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Florida mom lets her kids try booze in controlled setting, gets arrested...
Washington Examiner ^ | September 13, 2014 | 1:49 pm | T. Becket Adams

Posted on 09/15/2014 10:32:40 AM PDT by Haiku Guy

Someone is going to get “unfriended” on Facebook real soon. From WKMG-TV in Orlando, Fla.:

According to police, Patricia Denault poured herself a shot of Fireball cinnamon whiskey and took a picture of her son taking a sip. She posted that picture on Facebook, but someone saw that picture and called the police.

"Me taking a picture and putting it on Facebook, I thought it was funny," Denault said.

Denault was arrested on Wednesday, charged with child neglect after she said three uniformed officers and Child Protective Services came to her house and interviewed her kids.

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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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To: Haiku Guy

Why the hell isn’t her facebook profile LOCKED the hell down....???

It is probably public and probably being used by anonymous perverts who go there for pics of her children....


21 posted on 09/15/2014 10:55:36 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: Col Frank Slade

What a stupid woman.

She is certainly stuipid for not realizing that facebook is voluntary self-spying...


22 posted on 09/15/2014 10:56:23 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: Haiku Guy

Facebook is the new, hip STASI. And the “guilty” can’t wait to turn themselves in. LOL.


23 posted on 09/15/2014 10:57:01 AM PDT by Moltke ("The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution if you only know how to use it.")
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To: Dallas59

I don’t know why people feel the need to post everything they do on Facebook.

There are millions of emotionally stunted idiots out there who have nothing to do but make trouble over something they saw on their computer screen.

I don’t have a problem with the alcohol. Teaching your children about alcohol is one of the duties of a parent.

I hope, against hope, they the reason she was giving him cinnimon flavored whiskey was to teach him that flavored whiskeys are an abomination and that the little tyke should learn to appreciate a fine single malt.


24 posted on 09/15/2014 10:57:11 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
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To: Haiku Guy

The authorities better be able to prove it was booze. If I was the woman, I would hire an attorney and go for false arrest. Innocent until proven guilty.


25 posted on 09/15/2014 11:00:05 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: Haiku Guy

It continues to amaze me what STUPID STUPID things people post on Facebook!!

I’ve warned both of my kids NOT to post idiot things because potential employers WILL see it and it WILL curtail their job prospects.


26 posted on 09/15/2014 11:01:37 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Tired? There's a napp for that!!)
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To: GeronL

“bad parenting. does she also have sex with them, you know educationally?”

Oh for heaven’s sake.

I was an asthmatic,underweight child and the doctor suggested Guinness’s Stout to put some weight on me.

This was the 40s-—and I detested it.

.


27 posted on 09/15/2014 11:02:26 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Haiku Guy

Another sucker sucked into SpyBook. Idiots.


28 posted on 09/15/2014 11:03:32 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Haiku Guy
It was stupid to post it on line. But I think the police are stupid for arresting her. We had wine sometimes with dinner. I sipped Grandpa's beer once in a while. We had eggnog on Christmas Eve.

Now the control freaks are saying sugar is bad for your heart, because Mooshells food Nazi tactics are being rejected.

Cops must really be stupid these days.

29 posted on 09/15/2014 11:05:47 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: Haiku Guy

That wouldn’t happen here. There is an exemption that allows parents & guardians to serve alcohol to their children “for medicinal purposes”. I had a friend whose mother used to give him a shot of rum if he was cranky and not sleeping. 45 years later it still works :-)


30 posted on 09/15/2014 11:11:45 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
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To: Haiku Guy

jeez at least give him a shot of Jack or a nice single malt, not some wussified crap


31 posted on 09/15/2014 11:13:10 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: defconw

“Cops must really be stupid these days. “

I don’t think the arrest was a result of stupidity. Instead it was:

Power grab from the parent by LEO,

or

Fear of public outcry if they didn’t arrest her.

In that order.


32 posted on 09/15/2014 11:16:53 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

OK. I am really sick of the police state we are living in. I wonder what it will take to stop this crap?


33 posted on 09/15/2014 11:18:12 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: Ray76

Yea, so? I had sips of wine and champaign at family gatherings and holidays starting about that age. Small amount, just to toast with. 4 years later in Paris, we went out to a fancy dinner boat cruise down the Seine, and I had a glass of something with every course.

Slept till noon the next day, and learned what a hangover was. To this day, Wine still gives me a foggy haze the next day. Anyway, It kind of took the mystique out of alcohol for me.

Under controlled conditions with parental consent and supervision; small amounts, I don’t see a problem with.


34 posted on 09/15/2014 11:18:48 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: AFreeBird

Beer/wine is one thing, liquor quite another... PARTICULARLY for a child.


35 posted on 09/15/2014 11:22:16 AM PDT by Ray76
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To: Moltke

Tagline invoked :)


36 posted on 09/15/2014 11:28:53 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
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To: GeronL

Whoa, that escalated quickly. My mom used to let me take a sip of wine once in a while, does that make her equivalent to a child molester in your book too?


37 posted on 09/15/2014 11:32:03 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: GraceG

I was given a sip of a frozen daiquiri at age 8 at a bridge party. I didn’t have another drink for 12 years.


38 posted on 09/15/2014 11:33:17 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: GeronL
bad parenting. does she also have sex with them, you know educationally?

You have a one track mind. You try to spin pedophilia into every subject.

39 posted on 09/15/2014 11:37:21 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Chickensoup

Now that you have posted it on the internet, no doubt some busybody is dialing 911 at this very moment. /s


40 posted on 09/15/2014 11:41:04 AM PDT by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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