Shock Police Photo: Mom Buckles Up Gas Can in Car Seat, Leaves Child Unbelted
- Posted on June 6, 2012 at 10:22am by
Mike Opelka
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A Colorado mom is probably lucky that she only received a traffic ticket for what is shown in the photo below:
Last week, the Colorado State Police were engaged in a “Click it or ticket” program that is meant to encourage drivers to use their seat belts. The Denver Post reports that troopers in the town of Aurora spotted a car making an illegal turn and pulled it over. They discovered that none of the three people riding in the car was wearing a seat belt… but the gas can was belted into a child’s car seat as a toddler in a diaper sat next to it!
The incident was recorded and posted on the Colorado Department of Transportation’s Facebook page, and has sparked considerable outrage. (That also begs the question: When did local law enforcement get Facebook pages and start posting pictures from traffic stops?)
The driver was cited for three violations of the seatbelt law and having no proof of insurance.
Just days ago, The Blaze reported on a law in NJ that could cost drivers $1000 for not securing pets in moving cars. (Blaze editor Jon Seidl speculated that the woman may have seen the NJ story and assumed that the law also included PET-roleum.)
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Comments (75)
schroeder123
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 1:00pmI guess this is call for another government regulation. Some people will do dumb things. You cannot regulate stupidity. Tell the cops to go after the killers and robbers. Next I wont even be able to ride in the back of my pick up without getting a ticket.
Report Post »Freedom. What are we doing to ourselves. ? Yes she was stupid. So what.
old white guy
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:51pmthe kid was safer with the gas secured than he/she would be withthe gas rolling around in back. i used to let my kids sleep in the playpen in the back of my full sized van long before there were car seats or the ignorant, intrusive nanny state. sob, they are still alive and have kids of their own. i wonder what miracle allowed that to happen. i wonder how the human race actually survived to the point where there are almost seven billion of us on the planet. we won’t survive the nanny state i am dam sure of that.
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Abraham Young
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 4:25pmThe mighty government sees all, knows all, and can prevent all, and make a living off us while doing so.
All Hail the Know It All Government.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 4:30pm@OLD…
Report Post »Agreed! People seem to have lost the ability to Reason the Risks!
Nonie
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 5:23pmIt amy be a a good idea to regulate and outlaw stupidity – we could solve the dumb Democommie issues with one whip of a pen. Imagine no more dumb a&* Democrats.
Report Post »American Soldier (Separated)
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 8:13pmIn the photo above, it appears the child is wearing his seat belt, he just put the shoulder portion behind him. I mean, it’s an odd photo and seems reversed, why not just use the normal seat belt to secure the gas can? Why the kids seat? Either way, based on the photo, that child does have his seat belt on.
Report Post »judymac10
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 8:15pmBet she was smoking too LOL
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:05amThe worst part is that 53% of us are paying them to do it to 100% of us.
Report Post »pap pap
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:55pmNo matter if the kid was strapped in or not. Who would put a child that near to 2 gallons of gasoline ?
What an A$$ Hole.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:41pmAll I can say is Aurora is the land of the Liberals and in no way reflects the people where I live. We would buckle the child and put the gas can in the other seat or in the trunk with a properly sealed cap. Also the can could have gone down on the floor board, but that is just me.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 5:30pmThere were 3 people in the car. I would send my husband to get the gas can filled and I’d stay home with the baby. If I was a single mom, I’d get a friend to watch the baby, or fill the can. Either way, I wouldn’t have them BOTH in the car at the same time.
Report Post »Blackman Standing Tall71
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:35pmProbably another pill popping piece of trash!!
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:19pmno privacy anymore. who authorized them to publicly disclose this picture of a traffic violation.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:43pmIf they don’t list names and only show the infraction to warn other drivers, there is nothing wrong. Don’t we see dash cam videos from police stops. No difference.
Report Post »Scott571
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 5:05pmDo you suppose the violation of a public law in a public place deserves special privacy treatment?
I think more embarrassment would be a great means to deter people from doing stupid things in public.
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:11pmStupid bi***h…no-cover on the can-spout…one quick-stop…gas sprays all over the front of the car, the kid, the windshield, the seats, the floor, the stupid-woman…hope she doesn’t SMOKE in the vehicle!!
Report Post »ICanComment
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:27pmIt’s one of the new “eco green or whatever” spouts.
It has a built in valve so you‘re guaranteed to spill when pouring into your lawnmower’s tank.
Report Post »midnightvelvet
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:10pmI had five brothers and sisters. My family rode in a vw van with no back seats. The entire back had a big foam cushion with a cover on it. We slept, read and wrestled back there on long family trips. I guess my dad was worse than Hitler.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:18pmyes I know the feeling. car seats werent available when I was young and I remember laying in the back of my grannies buick with a pillow reading or playing while grandma chain smoked. oh yes the evil families we have. when my mother was little her ad threw her in the back of the truck and asked her to hold own the fishing tackle it was her job. we all lived to speak of it as well.
Report Post »Littlegypsy
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:34pmGrowing up we did not have seat belts nor carriers for our babies. BUT #1 speed limits were much lower; #2 we had no intrerstates with drivers going 80-90 mph, switching lanes, talking on a phone, etc. & #3 there were only about a tenth of the number cars on the road as there are today.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:07pmWell its a little better than riding on top the car in a baby carrier!
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:14pmThat would have been better! No cover on the can-spout will have gass spraying allover the vehicle insides! Hope she isn’t smoking inside. The kid -on-top can be removed easilly before the vehicle explodes.
Report Post »o2nine17
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 11:57amI guess with all the negative reaction, no one has thought this out. You have a child that can’t be left home alone because DCYF will have you arrested, and your lawnmower needs gas to cut your lawn because the Minimum Housing Authority is threatening you with fines and property confiscation because you didn’t mow your lawn, You have a SUV so there is no trunk or pickup bed. You store that gas can as safely as possible and just in case there is a problem and you need to extradite your child quickly from a burning car, you leave the seatbelt off him… Thats what I would expect a thinking person to do… We never has seat belts when I was a kid, and we always held the gas can so it would not spill on the floor of the car. If the cop was concerned, he could have given the kid a ride home in the police car, not the mother…
Report Post »SocialistSlayer
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:04pmWelcome to Facist America! Also another reason not to buy Facebook stock – It’s mostly business, Police, and government using it and no money to be made!
Mandatory Seat Belt use is Unconstitutional!
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:07pmThe idiot-b***ch didn’t even put the cap on the gass-can….one fast stop and wooooosh!! gass all over the front seat, windshield, the kid, you, soaked-into the seats. I wonder if she smokes in the car??
Report Post »Littlegypsy
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:36pmObviously you didn’t think it over either. There were 3 people in the car…2 adults and the child. You only need 1 person to drive the car. The other stays home with the child.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:50pmI know gas is expensive but whats more important ?
Report Post »Scott571
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 5:09pmYes, it saves time if the child is thrown from the vehicle during the accident that causes the fire.
Good thinking.
Report Post »piper60
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 11:56amI tend to think that a gas can would be more explosive than a child if an accident were to happen.
Report Post »ICanComment
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:19pm@Piper60
I don’t know… I’ve seen a few explosive accidents around children that age…
; )
Report Post »jocko
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 11:42amOh come on… we didn‘t have car seats for the first 100 years of cars and our parents didn’t love any less. This is typical Colorado nanny state. Who the hell does the government think they are telling us how we ride in the privacy of our own car?
Makes perfect sense to secure the can to keep it from sloshing around in the car.
You can expect more of this nanny state mentality as the progressives take more and more control of every aspect or out lives. Now that they have our health care under their control, they are telling us what we must and must not eat, what kind of lunches OUR kids can eat. Just watch as they move to enlarge the unions and require all kids to eat breakfast and lunch at SEIU served school cafeterias. They would ban tobacco entirely if they didn’t get so much tax money from it.
American kids are the most over protected kids in the world, if they can survive the publicly funded abortions’ dismemberment in the wound. I don’t for a moment believe these are laws are for the protection of the kids, they are just incremental steps to absolute control of our lives.
Report Post »ICanComment
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:26pmThere are no seat belt law for adults in the Live Free or Die state… The signs stating this when you enter the state say “common sense for all.” [sigh] …or it least it used to be that way. There didn’t used to be a seat belt law at all until recently.
Now… That being said, you’re supposed to exercise that common sense on your own. Would I buckle up my kid? ABSOLUTELY. If you went to the trouble to buy a gas can, use your head and buy a bungee cord to secure it. If you went to the trouble to buy a moderately expensive car seat, use your head and buy a bungee cord for a gas can.
I’ve chopped up a few cars, and the injuries/deaths from not wearing seat belts are pretty nasty. It’s not worth it. Should it be the law, though? No. No one is more motivated than YOU to put on your seat belt or your child’s seat belt – not the state or federal government. Sadly, we‘ve all been taught to turn off our brains and listen to people who we’re told know best.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:22pmi agree with you about soft drink sizes, and what food you can or can’t eat… but if you think that seat belt laws are an example of the “progressive nanny state” you are probably ret@rded, and probably deserve to be nannied.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 11:12am…
She cared more about her gas can, than her baby. That’s when you know gas has gotten way too expensive.
Message to Obama, drill here, drill now. High gas prices are causing mothers to abuse their children.
The story stated “The driver was cited for three violations of the ”seatbelt law“ and having ”no proof of insurance”.
Isn’t it illegal to transport gas inside of a passenger vehicle? Was she also ticketed for that violation? Was she charged with child endangerment?
You can’t fix stupid, so just please sterilize this woman, before she produces any more offspring. I would bet, this woman voted for Obama.
Report Post »BumperMorgan
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 10:59amLets see none in the car had seatbelts fastened. OOPS gene pool contamination!!!
Report Post »thejackal
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 10:51amI’ll bet she was smoking in the car with her kid as well. Obama supporters are so stupid.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 11:01amGive me a break for most of the twentith century children were never bulked in…. And most people get gas close to home she probably had to drive a couple blocks the child would be just fine.
Report Post »This is another example of the Police state run amuck
Fubared
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:00pmNew from Whammo; the side curtain ball of flame to make you forget about being t-boned in traffic.
Report Post »thejackal
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 10:50amHmmmm, something tells me the moron is an Obama supporter.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 10:50amNot that I condone this behavior, But is anyone thinking what I’m thinking..
Necessity is the “mother” of invention” .. NOT ..“Mother” of a child.
“Gas can carrier” only $19.99 …..as seen on TV ..
Quick ….What’s the Patents office number…?
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 10:46am“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury
This is a prime example of many people in our society, too stupid to realize it, too dumb to care.
Report Post »misterswife
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 10:42amYes the child should have been in the carseat. HOWEVER take a look at the picture, there is obviously a seat belt buckled behind the child, I am betting if we moved his leg it is over his lap. Not legal but is there. I cannot tell you how many times I buckled my kids in to boosters only to have them put the shoulder belt behind them. Other issues to take on here, how about the fumes fromt he assumed full gas can, the fact that if any spilled the carseat is now VERY flammable, The person absolutely needs to take a class and be fined for sure.
Report Post »Littlegypsy
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:40pmRead the article again. The troopers said there were 3 people in the car and NONE of the 3 were wearing a seat belt.
Report Post »luvnmycountry
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 10:39amWho could blame her with the price of gas these days?
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 10:38am….nothing says summer like a toddler huffing gasoline.
Report Post »catholicextremist
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 10:35amGas prices are pretty high… I’m just saying!
Report Post »Docrow
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 10:38amyup
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 10:29amObama’s energy policies are ruining America! Gas is now more valuable than the life of a child.
Report Post »forthepeople
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 10:27amPriorities ?
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 10:27am“Mrs. JZS we suggest you put that cigar out and quit doing donuts in the Circle K lot with JZS Jr. in the back seat au natural and not cinched in.” Okey dokey occifer, puhlease don’t tell my baby daddy JZS Sr.
Report Post »salvawhoray
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 10:25amIt really would have been a great picture if the little boy was smoking next to it.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 10:44amCome on, children shouldn’t smoke until at least 3rd grade, Gotta wait until them permenant teeth start coming in.
With the price of gas, maybe she thought, man, my kid was paid for by the state, he is free, gas costs a lot of money. Which one is more precious…hmmmmmmm
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