Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Mom Passed Out Hammered in Parking Lot, Kids Alongside Her!

By Gustavo Arellano Sun., Apr. 10 2011 at 7:52 AM

People, people, people: Drink responsibly. Don't drink before picking up your kid and her friend, and definitely don't then stop at a Taco Bell parking lot and pass out due to your drunken state, leaving your poor daughter to yell for help. Or maybe that's just how they rear kiddies in Indiana?

From Evansville:

An Evansville woman is arrested after police say she was so drunk she passed out behind the wheel of her vehicle, and her 10-year-old daughter and 11-year-old friend had to call for help. Sonya Schaum faces charges of drunk driving with a passenger under the age of 18. Police found Schaum Wednesday night in the Taco Bell parking lot on Evansville's east side.

Police say the 10-year-old's father, attorney Scott Danks, says Schaum was suppose to pick up the girls from Skate World and take them home, but they ended up at Taco Bell.

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Pjc68

Well....I'm from the same city, and happen to know this woman. She is a wonderful person with a horrible disease. It's a real monkey on her back!!! If you saw her and/or spoke to her you wouldn't believe it. I am, however, appauled by her actions, but I would venture to say no matter where you live in the world people are not exempt from alcoholism. You just choose whether to pick it up. Everyones makes bad decisions...hers was awful. I pray she gets the help she desperately needs.

Guest

This is not how kids are raised in Indiana. But thanks for asking.

Mortamus

Figures...Indiana hillbillys

Guest

Who are you who is so wise in the ways of hillbillies?

Mortamus

30 years of living in that hole is enough experience

Crusader Rarebit

"Or maybe that's just how they rear kiddies in Indiana?" HA HA HA! So friggin' funny!! And so true, really.

But, look, stretch your act a little -- it is an alternative paper, after all. Throw some of your best bons mots against untouchable groups like Muslims, why dontcha? HA HA HA!! You could get a raise.