Oct 23 2007
Mom arrested for DUI after 8 year old boy calls 911- FROM INSIDE CAR
In a world where stupid parent tricks happen all the time, this one takes the cake.
It’s a pathetic thing when the kid has more bloody common sense then the parent.
Mom arrested for DUI after boy calls 911 from car
An 8-year-old boy riding in a car with his mom called 911 several times to report that she wasn’t “acting normal,” leading to her arrest for investigation of drunken driving and other charges, authorities said.
Paulette Lynn Spears, 33, was arrested Saturday after she drove to a fire station and said she had a medical problem.
Gross stupidity is not a medical problem, otherwise they would cure it.
Guided by her son’s description of what he could see from the car, as well as by global positioning technology to track the phone calls, deputies arrived at the station less than a minute later.
“He said ’I don’t know where we are, and Mom’s not acting normal,’” sheriff’s Sgt. Randon M. Walker said.
At one point, Spears took a cellular telephone from the boy, told the dispatcher not to worry and hung up, Walker said. The boy called back, and again his mother cut short the call, Walker said.
“The mother kept interrupting the 8-year-old,” he said. “It happened at least twice.”
At one point, Walker said, Spears apparently bit the boy’s hand to get the telephone away from him.
Just lovely. Will CPS be called and this woman lose her parental rights?
Four minutes before the boy’s first call, dispatchers had received a report of car that matched the description of Spears’ car being driven erratically.
The boy and a 5-year-old child, who was also inn the car, were placed with an aunt. As of Monday, Spears remained in jail for investigation of drunken driving, two counts of reckless endangerment and assault of a child. It was not clear if she had a lawyer to speak for her because she had not appeared in court.
