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| Subject: poLICE: Drinking dad had girl, 9, drive him to store - Well so fucking what?! Wed Oct 19, 2011 6:45 am | |
| Brownstown Township— A Downriver man who knew he was too drunk to drive bragged to gas station attendants that he had a designated driver — his 9-year-old daughter — who ferried him to the station and would drive him home.
Soon after, 39-year-old Shawn Weimer was arrested with his young daughter, booster seat beneath her, at the wheel of a red and white full-size panel van he uses for work.
Weimer of Brownstown Township is set to appear in 33rd District Court in Woodhaven today to face a hearing on child abuse charges.
In a surveillance video from the gas station at 2:46 a.m. Oct. 8, Weimer is seen and heard proudly telling a gas station clerk how his young daughter is his driver for the early morning run to the gas station because "I'm drunk."
"I got, I got a designated driver," he says on the tape. "Nine years old. Nine! Listen, we're leaving, and she's driving."
The young, dark-haired girl stands next to her father eating a candy apple and looking up at him as he goes on about her driving abilities.
http://detnews.com/article/20111018/METRO/110180380/Police--Drinking-dad-had-girl--9--drive-him-to-store |
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