Mom and Dumber

So who’s a bigger fool, the 17-year-old girl in Austin who thinks she’s in love with a 27-year-old coach and Spanish teacher at her high school … or her mother?

I vote for Mom. After all, she said she thought the two were in love and gave legal consent for Little Miss Hottie to marry one Randy Arias. (In the British sense, he was indeed randy.)

But back to the fun couple. Mom even went with the bride-to-be when she applied for the marriage license. This for her own daughter, who just turned 17 last month.

Is there still a charge called “contributing to the delinquency of a minor”? How about “making a really stupid call as a parent”?

The law needs to hang something on Mommie Dearest. Then it can turn its attention to Arias.

You may recall his name. He was a track star at Texas State University and still holds the school record for 5,000 meters.

Maybe he can notch the same title at another institution — that is, if they have track meets in prisons. (I know from watching The Longest Yard I and II that they have football games on the inside.)

Some judge or jury should not be swayed by arguments that the gal was almost legal. She wasn’t, and she was still in high school.

Any teacher, coach or librarian who can’t keep his hands off the student body should get some time to think about it in a place without those distractions.

If she looks like someone on a "Girls Gone Wild" video, she's too young.