Police: Pa. Woman Beat Child With Baseball Bat Over Clogged Toilet

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/05/08/police-pa-woman-beat-child-with-baseball-bat-over-clogged-toilet/ ^

[MNDude]

LEHIGHTON, Pa. (AP) – A northeastern Pennsylvania woman is behind bars after police said she beat her child with a baseball bat because of a clogged toilet.

Police say Christine Mertz from Mahoning Township hit the 15-year-old child twice on the right side with a baseball bat and had also twice bitten and punched the juvenile.

The child’s age and gender have not been released. Police said the child’s sibling witnessed the April 27 assault and said it was because of a backed-up toilet.

[null and void]

Did Al invent the 1.6 GPF toilet too?

Invent? No. MANDATED. Before any such toilet even existed.

[blueunicorn6]

Maybe it was self defense.

I was washing my hands in the bathroom at the St. Louis airport when a guy opened the door to go in a stall and screamed and ran away yelling, “I don’t want to meet the man that can make a turd that big!”

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Let me guess, she’s a white middle aged Amish woman right?

Right on at least two out of three, that's some mighty fine guessing. She's white and middle-aged, and given that she's in Pennsylvania, the Amish theory could pan out too:



Here's the story, and for the umpteenth time, we see proof that trash comes in every color out there.

[SisterK]

Baseball bat? Sounds like attempted murder to me.

[onedoug]

“...First you find Mertz, and then you, uh...take care of business. You know. First you find him, and then you, uh....”

[Responsibility2nd]

TV news journalism. There is nothing more pathetic. The average 4th grader writes better than they do.

[null and void]

Flush next time?

[LibWhacker]

This must’ve been written by one of those rappers, who we learned yesterday possess such impressive vocabularies and uncanny mastery of logic and grammar. I’ll never forgive the racist author for neglecting to mention the last two.

[blueunicorn6]

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”

[dblshot]

He promoted the Act in appearances
The visual of Al promoting a toilet in an Act is the last thing I need to contemplate. Ahhhrrrrggggg!

[null and void]

No s#it?

[MNDude]

hmmmm...the way I imagined her was a lot funnier.

[Safetgiver]

Why’d she knock the shiite out of the kid when the toilet was clogged? Needs to call Roter Router or whoever.

[MrB]

Great, now everyone is wondering why I’m crying.

[blueunicorn6]

You looked in the stall, too?

[Boogieman]

“15-year-old child...

The child’s age and gender have not been released.”

Which is it? Is the child 15 or has the child’s age not been released?

[MrB]

Nope, reading your post was enough.

[MrB]

If you read the title, you can see that the clogged toilet had nothing to do with the beating, other than the kid was “over” it while the beating took place.