Dayton Mother Caught Breast Feeding, cell phone talking and Driving

[Liberal_in_LA]

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

Dayton Mother Caught Breast Feeding and Driving
Friday, February 27, 2009 – updated: 7:05 pm EST February 27, 2009

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

Dayton Mother Caught Breast Feeding and Driving

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

Genine Compton was pulled over by Kettering police Thursday at Far Hills and Dorothy Lane while taking her other children to school.

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."

Police say it is against the law to drive with a child in your lap. Children under 4 or 40 pounds must be properly restrained in a child safety seat.

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.

Compton said she will take the advice of the officers into consideration, but she may breast feed her baby while driving in the future if she feels that is is necessary.

[CreekDog]

Oh the trifecta!

:applause:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Not quite.

She also could have been smoking while driving to an Olive Garden restaurant with a declawed, circumcised pit bull in the back seat.

[JuniperLea]

6. Jinx on The Olive Garden! eom

[JuniperLea]

8. And let's not forget she was Twittering! eom

[beac]

36. Did the tweet say "I'm feeding while I'm speeding cause Imma needing

unlimited salad and breadsticks?"

[LostinVA]

15. And then let her child run around the Olive Garden disturbing the other patroms!

[Liberal_in_LA]

34. lol. n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. she could have pulled over and fed the child

[Kittycat]

17. Exactly!

[JuniperLea]

3. If she was on her way to The Olive Garden...

I may scream!

[MadHound]

4. Is it a bad thing that I just lost it on this one

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. I am all in favor of breastfeeding...

But not like that! I mean, really!

Pull over and feed the child after you let the other kids off at school...

And then make your phone call...

:eyes:

[rurallib]

7. In her defense, she wasn't fixing her hair also.

I nearly got killed by a guy who crossed the center line and headed right for me. I headed for the ditch and avoided him. But I was able to see the bible he was reading propped on the steering wheel as he went by. It was a VW bus, so the steering wheel makes a nice book holder.

[Deja Q]

9. Next time, Danica Patrick will be the one arrested for doing that... while on the job.

:hide:

[Ilsa]

10. My friend knew a woman who was holding her newborn baby in the front seat of the car

on their way home from the hospital when they were in a car wreck. She had a car seat but wouldn't put the baby in it. Her husband was driving. The accident was so bad that the baby was killed. I don't know if they ever tried to have another child after that.

Compton should pull over if she wants to feed her baby, for her baby's sake and for the safety of other drivers and passengers.

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. The kid was 17.

Well, not really, but it makes the story more interesting.

[lunatica]

12. How unfair! She was just multi tasking

Being the efficient supermom. That cop must have mom issues to be so mean.

:sarcasm:

[Mollis]

13. That's pretty bad.

And really dangerous.
The fact that she said she may do it again in the future is even more frightening.

[Shakespeare]

14. The only thing that surprises me about this is that the dateline doesn't read "Los Angeles."

:scared:

[kestrel91316]

21. In all fairness, it's more likely to have occurred in Orange County, IMHO.

Land of self-absorbed RW soccermoms.

[Kittycat]

16. JFC Woman!!! No one is saying you can't BF your child, you just can't do it while driving.

WTF is wrong with people? I'm about as pro-breastfeeding as they come, have pumped and fed my boys where ever and when ever necessary. HOwever, with a bit of common sense. You wouldn't pull your child out of their car seat to bottle feed while driving, just as you shouldn't breastfeed while driving. Stupid moron! If she insists that she'll continue BFing while driving, then she needs her license revoked. She's not only putting her children at risk, she's putting other drivers on the road at risk.

[kestrel91316]

22. She doesn't need her license revoked, she needs her CHILDREN revoked.

She is completely unfit to parent with an attitude like that.

[sniffa]

18. Was she on her way to the Olive Garden?

[Ilsa]

29. Don't play with our emotions!!! LOL nt

[LisaM]

19. If she says she'll do it again they should suspend her license

Seriously. She's a menace and a threat to others, not to mention her own kid.

[emilyg]

20. Yep.

[KamaAina]

23. As long as she wasn't smoking

:hide:

[leftofthedial]

24. If only she had been driving to Olive Garden...

Damn! So close.

[elleng]

25. personal, funny thing!

sister/bro-in law lived right there; now their son is police officer, bought neighboring house; they have little kids now. Haven't thought of the neighborhhod for ages!

PS, this compton person should say, Thank you officer; it won't happen again. IMO

[tangent90]

26. I bet she bought that cell phone at WalMart...

and the breasts too.



...

[RedCloud]

27. Long live human interaction while driving!

Well I guess the fundies don't understand the true meaning of "my fellow mammals".

I bet other stuff happens while driving too. Just guessing there, :blush:

[MineralMan]

28. Well, she wasn't smoking, so there is that...

[librechik]

30. really, multitasking doesn't even work

even a genius is bound to suck at something.


heh

[Generator]

31. Can you blame a gal for multi-tasking?

[muntrv]

32. Leave Britney alone!!! WAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!

[Ilsa]

33. Her friends need to plan an intervention. She needs to have a

picture drawn for her. Or maybe some photographs of accidents with dead babies that weren't in their car seats. And just in case, if any of those families of dead babies were fundies that believed that God was going to take care of them, she needs to know about that, too.

[nadinbrzezinski]

35. Kid, crash, bag... ugly

I'd show her a couple photos of DEAD babies to make the point

Crying hungry baby better than dead baby