mom arrested for feeding her baby! (okay, that is part of it)

Recently, my pointless carried the story of a woman in Florida who endangered her daughter by allowing her to ride inside a cardboard box that was placed on top of her car.

Yesterday, a reader sent me another story of an Ohio driver that fits into the stupid-parents-behind-the-wheel category:

Genine Compton was arrested by Kettering, Ohio, police for child endangerment. It seems that police spotted Genine driving two of her her children to school. At the time, she was breast feeding her baby (which was sandwiched between her and the steering wheel)... and carrying on a conversation on her cell phone.

Most drivers immediately see the problems:
--impaired attention with 2 kids, 1 sucking baby, one cell phone
--impaired motion from a baby pressed against the steering wheel
-- 1 hand on baby + 1 hand on phone = 0 hands on wheel
--the air bag deploying at 120mph would kill the baby
--no car seat is against the law.

We get it.

Genine? "If my child's hungry, I'm going to feed it." She sees no particular problem with her actions and said she will do it again if she finds it "necessary." At least Genine's baby will be safe for the 180 days she might spend in jail.

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cardboard box story

weird wills - terrible testaments

Some people use their "last will and testament" to show affection and appreciation.

Jack Benny, for example, provided in his will that his wife should receive a rose every day for the rest of her life. (Mary lived for nine years after Jack died.)

Leona Helmsley, the notorious "Queen of Mean," left $12 million to her beloved dog Trouble (see right).

On the other hand, some people use their wills to get revenge...

Samuel Bratt was a wealthy man who could easily afford the finest cigars. Unfortunately for Samuel, he was married to a woman who never allowed him to smoke.

So, when Samuel died in 1960, he stipulated that his wife would receive his sizable fortune with one provision: that she smoke five cigars every day for the rest of her life.

Poet Heinrich Heine married a woman from Paris named Eugenie Mirat. Eugenie was arrogant, boorish and uneducated. In short, life with Eugenie was hardly "happily ever after."

So, in his will, Heinrich stipulated that Eugenie would get his entire estate with one provision: that she remarry. Why? Heinrich explained, "Because then there will be at least one man who will regret my death."

http://snipr.com/rl7ye [www_oddee_com]

This is the first of a series of weird history posts that will be occasionally added to my pointless.