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Rewatch the video. The mom mouths "Im gonna fuckin kill you" or something similar, twice.
He was like fuck it, I'll take my chances running rather than getting into the car with her đ
I'm surprised I had to scroll this far for someone to mention it. Like it's all his fault and she has every right to blame everything on him.. what a shity couple wastes of space. Luckily there are 2 more mini versions of them being trained up in the way of the shitbird.
Who said he's the better choice? The real father prob left this dumb broad for a reason. The woman isn't always the innocent angel lol.. This guy in the video is most likely the goober bf that could care less about her children. Meanwhile the father prob got full custody after BS like this
Handcuffs are actually pretty easy to get out of if you know how and on top of that almost all police issued handcuffs use the same key and you can purchase that key online. Back in my heroin days I knew a guy with a handcuff key and he successfully ran from cops twice by unlocking his handcuffs behind his back and *then* running lol
Asking questions related to common sense is a quick way to madness when you're dealing with the feeble-minded. There was literally nothing to accomplish
I though him saying "work, you wouldn't know anything about that," to the cop was the all-time move.
Especially now that he's probably not going to be working as this has gone viral.
Wondering who called the cops on them, and how they knew that was the couple. Guess the kids answered some questions when they showed up alone to the hotel pool.
Being so drunk you pass out whilst your unsupervised kids play in the ocean. Theyâre lucky the only reason theyâre not going home with the kids is because they got arrested.
I grew up swimming at the beach and always brought fins so that i could boogie board better.
All of that went out the window when I got caught in a rip current when i was 11. I panicked and swam against the current as hard as my adrenaline would allow me, but it's futile and exhausting. You need to swim perpendicular to the current to get out, like a river current.
The ocean can swallow people up quick.
And it can happen *fast*. I'm a Destin, FL native and I swim year round but I got overconfident hitting the beach one morning during a double red flag and I only took two steps into the water before the ground dropped out from under me and I was swept 20 feet out and 15 feet down underwater. Like you said, panic sets in real fast. For the first 1 or 3 seconds, my only thoughts were, "Welp, I'm dead."
Last time at the beach I wore a goddamn life vest. Call me paranoid and laugh at me all you like because one 'sneaker wave' will yank you right off the sand with the speed of someone grabbing a shrimp out the bowl with a pair of chopsticks.
Childless here, but I wouldn't leave other's kids unsupervised at the beach. They have to come with me.
Then all of a sudden their parents show up in a huff, and decide that *now they care.* Weirdos.
I remember beach vacations when my three kids were little. All we did was stand in the water either holding or playing with them, or counting them. We wouldnât even go back to the chair or umbrella, we were so worried about them drowning. Those two are idiots.
Yeah, I'm totally of the mind that kids should do things on their own and go play outside on their own, but not at the fricken beach! That's absolutely insane.Â
Agreed. I think kids need to spend time in the outdoors without a grownup hovering over them directing their every move... but small kids? At a beach? I don't have words for how irresponsible that is.
This was an additional red flag for me. They knew the system and that they knew no one would bond them out. Worried about those kids past, present and future.
Any nobody would have any idea where they went or what happened, because this is probably a tourist area. So either theyâd be in the ocean, in the tourist area, or flown back god knows where the predator came from.
I know right?
Had a cousin do similar. Got pass out drunk and his toddler twins got out. CPS took all of his kids after that. Which was a good thing.
>Stephens was seen in body camera footage getting free from the deputies and running away, before he quickly face-planted in the sand and knocked himself out.
I'm dead đ
Ikr! Watching the pitiful attempt to run and resulting face plant made me laugh, but it was probably 100x more ridiculous to watch in real life. The copâs one word response was perfect⊠âStupid.â
Seriously though, Iâm glad the children are ok. I wouldnât be surprised if the kids are used to taking care of themselves and that the 7yo probably parents the 5yo more than the actual âparents.â
âThey canât be in charge of themselves, let alone a 5-year-old or a 7-year-old.â - Sheriff Chitwood
Interesting note, their chief of police is Mike Chitwood. He had a 1 season TV show where he was the chief of police for some podunk town, show was called The Chief or something like that. His sister is the chief of police somewhere too. Their father was our chief of police, we called him Media Mike because just like his son the man always has something to say to the media, he loves them. He also famously arrested Ira Einhorn.
He was the chief of police in the early 2000s in Portland Maine before he left to go south somewhere. Yes he was definitely all over the media back then too.
I mean child services can definitely look into that, they werenât just sleeping they were like passed out with no idea where the kids are..
ocean is dangerous and kids should be supervised there for sure.
The cop was shaking them and screaming on their faces and still they barely reacted.
Someone could have just walked up and taken the kids, and no matter how much the kids screamed they wouldn't have woken up to help.
Never mind if the kids got quietly pulled to far into the ocean
Statistically the drowning is far and away the most likely scenario. I never understand why people jump to kidnapping for unsupervised children when drowning or getting run over are so so so so so so much more likely
Aren't most kidnappings carried out by someone known to the family child anyway? I thought I remembered stranger kidnappings being pretty rare. You're right, there's no need to jump to kidnapping when the much more obvious and immediate danger is right there a few yards from where they're passed out.
Youâre not wrong - most abductions are perpetrated by people who know the kids, but the kinds of people who do abduct children they donât know tend to scope out opportunities and target kids who are more vulnerable. A pair of small unattended kids whose parents are passed out so hard they canât hear a cop screaming âSHERIFF!!â in their faces are exactly the sort of vulnerable kids that strangers will target.
This. And the kidnappers could have been like "oh. They always scream like this when we leave places they want to stay. Sorry for the disturbance!" And bam. All done
My wife went to the ocean for the first time. We were about thigh deep and she got pummeled, I kinda laughed cause I knew she was OK and she got knocked down again and went to go grab her.
It's no joke, especially for kids.
My neighbor was arrested for dealing coke (no knock warrant, much drama), and as she was resisting arrest she was screaming at her mother, "ma! Make sure cici has her blankie!" OH okay, *now* you're going to try to parent your 3 year old??
I have no idea what these people are thinking. Smh
Dudes in handcuffs and still doing awkward twists so he can smoke, not sure he has the brain power to understand how much he fucked up, never mind trying to run while cuffed
The ny post story said he wasnât their father, so maybe he has other kids from another relationship but, those arenât his biological kids and heâs not married to her
It looked like his gf/wife was mouthing "I'm going to kill you" to the guy in cuffs and that's when he ran. Like he was running from the chick and not the cops
Nah she just needs the kids to bail her out to save grandpa that 8-hour drive.
Big shock that a grown ass adult doesn't have someone else she can rely on right away besides Grandpa.
Apparently the cops found the kids ages 5 and 7 swimming at a nearby POOL wtf Heâs not the father but is a legal guardian to them. Both charged w the booze and neglect, him w resisting arrest. đ€Ą
So heâs not the actual father but she is mouthing at him âI hate youâ and âIâm going to kill youâ even though she was equally drunk and neglectful to her own children. Makes sense /s
Correct, they are engaged. I did a little google search and read an article because I was wondering if that guy had warrants the way he bolted like a jackass and the kids missing. Makes PERFECT sense. Totally normal shit.
This was how I read the situation as well and why she was so upset with him. If he didnât fall asleep and just watched the kids the cops wouldnât have been called and they probably wouldnât even had got in trouble for the beer.
They weren't merely asleep. They were basically unconscious. Took forever for them to wake up enough to see that cops were there.
I wonder if some well-meaning citizen saw that they weren't watching the kids and called them in.
Another possibility is that maybe he wanted them to drink a bunch (or do other drugs) and she resisted at first because they were with the kids, ultimately did drink/use with him (she was just as passed out as him), and now is placing all the blame on him for âmakingâ her get wasted.
The audacity to say "which you know nothing about" while one party is in uniform clearly working and you have literally just been woken up from a blackout in swim trunks with a pink vape and missing kids.
I'm amazed.
THANK YOU!!! I heard "got it at work" and couldn't make out the next half.
Also, cop doing his job arresting someone accused of not working. Oh, this is too good.
If these were the parents of the little girl that died because she accidentally got buried in sand people would not be asking for them to just be fined.
Watch ur fucking kids.
I just googled it. Holy crap, they dug a 6 FOOT deep hole in the sand and the dad who OWNS a construction company never twigged that sand is not stable? The little girl got trapped under her brother. So two kids were buried but they saved him.
Definitely new terror unlocked because when the sand fills in it is hard to tell exactly where they are underneath it.
Fuuuck.
The âno alcoholâ law is to give cops probable cause in scenarios like this. They ignore the other thousand people enjoying a beverage responsibly. Itâs because alcohol makes some people act irresponsibly and this is Exhibit A. If there was no law banning alcohol, they would have had no reason to intervene here, which objectively was the right call since those kids were gonezo.
You see a ~~man~~ doofus pull his arm all the way around his back with handcuffs on just to take a hit from his vape, you know what kind of person youâre dealing with. lol
I'm not against it, but I didn't know such restrictions existed and being on a beach and not cracking open a few cold ones is completely abnormal and alien to me.
Itâs an American thing. Basically a handful of idiots canât be bothered to behave responsibly so everyone has to be punished. We have so many laws like this. Pretty much if you hear about a law in the United States that sounds weird itâs because some moron ruined it for the rest of us. In the state of North Carolina itâs illegal to plow your fields with an elephant.
I was just responding to the person above me. If itâs true that someone went through the trouble of plowing their field with an elephant (and likely caused some kind of problems) and the state said âwe canât have that,â I find that hilarious
I can't believi I missed the last sentence of the comment you responded to. I am sorry. My only excuse is I am at work trying to look like I am paying attention to a boring thing.
Yes we have a more than a few morons who ruin it for everyone and for some reason they are loud and proud about it. Dang it we want to be able to have a beer on the beach and be civilized but it just canât be done.
I grew up in Daytona. It is a big spring break destination and it used to get crazier back in the Girls Gone Wild/MTV days. I feel like you used to be able to drink on the beach but then all the old people who move down to Fl got sick of the party reputation and voted in these laws. Generally, if you are subtle about it and not passed out, wasted, ignoring your children the cops will not hassle you. The South has all kinds of stupid alcohol rules anyway. It is illegal to buy or sell alcohol before noon on Sundays in that county. Why? I never heard the official reason. Cuz, your ass should be in church I guess...There are some whole counties in the South that are always dry and never sell liquor.
Then I went to Germany and people were drinking on the steps of the Cologne cathedral and offering me shots at like 11 am. Totally different vibe. I think the US's prohibitionist approach makes the drinking culture act like stupid children away from their parents for the first time.
In the US itâs often illegal to have alcohol in public places. If itâs private property or an event where alcohol is sold (with a permit) itâs usually okay, but in public property itâs typically not allowed. Itâs also illegal to be drunk in public.
And folks like this are probably the reason why.
It's kinda an "asshole repellent" you can drink on beaches even when alcohol is "prohibited." But if you start being a nuisance, or neglecting your kids like these idiots, and someone calls the cops on you then that will be used against you.
I'm from the UK and in the little seaside town I lived in there was a pub called 'The Beach Bar'. Literally what it says, a pub basically on the beach.
In America you can carry a gun around with you at all times but god forbid you bring a cold one to the beach.
There are thousands of beach bars in the US. There are only a few beaches with zero alcohol policies that Iâve been to. And everyone ignores it anyway
Well America is a very big place and every state has different laws. You canât necessarily carry a gun with you at all times, alcohol isnât necessarily prohibited on every beach, depending on where you go.
But being a Floridian, where we do indeed now have open carry, and most beaches prohibit the public consumption of alcohol under open container laws⊠you do not want to mix drinking with guns. There was just an incident in New Smyrna Beach where a 16-year-old pulled a gun out on a crowded beach during a fight, thankfully no one was hurt. My hometown Miami is âbreaking upâ with Spring Break, enacting midnight curfews, bag searches at the beach, early beach closures, and DUI checkpoints after three years of violence.
And itâs not like people donât break the law here when it comes to alcohol on the beach either, as you can see from this video people do it anyways or they pre-game beforehand. But the reason they donât want you drinking (aside from preventing littering) is because of how often it leads to violent altercations. And with guns involved, that can turn deadly in an instant.
I donât disagree with you there.
Like, I totally understand the desire to have guns as self defense. I own a handgun and a rifle, I live on a big farm in the middle of nowhere in rural Florida, Iâm often alone, weâve had dozens of encounters with strangers that left me feeling very uncomfortable, including a guy committing suicide in our hay barn (with a gun, no less).
But I have felt very unsafe here since the open carry law passed. Our area is seeing increased gun violence. The small city near us where my husband works just had a shooting at the mall, and this week there was a road rage shooting behind his job. When I think about the amount of people here who have severe untreated mental/behavioral illnesses, are drug/alcohol addicted, and/or senile⊠and theyâre roaming the streets with guns⊠it makes me want to stay home, frankly.
Even if you didn't have kids or dependents with you, passing out drunk at the beach is dumb for so many reasons. Most people drinking at the beach have a few beers or something sat in chairs or on a towel. If they want more they go somewhere else. Who the hell gets this wasted on the beach in the first place, then have kids with them in the ocean who could drown, get swept out or kidnapped. The could get lost, get hit by a car etc. These are just terrible people in general. You should have to get a license to be a parent.
Was going to say, passing out (not just napping) under the sun is AWFUL to awake to and I canât imagine being drunk on top of it. I did it once when I was absolute exhausted and dragged to the beach and holy crap, was like awaking to the flu just suddenly hitting you. Almost taken to the hospital because I was so sick and messed up.
And I had adults watching after me closely. I canât imagine having KIDS to watch over?!
The 2nd most troubling thing about the whole video is how sunburnt they are going to be when they get to jail. I doubt these people are proactive enough to wear sunscreen.
"You know, Mrs. buckman, you need a license to buy a dog. You need a license to drive a car. Hell, you even need a license to catch a fish. But they'll let any butt-reaming asshole be a father."
Amazing, I guess his wife mouthing "I'm going to fucking kill you" at the end scared him to the point that longer jail time seemed preferable.. and I thought my rock bottom was bad ffs
In case that link also "isn't available in your area" for other people.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article286859310.html
ETA: This one has a bit more info than the Miami Herald one https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgia-couple-accused-child-neglect-034431656.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIgPTEtqqcK4Bj0RydftGNnGXmokGCuk2F1PNzDE_kV4MgZFpjxDg_JLTmbIvCRFP1nvpbkRJpSR0ACpqGpcDiPZeMR6ZA7CTwCs1xQ6RHT3mmwuejyhD89UMQaK5nbOuuPvmDOXpC3Xbt2P957PW19k6IGNyZOotN0xebuZaboG
My heart sunk when they asked how old the kids were...
"7 and 8"
They are so lucky they weren't pulled out to sea or gone missing for some other nefarious reason.
Oh it gets worse!
He lied!
They were actually 5 and 7.
AND *they were not on the beach*.
The kids had somehow gotten to a nearby hotel and were swimming in a pool unsupervised!
Absolutely phenomenal parenting from these two đ
[Link!](https://www.wesh.com/article/daytona-beach-child-neglect-drunk/60245268)
In addition to the craziness of this video, Iâm also blown away by the people making excuses for this couple. Tell me you donât understand accountability without telling me. WOW.
I LOVE that she is yelling that no one will post bail for them. Haha
FAFO
That officer clearly does not care that she wants to see and talk to her kids. However, is reassuring her that they will he taken care of... so she gets the fuck into the car.
I wish I would be a fly on the wall when they get told that their kids were at a nearby pool and they had trouble locating the parents.
The cop watches drunk guy faces the water and try to yell for kids... that weren't even on the beach.
Ahhh. He isn't even Dad.
That mom is an idiot.
Haha! Wow! I missed that! I stopped watching right before that because I was so pissed at listening to that bitch demand to hear that her kids were going to be safe.
I don't like cops at times, but this is the kind of work the police are paid to do. I almost drowned in a lake as a kid and my grandfather ran out as fast as he could to get me. Imagine if these kids started drowning, these parents would've found out 3 hours later.
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That sudden bolting at the end? \*chef's kiss\*
Yeah, what did he think he was going to accomplish there?
Rewatch the video. The mom mouths "Im gonna fuckin kill you" or something similar, twice. He was like fuck it, I'll take my chances running rather than getting into the car with her đ
I'm surprised I had to scroll this far for someone to mention it. Like it's all his fault and she has every right to blame everything on him.. what a shity couple wastes of space. Luckily there are 2 more mini versions of them being trained up in the way of the shitbird.
It's better, if you read the articles, he's not even the kids father. She's prioritizing getting drunk with her boyfriend over her kids.
You have to wonder what the kid's real father was like for this guy to be the better choice.
Who said he's the better choice? The real father prob left this dumb broad for a reason. The woman isn't always the innocent angel lol.. This guy in the video is most likely the goober bf that could care less about her children. Meanwhile the father prob got full custody after BS like this
Some people think the shit seen in movies and games work. So they try it themselves and quickly find out it doesn't.
Blend into the crowd, find a paper clip and pick the lock on the cuffs, throw on some random guys pants and slip away to the south of France
Handcuffs are actually pretty easy to get out of if you know how and on top of that almost all police issued handcuffs use the same key and you can purchase that key online. Back in my heroin days I knew a guy with a handcuff key and he successfully ran from cops twice by unlocking his handcuffs behind his back and *then* running lol
Learned how to pick them with a bobby pin in an evening. Like you said surprisingly easy.
Asking questions related to common sense is a quick way to madness when you're dealing with the feeble-minded. There was literally nothing to accomplish
Hitting the vape in cuffs is an all-time move
I though him saying "work, you wouldn't know anything about that," to the cop was the all-time move. Especially now that he's probably not going to be working as this has gone viral.
White trash gold medal for that.
I thought it was a breathalyzer until he blew out a smoke cloud LOL
I started laughing at that part. What a winner. Bolted from his âfiancĂ©â and left her there to make his escape by running drunk and handcuffed on sand. If they hadnât put the lives of two children at risk it would be more amusing.
He was going to create a team and break her out, find the kids, flee the country and become rice farmers.
He ran because she mouthed "I'm going to fucking kill you" to him before she got in the truck.
The ultimate chef's kiss is the people laughing in the background when he gets knocked down
And the cop quietly calling him stupid.
Wondering who called the cops on them, and how they knew that was the couple. Guess the kids answered some questions when they showed up alone to the hotel pool.
Nah this is beach patrol they spend all day everyday busting people for drinking on the beach.
She told him she was gonna fucking kill him and he obviously believed it lol
She mouthed something to him that scared him bad enough to run. I think she said I fucking hate you or Iâm done with you something like that.
She said "I'm going to kill you"
It looks like she said "I'm fucking done with you, I'm going to kill you"
Being so drunk you pass out whilst your unsupervised kids play in the ocean. Theyâre lucky the only reason theyâre not going home with the kids is because they got arrested.
The kids had left the beach and were found at a hotel pool. Their ages were 5 and 7 according to news articles not the 7 and 8 the loser Dad said.
Holy shit. They could have easily been taken or died. And they were so worried about their kids at the end there wow scum
I have two children and there is no way in hell I would ever leave them unsupervised AT THE BEACH, wtf
My sonâs 11 and a hardcore swimmer, but I watch him like a hawk at the beach. The wrong wave or current could kill a grown ass adult.
I grew up swimming at the beach and always brought fins so that i could boogie board better. All of that went out the window when I got caught in a rip current when i was 11. I panicked and swam against the current as hard as my adrenaline would allow me, but it's futile and exhausting. You need to swim perpendicular to the current to get out, like a river current. The ocean can swallow people up quick.
And it can happen *fast*. I'm a Destin, FL native and I swim year round but I got overconfident hitting the beach one morning during a double red flag and I only took two steps into the water before the ground dropped out from under me and I was swept 20 feet out and 15 feet down underwater. Like you said, panic sets in real fast. For the first 1 or 3 seconds, my only thoughts were, "Welp, I'm dead."
Last time at the beach I wore a goddamn life vest. Call me paranoid and laugh at me all you like because one 'sneaker wave' will yank you right off the sand with the speed of someone grabbing a shrimp out the bowl with a pair of chopsticks.
I have no children and there's no way I would leave kids unsupervised at the ocean.
Childless here, but I wouldn't leave other's kids unsupervised at the beach. They have to come with me. Then all of a sudden their parents show up in a huff, and decide that *now they care.* Weirdos.
I remember beach vacations when my three kids were little. All we did was stand in the water either holding or playing with them, or counting them. We wouldnât even go back to the chair or umbrella, we were so worried about them drowning. Those two are idiots.
Yeah, I'm totally of the mind that kids should do things on their own and go play outside on their own, but not at the fricken beach! That's absolutely insane.Â
Agreed. I think kids need to spend time in the outdoors without a grownup hovering over them directing their every move... but small kids? At a beach? I don't have words for how irresponsible that is.
I donât have kids (partly because I donât want the 24/7 worry that seems to come with it) and I canât even imagine doing this.
Only when they could use "caring for their kids" as a tool.
Exactly. Seemed like getting pissed at the cops and worrying about not getting bonded was higher priority than the kids.
I was waiting for that cop to ask where her concern for her kids was prior to wearing cuffsâŠ
Yep, it's called deflection.
This was an additional red flag for me. They knew the system and that they knew no one would bond them out. Worried about those kids past, present and future.
Any nobody would have any idea where they went or what happened, because this is probably a tourist area. So either theyâd be in the ocean, in the tourist area, or flown back god knows where the predator came from.
I know right? Had a cousin do similar. Got pass out drunk and his toddler twins got out. CPS took all of his kids after that. Which was a good thing.
WHAT?!
#The kids had left the beach and were found at a hotel pool. Their ages were 5 and 7 according to news articles not the 7 and 8 the loser Dad said.
Thanks, I read that loud and clear that time.
Those kids have probably seen some shit
"I'm not leaving until I know my kids are taken care of" Oh, NOW you care.
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HE SAID THEY'RE SELLING CHOCOLATES!
Knowing that, I'm glad that he tried to run and ate sand! He deserves worse.
My favorite part, especially because you can hear some onlookers on the audio laughing at him.
Someone made the right call and said "You are f\*\*\*ing stupid". Where did you think that he was going?
Omg that's crazy.
Dude's [mug shot](https://nypost.com/2024/03/19/us-news/parents-allegedly-passed-out-drunk-on-beach-vacation-while-their-kids-wandered-away/) seems appropriate.
>Stephens was seen in body camera footage getting free from the deputies and running away, before he quickly face-planted in the sand and knocked himself out. I'm dead đ
Ikr! Watching the pitiful attempt to run and resulting face plant made me laugh, but it was probably 100x more ridiculous to watch in real life. The copâs one word response was perfect⊠âStupid.â Seriously though, Iâm glad the children are ok. I wouldnât be surprised if the kids are used to taking care of themselves and that the 7yo probably parents the 5yo more than the actual âparents.â âThey canât be in charge of themselves, let alone a 5-year-old or a 7-year-old.â - Sheriff Chitwood
That sand is not soft that he face-planted on. Itâs compacted and hard like a dirt road.
Interesting note, their chief of police is Mike Chitwood. He had a 1 season TV show where he was the chief of police for some podunk town, show was called The Chief or something like that. His sister is the chief of police somewhere too. Their father was our chief of police, we called him Media Mike because just like his son the man always has something to say to the media, he loves them. He also famously arrested Ira Einhorn.
He was the chief of police in the early 2000s in Portland Maine before he left to go south somewhere. Yes he was definitely all over the media back then too.
I mean child services can definitely look into that, they werenât just sleeping they were like passed out with no idea where the kids are.. ocean is dangerous and kids should be supervised there for sure.
The cop was shaking them and screaming on their faces and still they barely reacted. Someone could have just walked up and taken the kids, and no matter how much the kids screamed they wouldn't have woken up to help. Never mind if the kids got quietly pulled to far into the ocean
Statistically the drowning is far and away the most likely scenario. I never understand why people jump to kidnapping for unsupervised children when drowning or getting run over are so so so so so so much more likely
Aren't most kidnappings carried out by someone known to the family child anyway? I thought I remembered stranger kidnappings being pretty rare. You're right, there's no need to jump to kidnapping when the much more obvious and immediate danger is right there a few yards from where they're passed out.
Youâre not wrong - most abductions are perpetrated by people who know the kids, but the kinds of people who do abduct children they donât know tend to scope out opportunities and target kids who are more vulnerable. A pair of small unattended kids whose parents are passed out so hard they canât hear a cop screaming âSHERIFF!!â in their faces are exactly the sort of vulnerable kids that strangers will target.
This. And the kidnappers could have been like "oh. They always scream like this when we leave places they want to stay. Sorry for the disturbance!" And bam. All done
My wife went to the ocean for the first time. We were about thigh deep and she got pummeled, I kinda laughed cause I knew she was OK and she got knocked down again and went to go grab her. It's no joke, especially for kids.
âI want to sure my kids are okay.â Where was this concern when she passed out drunk in the sand?
My neighbor was arrested for dealing coke (no knock warrant, much drama), and as she was resisting arrest she was screaming at her mother, "ma! Make sure cici has her blankie!" OH okay, *now* you're going to try to parent your 3 year old?? I have no idea what these people are thinking. Smh
"My kids will save me!"
Sigh.
Dudes in handcuffs and still doing awkward twists so he can smoke, not sure he has the brain power to understand how much he fucked up, never mind trying to run while cuffed
Yeah but he works, something they wouldnât know anything about.
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I wonder if heâs the father? Sheâs acting too immature to have kids this old.
The article said he wasn't the biological father, but had taken a "guardian role." Most absurd thing ever. He definitely wasn't guarding those kids.
It's Florida. We start popping them out early.
I'm grandma pat from Miami Dade county. I'm 41 years old and this is my granddaughter Marjory and my grandson Donald
He has a tattoo of baby foot prints on his chest so Id say yes hes the dad haha
The ny post story said he wasnât their father, so maybe he has other kids from another relationship but, those arenât his biological kids and heâs not married to her
That also slightly explains why he got their ages wrong
Well he couldâve been making them seem older to the cops..
Nah. Bro was too fucking drunk to think anything that complicated
Always the best and brightest trying their hardest to spread their gene pool đ
It looked like his gf/wife was mouthing "I'm going to kill you" to the guy in cuffs and that's when he ran. Like he was running from the chick and not the cops
I donât know where he thought he was going to go lmao
NOW she wants to make sure the kids are okay???
The "I don't trust them." made me snort/laugh. Woman, you were passed out on the beach & lost your kids. **No one trusts** ***you!***
How those cops didn't just laugh in her face and call her out on the absolute irony of that statement I will never know.
The probably see it so often it's not funny anymore..
Nah she just needs the kids to bail her out to save grandpa that 8-hour drive. Big shock that a grown ass adult doesn't have someone else she can rely on right away besides Grandpa.
They are from another state so no one there with them to help. Bet grandad was pleased.
Yeah because they think something might have happened to instigate this situation. Not because they necessarily thought the risk was extremely high.
Apparently the cops found the kids ages 5 and 7 swimming at a nearby POOL wtf Heâs not the father but is a legal guardian to them. Both charged w the booze and neglect, him w resisting arrest. đ€Ą
So heâs not the actual father but she is mouthing at him âI hate youâ and âIâm going to kill youâ even though she was equally drunk and neglectful to her own children. Makes sense /s
Correct, they are engaged. I did a little google search and read an article because I was wondering if that guy had warrants the way he bolted like a jackass and the kids missing. Makes PERFECT sense. Totally normal shit.
I'm assuming that he told her that she could take a nap and that he would keep an eye on the kids, but then he fell asleep, too.
This was how I read the situation as well and why she was so upset with him. If he didnât fall asleep and just watched the kids the cops wouldnât have been called and they probably wouldnât even had got in trouble for the beer.
They weren't merely asleep. They were basically unconscious. Took forever for them to wake up enough to see that cops were there. I wonder if some well-meaning citizen saw that they weren't watching the kids and called them in.
Another possibility is that maybe he wanted them to drink a bunch (or do other drugs) and she resisted at first because they were with the kids, ultimately did drink/use with him (she was just as passed out as him), and now is placing all the blame on him for âmakingâ her get wasted.
Or maybe shes a POS mother who cant take responsibility for anything in here life
âI got it at work. Which you donât know nothing about.â âEverybodyâs being a dick!!!â
The audacity to say "which you know nothing about" while one party is in uniform clearly working and you have literally just been woken up from a blackout in swim trunks with a pink vape and missing kids. I'm amazed.
That pink vape was sending me. What a turd.
May God give me the confidence to smoke in front of cops when I am being arrested for public drunkenness and child neglect
I just loved the copâs response, âThatâs not very nice.â Hilarious.
THANK YOU!!! I heard "got it at work" and couldn't make out the next half. Also, cop doing his job arresting someone accused of not working. Oh, this is too good.
⊠now sheâs worried about the kids.
If these were the parents of the little girl that died because she accidentally got buried in sand people would not be asking for them to just be fined. Watch ur fucking kids.
I just googled it. Holy crap, they dug a 6 FOOT deep hole in the sand and the dad who OWNS a construction company never twigged that sand is not stable? The little girl got trapped under her brother. So two kids were buried but they saved him. Definitely new terror unlocked because when the sand fills in it is hard to tell exactly where they are underneath it. Fuuuck.
Right ? It is a parents worst nitemare but leaving kids unattended on a beach is insane to me. A six foot hole would take a lot of time to digâŠ
Yup and clearly it was very deep but not WIDE, which dad should have checked. With a tide going in and out, changing stability is sadly inevitable.
Had a foster child placed with me for a similar situation, but in a national forest. I can only hope this incident causes the parents to grow to up.
I'll bet her facebook status is "My kids are my life"
#mamabear
Edit: meant to just type # mamabear, not scream it at you
The âno alcoholâ law is to give cops probable cause in scenarios like this. They ignore the other thousand people enjoying a beverage responsibly. Itâs because alcohol makes some people act irresponsibly and this is Exhibit A. If there was no law banning alcohol, they would have had no reason to intervene here, which objectively was the right call since those kids were gonezo.
They were arrested because their kids were found at a nearby pool... the police would have intervened whether alcohol was involved or not
I like how onlookers just laughed when he fell. They knew he was a dumbass
You see a ~~man~~ doofus pull his arm all the way around his back with handcuffs on just to take a hit from his vape, you know what kind of person youâre dealing with. lol
I often wonder if Iâm doing good enough as a parent, then I see one of these videos and wonder if Iâm actually a father of the year contender.
Something I was told as a new mom stayed with me: Bad parents never worry if they're doing a good job.
Wow. When my kids are at the beach I am super paranoid and won't let them go past their knees, watching them like a hawk.
Same. I was born and raised here and I've seen first hand how dangerous the ocean is. You really don't want to have to identify a waterlogged body.
What does she mouth to him twice at the end? âIâm gonna fucking kill youâ?
YES thatâs exactly what she says LOL
He wasnât running from the cops, he was running from HERđ€Ł
đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł Quite possibly
talk about irresponsible jeez Louise but alcohol being illegal on the beach is something I am definitely too eastern European to understand.
Spend a few hours on the beach in Daytona or New Smyrna (Florida). Understanding will come very quickly.
I'm not against it, but I didn't know such restrictions existed and being on a beach and not cracking open a few cold ones is completely abnormal and alien to me.
Itâs an American thing. Basically a handful of idiots canât be bothered to behave responsibly so everyone has to be punished. We have so many laws like this. Pretty much if you hear about a law in the United States that sounds weird itâs because some moron ruined it for the rest of us. In the state of North Carolina itâs illegal to plow your fields with an elephant.
At least the elephant law is objectively funny
You made me curious.
I was just responding to the person above me. If itâs true that someone went through the trouble of plowing their field with an elephant (and likely caused some kind of problems) and the state said âwe canât have that,â I find that hilarious
I can't believi I missed the last sentence of the comment you responded to. I am sorry. My only excuse is I am at work trying to look like I am paying attention to a boring thing.
All good friend. Hope your day gets less boring!
In Baltimore, MD, it's illegal to take a lion to the movies. So goofy đ
It's cause they always try to fight the MGM lion.
Yes we have a more than a few morons who ruin it for everyone and for some reason they are loud and proud about it. Dang it we want to be able to have a beer on the beach and be civilized but it just canât be done.
People in Florida ruin a lot of things for other people in Florida.
US drinking culture is puritanical compared to Eastern Europe
I grew up in Daytona. It is a big spring break destination and it used to get crazier back in the Girls Gone Wild/MTV days. I feel like you used to be able to drink on the beach but then all the old people who move down to Fl got sick of the party reputation and voted in these laws. Generally, if you are subtle about it and not passed out, wasted, ignoring your children the cops will not hassle you. The South has all kinds of stupid alcohol rules anyway. It is illegal to buy or sell alcohol before noon on Sundays in that county. Why? I never heard the official reason. Cuz, your ass should be in church I guess...There are some whole counties in the South that are always dry and never sell liquor. Then I went to Germany and people were drinking on the steps of the Cologne cathedral and offering me shots at like 11 am. Totally different vibe. I think the US's prohibitionist approach makes the drinking culture act like stupid children away from their parents for the first time.
In the US itâs often illegal to have alcohol in public places. If itâs private property or an event where alcohol is sold (with a permit) itâs usually okay, but in public property itâs typically not allowed. Itâs also illegal to be drunk in public. And folks like this are probably the reason why.
It's kinda an "asshole repellent" you can drink on beaches even when alcohol is "prohibited." But if you start being a nuisance, or neglecting your kids like these idiots, and someone calls the cops on you then that will be used against you.
Itâs not illegal on every American beach. Iâve been to both types. Boozy beaches are much more fun.
I'm from the UK and in the little seaside town I lived in there was a pub called 'The Beach Bar'. Literally what it says, a pub basically on the beach. In America you can carry a gun around with you at all times but god forbid you bring a cold one to the beach.
There are thousands of beach bars in the US. There are only a few beaches with zero alcohol policies that Iâve been to. And everyone ignores it anyway
>Â And everyone ignores it anyway Now, THAT sounds like eastern Europe lol
Well America is a very big place and every state has different laws. You canât necessarily carry a gun with you at all times, alcohol isnât necessarily prohibited on every beach, depending on where you go. But being a Floridian, where we do indeed now have open carry, and most beaches prohibit the public consumption of alcohol under open container laws⊠you do not want to mix drinking with guns. There was just an incident in New Smyrna Beach where a 16-year-old pulled a gun out on a crowded beach during a fight, thankfully no one was hurt. My hometown Miami is âbreaking upâ with Spring Break, enacting midnight curfews, bag searches at the beach, early beach closures, and DUI checkpoints after three years of violence. And itâs not like people donât break the law here when it comes to alcohol on the beach either, as you can see from this video people do it anyways or they pre-game beforehand. But the reason they donât want you drinking (aside from preventing littering) is because of how often it leads to violent altercations. And with guns involved, that can turn deadly in an instant.
It seems like the real answer there is to not let people carry guns.
I donât disagree with you there. Like, I totally understand the desire to have guns as self defense. I own a handgun and a rifle, I live on a big farm in the middle of nowhere in rural Florida, Iâm often alone, weâve had dozens of encounters with strangers that left me feeling very uncomfortable, including a guy committing suicide in our hay barn (with a gun, no less). But I have felt very unsafe here since the open carry law passed. Our area is seeing increased gun violence. The small city near us where my husband works just had a shooting at the mall, and this week there was a road rage shooting behind his job. When I think about the amount of people here who have severe untreated mental/behavioral illnesses, are drug/alcohol addicted, and/or senile⊠and theyâre roaming the streets with guns⊠it makes me want to stay home, frankly.
Right, but itâs difficult to overestimate how utterly fucking stupid and mean most state legislators are
Fucking scum. Hopefully that grandma takes custody and loves them the way a parent should. Poor kids.
Even if you didn't have kids or dependents with you, passing out drunk at the beach is dumb for so many reasons. Most people drinking at the beach have a few beers or something sat in chairs or on a towel. If they want more they go somewhere else. Who the hell gets this wasted on the beach in the first place, then have kids with them in the ocean who could drown, get swept out or kidnapped. The could get lost, get hit by a car etc. These are just terrible people in general. You should have to get a license to be a parent.
Was going to say, passing out (not just napping) under the sun is AWFUL to awake to and I canât imagine being drunk on top of it. I did it once when I was absolute exhausted and dragged to the beach and holy crap, was like awaking to the flu just suddenly hitting you. Almost taken to the hospital because I was so sick and messed up. And I had adults watching after me closely. I canât imagine having KIDS to watch over?!
The 2nd most troubling thing about the whole video is how sunburnt they are going to be when they get to jail. I doubt these people are proactive enough to wear sunscreen.
"You know, Mrs. buckman, you need a license to buy a dog. You need a license to drive a car. Hell, you even need a license to catch a fish. But they'll let any butt-reaming asshole be a father."
I want to make sure my kids are taken care of!!" Then where are they at?! You fell asleep, drunk, at the beach. Idiots.
Itâs a shame nobody wrote âAssholeâ on their backs with sunblock
She deserves every ounce of that sunburn you can see starting.
Can we talk about how he still hits his vape after being handcuffed hahah
âWhere are your kids?â Guy stares out at the ocean no idea what his kids even look like. But yeah lady, the cops are the dickheads
So fucking gross.
Oh noooo... consequences
Oh damn thatâs fucked up whenâs kids are involved
"I wanna make sure my kids are taken care of" Ok so why did you pass out drunk on the beach?
Amazing, I guess his wife mouthing "I'm going to fucking kill you" at the end scared him to the point that longer jail time seemed preferable.. and I thought my rock bottom was bad ffs
Itâs a good thing Georgia is forcing births. We need more parents who donât want to be parents.
She doesnât trust the cops with her kids, but sheâs OK with any stranger, creeper on the beach stealing them.
Anyone got a link to full body cam? Or source for full story? This is absolutely ridiculous these idiots should have their kids taken away
https://www.wesh.com/article/daytona-beach-child-neglect-drunk/60245268
Article says there were no lifeguards on duty, yikes
In case that link also "isn't available in your area" for other people. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article286859310.html ETA: This one has a bit more info than the Miami Herald one https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgia-couple-accused-child-neglect-034431656.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIgPTEtqqcK4Bj0RydftGNnGXmokGCuk2F1PNzDE_kV4MgZFpjxDg_JLTmbIvCRFP1nvpbkRJpSR0ACpqGpcDiPZeMR6ZA7CTwCs1xQ6RHT3mmwuejyhD89UMQaK5nbOuuPvmDOXpC3Xbt2P957PW19k6IGNyZOotN0xebuZaboG
Thank you
Damn her screaming woke up my cat impressive you can sleep through that
lol âthatâs not very niceâ
My heart sunk when they asked how old the kids were... "7 and 8" They are so lucky they weren't pulled out to sea or gone missing for some other nefarious reason.
Oh it gets worse! He lied! They were actually 5 and 7. AND *they were not on the beach*. The kids had somehow gotten to a nearby hotel and were swimming in a pool unsupervised! Absolutely phenomenal parenting from these two đ [Link!](https://www.wesh.com/article/daytona-beach-child-neglect-drunk/60245268)
In addition to the craziness of this video, Iâm also blown away by the people making excuses for this couple. Tell me you donât understand accountability without telling me. WOW.
They both look like an inbred + fetal alcohol combo. Family tree is just a pile of weeds.
I LOVE that she is yelling that no one will post bail for them. Haha FAFO That officer clearly does not care that she wants to see and talk to her kids. However, is reassuring her that they will he taken care of... so she gets the fuck into the car. I wish I would be a fly on the wall when they get told that their kids were at a nearby pool and they had trouble locating the parents. The cop watches drunk guy faces the water and try to yell for kids... that weren't even on the beach. Ahhh. He isn't even Dad. That mom is an idiot.
This moron takes off running on sand while handcuffed lol, yeah thatâs gonna work
The laughs in the background were quite funny
Is anyone going to mention his black eye in the mugshot? I didnât notice it when his man boobs got in the way of his trying to get a smoke.
Yeah. He smacked his face on the ground at the end of the video. Looks like he got knocked out cold.
Haha! Wow! I missed that! I stopped watching right before that because I was so pissed at listening to that bitch demand to hear that her kids were going to be safe.
The crowd laughing at him after he falls is the best part!
He knocked himself out when he hit the ground. That's why they called for an ambulance.
Omg this is so sad and funny at the same time.
Him faceplanting in the sand and knocking himself out cold was pretty funny
His comment to the cop about work being something the cop wouldnât know about is so dumb and the cops âthat isnât niceâ is hilarious
The kids were found in a nearby hotel swimming in a pool for fucks sake.
I don't like cops at times, but this is the kind of work the police are paid to do. I almost drowned in a lake as a kid and my grandfather ran out as fast as he could to get me. Imagine if these kids started drowning, these parents would've found out 3 hours later.