Boy calls cops on Drunk-Driving Mom

[Pepperoni_Dogfart]

Next time, leave the poor kid at home if you plan on getting hammered.
Some people shouldn't even be parents to start with. Especially if they're gonna be pulling s**t like this.

Props to the kid for doing the right thing. I seriously hope someone in his family is kind enough to take him in while his train-wreck mom fixes her life.

[FirstBornTripletZack]

Nobody Famous

Seriously? "Ratted" her out? That implies the kid did wrong by telling the truth, or that it wasn't already freaking obvious by her previous actions and the BAL that she was full of it. That was not only wrong of her to drink and drive in the first place and put others at risk, that was child endangerment because she had her son in the car. Not only does that kid need a better mom, but whoever wrote that needs remedial classes in journalism.

Yeah, they could have worded it better, but they could have been quoting the child's words as well, you never know. If they interviewed the seven year old he would use words like tattled and ratted her out.

[Reiken no Tenshi]

FirstBornTriplet

Nobody Famous

Seriously? "Ratted" her out? That implies the kid did wrong by telling the truth, or that it wasn't already freaking obvious by her previous actions and the BAL that she was full of it. That was not only wrong of her to drink and drive in the first place and put others at risk, that was child endangerment because she had her son in the car. Not only does that kid need a better mom, but whoever wrote that needs remedial classes in journalism.

Yeah, they could have worded it better, but they could have been quoting the child's words as well, you never know. If they interviewed the seven year old he would use words like tattled and ratted her out.

In which case they most likely would have used direct quotes of his words complete with quotations.

[FirstBornTripletZack]

Nobody Famous

FirstBornTriplet

Nobody Famous

Seriously? "Ratted" her out? That implies the kid did wrong by telling the truth, or that it wasn't already freaking obvious by her previous actions and the BAL that she was full of it. That was not only wrong of her to drink and drive in the first place and put others at risk, that was child endangerment because she had her son in the car. Not only does that kid need a better mom, but whoever wrote that needs remedial classes in journalism.

Yeah, they could have worded it better, but they could have been quoting the child's words as well, you never know. If they interviewed the seven year old he would use words like tattled and ratted her out.

In which case they most likely would have used direct quotes of his words complete with quotations.

That is where I think they messed up, they did not use quotations, but then again it could be bad journalism. I was reading an article about two men that brutally attacked a store cashier that was 73, the term they used was "they beat the crap out of him." I thought these newspaper reporters were supposed to be more professional.

[Alice Allusion]

This kid should be proud of what he did and I hope that his mother in the future his mother makes better decisions.

[Yuki_Windira]

I feel bad for the kid,getting stuck with a drunken loser for a 'parent'.Not only that,that a** of a reporter basically telling the kid that he was a bad child for telling the truth that saved both him and his mom,or anyone else, from possible death and injury. :/