Posted on 05/19/2006 8:37:01 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Britney Spears' child-care techniques seem to be growing positively "Toxic" - she nearly dropped her 8-month-old son on his head yesterday as she tottered out of a posh Manhattan hotel with a glass in one hand and the tyke in another. The baby-bobbling bungle began at about 6 p.m., as the "Not That Innocent" pop tart left the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on Central Park South, holding her kid, Sean Preston, and what witnesses said was a tumbler of water and ice (photo, far left).
While heading to a car, her long pants appeared to get tangled in her open-toed shoes (inset, far left) just as she stepped past a pothole, witnesses said.
Then - oops! - Britney started to tumble. Sean Preston's head whipped back in what a witness called a "violent manner," his chubby arm swung up and his little hat went flying off .
"Her bodyguard had some good reactions," an onlooker said of the quick catch . "[He] grabbed the baby before he hit the floor."
Despite the tumble, Britney managed not to spill a drop of her drink. Then she muttered to fotogs in her Louisiana accent, "This is why I need a gun."
The incident left her clearly shaken up - afterwards she was seen in tears at FAO Schwarz (right inset).
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That's such an unfair generalization.
I see no mention of boobs in this article.
What's up with the headline?
Poor Harry! How did he get mixed up with Britney?
I dropped my oldest son on his head when I fell asleep in the recliner. I was so so so upset. I nearly dropped my next one when I tripped going down some stairs. I didn't, but i have a scar on my leg from it, and my friend who was at the bottom of the stairs scooped the baby out of my hands when I got there.
Like no one else stumbles. What the heck does that have to do with her child raising skills?
I figure that like this:
1. She knows better than to drink alcohol in front of the cameras while pregnant (and if she doesn't, her handlers do). So it's probably water or club soda.
2. A highball glass is the MOST stable glass a person can use. They're very easy to put down without spilling, and very hard to knock over. She probably was carrying one because it would stay upright in the car she was getting into.
I agree about prayers for the baby and the one to come.
Don't you know that commonsense can ruin a perfectly good bashing thread? I tell ya, sometimes FR resembles the stereotypical picture of gossiping hens, only now the roosters enjoy it too. LOL
My mother-in-law actually tripped on a stairway and fell while holding one of her babies. Thankfully neither of them were hurt seriously.
Funny how celebs yearn for that press when they're nothings. Then when they become "somebodys" they can't stand the papparazzi.
She tripped over her pants, not a member of the papparazzi.
She made a "boob".
EXACTLY.
I tumbled off a porch railing when I was 2 yrs old, and fell 8 feet to a concrete slab, landing square on my head. My parents were only a few feet away, but couldn't get to me in time. The fall didn't have any lasting effect, unless you want to count the fact that I'm prone to libertarian sentiments. ;-)
Not to mention the Chicken Little 'Sky is falling' dimension...
Yes, you were a bad parent for not keeping a helmet on her head 24/7. I assume you did at least have her dressed in her full body armor. ;)
Your story reminded me of one of my own. When our son was a baby, his daddy was playing with him and swooped him up right into the ceiling fan. Son's head was strong enough to stop a fan. No tears.
*****Then she muttered to fotogs in her Louisiana accent, "This is why I need a gun."
So she can shoot potholes??****
Hillarious!!!!!
I think we'll learn that in Book 7.
Surely you can't be serious. Have you never carried your baby into a restaurant, or a store, or into the church without a carrier or a stroller? How about when you get home from an outting. Do you "stroll" your baby to the house and into their crib, or do you sometimes (gasp) pick up the child and carry them. Has the world changed so much that parents are now considered abusive for carrying their child?
Everyone's a klutz sometimes!
LOL I did threaten to shoot one of my dogs the next time I tripped/ran into/fell over them. I'm bad.
No kidding! :)
I know it's not funny but it does make you kind of laugh after you realize everything is ok, doesn't it?
I stopped, looked at her like "Oh no!" and she just rubbed the back of her head and starred at me like "You a-hole, that hurt." but didn't wimper or anything.
And some of us (me) is a klutz many times. ;)
Me, too. And my kids. I'm not sure if they inherited the problem, or acquired it from being dropped on their heads as babies :-).
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