Citizens Arrest
Ok, so I didn’t make a citizens arrest, but I did call the cops on some people the other day. I was on the freeway heading north when I noticed something strange in the car in front of me. I was horrified to see a woman in the backseat holding a baby and holding the baby above her head. The baby had to be between 2 and 3 months old.
I called the police and followed them until they pulled into a parking lot. When they got out I looked into their car and they had a car seat in there but it was not strapped down and was facing the wrong way for a baby that little. The cops got there just after they got out of their car and since they didn’t see them in the act of having the child unrestrained they couldn’t do anything about it and the women were lying about having the baby strapped into the car seat. Grrrrrr. The cop said that they could issue the driver a citation but most likely they would contest it in court and I would have to go testify against them. In the end it would be their word against mine and would not go anywhere. I didn’t want to have to hassle with that so the cop promised me that he would make sure to lecture the mom about what she did.
So frustrating! Way to be an involved citizen, though! Hopefully this will be a wake-up call for those morons!!!
Congrats on being a good citizen. I called the police on someone once and I was scared to death they were going to come over and murder me. Then again, the reason I called the police on her was for saying she would slit her boyfriends throat if she had a knife, so you might not need to worry about any terrible consequences. And I have to say that Colin is such a little darling boy. We are going to be in Salt Lake for a week for Thanksgiving and I really want to meet him.
seriously??
i cant believe some people.
you should have just rammed them to teach them a lesson. j/k
its real frustrating though cuz nothing can really be done
if an officer doesnt witness the crime.
we get calls like this all the time.
When I saw the title of this post, I was sure Stephe had arrested someone for soliciting or something. haha.
Those people suck though. I can’t believe they don’t care enough for that poor baby to take care of him/her.
I spelled my own name wrong above, so I had to correct it. lol
I hate it when the parents are buckled in but the kids are just freely moving around. THANKS for your sweet comment on my blog…I really miss seeing you every day but I am glad you escaped!