Man Ticketed After Rescuing Son Instead of Car from Cliff – Daily Dose of Weird [VIDEO]

Priorities are important.  When Frank Roder of New Jersey was in danger of losing both his car and his 5-year-old son off the edge of a cliff, I'd say his priorities were well-sorted when he chose to save his son.  But that didn't stop the cops from presenting him with traffic tickets once his car had settled at the bottom of the 35-foot embankment.

A cop on the scene reportedly handed (Roder) a pair of tickets -- one for the (parking) brake, and another for failure to produce his insurance card, which was in the water-bound Jeep -- and told Roder he should have just applied the brake.

"I say, 'Really? And if I did and my boy stepped over the edge and fell instead of the Jeep, then where would I be?' He says, 'Jail, for child endangerment'."

[via Huffington Post.]

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That'll teach people to put their children before their possessions!

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