Grounding a kid

[labgnat]

ORANGE BEACH, Alabama (AP) -- Police who chased a car for miles along a highway at speeds up to 100 mph said the driver was drunk, hardly a rarity in this resort town. But there was more: When they looked inside the flipped vehicle with guns drawn, they found an 11-year-old girl at the wheel.

"You go up there thinking it's a felon you're dealing with," assistant police Chief Greg Duck said.

The girl, who was slightly injured in the crash, is now charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, speeding, reckless endangerment and leaving the scene of an accident. Duck said she sideswiped another vehicle during the roughly 8-mile chase.

The chase began around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday when a patrol officer near the Florida line saw the car speeding west along a beach highway, Duck said. When the officer flicked on his lights, the driver sped up. The girl rolled the car just inside the Gulf Shores city limit.

Duck said the girl, whose name was not released because of her age, told police she was on her way to pick up her sister at a concert.


Investigators found no alcohol in the car but believe the girl drank before getting behind the wheel of the car, which belongs to relatives.

Duck declined to release the girl's blood alcohol level but said a blood test at the hospital showed it was higher than .02, the legal limit for minors

how long would you ground this kid for?




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[bassturtle]

Life.

 

[RWP]

The girl! I think the parents should do some jail time.

 

[Human Bass]

Is this girl a single-coil?

 

[Poop-Loops]

The only grounding I'd do is ground-and-pound.

 

[Matt_W]

You cannot just use an arbitrary punishment, you have to make the child understand why you are punishing them. I'm not sure grounding would necessarily be the answer, and it definitely wouldn't suffice by itself.

I would probably try and arrange for the child to spend some time in A&E(ER) to see what the results of drink/dangerous driving were.
I would also try and find some people willing to talk about family members lost to drink driving accidents. I would also make sure I talked to them about what they did without shouting, and try and find out why they did it. On top of that I would say about two months of grounding, which means being escorted to and from school, and no television, and no computers for anything other than homework - when I went out shopping for groceries etc, they would accompany me.