Tenn. boy, 4, caught with beer, stolen gifts (wants to go to jail to be with his Dad)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/17/09 | AP

[NormsRevenge]

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Tennessee investigators say a 4-year-old boy was found roaming his neighborhood in the night, drinking beer and wearing a little girl's dress taken from under a neighbor's Christmas tree.

The child's mother, 21-year-old April Wright, tells WTVC-TV the boy "wants to go to jail because that's where his daddy is." Wright says she and the boy's father are going though a divorce.

[wendy1946]

The question is whether this is another hidden cost of the “War on Drugs(TM)”....

[Cicero]

What about the poor little girl whose Christmas dress got stolen? No end to this story.

[Seruzawa]

To each his own. I’ll find other things to laugh about. But by all means have a ball. I’m sure there are some leprosy victims in need of skewering too.

[dragnet2]

I’ll find other things to laugh about.

I would guess that will take you several decades.

[NormsRevenge]

more info here on a WTVC-TV story thread

Drunk 4-Year-Old Steals Christmas Presents
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2409737/posts

Prayers for the family.

[dragnet2]

April Wright is 21 years old and is going through a divorce with her husband who is in jail. She says she is not sure how her 4-year-old managed to get out of the house, open a beer, and steal

Hmmm...

Funny how these thing just happen!

[mbarker12474]

A 4-year-old... stole somebody's dress...

Probably an Obama voter.

[mbarker12474]

East Tennessee?

Must have been east Tennessee.

(And daddy is probably on the Volunteer football team.)

[Night Hides Not]

I vote for PBR! Good simple beer.

I'll have to take your word for it. I don't think I've quaffed a PBR since my college days.

I'll admit it...my beer tastes were absolutely spoiled during my four-plus years in Germany. As an American, it was a special treat to visit a McDonald's in Amsterdam, and get a Heineken on tap with my Big Mac.

The McDonald's in Koblenz, Germany was the best though: Konigsbacher Pils on tap with my Viertelpfunder (Quarter Pounder). Konigsbacher is my absolute favorite beer of all time. Too bad it's not exported to the US. Domestically, my favorite is Shiner Beer. It has a German robustness to it.

How do you pronounce Big Mac in German? LOL!!! Big Mac!

[Between the Lines]

Not sure which is the greater “crime” here.

I would say it would be telling a four year old boy that his father is in jail. Young minds do not process these things well.

What ever happened to keeping the innocent innocent?

[jonno]

Thanks for stating what should be obvious to all on this forum.

What a sad story.

[jonno]

grow up putz

[dragnet2]

You seem angry! Too much coffee this morning?

[Western Phil]

Often its women showing up at the jail to visit their interned boy friends. I had occasion to so some work at the Wooster, Ohio Courthouse/Justice Center about 20 years ago. Couldn’t believe the number of women showing up for visiting hours. Think it was at least one per prisoner.

[Seruzawa]

Actually, you are doing an excellent job at this moment.

[dragnet2]

Lets see........A 4 year old is breaking out of the house, compromising the safety devises mommy says she put there to keep her kids in, the kid allegedly breaks these devises in the middle of the night, obtains and is drinking alcohol, enters other peoples homes in the middle of the night, and is stealing items out of these residences...and then the boy puts a girls dress on....

And mommy says she was worried about kidnappers and a stomach pump?

And you get upset with me for laughing?

What a knee slapper!

[dog breath]

It’s laugh or cry at such a pathetic story.

[dragnet2]

Yeah, this could go either way...

Hey, I like your moniker. I can almost smell it.

[DemforBush]

Poor kid. Hope things work out for him, though neither of the parents fill me with confidence or hope.