Posted on 05/30/2013 9:14:20 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Two Pennsylvania parents have been arrested after police say motorists spied a 10-year-old girl riding in a dog cage in the back of the family pickup truck.
The incident happened at around 7pm Monday on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Millvale, just outside Pittsburgh, according to police.
Officers responded to the scene after getting reports from passing driver who saw the girl riding in the back of the truck in the cage.
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OMg, was Romney driving?
Just burn your BC and ID and speak Spanish. You can do that all day then.
Yeah, those were the days!!! An old pick up truck with gramps and a few of his pals up front driving, (and knocking back the belts!!), to a way out in the sticks county dump, 2 or 3 of us kiddies in the back bed with the garbage cans AND our .22 Rifles held proud as we dreamed about those damn ‘dump rats’ that were gonna be ‘red mist’ very shortly!! Those truly were the days huh?
Probably give a better interview than the parents, too.
*shrug* Only so many column-inches per story.
I remember riding around in the back of a truck with at least ten other people including adults one July4th. The adults were shooting bottle rockets from the back of the truck. These were upstanding citizens who were well off financially, attended church every time the doors were open, and just normal people. I would not even call them rednecks. Well, some of them. This was in the 80s. I was unaware at the time that there were places loaded with nanny-staters who would have wanted us arrested. I confess that my parents did not know what I was doing though my mother trusted that I would be ok with these people. My father trusted no one, so he would have had a cow. LOL. Good thing he never knew! It was illegal to shoot fireworks in the city. In general, the cops looked the other way unless there were complaints.
And if it was raining hard...they’d put you up front, to sit on their lap, or even stand if your chin could reach over the dashboard....all the while smokin’ Camels.
Maybe if they stopped some where along the way, to get ammo, more beer or smokes, they left you in the truck [w/the motor running]...and one of the more bold of the kids, slid behind the steering wheel *pretending* to drive.
Hmmmmmmmm... is there a statute of limitations on this stuff? How did we ever survive.
[[Except for perhaps the seatbelt violation.]]
Thank goodness they got htese hardened criminal seal belt violators off gthe roads- who knows what they mighta tried next?
C.S. Lewis
LOL!
My first thoughts
Or headed out to the river to spend most of the day drowning worms at the end of a fishing pole.
Considering how bad Pennsylvania's roads are, one good bump, and that cage would have flown out of the back.
I've seen it happen. Had a large shipping container strapped to a pallet jump out of the back of a pickup and land right in front of me on I-78. The moron who was driving the pickup went another mile before he realized something was missing.
It’s probably not a *great* idea to put your kid in the bed of a pickup in *any* sort of carrier, or none at all.
But I bet she was enjoying the heck out of it. I bet she *begged* to ride back there with the dog!
Brings back memories... I pity kids today. They have the latest smart devices to play games on, but I bet the vast majority have never experienced the simple pleasure of riding in the back of a pickup.
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I’m trying to figure out where the PA turnpike goes through Millvale.
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