http://www.recordonline.com...080808/NEWS/80808013


Are people that stupid?

[This message has been edited by mattman8 (edited 08-08-2008).]

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August 08, 2008

MARATHON, Fla. - Authorities say a grandmother was arrested for driving around the parking lot of a Marathon grocery store with her 3-year-old child sitting on the roof of the car.

Monroe County Sheriff's Office deputies were called to the Publix store Tuesday and arrested a 54-year-old woman after she was driving around with her three-year-old granddaughter on the roof of her car.

The grandmother was released from jail 15 hours later.

The woman said Thursday she would never let anything hurt her granddaughter. She says she was driving at "snail-speed" and holding the child's leg.

Authorities say the woman told police she was giving the child some air and letting her have fun.

She faces charges of child abuse. The child is back with her mother.

works for me

i heard about this on the radio... time for the retirement home grandma!

I fixed it. I didn't realize it converts urls automatically./

i bet the little girl had fun till the police took her grandma away .

quote Originally posted by Phranc: MARATHON, Fla. -.

Florida again, I'm sooo not suprised.

quote Originally posted by Phranc: Publix store

Realizing you copied and pasted the story from the provided site, I have to ask, what the hell is a Publix store.
Is Public spelled differently in Florida?

I even checked Webster's English-Spanish Dictionary, nothing there either. I expect more of the so called Press.

Ron

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quote Originally posted by blackrams: Realizing you copied and pasted the story from the provided site, I have to ask, what the hell is a Publix store. Is Public spelled differently in Florida? Ron

It's where you go to get your pubs cut.


A supermarket

Publix is a store down in florida, its like a grocery store if I recall right

Oh, OK so that a store's Name, I can accept that, sorry for the rant.

Ron

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[This message has been edited by JazzMan (edited 12-04-2008).]

Publix = safeway, albertsons, or for the people on the w coast, fred meyer.

quote Originally posted by JazzMan: Man, when I was a kid I could only ride on the hood, they never would let me ride on the roof.... JazzMan

You got to ride on the hood?!?!? I had to hang on to the rear bumper.

http://www.publix.com/

quote Originally posted by ryan.hess: Publix = safeway, albertsons, or for the people on the w coast, fred meyer.

quote Originally posted by Old Lar: http://www.publix.com/

quote Originally posted by blackrams: Oh, OK so that a store's Name, I can accept that, sorry for the rant. Ron

Got it. Thanks. Based on reading the article, if one didn't know, one could easily question the spelling as I did.
Right? Come on guys cut me some slack, it's been a long week.

Ron

At least she didn`t drive into the store.
I`ve seen a number of Cops shows where the Grandma went to hit the brake and ended up drivng into the front of a store.

quote Originally posted by blackrams: Got it. Thanks. Based on reading the article, if one didn't know, one could easily question the spelling as I did. Right? Come on guys cut me some slack, it's been a long week. Ron

I questioned it too, because of this part "Authorities say a grandmother was arrested for driving around the parking lot of a """Marathon grocery store''''' "

quote Originally posted by TXGOOD: At least she didn`t drive into the store. I`ve seen a number of Cops shows where the Grandma went to hit the brake and ended up drivng into the front of a store.

I saw that once in person....

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Hmm kid on roof, hold leg. Kid falls, head hits ground after swinging from grandmas arm. New speed hump when it swings under the back wheel.

Grandma should know the hood is safer. Sheeze, age does not always mean lessons learn't does it.

quote Originally posted by madcurl: Florida again, I'm sooo not suprised.

like I said, we've got all kinds of crazy.

I remember as a kid riding in the back of my Grandpas Chevy pick up. God that was fun. Nowadays Grandpa would at the least get a ticket, and at the most arrested. Reading the article it sounds really stupid, but a gut feeling tells me this was not that bad and it is the typical knee jerk reaction our society has been trained to give.

Jim

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