A Detroit-area man caught on a gas station surveillance video boasting about his then-9-year-old daughter’s driving skills was sentenced Thursday to two years of probation for having the girl drive him around because he had been drinking.
Shawn Weimer’s demeanor was much different Thursday than it had been in the early morning hours of Oct. 8 in Brownstown Township when the camera caught him talking up his daughter’s prowess behind the wheel of the full-size van, and declaring that she was his “designated driver.’’
The 39-year-old from Romulus said little in court, answering Wayne County Circuit Judge Margie R. Braxton’s questions with clipped responses, and, when given the opportunity to speak, offering a brief apology for his actions that night....
Afterward, Weimer didn’t speak to reporters. In earlier comments, Weimer said he’d been thinking about how he used to drive at his family’s farm and junkyard when he was his daughter’s age.
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Also see: Infant killed after shots fired into Detroit home
I'll bet it's all the fault of those damn unions.
Update:
DETROIT - A World War II veteran said nobody helped him after he was attacked and carjacked in daylight at a Detroit gas station. A roughly four-minute surveillance video obtained by the Detroit Free Press shows Aaron Brantley, 86, crawling from a fuel pump to the station’s door as people walk and drive by him. Brantley told the newspaper a man knocked him down, took his keys, and drove off in his car Wednesday morning. He said at least four people walked by as he crawled, unable to walk because his leg was broken."
