Posted on 09/19/2012 1:48:05 PM PDT by grundle
EDINA, Minn. (WCCO) – An Edina woman is accused of making her 11-year-old nephew ride in the trunk of her Lexus so he wouldn’t get her car’s leather seats wet.
The boy had just been on a water ride at Valleyfair, according to the criminal complaint.
Thirty-eight-year-old Susan McCarty has been charged with child endangerment.
Witnesses called police who pulled her over.
Police say she admitted putting her nephew in the trunk because he was soaking wet and she didn’t want him on her leather seats. According to the complaint, the boy was warned inside Valleyfair that if he continued to go on water rides, he would have to ride in the trunk.
The boy’s sister told police he seemed excited about riding in the trunk and confirmed that she was the one who closed the trunk, once he was inside.
She also told them the back seat console had been folded down, leaving a hole approximately the size of a piece of paper, so the boy could get some air.
She said when he told her he was getting warm in the trunk, the air vents were adjusted to aim directly at the console hole.
The girl said she and her grandma, who was also riding in the car, had a somewhat uneasy feeling about her brother riding in the trunk but did not question the decision made by her aunt.
McCarty faces up to a year in prison and a $3,000 fine if convicted.
She should have known the inevitable results. I guess she figured she could get away with it.
She didn’t.
The better solution would have been.....No water rides for you.....OR....Bring extra clothes....OR...stay home. The aunt is a dumb twit...
That said, for a first offense and with the kid OK, I doubt she will do any time.
I hope they never find out about the few hundred miles I put on in the back of a pickup truck fifty years ago or so. It was how we cooled off on summer evenings back then. Dirt roads were our favorite. Lots of bouncing.
If she’s the same Susan McCarty who used to live in my neighborhood, you’re right, she IS a dumb twit.
Ridiculous.
Ever hear of a towel?
I don’t think she’ll get that much, probably probation at the most.
There is no situation so bad that government cannot make much, much worse.
If your car is more important that your nephew, you are a first-class IDIOT!
Perhaps it’s now illegal to ride in the rumble seat of a pre-WWII car.
Cheers!
stupid is forever
very different than inside a trunk
Under the conditions described in this story? What utter nonsense.
FReepers are starting to sound like nannystaters. It's pathetic.
How long is the ride from Vanity Fair to Edina.... 2 minutes...2 hours?
She should have put the boy on the roof like Mitt’s dog!!! ;^)
And how would water harm leather? The host animals probably were left out in the rain a lot.
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