Get Your Heads On Straight, Mom And Dad. You’re Really Taking A Chance Here

Here’s a sentence you don’t hear very often, I hope. Drunken Yahtzee argument. According to documents filed Tuesday with the charges, Traill County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched about 2:34 a.m. De. 18 to 120 4th Ave. SE in Mayville on a report of a scared boy who called to report a domestic dispute that became …

You Look A Lot Like My Wife. Can I Borrow Some Money?

If your plan is to pilfer and attempt to utilize somebody’s custom debit card, it might be a good idea to take a good long look at the photo on it before you proceed with step two, just in case the woman in said photo and her powers of observation happen to be in the …

You Kids Wait Here While I Go Get Arrested For Having You Wait Here

There’s never a good time to leave your small children in a sweltering car, but for over an hour while you turn yourself in at the courthouse on a warrant for having previously left your small children in a sweltering car is a particularly poor one. On May 26, Newby was initially accused of leaving …

Hurry! We Need To Get This TV Home So We Can See Us On The News!

Somehow, you have just managed to walk out of a Walmart undetected while carrying a 58 inch television which you neglected to pay for. Well done. But you have a problem. 58 inch televisions are rather large. Too large to easily fit into your vehicle, it turns out. And wouldn’t you know it, as you …

A Slam Leads To The Slammer, Where He’ll Get All The Sausage He Can Handle

The boy’s mother had called 911, telling arriving police that she walked into the kitchen and saw her husband with his arm around the boy’s neck, said Lt. James Cole of the Canton Police Department. She told the officers that after she broke up the scuffle, Jones continued to yell at the boy “for eating …

She’s Leavin’ My Baby

I saw the awful story of a 2-month-old baby being left car seat and all in a driveway early in the morning on the news yesterday, but it was pretty light on details since the police were still sorting things out. You watch something like that and you think Jesus, what kind of person would …

Save Money, Leave Children

Tosheba Hope and Gerald Moultrie are in a group from which it’s hard to set oneself apart. Unfortunately, many are the stories of shoplifting parents who, not having money for a sitter either, choose to bring the little ones along. But unlike many, they at least had the decency to not scar the tikes for …

Mmmmm…Detergent Pods!

Holy crap this line from a story on children being poisoned by laundry pods. Just…holy crap. Jessica Morin of Houston says her 9-month-old daughter, Marlow, was sickened earlier this year when Jessica’s grandmother mistook a detergent pod for a teething toy and put it in the baby’s mouth. “I called poison control and they said …

You’re Supposed To Take Him To The Hospital, Not Put Him In It

Dear Philip Ubdegrove: It doesn’t matter who takes the baby to the hospital. The important thing is that he gets there. Mom is surely just as qualified to deal with issues of bleeding junk as you are. You don’t have to own one to know it needs a mechanic, as they say. And by they …

Careful With That Flask, Eugene!

We haven’t talked about people leaving their kids unbuckled, but strapping in their beer for a while. I guess we’re due. Robert Eugene Mobley put a bottle of whiskey in the car-seat, put his two-year-old kid in the front seat beside him, and didn’t even bother to buckle him in. Mobley was already quite wabbly, …