WTW: Buckle Yer Brew, Mate
May 14th, 2008 at 12:00 pm by Preston Taylor Holmes
It’s almost comforting to know that the Aussies have so much in common with us inbred southerners. Australian fined for buckling in beer, not child.
An Australian motorist has been fined for putting a seatbelt around a case of beer instead of a five-year-old passenger.
Police who pulled over the man’s car on the Ross highway, near the outback town of Alice Springs, found the child sitting unrestrained in the back of the vehicle.
“I really haven’t seen something like this before,” Burnett said. “Sure, we get beer out of vehicles that is being taken into restricted areas but this is the first time that the beer has taken priority over a child.”
Burnett issued the driver with a $750 fine for failing to ensure a child was wearing a seatbelt and for driving a car that was unregistered and uninsured.
I hope it was good beer, at least.
May 14th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I think I’m going to see if my job can relocate me to Australia – oh, say around November 3rd.