A Connecticut man was arrested for pulling several kids on a sled behind his pickup truck at what authorities deemed "unreasonable speeds."
Michael W. Chauvin, 40, has been charged with risk of injury to a minor, reckless endangerment and reckless driving after using his Dodge Ram to tote a gaggle of sled-riding children down the street, the Hartford Courant reports.
It's unclear how fast Chauvin was driving, nor whether any of the youths were actually his own.
The lack of information on Chauvin's speed is particularly frustrating—what, in the doting, overprotective eye of the state, is considered "too fast"? Does blasting your own child in the face with a meticulously crafted snowball qualify as assault? Had this been the '80s, what percentage of our own parents would be behind bars for reckless snowtime endangerment? Can't a parent have any goddamn fun anymore? This guy better watch his back:
