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Old 10-18-2012, 02:26 PM   #1
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Preschool teacher caught hauling 19 kids in minicar, gets a timeout

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According to reports from Pretoria, South Africa, teacher Melanie Minnie from the Rietfontein nursery school decided last Wednesday to haul her 31 wards to a mall about a mile away for a celebratory lunch. While such a trip would involve a convoy of minivans at most American preschools, for reasons that no one has yet to unearth, Minnie decided to haul all of the children herself in a Renault Clio, a subcompact five-door hatchback. Mall patrons apparently noticed children tumbling from the Clio like circus clowns and called police, who found three children in Minnie's front seat, 11 in the rear seat and six in the hatch.
http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoram...163645531.html

Not going to lie, I laughed a little bit. If one of those were my kids I would be a little more upset obviously. Thankfully no one was hurt.
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Old 10-18-2012, 03:14 PM   #2
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Seems like the punishment was a little more even handed in South Africa compared to what was mentioned could have happened to her in the US.
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Old 10-18-2012, 03:29 PM   #3
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I remember floating around in the back of my grandma's station wagon with 5 or 6 siblings/cousins when I was a kid. We used to ride around in the back of pick up trucks too. 19 kids in a small car is a little ridiculous though.
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Old 10-18-2012, 03:59 PM   #4
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i remember back in high school we wanted to see how many people we could get in my buddy's 1978 vw bug. i think we hit 'critical mass' at 15 or 16 people. then we tried to leave the parking lot and got high centered on a speed bump!!!


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Old 10-18-2012, 04:09 PM   #5
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I remember when I was 10ish, going on a 2 week roadtrip through Italy in a tiny Skoda that was packed with 6 people and their luggage. There were 4 of us in the back at all times, and since I was the smallest I had to either sit on someones lap or lie across the entire time. My ass didn't touch seat the entire trip.

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Old 10-18-2012, 09:06 PM   #6
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Kids are small and bendy, I bet they had fun on the drive to the mall.
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