From July 13, 2019
For those of you who’ve been following Oy, Rodney here on this blog on Sundays, you’re already family with weird stories involving wading pools. But this one’s from real life.
Police in Dixon, Illinois, arrested a 49-year-old woman–old enough to know better–for driving around with an inflated wading pool on the roof of her car… and her two daughters sitting in it “to keep it from flying away” (https://abcnews.go.com/US/mom-arrested-driving-inflatable-pool-car-kids-inside/story?id=64248083).
Not even Violet Crepuscular could have dreamed up foolishness like this.
The woman is charged with endangering the children. The J-school genius who wrote the story didn’t give the daughters’ ages. Not that there’s any age that’s good for sitting on the roof of a moving car.
She didn’t tie it down. Didn’t deflate it, fold it up, and safely stow it in the trunk. No. This potential Democrat presidential candidate just put the pool up there on the roof of her car and had her kids sit in it. Happily, before anything really bad could happen, someone saw this pageant of folly when he happened to look out the window, and called the police.
How much public money, do you suppose, was spent on this woman’s education? Where do we go to get a refund?
The boundaries of stupidity have been pushed to new limits. 🙂
wow, this is totally insane, and also criminal. Unbelievable!
Totally insane! Even I wouldn’t do such a thing!
It’s a miracle they didn’t fall off.
Amen! God kept them safe!
I read where the two daughters were juveniles, which really doesn’t reduce the insanity of it all. Let’s see, $5,000 a year to educate through high school, this woman owes society about $65,000.
OMG! There is an astounding lack of sense in all of this. How could someone so clueless function in our complex world? How could someone be so utterly senseless as to risk the lives of their offspring for the sake of a nearly worthless wading pool? I could go on, but even a truly stupid person should know better than to do this.
Sheer stupidity. Never a shortage of that.
Sometimes I wonder how people like this survive so adulthood.
Luck, I guess.