ViceZilla’s Views

What’s more disheartening than buying your case of beer, only to have the handles give out in the 7-11 parking lot, turning your bottled sunshine into a puddle of foam, glass, and cardboard? Or worse yet, having the same thing happen but only on your driveway? One must always take precautions to protect the working man’s nectar, but there are limits.

Who hasn’t belted their case of beer into the backseat for ride home? It’s probably pretty common because who the hell wants to clean up 24 busted beer bottles from behind the driver’s seat after it gets air born because of the very well maintained potholes in our fine neighborhoods? Buckling your beer in before the drive home is acceptable, but only if it doesn’t relegate your child to sit on floor because of it.

Apparently in Australia, it is more important for the beer to be safe in the car, while a child has to fend for himself!

An Australian man has been fined after buckling in a case of beer with a seat belt but leaving a 5-year-old child to sit on the car’s floor, police said Tuesday.

The 30-can beer case was strapped in between two adults sitting in the back seat of the car. The child was also in back, but on the car’s floor.

Hell, at least the child was on the floor! I remember as a kid, while on the family summer vacation my parents let me lay on back seat ledge under the rear window! Hell, every kid I knew did the same thing! How the times have changed. Either the parents of today are getting smarter, or back then the kids were just tougher!

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