Beer more important than kid

An Australian driver was fined by police after they found him driving with a crate of beer strapped down between two adults in the back.
Police who were "shocked and appalled", say the problem was that his five-year-old son was sitting in the back – with no seat-belt.
"I haven't ever seen something like this before," said Constable Wayne Burnett, who stopped the driver on a desert highway south of Alice Springs, after noticing that the car was unregistered.
He said police often stopped vehicles to look for beer, wine and spirits being illegally smuggled into 'dry' Aboriginal communities, where alcohol is banned. "But this is the first time that the beer has taken priority over a child." He said the driver of the car "just looked at me blankly" when he was handed a A$750 (US$709) on the spot fine for driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle, and for failing to ensure the child was wearing a seatbelt. "He didn't get it," Constable Burnett said. "I asked him about the fact the child was unrestrained and the beer was, and he said he didn't know anything about it."