Posted on 04/29/2008 11:10:38 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
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.
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NOW.
Hasn’t it occurred to these fools that foster care might be a worse fate that a few swigs of hard lemonade?
Maybe they’ve been drinking.
On FNC this morning they said they were going to have Prof. Ratte on, but the next 30 or 40 minutes were on other topics (mostly the destruction from the tornado in the Norfolk area) and I had other things to do, so never saw the interview.
For once a left-winger gets a taste of the nonsense he supports at the polls.
ML/NJ
Does this mean my six year old has to stop smoking cigars?
Sounds pretty much like communism...
The ironic thing is that alcoholic beverages like beer and wine are much healthier for children than soda pop and other corn-syrup laden junk that is peddled to our kids these days.
ML/NJ
Only in public.
susie
This is why I am against products that label themselves in ways that can be misleading. I could see someone having “Mike’s Hard Lemonade” in their frig at home and a person (not just a child, but even an elderly person) that might not know what “hard” means.
Child rearing needs to be left to the parents...and only the parents. A simple observation with no time to rebutte and CPS is in full swing. This isn’t the first story we’ve heard where they jumped the gun or have made the accused prove their innocence.
They father is guilty in that he did give the beverage to his son but not guilty of willfully trying to harm him.
“For once a left-winger gets a taste of the nonsense he supports at the polls.”
No more calls. We have a winner.
amen
Anyone else watch “Bones”
I can hear this prof saying, “Hard lemonade? I don’t know what that means!”
“Mike’s Lemonade with Five percent alcohol” is not as catchy.
Thank you. Thank you.
Your Honor, I base my conclusion on the basis that he is a University professor, has only one child AND orders lemonade for his child but somehow the vendor doesn’t understand and gives him alcohol?
The starnge this is that most kids that age will not like the taste of alcohol.
From the label, maybe not, although the label does indicate the alcohol content.
But from the taste, you’d have to be a moron NOT to be able to tell there’s hooch in it.
A college professor getting bit on the ass by “zero tolerance” just gives me happy feet
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