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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How about “Mike’s Overpriced, Cheap Lemonade Spiked with Cheap Liquor for People too Lazy to Bring Their own Vodka.”
ALL 'Child Protective Service' bureaucracies are E-V-I-L. I seriously doubt any of them ever actually "helped" a child.
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The starnge this is that most kids that age will not like the taste of alcohol.
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Mikes hard lemonade has no alcohol taste whatsoever, it’s sweetened so much it is covered up.
Now how is this possible? As the legal guardian of a child you do have the right to allow them alcohol within reasonable context. Hell every Italian family on the planet should have their kids taken away if this wasn’t true. Wine with special occasion dinners is virtually a birthright.
But from the taste, youd have to be a moron NOT to be able to tell theres hooch in it.
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I am a Baltimoron (I think that should count towards my moron status), but I’ve had a few of Mike’s products, and the cider vaguely tastes of hooch, but the lemonade not at all.
dmz - Baltimoron since 1958.
"You've got to be kidding," Ratte replied. He asked for the bottle, but the security guard snatched it before Ratte could examine the label.
But an ER resident who drew Leo's blood less than 90 minutes after he and his father were escorted from their seats detected no trace of alcohol.
This guy got screwed by some over-zealous rambo-wanna-be security guard.
No excuse for going beyond notifying the father of the alcohol content.
The father is lucky he had connections or he wouldn't be seeing his kid for months.
I drank a whole whiskey sour when I was one. Always liked them.
We don’t keep soda pop in the house, not at all. And every sip of a drink containing alcohol destroys brain cells - not too bad when you’re an adult and have your max amount of brain cells. But alcohol is devastating to a young, devoloping brain. The human brain is fully developed in males by age 25, age 21-22 for females.
At the wal mart here, walking down the liquor isle, the workers took a magic marker and wrote on the Long Island Iced Tea bottles in large letters-—contains liquor, do not sell to minors.
Your credentials have been authenticated ;)
Well, then maybe the problem is theirs.
everybody involved should be fired asap
I knew a mother and father who punished their child by kicking it, like a football, across the living room. After a week of that the baby died with multiple and massive internal injuries.
So, you are right: parents always know best how to raise their child.
I actually was never aware that Long Island Iced Tea contained liquor either... not that it’s a risk for me, as I wouldn’t want iced tea to begin with. But I’m in college, and even I have a hard time determining if something contains alcohol!
It's bottled lemonade with a Viagra pill dissolved in it.
Latricia Jones was gonna show him who was boss!
Latricia hadda do a 'vestigashun an it was gonna take a lo-0-O-N-G time!
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