SCHERERVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana state police said that after a mother was arrested for drunken driving, the three relatives who came to pick up her 1-year-old son also had all been drinking. A state trooper stopped a minivan for speeding early Saturday on U.S. 30 in Schererville in northwestern Indiana. He arrested the 24-year-old woman on a drunken driving charges.
The boy’s father arrived later to pick him up, but officers determined he was intoxicated and also arrested him on a drunken driving charge.
Police said the boy’s grandparents then arrived. Both of them also had been drinking, state police said, but the grandmother who was driving was not over the legal limit, so officers escorted them home with the child.
Is Indiana becoming the new Floriduh?
It’s time to pick better swing states.
This happened about 3 miles from where I live. The area is heavily industrial, relying mostly on the steel industry on the south Lake Michigan shore line. It’s about a 40 minute drive to downtown Chicago from there.
“The Region” as it is affectionately known suffers from severe brain drain as most bright minds are educated down-state and are then disbursed across the country. The area has produced many rocket scientists, I know because they’re my friends, but also has an unhealthy dose of losers. As far as I can tell, you can go anywhere in the country and find something similarly disturbing.
Indiana’s been dysfunctional for a long time; I’m an Indiana native and have the right to say that. I also have moved to another state, and it isn’t Ohio or Florida.
That family from Schererville has to be on the low end of the IQ curve. Sheesh!
…you are related to MM.
I live in Indiana (up North by Notre Dame fortunately) and let me tell you… The southern half of the state is redneck and hillbilly central. Waffle Houses are the choice place of breakfast, everyone has a confederate flag somewhere on himself/car, and all waitresses call you “hun.”
It’s like the twilight zone, but oddly, you’re still in Indiana, a “Northern” state.
I should have read better…
This did not even take place in the south. It took place up north by Gary, IN (aka the armpit of the midwest) which, along with the scattered University towns scattered throughout the state, is an exception to the “Southern Half Phenomena” that i described previously.
Hey !!! Corn Squeezin’s for everybody !!!
In defense of Indiana, some of the most choice idiomatic expressions originate there!! I have a friend from Indiana that is a paramedic (and a nymphomaniac). She has been known to say to patients, “Wow, you really screwed the pooch!” (when she rolls up to a scene where someone might have taken masturbating with electricity to an unhealthy level or something equally charming).
If you ask me, the worst part of this story is that they actually let the grandmother take the child home.
That child should have been placed in the care of someone else as it seems quite clear that this family is unable to take care of a child.
Funny, I was arrested in the same area 35 years ago for having a case of beer on my lap in a car.
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I am far enough away from where this took place to say “Whew, don’t know them”. BUT, there are enough people in my county, (several removed from there) that would fit right in. Not a majority, but enough. And I’ll bet you’ll find similar people throughout the country. Just more so in Utah and Florida.