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An Australian driver who secured a carton of beer in his car with a seat belt but left a 5-year-old child unrestrained was fined 750 Australian dollars ($710; €460), police said Tuesday.

Constable Wayne Burnett said he was "shocked and appalled" when he pulled over the unregistered car on Friday in the central Australian town of Alice Springs.

The 30-can carton was strapped in between the two adults sitting in the back seat of the car. The child was also in back, on the vehicle's floor.

"The child was sitting in the lump in the center, unrestrained," Burnett told reporters Tuesday.

"I haven't ever seen something like this before," he said. "This is the first time that the beer has taken priority over a child."

The driver was fined for driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle, and for failing to ensure a child was wearing a seat belt.

Alice Springs Police Superintendent Sean Parnell expressed shock at the incident in a statement released Tuesday.

"This serves as a timely reminder to all drivers to ensure they wear seat belts and ensure as is their responsibility that all passengers in their vehicle are secured in the appropriate manner," he said.

It must have been a really good beer...

I too prefer beer to Australian children

What about beer made FROM children?

Or children made from beer?

Or children made from beer?

Certainly a great many have been made because of it :)

Tbh, a person can brace themselves. Beer can fly at the back of your head or out of the windscreen if it's not restrained.

Certainly a great many have been made because of it :)

maybe that's what the catholic church is missing, it should be encourage more people to drink beer rather than stop the use of condoms, that way more people are born.

maybe that's what the catholic church is missing, it should be encourage more people to drink beer rather than stop the use of condoms, that way more people are born.
Well, we drink wine sometimes during the Holy Mass, but I guess it's almost always never enough.

Well, we drink wine sometimes during the Holy Mass, but I guess it's almost always never enough.

Priests and choirboys beg to differ.

Priests and choirboys beg to differ.
I am not a choirboy. So I do not know anything about that.

Fair enough Bishop :)

Fair enough Bishop :)
May the blessings of God be with you, son. ;)

May the blessings of God be with you, son. ;)

Do these blessings involve pudding? because i'm still waiting...

ewww the beer would be all warm! (and he should of put the baby in the boot)

and if you look at the bright side he was only fined £355 in English money hurrah for currency madness:p

Or children made from beer?

Soylent green, with alcohol.

Do these blessings involve pudding? because i'm still waiting...
Yup. The puddings we sell. But first, you must curry favor before blessings are to be distributed...

Priests and choirboys beg to differ.

Don't forget the girls as well. The amount of boys and girls molested by priests does not differ that greatly.

The Catholic Church has however displayed an extremely impressive mastery of propaganda by letting the public think it is all boys - thereby linking homosexuality and pedophilia to eachother in peoples minds.

Do these blessings involve pudding?
That's what some people call it...

I think the guy had the right idea myself. After all, two sixteen year olds can make a baby in the backseat of a car in a drive-in, but it takes special training and skill to make beer. At least he wasn't holding the kid on his lap and letting him pretend to drive, like my father used to do with me.

I'm with Saxnot on this one. The beer actually poses more of a threat in an accident, and it was quite right to put a belt around it. Sure the kid should have been strapped in as well.

I'd rather be hit by a flying baby than a flying slab of beer!

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It must have been a really good beer...

Duh!

Babies bounce. Cans can dent and at times can be punctured and the beer ruined.

I too prefer beer to Australian children
I prefer beer to any children. And I don't like beer.

I also prefer beer to children.

I prefer beer to any children. And I don't like beer.

I don't like beer either.

but I will take care of my nieces and nephews... only because they're not mine and I was raised to treat other people's property with care.

Cans can dent and at times can be punctured and the beer ruined.

CANS? Stubbies mate. If you've got the car ...

CANS? Stubbies mate. If you've got the car ...

well, I said cans because...

An Australian driver who secured a carton of beer in his car with a seat belt but left a 5-year-old child unrestrained was fined 750 Australian dollars ($710; €460), police said Tuesday.

Constable Wayne Burnett said he was "shocked and appalled" when he pulled over the unregistered car on Friday in the central Australian town of Alice Springs.

The 30-can carton was strapped in between the two adults sitting in the back seat of the car. The child was also in back, on the vehicle's floor.

"The child was sitting in the lump in the center, unrestrained," Burnett told reporters Tuesday.

"I haven't ever seen something like this before," he said. "This is the first time that the beer has taken priority over a child."

The driver was fined for driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle, and for failing to ensure a child was wearing a seat belt.

Alice Springs Police Superintendent Sean Parnell expressed shock at the incident in a statement released Tuesday.

"This serves as a timely reminder to all drivers to ensure they wear seat belts and ensure as is their responsibility that all passengers in their vehicle are secured in the appropriate manner," he said.

I guess the extra price of glass packaging out there came down the list of priorities. I guess that's good. I like the idea of them setting aside a little beer money to ... oh, how about ... register the bloody car?

*shakes head sadly*