Woman In Hot Water After Letting Her Son Pump Gas

The Smoking Gun: A Pennsylvania woman who allegedly allowed her three-year-old son to pump gas into the family car was charged today with endangering the welfare of a child, police report.

Theresa A. Moran Camara, 46, was named in amisdemeanor criminal complaint filed in District Court.

     According to investigators, cops responded last month to a Giant gas station in Lancaster “for a report of a toddler using the gas pump.” Officers discovered, however, that the child was no expert pump jockey.

     A witness, Gregory McCarter, reported that he had observed “a female instructing a very young child on how to pump gas into the vehicle.” McCarter, who said he saw the boy “pumping gas into the vehicle by himself,” added that, “the boy must have pulled the pump out before releasing the handle, because he ended up spraying gasoline onto himself.

     My gut reaction to this story was of the pussification of America variety. Then I saw the picture of the woman and after I was done choking on my vomit I realized this story is more complex than I originally thought. Would it really have killed her to get out of the car and pump her own gas? I suppose given her appearance and probable hygiene it's not out of the question but let's assume her ass is not fused with the captains chair.  

     I'm all for kids pumping gas.  One of the most fun things to do on a long road trip is to see who in the family can get a perfect pump. That being said you should probably wait till the kid can tie his shoes and wipe his own ass before you let him pump the gas. This kid wasn't even in kindergarten yet, really not ideal gas pumping age.  

     Now regardless of age, the issue here isn't the gross lazy mother it's the Dudley Dogooder  with the thick frame glasses wearing some weird fucking hat.  He's at the gas station and he see's Jabba the Hutt's wife letting her son pump gas.  Couldn't he have just given the mother one of those judgey looks that just eats though your soul? Or hey, how about just making a snarky comment to a frie... oh wait never mind.  Well you could take a picture and put it on the internet or God forbid you just act like you didn't see anything and walk away.  It's one thing if a cop was driving by, saw it and was like "Hey you... you.. you can't do that." but to call the cops is a just mind blowing to me.  I'm not sure I give a enough fucks about other people to look up from my phone while I'm at the gas station, let alone put in the effort to call the police and let them know what the fuck is going on.