Poor Choices for Designated Drivers

Some parents don't plan ahead well enough when they need a designated driver:

LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- When a car came speeding around her street corner Saturday night, Wendy Barrett of Lafayette assumed it was a delivery driver running late.

What she found still troubles her.
"It was just bizarre," Barrett said of finding a 5-year-old boy driving his seemingly impaired mother and stopping on Barrett's property.
"I asked, 'Is this toddler driving your car?' She said, 'He's a good driver.' "
The mother, Holly L. Schnobrich, 24, of Lafayette, was charged Tuesday in Tippecanoe Circuit Court with two counts of Class D felony neglect and public intoxication.

Oh, but there's more:

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — A father who was too drunk to drive had his 11-year-old son drive him home, police in Fairbanks, Alaska, said.

Police stopped the boy late Tuesday after he was seen driving the wrong way on a one-way street in his father's 1992 Chevy pick-up truck.

The boy's father, Frank Neff, 35, of Fairbanks, was too drunk to drive and had told the child to drive them home, authorities said.

Neff pleaded no contest to charges of reckless endangerment and contributing to the delinquency of a minor in connection with the incident. He was ordered to spend 15 days in jail and to take parenting classes.

He told police he's been teaching his son to drive since he was 8 years old.

I guess he forgot to teach him about one-way streets.