�Driving While Breast Feeding

So here's the story, a trucker on the Ohio Turnpike sees a woman driving along and breast feeding an infant at the same time. Alarmed, the trucker alerts the Ohio Highway Patrol who try to pull her over, but she wouldn't stop until she reached the toll booth where they ticketed her for not having a driver's license and a child safety seat violation. She must also answer to a child endangerment charge.

My view is that this is a tip-of-the-iceberg-type story and, therefore, quite troubling. And, it's not because of what the driver, Catherine Donkers, 29, did. Although it was a conspicuously stupid and dangerous action by her, it will be addressed accordingly in a court of law. No, what troubles me is what she said. While traveling in Ohio, she:

". . . claims she did nothing wrong because Michigan has an exemption to its child restraint law for nursing mothers . . . ."

She follows that gem with the belief that:

". . . the laws of her home state apply on an interstate highway."

There is only one possible result from analyzing this story. The woman is a moron. What troubles me is that the court can't prosecute her for being a moron and she has offspring which she will teach to be moronic.

One last thing - I'm sure that she's not the only moron on the roads. I suspect there's a guy out there who got on the interstate in Colorado and drove to New Jersey, fully expecting the laws of Colorado to govern his highway behavior all the way.

The story appears on the web at thepittsburghchannel.com and was originally reported by Shannon Perrine of WTAE. Read the whole article.