YOU think you've heard it all? Well, here's one for the books: Jackie Denise Knott, a 37-year-old mother from Boaz, Ala., thought it was perfectly safe to allow her 13-year-old daughter to be used as a human paperweight.

A local police department received an anonymous call from someone who spotted a child inside a cardboard box that was sitting atop a minivan as the vehicle sped down a highway. Rewind ... this is not a misprint! Knott had placed her 13-year-old child in a cardboard box, so that the carton would be even more secure to the roof of the van. Knott, who thought that the box was too big to fit inside the van, told police she had secured it to the van's roof with a clothes hanger.

Police are pretty much still in shock over the bizarre incident. According to officer Jamie Smith, "It's one of those things when you've been doing this awhile ... you think you've seen everything. And then there's something new and then you go, 'Haven't seen that one!' Obviously a gust of wind or an 18-wheeler passing by could have thrown the box off the top of the van. It could have turned out very bad."

Knot was arrested for endangering the welfare of a child and taken to the county jail. The child was handed over to a relative called to the scene. Police will also report the matter to the Department of Human Resources, a local child-protective services agency, for further investigation.

Hmmm. There's just something about clothes hangers and kids.