Breastfeeding While Driving? WTF?

[Still Sensible]

KETTERING, Ohio -- A Dayton mother is facing charges for breast feeding her daughter while driving her other children to school.

(snip)

Police say Comptom could have injured her child and others because she was breast feeding and talking on the cell phone while driving the vehicle.

Compton was issued citations for child endangering and violating the child restraint law. Compton told News Center 7 Friday, "If my child's hungry, I'm going to feed it."

(snip)

In this case, officers said Compton had the child in the lap with the baby's head up against the steering wheel. They say there is not only the risk of a crash, but deployment of the airbag.
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I cannot imagine. I often joke about standing in the backseat of the folks car riding when I was a kid or laying across the back window, or sitting unrestrained in the front seat... but even in those carefree days, nobody in their right mind would breastfeed a baby while driving.

[flvegan]

1. Breastfeeding AND on the phone?

:popcorn:

[Donnachaidh]

2. breastfeeding AND talking on a cell phone while driving?

Where does the line start to slap this woman?

[ProdigalJunkMail]

9. right behind these folks...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_GJkKMPHxw

sP

[MadBadger]

3. Breast feeding while driving and talking on a cell phone?

That women either doesnt deserve to drive or have children.

One or the other.

[ZombieHorde]

4. "If my child's hungry, I'm going to feed it."

She speaks as if not feeding the baby would come before hanging up the phone or pulling over.

[notadmblnd]

10. What's wrong with a breast pump and bottle?

or Getting up early enough to feed your child breakfast before hitting the road?

[NeedleCast]

17. As long as it isn't a cheese sandwich...

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

21. I thought you were going to say...

...she speaks as if "it" is a plant.

[Dr. Strange]

25. If my car's running, I'm going to drive it.

If my cell phone rings, I'm going to answer it.

If my brain is empty, I'm not going to use it.

[NoPasaran]

5. "If my child's hungry, I'm going to feed it."

No cheese sandwiches!

[Patsy Stone]

27. At the Olive Garden. (nt)

[WriteDown]

6. Why doesn't she finish a sudoku puzzle while shes at it. nt

[Jamastiene]

15. I was thinking crossword puzzle, but

Sudoku puzzle would have been even better.

[Still Sensible]

7. Here is the link. Boy is she a piece of work?

There is even more to the story... she's belligerently saying she'll do it again. I'm a native Ohioan and I could swear the IQs are generally higher than this.

http://www.whiotv.com/news/18813161/detail.html

[emilyg]

20. Too dumb for her own good.

[notadmblnd]

8. I know. I remember standing on the front seat riding down the street

me and my sisters would also lie in the back window of my mom's Ford Galaxy (sp?) 500 and pretend we were riding through space in our spaceship.

[Jackpine Radical]

11. Talk about boobs behind the wheel...

[customerserviceguy]

19. That was funny!

Yep, even without the cell phone, it is a supremely stupid thing to do. Wasn't there some law also violated about having the baby in a proper infant seat in the back of the car?

[CoffeeCat]

12. That's the most asinine thing...

...I've read in a very long time.

This is just as bad as the woman who picked her kids up from school---drunker than a skunk.

What a twit. She's probably going to make herself into a saint--for feeding her hungry child
when it needed to eat. She'll miss the fact that she endangered her child and did a really
dangerous thing.

I've breastfed two children. You pull the car over.

[Still Sensible]

14. And she says she'll do it again if she feels like it!

Maybe she'll change her tune when the judge gets through with her!

[NeedleCast]

24. She's the person who will sue the car maker

when her kid goes through the windshield while she's gabbing on the phone.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

13. What A Stupid Bitch. Some People Are Just Not Fit To Be Parents.

[Cleita]

16. Didn't Britney Spears get into trouble for not having her kid in a car seat but

seated on her lap while she was driving? This isn't different. I'm surprised as to just how stupid these women are.

[annarbor]

18. An Airbag Deployment....

Could kill that child instantly. How careless can you be?

Ann Arbor-

[Berry Cool]

26. She thinks the airbag will protect the child and her in the case of an accident.

No one appears to have educated this extremely thickheaded woman that AIRBAGS KILL KIDS. Especially babies. And that is why YOU PUT THEM IN CHILD SEATS OR RESTRAINTS IN THE BACK SEAT. FACING BACKWARDS. Until they are the proper size for a regular belt.

There's just no thought process going on here. Apparently she thinks there is no alternative, if she's driving at the time her baby is used to being fed, other than feeding it WHILE she drives.

[beyurslf]

22. And she was on the phone? Please tell me she had eyeliner in her other "free" hand!

[AlCzervik]

23. I watched her interview, she's not even remotely sorry, she thinks she's done nothing wrong.