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Sheriff’s deputy stops speeding car… and pulls off a surprise baby delivery
LIVE ACTION NEWS ^ | October 7, 2019 | Nancy Flanders |

Posted on 10/07/2019 3:42:23 PM PDT by Morgana

A couple pulled over for speeding this week gave the police officer the best excuse ever: they were in the middle of having a baby. Florida sheriff’s deputy Robert Pounds clocked a car going 63 mph in a 45 mph zone at 4:30 a.m. on October 1, and when he approached the vehicle he heard a man yelling, “Officer, help!”

“Officer, you have the right to stop me, I’m not even gonna lie,” Wilfrid Jean-Louis told Pounds. “We have baby coming out, look, look, look! That’s the reason why I’m speeding, officer. I don’t know what to do.”

Naples Daily News reports that Jean-Louis’ wife Fabienne Gorges was screaming in the passenger seat and the baby’s head was crowning. Pounds called for backup and immediately jumped into action. He ran to his patrol car to grab latex gloves and a sterile blanket. Then he delivered the baby girl — and the entire event was captured on his police car’s dash-cam.

CCSCO Sargeant David Drucks was one of the deputies who responded to Pounds’ call for backup and said he could tell through the radio that Pounds was stressed.

“I don’t get shook up too easily, but this was a little nerve-wracking just because it was a newborn,” he told Naples Daily News. “My training kicked in and I just wanted to help mom and the baby.”

He said that of all the excuses he has heard for speeding, this one was “pretty reasonable.”

READ: Surprise! Firefighters join in to bring couple’s adopted baby boy home

According to DISRN.com, the new parents were so grateful for the assistance Pounds gave them in welcoming their baby girl into the world that they gave her the middle name “Robert” in his honor.

In his 26 years as a police officer, Pounds said this is the first time he has helped someone give birth. “It was exciting. It was a bit nervewracking,” he said. “But I was happy to be the one to help these people have their child and I’m glad everything turned out okay and I hope the baby grows up to be healthy and happy and live a long, good life.”

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: baby; babydelivered; cops; police; prolife
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I've not heard a story like this in LONG time. Love love love it!!
1 posted on 10/07/2019 3:42:23 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Glad it ended well.


2 posted on 10/07/2019 3:44:16 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: Morgana

Awesome!


3 posted on 10/07/2019 3:44:41 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Morgana

These stories make me smile. When people do things for the right reasons.


4 posted on 10/07/2019 3:46:11 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: Morgana

“Quick! Pop the radiator cap! We MUST have BOILING WATER for some reason!!!”


5 posted on 10/07/2019 3:47:02 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: Morgana

but once again, our language actually equates somebody catching the baby as some kind of “delivery”..the mom delivers, period.....babies have been born for eons by mothers alone, by themselves.....


6 posted on 10/07/2019 3:47:31 PM PDT by cherry (4)
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To: Morgana; sit-rep; Squantos

I’d have been all “What’s that, dispatch? There’s a hold up in the Bronx? Krushchev’s due at Idlewild? Car 54 en route! Sorry, folks! An ambulance is en route!”


7 posted on 10/07/2019 3:49:32 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: cherry

An old waitress that we chatted with for years every Sunday told how she gave birth to two children at home with a mid-wife, one at the hospital with a doctor, and “One at the bottom of the stairs by the front door all alone. Thankfully it wasn’t my first. But really similar to helping a cow give birth so not a big deal.”


8 posted on 10/07/2019 3:55:27 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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“We MUST have BOILING WATER for some reason!!!”

Reminds me of the “Honeymooner’s” episode where Ralph and Alice are wanting to adopt a baby. Ralph puts a big HUGE pot of boiling water on the stove.

The adoption agency person is interviewing them and looking over the house. “Oh - maam! And over here we keep a pot of boiling water - you never know when that might come in handy. Yep - always be prepared you know!”


9 posted on 10/07/2019 3:59:03 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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To: Innovative

The car interior must be a mess.....


10 posted on 10/07/2019 4:00:53 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....)
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To: Morgana

Swe-e-e-e-eet!


11 posted on 10/07/2019 4:02:02 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Representing the reality-based community.)
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To: 21twelve

Not a snowflake.


12 posted on 10/07/2019 4:02:59 PM PDT by Hieronymus ("I shall drink--to the Pope, if you please,-still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.")
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To: Morgana

Nice story.
Wonder what the speeding tickets are going to cost him?


13 posted on 10/07/2019 4:09:47 PM PDT by glasseye ("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
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To: Morgana

65 years ago, when I was 5, a motorcycle cop pulled us over at 1:00 in the morning as my dad was speeding to the hospital for my sister’s birth. She wasn’t yet crowning, so we got a police escort—lights, siren, speeding and all. Very exciting and memorable!


14 posted on 10/07/2019 4:20:00 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: FatherofFive

Smile? They make me tear.


15 posted on 10/07/2019 4:23:54 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Morgana

The officer should have called “The Trunk Monkey”!


16 posted on 10/07/2019 4:25:46 PM PDT by Ben Hecks
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To: Ben Hecks

Sorry, I forgot the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI2FIFY2Z6U


17 posted on 10/07/2019 4:34:07 PM PDT by Ben Hecks
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To: cherry
"And I was born in the backseat of a Greyhound bus,

Rollin' down highway forty-one"

Allman Brothers

18 posted on 10/07/2019 4:59:28 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: cherry
In Exodus, chapter 1, when Pharaoh has ordered the midwives to kill any baby boys born to the Hebrew women, the midwives claim that the Hebrew women give birth before the midwives get there.

One of my ancestors in the 19th century was a midwife in a village in Europe. She wasn't the only midwife in the village but once when one of her own children was being born there was no midwife there, so her husband had to fill in. I don't know if she told him to boil water or not.

19 posted on 10/07/2019 6:48:12 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Larry Lucido

I’d have given him the ticket for speeding, and a child not secured in a baby seat. ...... been a great story for the judge .


20 posted on 10/07/2019 8:18:30 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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