Driver buckles up beer, not child  An Australian motorist has
been fined for putting a seatbelt around a case of beer instead
of a five-year-old passenger.  Police who pulled over the man's
car on the Ross highway, near the outback town of Alice Springs,
found the child sitting unrestrained in the back of the vehicle.
Constable Wayne Burnett said he and a colleague were carrying
out routine searches on vehicles entering Aboriginal
communities, where alcohol is banned under a government
crackdown as part of an attempt to stamp out child abuse.  "I
really haven't seen something like this before," Burnett said.
"Sure, we get beer out of vehicles that is being taken into
restricted areas but this is the first time that the beer has
taken priority over a child."  Burnett issued the driver with a
$750 fine for failing to ensure a child was wearing a seatbelt
and for driving a car that was unregistered and uninsured.  Four
adults were in the car, two in the front seats and two in the
back. The carton of beer, which