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Father loses custody of son over lemonade
WZZM 13 Website ^ | 4-28-08 | Brian Dickerson

Posted on 04/28/2008 7:58:13 AM PDT by mombyprofession

If you watch much television, you've probably heard of a product called Mike's Hard Lemonade.

And if you ask Christopher Ratte and his wife how they lost custody of their 7-year-old son, the short version is that nobody in the Ratte family watches much television.

The way police and child protection workers figure it, Ratte should have known that what a Comerica Park vendor handed over when Ratte ordered a lemonade for his boy three Saturdays ago contained alcohol, and Ratte's ignorance justified placing young Leo in foster care until his dad got up to speed on the commercial beverage industry.

Even if, in hindsight, that decision seems a bit, um, idiotic.

Ratte is a tenured professor of classical archaeology at the University of Michigan, which means that, on a given day, he's more likely to be excavating ancient burial sites in Turkey than watching "Dancing with the Stars" - or even the History Channel, for that matter.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: cps; custody; godsgravesglyphs; michigan; mikeshardlemonade
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To: Ken H

A sign near Section 116 at Comerica Park in Detroit shows how much the snacks and beverages cost.

.SOURCE.

There's NOTHING on that sign to indicate anything other than LEMONADE! (What about the CRANBERRY? It that an alcholic beverage also? Are the PEANUTS laced with Vodka...!!)

I'm an Australian. I can imagine falling into the same trap with the sign the way it is. 'Give me a lemonade...' (While thinking to myself, I know I'm being ripped off at $ 7 but the kid is thirsty...)

This entire story STINKS!

221 posted on 04/29/2008 6:58:27 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks
This entire story STINKS!

Yes, I agree.

222 posted on 04/29/2008 8:03:05 PM PDT by Ken H
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okay, they show up in a Google news search for “archaeology”, and FR doesn’t?!?

Constitutional Danger in the State Taking of Children from Parents
John Birch Society, WI - 9 minutes ago
http://www.jbs.org/node/7957


223 posted on 05/02/2008 5:23:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Profile updated Monday, April 28, 2008)
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To: mombyprofession

We’re from the government and we’re here to help you.


224 posted on 05/02/2008 5:26:06 PM PDT by purpleraine
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To: mombyprofession
But it wasn't until the top of the ninth inning that a Comerica Park security guard noticed the bottle in young Leo's hand.

So it was this idiot that got the ball rolling.

225 posted on 05/04/2008 3:50:27 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

Yes,and it was all of the other idiots that perpetuated this nightmare.

I’d like to know why the father wasn’t ID’d when he bought the lemonade. Perhaps that might have caused him to pause before giving it to his kid.

Also- when the kid was taken to the hospital and had blood drawn, the report said that there was no trace of alcohol in his system. Why didn’t the Dad get custody of him then??!!


226 posted on 05/04/2008 7:22:37 PM PDT by mombyprofession
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