Yet another example of why pop singers should not reproduce…
According to the New York Post,on Monday, Britney Spears drove for at least two miles along the Pacific Coast Highway in the oceanfront area of Malibu with her 5-month old baby in her arms.
A source close to Spears, 24, told Reuters that the incident occurred after the singer had driven to a Starbucks shop with her son strapped properly into his car seat in the back of her SUV.
She moved the baby to her lap after stopping at the coffee shop to let her bodyguard go inside, then became unnerved as photographers swarmed around the vehicle as she waited for him to return, the source said. When the bodyguard got back in the car, Spears quickly drove off with her son still in her lap.
Britney’s Explanation?
“I had a horrifying, frightful encounter with the paparazzi while I was with my baby,” Spears said in a statement issued through her publicist. She said Monday’s episode reminded her of an incident last summer in which she was “trapped” in her car by a throng of photographers.
“I instinctively took measures to get my baby and me out of harm’s way, but the paparazzi continued to stalk us, and took photos of us which were sold to the media,” she said. “I love my child and would do anything to protect him.”
Anything, huh? Like use your arms of steel to hold him from flying through the windshield during a car crash?
As much as those government-sponsored booster seat billboards (boosterseat.gov)I’ve been seeing piss me off, perhaps this shows that there still needs to be more private funding for car seat education.