From the legendary website The Smoking Gun this week comes the story (link at bottom) of Florida grandparents Paul and Belinda Berloni (pictured above), their very unfortunate little granddaughter, and the tike's plastic Hot Wheels toy car (also pictured above). Let the deranged ride begin!
It apparently wasn't enough for Gramps and Granny just to get wasted while watching their seven-year-old granddaughter. After all, it's certainly possible to up the ol' child neglect ante a lot more than that. And what better way than to tie the kid to a moving vehicle and drag her behind it just for kicks?
For some reason, this sorry spectacle caught the eye of a passing cop, who promptly pulled over both the kid's car and Granny and Gramps' SUV. And that's when the full dementedness of this situation finally began to become clear...
What's more, cops allege the little girl was wearing only a bathing suit "and had no protective gear on whatsoever" -- not so much as even a dog collar or muzzle. (So this sad little caper would've been OK if only the little shit had been wearing a helmet and padding? Regardless...)
Cops say Gramps "reeked of booze" and "had watery and bloodshot eyes" with speech that was "slowed and slurred." But Gramps was reportedly able to pull it together long enough to inform cops that his license had been "revoked for 10 years for a DUI."
For good measure, cops says Granny was sloshed back in the SUV's cargo area, where she was allegedly "cheering the child on" through an open back hatch before cops pulled this crazy caravan over. Said Granny to the cops: "We were just having fun and have been doing this all day."
But now Gramps and Granny are facing child cruelty charges plus a rather perturbed son (the girl's father), who reportedly barked at Granny at the scene: "Are you fucking stupid, you should know better!" But Pot Meet Kettle, Daddy: Since you're the one who left your kid with these two twisted geriatrics in the first place!
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/grandchild-towed-behind-suv-578912
Posts
My dad used to pull us around in the snow with an old pickup truck hood (inverted) attached to the back of his pickup truck, but that was awesomeness! He wasn't drunk either =)
ReplyDeleteBut you can't engage in this sort of behavior unless you're drunk. What would be the fun in that?
ReplyDeleteI guess Dad got a kick out of hearing all of us squealing with delight....that, and the prospect of one of us possibly flying out of the hood! ha!
ReplyDeleteOnce in the distant past (leastways I can only recall one time), I rode on the hood of a car at full speed like something out of a bad 70s muscle car picture, but I've never been dragged around behind a vehicle. I'm trying to ponder which is the more dangerous!
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not, I've done BOTH of those things....the inverted hood in the snow and the top of the car, oh yes! I'm a thrill seeker and hellraiser =)
ReplyDeleteYeah, but have you ever rode on an airplane wing at 10,000 feet?
ReplyDeleteNope. You? I would if I got the chance though =)
ReplyDeleteNo, I was referring to that hobgoblin from The Twilight Zone. You know I'm afraid of heights. I hate even being inside a plane at 10,000 feet. BTW, is there a difference between a hobgoblin and a goblin? I've never gotten the distinction.
ReplyDeleteYep, I know about your issue with heights =) Not sure about the hobgoblin vs. the goblin, will have to research that, Rager! ha!
ReplyDeleteAnother one is possum vs. oppossum.
ReplyDeleteTHOSE I think are used interchangeably and are the same thing. Not sure why though, why are they special and get 2 spellings? Nasty rodents.
ReplyDeleteWell Granny Clampett always said possum, and I never heard her once say "opposum." And that show was on the air for like 20 years (in both the B&W and color eras).
ReplyDelete