...more likely, the four-year-old CAT!!!
Posted on 08/18/2006 9:21:26 PM PDT by RedCell
WELLERSBURG -- A man accused of drunken driving told state police that his 4-year-old son was at the wheel of his sport utility vehicle when it crashed into a tree.
Albert Monroe Boyce Jr., 33, of Hyndman, told police that his son was sitting on his lap and turned the wheel too far to one side, sending the SUV off the road.
Boyce faces a preliminary hearing Sept. 21 on charges of drunken driving, child endangerment, reckless endangerment and driving without a license.
No phone number for Boyce could be found. Court records do not indicate that he has an attorney, district court officials said.
Boyce received facial injuries in the crash, and the child was treated and released for unspecified injuries, authorities said.
Boyce had an open 30-pack of Budweiser and a cooler in the vehicle when the crash occurred July 14, police said.
Things that make you go... WTF?!!!
The guy has got to be a lieburrall.
I bet it was the Firestone tires at fault here... :)
Does the airbag help in such a case, or just smash the kid into the idiot drunk?
I don't think it was the tires. It was probably the asphalt.
I seem to recall either Homer Simpson or Al Bundy using this one.
...more likely, the four-year-old CAT!!!
Unfortunately, the kid was drunk as well.
This reminds me of my dad.....He got stopped for DUI when I was in the car and said I was driving. I was 15 though, not 4. It was one too many DUIs for him and he and his lawyer wanted me to testify in court that I had been driving. I refused, and our relationship went further downhill forever more after that. Never forgave me for not protecting him.
Oooh, an open 30-pack and a cooler. Any open beers? No breathalizer test? No blood alchohol test? They'd have mentioned it if he'd failed either.
An open 30-pack and a cooler does not mean that the driver was drinking. For all we know from the article he may have been camping sometime this summer, the leftovers were in the car, and it happened exactly as he said it happened.
Fathers don't let their babies drive drunk.
That's a shame. You did right though. There was no point in letting him pull you both down. He had a problem and needed to face up to it and accept the consequences.
Had you defended him, and he went out and did it again, only killed someone, you would have had to live with that knowledge.
You have my sympathies. Hopefully, you've had enough years since then to put this into perspective.
But, it is he who should seek forgiveness.. Not you. Firstly, he should have protected you against drunk drivers. That includes him. Secondly, he should have never asked you to commit perjury.
If he considers himself righteous in holding a grudge over that, he continues to have some serious personal problems that will preclude his having a healthy relationship with anyone.
People in that state of mind are destructive to themselves and to others. The only ones who can change them is God and themselves.
In my opinion, all the family can do is pray and stay out of the way.
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