Training For the Redneck Olympics?

I saw this in our local paper.......

- Doug


Ala.teen found riding in box on van;
mom charged

ALBERTVILLE,Ala -

An Alabama woman has been charged with
endangering the welfare of a child after
police say she let her daughter ride in a
cardboard box on top of their van.
Albertville Police spokesman Sgt. Jamie
Smith said the 37-year-old woman was arrested
Sunday after police received a call about a
minivan on a state highway with a child riding
on top.
Smith said the woman told police the box was
too big to go inside the van,and that her daughter
was inside the box to hold it down.Smith said the
mother told officers it was safe because she had
the box secured to the van with a clothes hanger.

Yep - all over TV & radio here....Albertville is about an hour from here......seems they were going to a church function where the kids were going to go without food & sleep outside in a cardboard box to raise money for the homeless......she said she was going as slow as her car could go!

Sweet Home, Alabama!














My family came from Al, so what can I say............
But not in cardboard box.

I've seen a few articles like this in the local paper.
There was one about a week ago (local)about how a house
hit a power line & knocked out power to a bunch of people.
Seems that someone was moving a house aprox. 5 miles down
the road - no permit,& took out a power line with it.

- Doug

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She shoulda used Duct Tape... everyone KNOWS that's the absolute safest!

JamesWilson said:

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She shoulda used Duct Tape... everyone KNOWS that's the absolute safest! [/QUOTE]
You are so right!! It is women like that who give rednecks a bad name!!! Sheesh! she don't know nuttin'!

That made me think of this, by our good friends at Monty Python:

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Cardboard box?
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.
ALL:
They won't!

tony, whats the big deal, i made my son live outside inna box with no food,sleep,or water til he could load my chop saw inna truck.!