People do strange things when they're behind the wheel. They eat dinner, apply makeup, buy and sell stocks, fix family problems, take notes on a conversation, sort CDs and sometimes - not often, but sometimes - they breast-feed their children.

Such was the case in June for a 29-year-old woman who was sentenced to three months of house arrest after being pulled over by police for breast-feeding her baby - while traveling 65 mph down an Ohio highway.

People who do things such as this cause accidents, and apparently, they also cause laws.

The Michigan Legislature is considering a package of bills to amend the state's vehicle code to prohibit drivers from breast-feeding their children or holding animals on their laps while driving.

Senate Bill No. 882 strikes out language that previously exempted children being nursed from having to be restrained in a car seat. House Bill No. 5402 adds a new section to the existing code that makes a person guilty of a civil infraction if he or she should "operate a motor vehicle while holding an animal in his or her lap."

There also is a bill add points drivers' licenses if cell-phone use is discovered as the cause of an accident. Fortunately for drivers, there are ways to use cell phones that encourage safe driving.

But that's another story. What's alarming is that somewhere in this great land of ours, not only are people breast-feeding while zipping down the interstate, but apparently, they also are letting their dogs drive. Tell your golden retriever to buckle up.

Changing laws to include things such as nursing and holding animals while driving shouldn't be necessary. But it is.

Hey, drivers, listen up: Don't bond with your pets. Avoid the urge to change a diaper, look on the floor for that long-lost CD, boil noodles or whatever it is you all feel like doing when you and your car are hurtling down the highway at high speeds.

And, please, put your nipple away.