Yeetle Box - Bringing Up Baby

A St Augustine, Florida mother, Tina D. Williams, was arrested after police found her driving with beer buckled in the front seat but her toddler unrestrained in the back seat. Ms. Williams faces a world-class array of charges, including:

• drunken driving,
• child abuse,
• possession of drug paraphernalia, and
• driving without a license.

Officers stopped Ms. Williams for running a red light - something that is frowned upon by the citizens of Florida.

Reportedly, Amber Tedrick, 20, who reported Ms. Williams to the police, was in the back seat of the car next to Williams' unrestrained 16-month-old daughter. Said Ms. Williams, "It didn't look to me that the beer was properly restrained."

When police asked Williams, who smelled of alcohol, why the toddler was not buckled in, she said she did not know, then wondered aloud, "Perhaps I mistook the beer for the baby?"

Police reportedly found a 24-pack of Busch beer buckled into the passenger seat and two pipes typically used for drug purposes in Williams' purse. Williams was held in the St. Johns County Jail in lieu of $31,000 bail.

The police department issued the following statement:

"We speculate Ms. Williams confused Florida law for Missouri law. We are relentless in securing children in car seats, as well as beer, except Busch beer. We prefer Bud Light."

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