weimer shares his designated driver with a customer he recognizes. she s 9 years old. she drives here. that s crazy. i swear to you. i swear. cross my heart. he was bragging about it. 9 years old in the truck. we re parked right there. she drove all the way here. and i parked. and she parked. weimer s daughter seems to be proud of herself, too. did you drive all the way here? she was just eating her apple candy and she was showing me the keys in her hand. she was like bragging about it, too. like i drive him around and this and that. weimer doesn t seem to care that what he s doing is illegal, letting his unlicensed, underaged child get behind the wheel. i mean, what are they going to do? they going to pull me over and say, oh, you let a 9-year-old drive? you know,? i let her drive. after all, he says he learned to drive when he was young. we owned a tractor when i was a kid. i started driving when i was 10 years old. but wiemer knows he shouldn t
pull out a citgo gas station. a 7-year-old girl was driving it and her dad is drunk. and he s in the passenger. girardot gets the daughter s age wrong but he gets the situation right. the van drives out of view of the gas station cameras but girardot stays on his tail. i m following it right now. we re coming up near the fire department. is the vehicle staying on the road? yes. she s driving pretty good. i m telling you, i can t believe it. on the 911 call i chuckle a bit because i think there was some relief that she actually was driving pretty good. within five minutes, police have pulled the van over. sean weimer is placed under arrest. he temporarily loses visitation rights with his daughter, who remains in her mother s custody. he s charged with felony child abuse. he pleads guilty and is soflk sentenced to two years of probation.
customer he recognizes. she drove me here. 9 years old. she drives here. that s crazy. i swear to you. i swear. cross my heart. he was bragging about it. 9 years old in the truck. we re parked right there. she drove all the way here. and i parked. and she parked. weimer s daughter seems to be proud of herself, too. did you drive all the way here? she was eating her apple candy and she was showing me the keys in her hand. she was like bragging about it, too. like i drive him around and this and that. weimer doesn t seem to care that what he s doing is illegal, letting his unlicensed, underaged child get behind the wheel. i mean, what are they going to do? they going to pull me over and say, oh, you let a 9-year-old drive? i let her drive. after all, he says he learned to drive when he was young. we owned a dumpster when i
these are our digital cameras. in the early morning hours of october 8th, 2011, these cameras are rolling when 39-year-old shawn wiemer walks into the store with his 9-year-old daughter. when they approach the counter she asks for a candied apple. where do you see candied apples? can i get one of them? the clerk eddie notices that weimer s been drinking. i can smell his aroma that he was really, really drunk. weimer asks eddie for a pack of cigarettes, then pays for some gas, then he tells eddie that he s not the one getting back behind the wheel. it s his daughter who is driving him around. she drives us here. i swear to you. i swear to you. cross my heart. on my mother s grave. i said can t be. no way. i thought there was somebody else in the van. weimer shares the news about his designated driver with a
was a kid. i started driving when i was 10 years old. but wiemer knows he shouldn t be behind the wheel right now although he doesn t seem to recognize the danger of having his daughter drive. i m a very, very, very good man. i got a designated driver. after nearly ten minutes in the store, wiemer s ready to head back to his van. eddie doesn t try to stop him. our clerks are trained not to confront anyone in any situation. and at the time until the customer had gotten into his car, it didn t sound like something that anyone would possibly do. as weimer is saying good-byes, regular customer charles girardo walks in. when i walked in, he was telling the clerks, you re great guys. i love you. i could tell he was intoxicated. girardo and eddie watch as weimer exits. when he walked out, i went to pay. i asked the clerk, i said he s pretty intoxicated, isn t he? he said, yeah, you think? and i said, and he s going to drive that van out there with