Good ol' trailer trash

Remember when you were little and acting up in the car and your parents threatened to tie you to the roof if you didn't smarten up? Well apparently a woman in Albertville, Alabama doesn't see anything wrong with that at all.


Jackie Denise Knott, 37, was arrested over the weekend on HWY 431 for Endangering the Welfare of a child. Only thing, this child was not in trouble for acting up. You see, mom was trying to fit a cardboard box into her minivan and when it wouldn't fit, the genius decided it would be a good idea to place the box on the roof of her car and have her 13-year-old daughter "weigh it down" by sitting in it.


Someone must have seen this, thought it wasn't safe, and notified police who later pulled the vehicle over to find out just what this woman was thinking.


When asked about the safety of her child on the roof of her car, Knott replied "that the box was tied to the van with a clothes hanger." Are you kidding me? That's the equivalency of tossing a queen sized mattress on your roof and driving down the road with your hand out the window to hold it down. "I got it! I got it!" (Jerry Seinfeld reference)


Needless to say, this idiot was taken into custody and transported to the Albertville City Jail. Scary thing is that the child was turned over to a relative at the scene. Yeah, cause this family sounds like they've got their shit together.