Australian man charged for buckling up beer instead of children

An Australian man is being charged for practicing car safety on his beer instead of the children.

The 27-year-old was caught with several children in his car, either on the laps of adults or in footwells, while having multiple cartons of beer strapped down to the seats, reports abc.net.au.

Police made the strange discovery while patrolling the highway just outside of Broome and charged the man, whose license had already suspended, with no authority to drive and failure to restrain a child.

They suspect he was in the process of transporting the beer to Aboriginal communities in an attempt to re-sell the alcohol for a higher price in a practice known as “sly grogging,” reports mini.iol.za.

“This is the third traffic action we’ve had at this location with significant amounts of alcohol being conveyed along this route,” Kimberley District Police superintendent Allan Adam said.

Adam, who said that they have serious concerns about the number of people driving on a suspended license and failing to restrain themselves or their passengers, said that “on a large number of occasions, those passengers are kids.”

“Last week we actually stopped sixty-five cars and of these, fifteen were suspended drives and twenty had unrestrained kids in their car,” Broome Police Sergeant Paul World told Huffington Post Australia.

According to World, one in three drivers on remote roads in the Kimberley District were driving without licenses – most of them with unrestrained children in their cars.