.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Aye. That's my viewpoint too ...

[silenttex.livejournal.com]

Can we not just execute the whole family? For the good of society? I'll offer to go and slap some sense into all of them... with a morningstar.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Holy water sprinkler, in this case. Filled with essence of clue.

[silenttex.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we should get the motor manufacturers to look at making cars harder to drive, rather than easier? Perhaps that would help eliminate the mobile phone users, women putting on make-up, and the people more intent on what is happening inside their car rather than outside?

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Or just install that doodad that stops the car starting if it detects alcohol. Can't remember what it was called though.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

A nagging husband / wife*





(*delete as appropriate)

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Aka a sensible partner ... [grin]

[realtan-dannan.livejournal.com]

I just love the fact that the courts have banned her from driving!

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

They should ban her entire family from breeding.

[wag-9393.livejournal.com]

Which will piss her off in 5 years time. Ban will begin when she is 17 and everyone else is taking their tests. Also stays on her driving record for a number of years which means she'l never afford the insurance. Shame is she'll probably drive without instead :-(

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Well, as I understand it, like the last munchkin drink-driver, it means that the ban will start at the point at which they would otherwise become entitled to a licence. I hope.

[silenttex.livejournal.com]

Well then, obviously surgical removal of her hands and feet is the only way to keep the roads safe, err, slightly less dangerous? Now where did I leave that axe?

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

I think you left it buried in Peter Andre's skull. Unfortunately he didn't notice and walked off.