Over-reaching Bureaucracy Goes After Babysitters and Grandmothers

The Hippo's A** ^ | September 30, 2009 | Portnoy

[Portnoy]

The TODAY Show on Tuesday featured a story you read here last week. A Michigan woman is threatened with a fine by the Michigan Department of Human Services for letting her neighbors' kids stay at her house before the school bus arrives.

Then there is this story from Terre Haute Indiana:

Sally Harpold is a grandmother of triplets who bought one box of Zyrtec-D cold medicine for her husband at a Rockville pharmacy. Less than seven days later, she bought a box of Mucinex-D cold medicine for her adult daughter at a Clinton pharmacy, thereby purchasing 3.6 grams total of pseudoephedrine in a week’s time.

The end result? Mrs. Harpold was led away in handcuffs by the police! Her "crime"? Purchasing more than 3 grams of pseudoephedrine within seven days.

Read more HERE

[Chickensoup]

I am so tired of being treated like a criminal because the police cannot stop drug crime. I am so tired of these drug rules, and what this country is turning into...I am tired of having to jump to whatever some fish-faced bureaucrat says.

[OBXWanderer]

before confronting "the perp:, the arrest "team" was concerned about possible resistance from Mrs. Harpold's security squad (two other security squad members stationed near jeep)....

/sarc

[SunkenCiv]

additional:

• (MI) Two Local Child Care Workers Suing State (for unionizing day care providers!) [sidebar]
• Middleville (MI) woman threatened with fines & jail time for watching neighbor's kids
• Michigan Authorities Attack Woman for Babysitting Neighbor Kids
• Mother in Middleville ordered by DHS to stop watching friends' children as they wait for bus
• State orders Middleville mom to stop watching friends' children
• The Michigan Nanny Police
• And Don't Let Us Catch You Being Neighborly Again
• State to mom: Stop baby-sitting neighbors' kids
• Over-reaching Bureaucracy Goes After Kind Neighbors and Grandmothers
• Unlicensed day care?

[Fire_on_High]

I’d feel threatened by that kitty too if I had a teeny weeny. Look at her body language...”You may admire me now, PEON!”