Father Ticketed for Saving Son
What would you do? You’re taking your five year old son to feed ducks by the river and as you stop to choose a parking space, he hops out of the car and before you can do anything, your child runs towards the embankment, a 35 foot drop to the river. You’d do exactly what Frank Roder, of Winfield Park, NJ did. He jumped out of his 2006 Jeep Commander, ran to his boy and snatched him up, just a few feet from the ledge. As he was hugging his son, Aidan, the boy brought his father’s attention to the Jeep as it rolled into the Rahway River below.
Great story, no? Heroic father saves child. Here’s where it takes a turn into Alice’s looking glass.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Roder said. “He said, ‘If you would have taken the five seconds to apply the brake, this never would have happened!’
“I say, ‘Really? And if I did and my boy stepped over the edge and fell instead of the Jeep, then were would I be?’ He says, ‘Jail, for child endangerment.'”
Discuss amongst yourselves. My personal opinion here.
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Five year old kids never get overly excited and act impulsively. Yep. Sure. You betcha.
Somebody has to pay for hauling cars out of rivers. Who else should it be than the guy who put it there in the first place. If saving his son was worth $110, what's the worry? And if he reckoned it was not, I guess he could just let him drown next time.