3-year-old boy forced to drive pickup after his mom falls out
Taloa Foster, 33, was arrested on suspicion of drunk en driving after police said she fell out of her pickup truck, forcing one of her 3-year-old twin sons to guide the truck along an Oklahoma highway until it crashed into a curb. No one was injured.
A 3-year-old boy had to take over driving a pickup truck Wednesday after his mother fell out on an Oklahoma highway.
The boy managed to guide the pickup about three blocks before crashing onto a curb, according to the Ada News. His twin brother also was in the truck. Neither of the boys were hurt.
Police said the toddler steered the truck across four lanes of traffic while standing on the seat to reach the steering wheel, according to the New York Daily News.
Taloa Foster, of Ada, Oklahoma, told a state trooper that one of her boys had gotten out of his car seat, and she was trying to keep him in the truck when she fell out, according to the Ada News.
The Ada News reported witnesses said Foster, 33, was walking on the road when the truck crashed onto the curb. She was not hurt.
Emergency personnel and bystanders comforted the boys while police gave Foster a sobriety test, the news outlet reported.
Police found an almost empty bottle of liquor on pickup’s floorboard.
KXII News 12 reported Foster admitted to taking two “15-second shots” of vodka before getting behind the wheel of the pickup.
Foster was arrested and charged with child endangerment after being suspected of drunken driving, the New York Daily News reported the Pontotoc County District Attorney’s office said.
She was released on bail, and the twins were released to the custody of their grandfather. (Agencies)
4-yr-old shoots sister in Albania
A four-year-old Albanian boy accidentally shot dead his one-year-old sister in Himara town, the media reported on Friday. The incident “took place at the home of Karafilaj, the boy,” where he accidentally shot A. Karafilaj in the head, Xinhua quoted police official Dhurata Karaj as saying. An investigation team has reached the scene to find out the circumstances that led to the accident, police said. (IANS)
Klondike, called oldest polar bear in US, dies at 34
The Philadelphia Zoo says the oldest polar bear in the United States has died. It says Klondike was 34 years old. Klondike was one of the zoo’s two polar bears.
The zoo announced on its Facebook page Klondike was euthanized yesterday morning due to a “recent and substantial decline in her medical condition.” It says Klondike had trouble standing and walking and didn’t respond to treatment. Zoo officials say Klondike brought joy to the staff and was an “important ambassador to wild polar bears.” Klondike arrived at the zoo more than 30 years ago. The zoo’s remaining polar bear, Coldilocks, also is 34 years old and becomes the nation’s oldest polar bear. (AP)
Arrested paedophile filmed sex with five-year-old son
Police in eastern Italy arrested a woman paedophile and her cousin after seizing photos and videos from them that included images of the woman having sex with her five-year-old son. The woman and her cousin were arrested in the coastal city of Pescara and are accused of sex acts with children, morally corrupting children and producing and disseminating child pornograpy, police said. The five-year-boy and the woman’s other children were taken into care on the orders of local magistrates.
The incriminating images were found on several electronic devices at the woman’s home, investigators said. Police in Val Pusteria in the northern Trento region on Wednesday arrested a 40-year-old man on child pornography charges as part of an international investigation into Internet-based child pornography rings.
Police traced the man on the Internet and seized child pornography from his home, including video clips he had made with his own mobile phone. (IANS)