Posted on 10/04/2007 12:16:06 PM PDT by cdbull23
PRAGUE (Reuters) - A Czech couple who decided to take a DNA test to squash persistent pub gossip and prove that their 10-month-old baby was their own got a nasty surprise.
The couple, from the southeastern town of Trebic, had some doubts about the child as her hair was blonde and they both had dark hair. Fellow drinkers' suspicions got on their nerves.
But the test showed neither of the parents had the same DNA as the baby, Czech news agency CTK reported Wednesday, suggesting a mix-up at the hospital.
Authorities were looking into the case.
My family is heavy on light eyed blonde kids, but every so often, a little Cherokee comes along. We are all identified by a major family trait, a roaring bad attitude!
Damn, your family is massively huge! Somebody needs something tied or cut.
No way, the quality is still just too damned consistent to mess with. When we start turning out liberals, oh, well!
I recall a thread on FR about the rather shocking % of babies born that did not have the father's DNA. Still bothers me.........
We just had a baby. Before we left the delivery room he got numbered tags on an ankle and both wrists, and my wife got the matching numbered wristband. He also got an RFID tag that triggered an alert if he was taken out of the maternity ward (which was locked at all times). We were very impressed with how seriously the hospital took its security.
The hospitals put matching electronic tags on each of my babies’ wrists, too. The electronic tags did help us feel a little more secure. Even though my husband would track our baby around the hospital, and I would demand the baby stay in my room, I had to fall asleep at some point, and he had to go to work, too.
“Helix, Make Mine a Double” never made more sense than right now.
They were later to learn their baby was a healthy goat.
Most of my boys look exactly like my husband, while my daughter looks just like me. We have one boy who looks a little different than the other boys. I hate the comment, “He looks different than your other kids.” Goodness gracious! The boy actually looks more like my family than his dad’s (he looks my dad did when he was little, except his hair is light and not dark). Who would have thought that one of our boys might actually *gasp* take after his mother. The only other comment that was more annoying was how my children don’t all have the same eye color. People seem to find it difficult to believe that all five of my children share one father. Just weird, I know. /sarc
People seem to find it difficult to believe that all five of my children share one father. Just weird, I know. /sarc
A woman actually joked to my husband that he should get a look at the mailman. :-0 I would never make a joke like that to someone else's husband. I thought that was rude. Good think I'm a good-natured woman. That was just crossing the line... lol.
Little comfort to your husband though.
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