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PROUD PARENTS: IN THE NEWS
Alright so check this out: This Proud Father, who really lives up to the name by the way he gloats about his actions in the gas station, regularly gets his 9 year old daughter to be his designated driver. Check out the surveillance footage above, and read the full story after the jump!
Courtesy of AssociatedPress
BROWNSTOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A Detroit-area man had his 9-year-old daughter drive him to the store because he had apparently been drinking, police said Monday, and surveillance video from a gas station shows him telling a clerk that his daughter was his “designated driver.”
Brownstown Township Detective Lt. Robert Grant said the girl was sitting behind the wheel in a child’s booster seat before 3 a.m. on Oct. 8, when an officer opened the driver’s side door of the full-sized panel van her father uses for work. He said she was surprised when police pulled her over.
She said to the officer, “What did you stop me for? I was driving good,” Grant told the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News.
Someone called police after spotting the pair stopped at the gas station. The caller watched the girl get in the driver’s seat and pull the vehicle onto the road. She drove a couple miles before police pulled her over.
The videotape obtained by The Associated Press shows the van pulling up to the station and walking in with his daughter. He told an unseen clerk that she was driving him around because he had been drinking.
“I got a designated driver,” the man said.
The AP is not naming the father in order to protect the identity of his daughter.
The girl told police that her father had been drinking whiskey all night. She said he had allowed her to drive before.
The father, who told officers he was teaching his daughter to drive, was arrested and refused a Breathalyzer test, Grant said. He was charged with second- and fourth-degree child abuse during an Oct. 10 arraignment. He was ordered to have no contact with his daughter.
His preliminary examination is scheduled for Tuesday.
He also was charged with being a habitual offender and could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison if convicted. The habitual offender charge stems from convictions on four previous felonies, including receiving and concealing stolen property and unarmed robbery, Grant said.
He was convicted of driving while intoxicated in connection with an October 2007 crash in Wyandotte and had his license restricted for a year, Michigan Secretary of State spokesman Fred Woodhams told the Free Press.
The girl was turned over to her maternal grandfather when police could not reach her mother. The girl’s parents are separated.
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lol future nascar driver, anyone?
What is sad about this to me. Is that the little girl won’t fully understand why this is wrong until later in life. For her not only was this normal, but I am sure her father told her he can’t drive or he might get in an accident. So she thinks it is better that she drive him so he dosen’t get hurt, or hurts other people.
This poor girl is being traumatized more by the media than by her father. We will see her in 10 years on celebrity rehab. Poor girl.
Girl: “Is there a problem officer?”
Officer: *face palm*
The worst part is this isn’t the first time I’ve heard of such a thing. A local radio show here a few months back had a woman caller who said her husband was TICKED because she had let her 13 year old son drive her home while she was drunk. She thought it was better than driving herself – and what else was she supposed to do.
Oh, I dunno, maybe CALL A FREAKING CAB, DUMBASS?!?
My question is why is this little girl and dad hanging out while he’s drunk at 3 am.
if she is a good driver who cares how old she is; age has nothing to do with ability if you are 50 and a menace on the road why should you have the privilege of driving. the father is an idiot in many ways but not drinking and driving is an improvement over having another accident.
kids are restricted in their actions by social customs not ability.
if they are immature it is because we want them to stay kids longer then necessary. she i proud of her abilities; and why not. a skill is a skill. in many settings kids are still valued for what they can do; help on the farm. or not long ago apprenticed in a trade they will make their livelyhood with.
@ no coddling -Wow! your so insightful, are you a lawyer or motivational speaker? No,no, I’ve got it now -captain of your high school debate team?! At first I thought this was just an alcoholics inexcusable, literally brain dead reasoning to get wasted and still cruise around town at 3am getting snacks…while exploiting his daughters innocence and inherent curiosity for his own benefit. No more am I blinded by these simple minded, western brain washing spawned petty judgments. I see the light and know that one day, there will be NO CODDLING! P.S. why aren’t children part of the workforce any more? Don’t give me that “Children can’t work 14 hrs a day” BS. or “but they’ll develop rickets from lack of sunshine”. Haber dash! In my day we walked to the sun and back (uphill both ways) and we liked it!
[...] smiling little fella is named Adrian Kegler, and he’s the second Proud Father we’ve featured that thought his child was a better option for designated driver than a taxi [...]
child abuse? wtf how is this abuse
Yes, because ALL 9 year olds want to stay up til 3-4AM in order to drive their drunk ass dad home. Including the fact this kid has had little to no training with the laws of the road, and exhaustion couldn’t possibly affect the child’s driving even if she was a genius child. No child abuse here!
(My father used to bring me to public plays when I was a kid, where there were times we had to stay very late-like 2AM- in the night on a weekend or during the summer to practice or discuss scenes. When I was 9, I’d pass out at the very latest 11pm, and my dad would let me sleep in the car and later drove us home. If my dad were drunk and gave me the keys, with my absence of road knowledge and extreme exhaustion, I would have probably wrapped us around a tree. Adrenaline only stays with you for so long before you’re weaving on the road bleary-eyed. So, yeah. I call that dad abusive.)
Not child abuse IMO — my parents let me drive when I was 10 — I remember it wasn’t on busy roads but I clearly remember that I could “handle” the situation meaning the car — yeah I know the dad is a fuck up and I know he shouldn’t of put himself and her in that situation — but I give two thumbs up for the daughter driving pretty damn good underneath the “circumstances” — lets all take a breath and think before we comment ya n00kyfuckers.
did you know its legal to teach your kids to drive? there was a story on the news about a passed out mother in the front seat and a child who drove her to the side of the road.