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An 11-year-old boy from Oregon scared by thought of what might happen next called 911 from the back seat of a car his mom was driving to report that she was intoxicated.
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KGW reported that an arresting deputy, Shannon Wilde, said Nicole Norris’ blood alcohol content (BAC) was nearly twice the legal limit. Norris, 30, was reportedly on her way home from a Hillsboro Hops baseball game.
Deputy Wilde said this kind of 911 call was a new one.
“I’ve never had that call before. We get a lot of concerned citizens, people call in, about people they think are driving impaired, swerving, or driving really slow, but to have a child call from inside the car to say the parent is driving impaired is unusual,” the deputy said.
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Wilde praised the boy as “courageous.”
“Even doing something as hard as turning in your own parent,” Wilde said. “I think that takes a lot of guts and he obviously felt unsafe enough to the point where he had to reach out for help, which says a lot about the situation.”
