PLYMOUTH, England -- British police said reckless driving charges are possible for a woman who drove through a puddle to soak children and then posted video of it on the Internet. Devon and Cornwall Constabulary officers said videos posted to Facebook and YouTube depict Kerry Callard, 29, purposefully driving through the puddle in Plymouth, England, Oct. 8 to soak a group of children waiting for their school bus, the Daily Mail reported. The video was taken by Callard's partner, Alec Goff, 28, who was a passenger in the vehicle. Sgt. Gary Watson said Callard voluntarily came into the police station for questioning during the weekend and could face reckless driving charges. "It could have potentially been that as well as splashing them, they ran them over, and then we would have had six or seven people dead at the roadside," Watson said. Callard said the children asked to be splashed. "The kids were actually calling to us to splash them," she said. "They were having fun in the bad weather. The fun factor is mostly gone from life these days but they were playing in puddles, like kids always have done. If the kids weren't saying 'Splash me, splash me,' I certainly wouldn't have done it. I'm not a serial splasher." Source ----- Thanks God I could still camp behind a puddle in Canada to attack the unknown targets
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091014/video/vuk-driver-charged-for-splashing-school-37e89e1.html a vid of it
Reckless driving indeed; operating a wheeled vehicle at high speed across a standing body of water can induce hydroplaning (also aquaplaning). She was lucky not to have lost control of the car, crash, and kill herself and or others.
You really considered that to be fun? Not to be a spoilsport, but that antic, IMHO is akin to Russian Roulette; do it enough times and a tragedy is bound to occur.
well .. i remember we played like that back in VN .. love the rain .. always play soccer out there .. bike that splash water at us as it passes by .. i guess car is different .. lol .. it's part of growing up .. at least to me or us VNese.
Standing at the bus stop in the rain = sux. [video=youtube;sLy8Y0g8F4Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLy8Y0g8F4Q"[/video]
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