A learner driver has been caught texting a friend and not wearing a seat belt as her mother sat in the passenger seat sipping coffee.
The 16-year-old girl was pulled over in Ryrie Street, Geelong about 2pm on Thursday afternoon.
Police say they spotted her "furiously texting on her mobile phone while trying to drive".
Her mother, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, was reportedly drinking coffee and looking out the window.
When police asked her what level of supervision she was providing her daughter, she allegedly replied, "How can I do anything? I have a terrible headache."
Two girls lost in a stormwater drain raised the alert on a social networking site rather than ringing triple-0.
The Metropolitan Fire Service (MFS) in Adelaide says it is worrying that two girls lost in a stormwater drain raised the alert on a social networking site rather than ringing triple-0.
The 10- and 12-year-old girls updated a Facebook status to say they were lost in a drain on Honeypot Road at Hackham in Adelaide's southern suburbs on Sunday night.
Glenn Benham from the MFS says it was fortunate a young friend was online at the time and was able to call for help for them.
"It is a worry for us because it causes a delay on us being able to rescue the girls," he said.
"If they were able to access Facebook from their mobile phones, they could have called 000, so the point being they could have called us directly and we could have got there quicker than relying on someone being online and replying to them and eventually having to call us via 000 anyway."
Don't worry too much moby...there's always stories on the news of 2-4y/o's calling 000 and saving their parents & stuff! There'll just be a gap between the docile gen y's & intelligent gen z's (or whatever they're called?)
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.” —Mark Twain
