If you step back three paces, make it seven and look at the crux of the matter, then she should not have allowed the kid to drive. If he had fallen off the path, hurt himself, hurt someone else, then the parents could be in legal trouble or terribly heartbroken. It looked to me like she was causing trouble and resisting arrest.
I doubt that RedWitch would have thrown such a hissy fit. Never saw her get wound up in nine years I've known her. She would have stood there and waited and smoked a cigarette.
Police are wrong sometimes, and these guys certainly weren't up to the standards most of us would expect...but if they hadn't stopped the kid and told the mom he wasn't allowed to drive, can you imagine the trouble if something went terribly wrong? They as a bunch seem to be damned if they don't and damned if they do.
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