Saturday, June 16, 2012

Never, ever put anything on the roof of your car when you are stoned

Especially not your baby

We have all done it — stoned or not. Whether it was a cup of coffee, a pair of sunglasses or a cell phone, it ended up on the roof of the car while we were fumbling for our keys and piling the kids into the car, and we drove off with it still hanging out up there.

Some of us were lucky. The item remained on the roof, lodged between the roof rack and a crack in the door, or it fell off only to be found with a backtrack and stopping of traffic.

Others of us were not.

Such is the case of a Phoenix, AZ, Mean Mom who left her 5-week-old bundle of joy on the roof of her car. He ended up getting bumped off the roof and landing in the middle of the street at 12:45 a.m.

He was buckled into his car seat, which probably helped him survive his wild ride, and thankfully he was treated and released to CPS and no injuries were reported. To give the young MM some credit, she did realize her baby was missing (12 miles later, ahem) and went back to look for him. This is when the police arrested her and she admitted to have smoked marijuana earlier in the night.

There is all kinds of wrong going on here, especially the juicy bit where they note that her baby's daddy was arrested less than two hours earlier after he was pulled over for driving all swervy-wervy and almost causing an accident. The MM and their child were in the car at the time.

You would think that after you and your infant are driven home by the police at midnight that you would put  the wee one to sleep and get yourself to bed — babies tend to get up early and a lot — but this brilliant girl got in the car and drove to a friend's house. I bet she wishes she stayed home now.

I am curious as to what kind of car she drives, because she is either super tall or drives a really small car to be able to comfortably place a baby in a car seat on the roof. I never bothered with those removable seats, but my first choice would be the ground. Not too much risk of losing him to gravity resting him there.

I am sure there is more to the story — there always is — but because of quite a few bad decisions a baby boy is missing out on his mom.

See video of her day in court and read more of the story  on azcentral.com:

Look ma, no hands!



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