Mother pictured drinking beer at school gates as she waits to pick up her kids

Perched on railing with a can of lager in one hand and a cigarette in the other, this mother is hardly setting a shining example to children filing out of a nearby primary school.

The unnamed woman must have found the stress of the 3pm school run too hard to take as she swigged from the can while waiting opposite a man with a pram for her own child to come out of the school gates.
The feckless mother was photographed by a furious fellow parent, also waiting outside Macaulay Primary Academy, in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire.
He said: 'Children being exposed to this kind of behaviour will start to believe it is acceptable if something isn't done to stop this in the future.
The photograph also drew the condemnation of the school's headteacher Julie Saunders who said she has since spoken to the parents involved.

North East Lincolnshire Councillor Ian Lindley, said that the mother's behaviour sends out the wrong kind of message to children at the school.
The woman was pictured as the Association of Police Chiefs launched a campaign against drinking in public and related antisocial behaviour.
The organisation says that 50 per cent of all violent crime is alcohol related, with half of domestic violence incidents and around a third of child abuse cases involving offenders who are under the influence of alcohol.


Culled from Mailonline