Hard lemonade, hard price - Dad's oversight at Tigers game lands son in foster care

WZZM News 13 (Detroit) ^ | 28 April 2008 | Brian Dickerson

[TalonDJ]

I don't watch TV at all. If someone tried something like this over something I ‘should have known’ I would go absolutely ballistic.

[majormaturity]

And I will wager the taste he got was as bitter as the lemonade.

[killermedic]

you missed your sarc tag!
So you are a believer that the government knows better than you on how your child needs to be raised. Obviously, the parents of whom you speak are the exception so lets not play silly games. On the whole, most parents know waht is good for their kids. If you think otherwise then you must not have children of your own or are completly dependant on the gov’t for your marching orders.

[Rudder]

I am a believer that you do not think before you post. Yours is a simple-minded and naive outlook.

In the real world most child abuse takes place at the hands of...parents. Not all parents are good for their children's welfare. So there is no easy and quick generalization that covers all the scenarios, as you have stated. But, as time goes on, you'll learn that.

[killermedic]

Isn’t it naive at best to think that this story is of the exception, not of the Norm, and that most people are good parents? If not then you, my friend, have much to learn. especially if you think that the government will do a better job than “most” parents. Keep working on that reading thing.

[Rudder]

Isn’t it naive at best to think that this story is of the exception, not of the Norm, and that most people are good parents?

Now it's "most people are good parents?"

What about: "Child rearing needs to be left to the parents...and only the parents"? When you (you) speak in absolutes, you get answers in absolutes.

[mombonn]

When my daugter was a junior in high school, we had a "fancy" dinner at home for several kids. Good china, crystal, serving the meal in courses, etc.

I found some "pretty" beverages to serve. Fortunately, my daughter read the labels, or I would have been guilty of serving minors!

[killermedic]

“Sharp shooting” is a good way to refine the argument and I will give you that but you have not refuted the question of governments role in family life. Is the government more qualified than you to raise your kids? That is even if you have kids. Are you suggesting you have never made a mistake that could be taken completly the wrong way and just got lucky because “big brother” wasn’t there watching?Again I ask, where do you stand?

[Rudder]

Is the government more qualified than you to raise your kids?

Oh Hell NO!

I worked under contract providing medical services to Childrens' services. They, (in the name of their executive director) in turn, tried to get a contract on me (called a "hit.") Such was my criticism of them and their reaction to it. The judge was alerted by someone who tattled and the CS director went down in flames and off to prison. I got a permit to carry in Ohio because of it.

[killermedic]

I guess we have been discovered as two operatives of the same mind who were firing at each during the darkness of night. Ha ha ha ha ha.

[aruanan]

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.

There isn't a fixed number of neurons in the brain.

[SatinDoll]

Once the brain stops developing that’s it - no more cell replacement.

[aruanan]

Once the brain stops developing that’s it - no more cell replacement.

That used to be current dogma, though without conclusive evidence. The recent discoveries of neural stem cells in adult brains as well as new cells in regions of the hippocampus indicate otherwise.

[CharlesWayneCT]

It’s for the children....

[CharlesWayneCT]

And most car accidents happen within 5 miles of home.

And people who are 50, on average, live to an older age than people who are 30.

I hope the point is not lost on you.

[Oztrich Boy]

The State is now the legal guardian for all children - the Law just hasn’t caught up

[Rudder]

I hope the point is not lost on you.

Not lost...It just doesn't apply in this case.

[Rudder]

Oh, the irony of it all!

[festus]

Only the cuban ones.

[Homer1]

I think Latricia Jones and her accomplices should be charged with kidnapping.