Posted on 04/30/2012 12:19:33 PM PDT by Daffynition
CLOVER, S.C. —
According to police, a woman was arrested for leaving her baby in a car for close to an hour and a-half.
Our news partners, The Gaston Gazette, told us Chelsea Ball, from Clover, S.C., left her baby in the car while she went into a pool hall early Saturday morning.
Police said the woman left the baby outside of West End Billards in Gastonia at 3:30 a.m.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsoctv.com ...
Some people have no business reproducing.
This was a stupid, dangerous and irresponsible thing to do.
Someone could have taken the dog.
Well the dog would take better care of the baby than the “Mother”.
That’s a good one. The first thing that came to my mind was that old George Thorogood video where he’s in a pool hall singing that he was “bad to the bone” even as a baby.
This is an outrage! That poor dog could have been eaten!
You mean Obama was in town?
On the day I was born
The nurses all gathered ‘round
And they gazed in wide wonder
At the joy they had found
The head nurse spoke up
Said “leave this one alone”
She could tell right away
That I was bad to the bone
Bad to the bone
Bad to the bone
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-B-Bad
Bad to the bone
I broke a thousand hearts
Before I met you
I’ll break a thousand more, baby
Before I am through
I wanna be yours pretty baby
Yours and yours alone
I’m here to tell ya honey
That I’m bad to the bone
Bad to the bone
B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-Bad
Bad to the bone
SOLO
I make a rich woman beg
I’ll make a good woman steal
I’ll make an old woman blush
And make a young girl squeal
I wanna be yours pretty baby
Yours and yours alone
I’m here to tell ya honey
That I’m bad to the bone
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-B-Bad
Bad to the bone
SOLO 2
And when I walk the streets
Kings and Queens step aside
Every woman I meet
They all stay satisfied
I wanna tell ya pretty baby
Well Ya see I make my own
I’m here to tell ya honey
That I’m bad to the bone
Bad to the bone
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-Bad
Bad to the bone
with my 140 pound balls intact black American Bulldog watching him
some fool actually tried to unlock the door through the window to get the child and call the cops on me just as I approached
I screamed "do not put your arm in that truck" about the time my dog...who was extremely guard oriented...woulda taken their forearm slap off
people today are busybodies
they get off on it....like calling folks racist
it's a reflex that fills a need in a culture grown weak
however...a baby for an hour and a half is reckless
**and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a child.**
Events like this leave me speechless ....I see from the Daily Mail she *contributed to the delinquency of a child**..WTH? [enticing or encouraging such a child or youth to engage in actions that would constitute a violation of federal or state law or a municipal or local ordinance.]
It’s not like an 11 m/o can skip school...
A Dalmatian...while a lovely dog...not particularly known for it’s aggressive guard-dog nature.
**She told police that she was in West End Billiards no longer than 30 minutes but a witness who gave a written statement to police stated that the child was in the vehicle for about an hour to an hour and a half, according to the affidavit...**
Time flies when you’re having fun.
The individual that tried to get into the car and get the baby did the right thing.
Amazing that you would post your own negligence and try to defend it.
You mean the baby is Obama’s offspring?
If only the government provided a day care center so a hard working person could get just a few minutes away from the stress........ That mean old George Bush.....
OOPS!! Time for my medications. (Sarcasm “OFF”)
Reckless endangerment ...
Corrected headline: 'Woman leaves dog in car, baby for snack.'
THX. That I would buy...not *contributing to the delinquency of a child*
I would be willing to bet a coke that this female is under thirty-five and chasing a male she knew to be in the pool hall. Either way, she is an unfit mother for that precious little one.
To know Gastonia requires one to live there, or in close proximity. It seems to be populated with the dumbest white trash in the world. They also seem to suffer from insomnia, because their stupidity takes no rest.
He said “four year old”, not “baby”.
In my book, you using the word “baby” here is a rotten thing to do.
Cause leaving a 4 year old is so much better.
Hey, the sign is spelled correctly - in this day and age, that’s major bonus points.
A baby in the car alone for 5 minutes is reckless!
BS!! Do you lay your baby down in his crib in his bedroom at night while you and your mate retire to your room and screw?? WOW!! You left your baby alone in his room so you and your mate could copulate, How reckless of you!!
I disagree. Five minutes is not reckless with the family dog guarding the precious cargo. The child was safe.
It’s just really good that wardaddy got there before the pup took the busybody’s arm off.
I do believe that a barking dog (deterrent) is better than a silent one who attacks without warning in this situation.
In-home guard dogs are best who are silent until it’s too late for the perp.
“In-home guard dogs are best who are silent until it’s too late for the perp.”
That goes for two legged guard dogs too.
Indeed, especially.
In-home guard dogs are best who are silent until it’s too late for the perp.
you know, most of us on FR are old enough to remember when our parents left us alone in the car, (actually in wardaddys case, he left the dog with the kid) and we survived.
It wasn’t considered abuse, or endangerment back then.
It was alot safer back then, AND we had enough sense not to try to turn the car on, and you could leave all the windows down, and not worry about someone snatching your kid.
Smarmy self righteous freepers are the other white meat...and thanks for sticking up for my master...God bless ya'll!
you know...i really was gonna hold my tongue but I just knew it from your preening self righteousness
and why am I not surprised?
i did not want to offend dedent northerners here but after some checking...
you are indeed a self righteous yankee jackass who gives decent folks a bad name
you just give off the odor like bad B.O.
that’s what I love about the forum
hey...at least you didn’t call me racist....but there is still time
i wish you would try to come take one of my many kids from underneath the nose of that dog or our other female version
be sure to notice...it’s a BLACK DOG....better now Cornel?
Hey Hey mama....
Apparently not - the stupid gene really gets around.
Freedom-loving Americans generally say to themselves: “what is safe for my family?” They make decisions based on everything they know. A police officer would say that he is in business to defend the innocent against criminals and idiots. The lady who decides to leave her baby in a car for over an hour at 3:30am - outside a pool hall no less - is a reckless idiot. If I were a police officer I’d call CPS and haul her ass off. But someone who leaves a guarded, sleeping baby in the car for a few minutes is probably not an idiot... Just someone busy who has made a calculated decision about his/her charge. In this case, were I a police officer, and even just as a citizen, I would keep an eye on the baby for safety’s sake, and truth be told possibly greet the parent upon return and say something like: “be careful, you never know if there’s some loony baby snatcher around,” and let that be that.
Freedom comes with responsibility. That’s what we like about it, and it’s better ho have both than neither. Our nanny state is indeed filled with busybodies and know-it-alls, but just a small part of that is because we do indeed care a great deal for our youngest and most innocent citizens. For instance, who can say for sure when coming across a baby in a truck with a dog that the parent has not been incapacitated in some way? After a ten-minute wait or so I could see even myself getting worried and perhaps calling the police. I don’t like to think I’m a busybody, but I probably would wait around.
Not to interrupt here but has it occurred to you that the person “doing the right thing” may have been been a pedo or rapist/murderer trying to -snatch- his kid?
It happens.
Far too often.
A person ~truly~ “doing the right thing” would have called the cops or gone into the store to get the manager.
The only exception to that acceptable protocol would be if the child were in immediate, grave danger, such as, the vehicle was on fire, the child was choking to death, dying of heat stroke or the dog was eating him.
The only problem I have with WD’s story is that he yelled a warning.
If you stick your nose or arm into my truck while The Boy’s on duty, you get no warning ~and~ what you deserve.
“be sure to notice...it’s a BLACK DOG....better now Cornel?
Hey Hey mama....”
LOL
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Oh oh ohhhhh.
And there’s the difference;
*You* would hang around at a watchful distance and possibly call the cops if needed.
You would *not* attempt to break and enter a vehicle.
It’s known that I have issues with non-parents “touching” children but were it my child or my dog, I would instantly assume that any attempt to get hold of either one was an invitation to grave bodily harm.
We all remember Adam Walsh.
His mom ‘looked away’ for a moment and he was gone.
Did that little boy’s murderer tell other store patrons that he’d ‘found an unattended child and was just doing the right thing and taking him to the cops’ or whatever?
I’ve found a few unattended kids in my time.
I told them they were okay and that we’d find mom/dad and took them to the store’s service center where the person working bellowed their names over the loudspeaker.
And then I waited until the parents showed up because I don’t -know- the people running the service counter and I wanted to see if whomever showed up to claim the child was actually somebody the child _knew and was glad to see_.
Unless you’ve had the misfortune to experience what child abusers are capable of, you have *no* idea how incredibly clever they can be and how saintly they can appear.
Some of them actively cruise parking lots looking for ‘unattended kids in cars’.
And stores.
And playgrounds.
And church hallways.
Any place you can name, they’ll be there...waiting...and watching.
In hindsight I’m glad I wasn’t killed. But I got to the video rental store and a car parked in the lot had about 4 or 5 kids piled in it, ages about 4 - 8 or so. I hung out for a bit, but no parent in sight. The kids were pretty rambunctious, climbing over the seats, not aware at all of anything.
After awhile and still no parent, I glanced inside and the keys were in the ignition (all the windows rolled down). I took one last look around, grabbed the keys and told the kids I was going to give them to their parent. (The kids were “yeah - whatever”). I walked into the video rental store and loudly proclaimed “Who’s blue Volvo is outside with all of the kids left alone? I have your car keys!” A lady looking at videos came forward and claimed them and went outside.
I’m glad she was more embarassed than I was and didn’t make a big fuss with me. And I imagine the odds were that the kids would have been okay. But, it was easy enough for someone like me to grab the keys. It would have been easy enough for a bad guy to take the entire car.
Not me and my wife. But we do move the baby to the front seat before we climb in back!
I agree with you one hundred percent. At the same time, I am always quick to tell Europeans that ours (the US) is a BIG country with a LOT of people and a VERY active media - amber alerts, etc. - which is followed intently by a world practically falling over in self-righteous schadenfreude to hear news of the latest “TERRIBLE CRIME IN AMERICA.” The truth is, per capita, the US is probably the safest, most crime-free place in the world... Certainly WAY above non-Nordic Western Europe. Kids here are pretty safe, and I believe the video monitoring revolution, though Orwellian, has deterred many would-be parking lot / shopping-mall predators.
That baby is totally helpless and you don't know what can happen in those few minutes.
I bet there are many griving parents who which they could get those 'few minutes'.
Amazing how you can't see the difference.
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