story tells how the specimen in question<\/a> – her name is withheld to \u201cprotect the identity of the children\u201d – drank almost a full bottle of vodka, then went to pick up her three kids from school.<\/p>\nThe story isn\u2019t quite clear on whether she actually did pick them up – she says she didn\u2019t, but they were found in a local supermarket under the \u201csupervision\u201d of a friend aged 10. The children in question were aged between three and seven.<\/p>\n
She blew 110 – the legal limit is 35 – so she was almost four times the drink drive limit.<\/p>\n
Incredibly, she got away with a community sentence, a curfew, and a two year ban. If she\u2019d have been a man she\u2019d have got a lot worse, so the sentence smacks of discrimination. It also appears that the poor children have not been taken away from her, so God knows what they\u2019ll turn into when they are older (and being out alone in a supermarket already gives a suggestion of which way they\u2019re heading).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I thought the word \u201cmother\u201d should be in inverted commas. It was either that, or insert the word \u201cunfit\u201d before it. This story tells how the specimen in question – her name is withheld to \u201cprotect the identity of the children\u201d – drank almost a full bottle of vodka, then went to pick up her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,86,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}