Putting her son on the roof of their minivan probably seemed like a good idea at the time.

Amber Schmunk, 29, of Fredonia, was trying to get a plastic wading pool home on Sept. 9 and it didn't fit in the minivan, so she put it on the roof — along with her 9-year-old son to hold it in place.

Another driver reported the unusual sight to Saukville police and two patrol cars stopped Schmunk a few minutes later after she had dropped the pool off at her sister's house on S. Colonial Parkway.

Schmunk told police her dad let her do things like that when she was 9, and besides, she had her son strapped down on top of the pool and the roof ride only lasted 20 to 30 seconds before she moved her son back inside, and wedged the pool in, too. The person who called 911 followed Schmunk for about a block before she stopped and took her son down from the roof.

The police saw it differently, and now Schmunk is charged with second-degree recklessly endangering safety, a felony. She is scheduled to make her initial court appearance in Ozaukee County Circuit Court on Nov. 14.