Britney driving w/ baby on lap...

Film (with plenty of pictures) at eleven

Here's the pic and commentary from one of my favorite sites, thesuperficial.com.

"I'm not sure what Britney Spears is doing with her baby in her lap while she's driving. I assume she's planning to eat him. Or maybe she's letting him drive. Which is cute and all, at least until the accident where Britney and the steering wheel combine to turn him into a pancake. If brains were french fries, Britney couldn't fill a Happy Meal."

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Ok, straight from a conversation with my 6 year-old:

Me:      "What is wrong with this picture?"
Emma: "There's a baby driving in the front of the car!"
Me:      "Do you think that is good or bad?"
Emma: "That's very very bad!  The airbag could hurt the baby!"
Me:      "Hmmmm...I wonder why the baby is in the front?"
Emma: "The mommy must not be very smart!  Why isn't the baby in her seat?"
Me:      "I have no idea."

I rest my case - a six year-old knows about airbags but Britney does not?!

And my question still is...does anyone know if charges could be filed against her?

Here's thesuperficial.com's most recent take on it:

"Britney Spears has come out to defend the photos of her driving with her baby in her lap, saying in a statement:

"I was terrified that this time the physically aggressive paparazzi would put both me and my baby in danger. I instinctively took measures to get my baby and me out of harm's way, but the paparazzi continued to stalk us. I love my child and would do anything to protect him."

I'm sure there's some sort of logic in this statement, I just can't figure it out. Only Britney Spears could think that her rolls of thigh fat would be safer than the protective seat especially designed to keep babies alive. I guess that's what goes through your mind when you have the mental capacity of a cucumber."

Straight news article take on in here.

Personally, her explanation, like much of what she says, is babbling incoherence. 

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P.S. I am a Google ninja.

If she was trying to escape paparazzi as she claims, why did she not get into the backseat with the baby, and let the ( presumed ) bodyguard drive?

she don't even look skeered in the pic as she claims, looks just like she's driving along and it's perfectly normal to have a baby on your lap.

I see that quite often here in FL.  but it's usually on the passenger's lap, though.

Why not strap the baby to the hood then?  The roof?  The trunk?  Hell, let the kid drive.  We weren't there to say that he couldn't.

Sometimes you just have to call stupid things stupid.  The kid can't protect himself.

I had a friend who did this.  She was arrested for leaving her baby, then about 5 months, in a car while she went into a building "real quick".   It's Florida in the summertime, stupid.  She'd let her daughter (the other one, about six now) get away with not wearing a seatbelt just cause it was too much trouble to lift the seat up and pull out the middle seatbelt (she wasn't in her "usual" seat because my son was in the back also).    She was married to a .....  pediatrician, and of course when the baby in the car thing happened, it was verrry embarassing for him.   

I haven't spoken to her since October.   I have known her for almost 10 years.  Some friends you just have to let go.   

but, hey, this thread is about Britney! 

I couldn't agree more!!  Unfortunately that wouldn't help the declining birth rate here in Japan...as almost none of them would pass!!