A Seven-Year-Old Designated Driver

pingrr

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A Seven-Year-Old Designated Driver
Cops: Drunk Nevada man turned wheel over to his young son
OCTOBER 31--Meet Alfredo Martinez. While the Nevada man should be saluted for knowing that he was too drunk to get behind the wheel last night, he probably should not have tabbed his seven-year-old son as his designated driver. Martinez, 37, was arrested after Reno cops spotted his car weaving across lanes and stopping suddenly. When officers pulled over the vehicle before it could enter a highway, they found a plastered Martinez in the passenger seat and his son behind the wheel. Martinez, pictured below in a mug shot snapped at the Washoe County lockup, directed the boy to drive him home because he was too drunk to do it himself, cops said. Martinez is facing a felony child endangerment rap.
 
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bcp

bcp

In My Opinion
what kind of idiot would go somewhere with his 7 year old child and get drunk?

I dont even want my daughter to see me drunk when I at home and going nowhere.

on the other side of the story, we have gone to the merkle wildlife sanctuary for the driving tour thing, and on a number of occassions when we were the only ones there I have let my daughter drive.

we started out by her sitting on my lap in the truck and just steering when she was around 5 or 6.
then I let her drive the grand cherokee with me sitting next to her ready to grab the wheel. never had to grab it.
I tried with the lincoln, but she cant see over the dashboard so that wouldnt work too well.

Im teaching her to play the "watch how fast old people can jump into the water" game when a car is heading at them at a high rate of speed.
 
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