Parents arrested for strapping kids to roof of car after leaving liquor store

Fox59 ^ | May 7, 2012 | Reba Reader

[DUMBGRUNT]

Two Northern Indiana parents were arrested Monday after police said they strapped their four children to the roof of their car.

[DUMBGRUNT]

A trend? I treat my dogs the same as my kids.

[King Moonracer]

A trend when we hear that Barrie ate a child once... And it was delicious.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

LOL touche.

Nicely done.

[Tax-chick]

How many times I have wished I could do that, without being arrested ...

[rlmorel]

I don't get what the big deal is. When my kids act up, I take them out for a drive in the car, and we talk it out. Then they are meek as lambs. Sheesh.

[Wingy]

LOL. 99 MPH? Really?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

What’s the bag limit on kids?

[Tallguy]

Where the kids in government-approved car seats at least?

[liberalh8ter]

In their defense, they had to make room for the beer....

disclaimer...This post contains /s

[KosmicKitty]

Those 40's take up a lot space. Can't put the booze on the roof, it might fall off and break. At least the kids just bounce.

I don't need a /s, do I?

[nuconvert]

I thought this must be a joke.
Sadly, I guess not.

[MinuteGal]

If it was good enough for Romney's dog, it's good enough for these kids.

I think he started a trend. Grandmas are next.

Leni

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

OTOH, it is nice to find out that there are worse parents than you, and worse even than your parents.

Remind your kids of that.

[DManA]

I’m curious. Did they use duct tape or bungee cords.

[BubbaJunebug]

[WinMod70]

Well...they were strapped, I’m guessing a high quality Chinese ratchet strap or maybe some spiffy bungee cords. Is it illegal to strap kids in a convertible?

[DUMBGRUNT]

Sadly,no.
Most likely why they were pulled over.

[DUMBGRUNT]

In a recent article one of Holders kin at age 36 had 16!

That must be near any limit?

[DUMBGRUNT]

Not a joke, but we can have some fun.

[DUMBGRUNT]

We mostly took the kids rock and ice climbing.
They did complain when we took them to Disney World.
Standing in long lines was not their idea of fun.

[Freestate316]

Were they wearing Obama 2012 t shirts in their mugshots?

[misanthrope]

Ridin’ strapped to the roof of a car?

Sounds like a BLAST!!

[count-your-change]

Take notice kids! You think your parents are tough? Hoosier parents have plenty of room on top of the car for you. and you, and little wise guy over there too!

[rlmorel]

They actually begin to calm down and obey when I get up to 10 mph. Usually, they are still giggling and looking around until then.

I bump it up to over 100mph just to make sure the lesson sticks...:)

[murron]

I just took a 6 hour road trip with my daughter, her husband, and my two granddaughters, who fought the entire trip. I was sitting in the back seat of a Kia Rio with the kids, and then I got carsick. The roof of the car didn’t sound like such a bad idea to me at the time.

[Smokin' Joe]

I went from riding on the hay cart, to the towbar on the tractor, to the back of innumerable pickups, and eventually the tailboard on a fire engine (none of which is done much any more).

As kids, being strapped to the roof would have been a hoot!

[fredhead]

I don’t know how my parents could handle it. Twice a year they put us in the back seat of the Buick and drove from home (coast of NC) to Mom’s parents near Nashville, TN. My sister would always get sick in the mountains, and Dad never wanted to stop unless the car needed gas.

One good thing that came out of that is that I have no problem navigating when going on a trip. And I’m one of the few who can actually correctly fold a map. Used to collect the free road maps when I was a kid.