Driver straps in beer, leaves kid loose

Courtesy of the ABC
Police in Alice Springs say they were appalled to find a driver put a seatbelt around a carton of beer - but left a five-year-old child unrestrained.

Officers stopped the unregistered sedan on the Ross Highway south of Alice Springs on the weekend.

They found the child sitting in the back seat without a seatbelt, but the driver had put a belt around a slab of beer.

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Thats a bit rough

Tue, 2008-05-13 17:49

I can understand if t was the mother in law,LOL, but not a kid.

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Prioritys!

Tue, 2008-05-13 18:15

Prioritys right imo!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I cant see what he did wrong

Tue, 2008-05-13 18:36

I cant see what he did wrong hahaha.

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I can....

Tue, 2008-05-13 18:49

He should have put the beer in an esky and then strapped the esky in....

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drink and drive and your

Tue, 2008-05-13 19:07

drink and drive and your bloody idiot

make it home and your f#%$ing legend

 

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I bet it was a carton of Emu

Tue, 2008-05-13 20:49

I bet it was a carton of Emu Export.

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see the full article

Tue, 2008-05-13 21:47

see the full article at www.perthnow.com.au, well that was where i saw it thismorning, but cant find it now

 

found it

. http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,23690927-948,00.html

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Lends a whole new meaning...

Wed, 2008-05-14 08:08

...to the term ' Let's have a few belts!' Tongue out

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should have had the kid on

Wed, 2008-05-14 08:10

should have had the kid on the slab strapped in there all points coveredWink

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As long as...

Wed, 2008-05-14 08:19

it wasn't one of you lot as a baby - otherwise - BOOS GONE! Tongue out

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well the price of piss these

Wed, 2008-05-14 10:53

well the price of piss these days ill be strapping my piss down to 

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agree!

Wed, 2008-05-14 11:14

Yeh agree, especially with the new alcohol tax on pre-mix high % p!ss.....the old/well new gov getting more $$ out of us!

 

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brought a carton last week

Wed, 2008-05-14 11:20

brought a carton last week of beam 55$ sweet got another this week 82$ omfg Money mouth

cant even buy woodstock a carton 65$ wtf now they want to put another $2.50 on a middy over the bar $6.00 for a middy, yeah your the man krudd

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yeah watch how many people

Wed, 2008-05-14 11:23

yeah watch how many people will avoid going to the bar for a drink 6 bucks for a middy damn what they going to charge for a pint, i know i would sooner be drinking at home

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the nice barmaid did show me

Wed, 2008-05-14 11:28

the nice barmaid did show me the price list another one was bullet bourbon $130 a carton and there also trying to stop making anything over 7% and dropping most drinks by 1%

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yep!

Wed, 2008-05-14 11:40

Yep, the new Gov laws will be banning any premix drinks over 7% so all those high % ones will be upto 6.9% only and you'll pay more also.......bullsh!t!

 

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binge!

Wed, 2008-05-14 11:47

They have 3 months to flush out the high % stuff and this is their way to reduce binge drinking but imo binge drinkers dont spend that $$ anyway on premix's. Ironically they'll still be able to buy a bottle of full strength stuff (not mixed) and neck that with coke...........go figure!

 

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yeah well its not going to

Wed, 2008-05-14 11:49

yeah well its not going to stop you buying a bottle and mixing your own strong drinks anyway, just another way to piss people off and make more money imo

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Stop whining

Wed, 2008-05-14 11:55

about the cost of booze, We brew our own at one of the diy breweries it works out less thean a dollar a stubby using your own bottles i.e $146.00 for about 150 stubbies or if you want to can it you get over 100 500ml cans for about 35 dollars extra it taste better than the normal shite no chemicals etc means no hangover...however much you drink
No comparison in my mind

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fishing!

Wed, 2008-05-14 12:02

If i had time i would but running my 7 day a week business and fishing 3 times a weeks leaves me no time for such fidly stuff..... Tongue out....i agree Matt, mix it yourself!

 

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agree fingers, i always

Wed, 2008-05-14 12:12

agree fingers, i always thought about doing it myself, might be the time to get into it i think, but thats for beer, spirits are different and i prefer bourbon or scotch sometimes over beer, no help there, just buy and bottle and mix it strong i sayTongue out

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I agree Mako

Wed, 2008-05-14 12:15

You do have a point it is only beer but a hell of a saving
all the same

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1 Hour

Wed, 2008-05-14 12:13

it only takes an hour to sterilise and fill you bottles!
you just order and pay then go back 2 or three weeks later and bottle piece of piss!

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sounds ok , so you dont have

Wed, 2008-05-14 12:16

sounds ok , so you dont have the home one you go to one of those places like u-brew-it or something? and those prices you quoted are for the premium type beers like crownies etc?

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Thats right mako

Wed, 2008-05-14 12:24

we go to u brew it in rockingham the one we do is a premium but they have a lot of different ones cheaper.
they also have a bottle bank where you can buy bottle bank bottles from them, a dozen or so, fill them with your beer and then swap for what they have in the bank it's a good way of sampling without going to the expense of paying for a whole brew and then finding out it's not to your taste

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home brew!

Wed, 2008-05-14 12:16

My mate Pete D makes his own beer, awesome taste and cheap. I'm the same Matt...bourbon boy so that makes it harder!

Nice mix home brew, without theInnocentalso!

 

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yeah sometimes i get into

Wed, 2008-05-14 12:24

yeah sometimes i get into beer other times prefer bourbon, would be nice doing my own bourbon though, just not sure how or where to get the stuff

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A still

Wed, 2008-05-14 12:29

I think you need to build yourself a still haha....it is distilled isn't it?
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Might be waiting a few years

Wed, 2008-05-14 12:41

Might be waiting a few years before you get anything out of it. Maybe a moonshine version is a lot quicker though. Might be quicker to put you in the hospital quicker though.

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a mate of mine used to make

Wed, 2008-05-14 14:47

a mate of mine used to make his own spirits... the liquid comes out clearer than water and you just add your own flavour...his used to come out at about 96-97% and then he just water it down 50 50 add the flavour and presto. bloody nice drop to. he explained to me how he does it all and what goes in but i cant rememeber all of it. i know there was a shit load of sugar in it though.

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yeah along time ago i used

Wed, 2008-05-14 14:50

yeah along time ago i used to make some of my own sambucca, used to use that some sort of essence, hoyts brand i think, and yeah was a huge amount of sugar in it and the longer it was left the stronger it got