Britney Spears on Baby Lap-Gate: "It is what it is, I guess"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Britney Spears has taken responsibility -- well, some of it -- for driving with her baby son, Sean Preston, sitting in her lap.

"I made a mistake and so it is what it is, I guess," Spears tells "Access Hollywood" in an interview that was to air Thursday.

Several photos published Tuesday showed Spears driving her sport utility vehicle in Malibu, California, with her 4-month-old son perched on her lap rather than strapped into a car seat in the back seat.

The 24-year-old pop star said she did it because of a "horrifying, frightful encounter with the paparazzi." In response, X17, the agency that snapped the pictures, said they were snapped "in a very peaceful context, in which photographers exhibited no aggressive behavior."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/09/people.britneyspears.ap/index.html

[LaraMN]

1. I see she's got the repub sense of personal responsibility down pat.

and she's not too weak on the "entitlement complex" either.

[grace0418]

3. She's pretty darn good at being trashy too.

Wow, we've found things she's good at!

[Orsino]

6. "I admit to doing exactly what I was caught doing...

...but only to that isolated incident, which was a mistake and somebody else's fault, anyway."

[flvegan]

2. If she's fleeing from photogs, why isn't her bodyguard driving?

Just wondering.

[medeak]

4. he was getting her coffee

when she was "attacked" by paparazzi...jumped into car...so why didn't he take the baby?

edited to say...looks like he's talking on cell phone?

[Midlodemocrat]

10. I was wondering the exact same thing

Why didn't she jump in the backseat with that baby and let him drive? She could have had that child buckled up before they pulled away from the curb.

She is a MORAN.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

15. When the cops got involved...

...the photographers offered up all of their photos as proof that the scene was basically calm, serene and innocent...no "clear and present danger." In short, Britney's full of crap.

[Ellen Forradalom]

5. Would she be saying that

if her baby had been killed in an accident?

When my son was three months old, my husband found himself in a three-car accident after he was hit. Our son slept through it all, strapped into his baby seat.

[LeftyMom]

7. A friend of mine hit a pole going about 45

She broke both legs, had some internal injuries and had to be cut out of her SUV. It was about six months before she could walk again, her adult passenger was similarly hurt. Her baby was in a not-that-great infant seat (an Evenflo 3 point cheapie from EvilMart) and suffered no injuries except for some abrasions on her chest and shoulders from the seat's straps.

In even a minor fender bender, that kid's dead.

FWIW, a kid has to be 6 years old or 60 lbs to ride without a safety seat in CA and they still need to be in the back seat in a seat belt. Anybody else who did that would risk child endangerment charges and would almost certainly become uncomfortably aquianted with the local CPS office.

[Saphire]

8. but aren't california celebs immune to the law?

[LeftyMom]

11. Apparently

They probably think they're immune to the laws of physics too. :eyes:

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. I would throw stones too, except I admit to having taken my son out

of his car seat once on a long car trip. Go ahead and flog me...I'd do it again. He was miserable and sick.

[Midlodemocrat]

12. I did it once on the New Jersey turnpike

We were stopped in traffic and the child was screaming because he was so hungry. I tried to feed him in his seat, but since I was nursing, that didn't work out too well.

[Divameow77]

13. Would the police have to catch her doing that

to charge her with a crime, or are the photos enough?
She broke the law and she endangered her child why should she get away with that?

[kay1864]

14. Apparently they would have to

The sheriff's office said a deputy would have to actually observe her breaking the law, for them to bring charges. Think about it. Otherwise you could Photoshop a picture and convict someone.

Still I agree it's despicable, and I'm glad that DFCS at least paid her a visit. What an idiot.