DARWIN, Australia (AP) — An Australian driver who secured a carton of beer in his car with a seat belt but left a 5-year-old child unrestrained was fined $710.<br />
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Constable Wayne Burnett said he was "shocked and appalled" when he pulled over the unregistered car on Friday in the central Australian town of Alice Springs.<br />
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The 30-can carton was strapped in between the two adults sitting in the back seat of the car. The child was also in back, on the vehicle’s floor.<br />
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"The child was sitting in the lump in the center, unrestrained," Burnett told reporters Tuesday.<br />
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"I haven’t ever seen something like this before," he said. "This is the first time that the beer has taken priority over a child."<br />
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From <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/13/australia.driver.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview"><strong>CNN.com</strong></a>
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