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Hard lemonade, hard price - Dad's oversight at Tigers game lands son in foster care
WZZM News 13 (Detroit) ^ | 28 April 2008 | Brian Dickerson

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: badcopnodonut; bureaucratsatwork; cpsfascists; mikeshardlemonade
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To: Augustinian monk

How about “Mike’s Overpriced, Cheap Lemonade Spiked with Cheap Liquor for People too Lazy to Bring Their own Vodka.”


21 posted on 04/29/2008 11:55:40 AM PDT by MediaMole
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
The kid will prolly come out of (cough) ‘Foster Care’ a trained assassin at best, or at the worst - an antisocial psychotic killer who will wipe out his family with an ax the first chance he gets then go on a cross country killing spree.

ALL 'Child Protective Service' bureaucracies are E-V-I-L. I seriously doubt any of them ever actually "helped" a child.

22 posted on 04/29/2008 11:58:42 AM PDT by Condor51 (I have guns in my nightstand because a Cop won't fit)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus; Gabz

ping


24 posted on 04/29/2008 12:09:13 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: nickcarraway

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.


25 posted on 04/29/2008 12:10:59 PM PDT by dmz
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

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.


26 posted on 04/29/2008 12:13:24 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Xenalyte

But from the taste, you’d have to be a moron NOT to be able to tell there’s 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.


27 posted on 04/29/2008 12:13:24 PM PDT by dmz
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
"You know this is an alcoholic beverage?" the guard asked the professor.

"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.

28 posted on 04/29/2008 12:17:02 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: nickcarraway

I drank a whole whiskey sour when I was one. Always liked them.


30 posted on 04/29/2008 12:21:59 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: SamAdams76

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.


31 posted on 04/29/2008 12:22:20 PM PDT by SatinDoll (Desperately desiring a conservative government.)
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To: Paved Paradise

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.


32 posted on 04/29/2008 12:27:08 PM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: dmz
I am a Baltimoron (I think that should count towards my moron status)...

Your credentials have been authenticated ;)

33 posted on 04/29/2008 12:29:42 PM PDT by DaveyB (Ignorance is part of the human condition - atheism makes it permanent!)
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To: dmz

Well, then maybe the problem is theirs.


34 posted on 04/29/2008 12:43:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

everybody involved should be fired asap


35 posted on 04/29/2008 12:53:58 PM PDT by Homer1
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To: killermedic
Child rearing needs to be left to the parents...and only the parents.

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.

36 posted on 04/29/2008 1:17:19 PM PDT by Rudder (Klinton-Kool-Aid FReepers prefer spectacle over victory.)
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To: processing please hold

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!


37 posted on 04/29/2008 1:18:20 PM PDT by Hyzenthlay (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: Morgana
Someone please tell me what Mike’s Hard Lemonade is???

It's bottled lemonade with a Viagra pill dissolved in it.


38 posted on 04/29/2008 1:28:55 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: nickcarraway
My son has always liked beer. When he was a toddler, he kept trying to take my husband's Shiner Bock while we were at a BBQ with friends. My husband, knowing most little kids don't like beer, gave our son just enough of a sip to wet his tongue well. My son grabbed the bottle and tried to down it. We spent the rest of the party following him around making sure he wasn't grabbing unattended beers.
39 posted on 04/29/2008 1:32:29 PM PDT by mouse_35 (Vote Demorcrat for 2008! Lets do for Iraq what we did for Cambodia!!!)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Latricia Jones, the CPS caseworker assigned to their case, recommended that Leo remain in foster care until she had completed her investigation, a process she estimated would take several days.

It was only after the assistant attorney general who represented CPS admitted that the state was not interested in pursuing the case aggressively that juvenile referee Leslie Graves agreed to release Leo to his mother - on the condition that Ratte himself relocate to a hotel.

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!

40 posted on 04/29/2008 1:45:14 PM PDT by Bon mots
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