Britney is slowly turning into Michael Jackson

Earlier this week, photos of Britney Spears driving her SUV in Malibu, Calif. -with her 5-month-old son, Sean Preston, sitting in her lap were released.Spears insists that she was acting on maternal instinct, not recklessness, saying she was trying to escape paparazzi and didn't have time to buckle her son into the infant car seat.

"I was terrified that this time the physically aggressive paparazzi would put both me and my baby in danger," she said in a statement released late Monday. "I instinctively took measures to get my baby and me out of harm's way, but the paparazzi continued to stalk us."

However, the photo agency that took the pictures, X17, claims its shutterbugs were snapping away in peace."Those pictures were taken in a very peaceful context, in which photographers exhibited no aggressive behavior," the agency said in a statement released to "Extra."

The LA County Department of Chidren and Family Services (DCFS) has contacted the LA County Sheriff's Department, inquiring about Britney driving with her baby on her lap without proper child restraint.

Britney keeps on racking up incident after incident of ‘eccentric’ incidents that nobody really understands. Not to mention her husband, Kevin Federline. She hasn’t released a new album with completely all new material in three years. Somehow this past year (2005) she was the number one search keyword for Yahoo. What does this all add up to?

Can you see it yet? Yep, she is slowly catching the cold hard virus deemed Michael Jackon’itous (or that’s what I’m calling it). If she doesn’t straighten up and do something to reestablish herself as a sane individual in the A-list community, mark my words- her downfall will be just as cold hard and twisted as Michaels.