Posted on 03/17/2010 7:41:01 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
A KENTUCKY cook put his five-week-old son in the oven overnight while he went to bed, CNN reported. Larry Long, 33, had been smoking marijuana at the restaurant where he works before returning home to share a fifth of whiskey with the babys mother, Brandy Hatton, McCracken County Sheriff Jon Hayden said.
High and drunk, he put the baby in the oven - which he left switched off and slightly ajar - and went to bed.
It wasnt until he woke at 5.30am (local time) to hear the babys cries coming from the oven that he realised what he had done.
Mr Long immediately called emergency and a mental health crisis line, who then alerted authorities.
"He actually called a mental health crisis line immediately thereafter and told them that he had done this. And they contacted us," Sheriff Hayden said.
Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar. .End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar. The baby was found to be unharmed after emergency crews transported him to a local hospital.
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You’re all missing the point.
This was a job-related mental illness. He was a COOK, you remember? Day-in, day-out, year-in, year out, putting things in the oven - what did you expect?
He should be now collecting disability or workers comp or something, and the government should pay to re-train him to go into another field.
Photo of Larry Long
Patron: "How does your veal taste? Mine tastes a little like baby poop."
Pot =100% safe, no side effects whatsoever. It’s impossible that the pot had anything to do with this. Well, the whiskey maybe. But NOT the pot.
Was there a point in posting this article?
He needs to be beaten about the head with a baseball bat . MORON..Take the kid away from him for good and castrate the low life
Thank God he didn’t turn the oven to pre-heat. If the baby hadn’t cried. . .
yeah....if only drugs were legalized all our problems would be solved....because there are no victims with legalized drugs right?
“Marijuanna...yeah, perfectly safe drug - NOT!!! “
What about the fifth of whiskey? The guy was smoking dope at work but he got dead drunk later at home and went to bed drunk. Sounds to me like this has more to do with booze than pot.
Yep. Hey, where are all the liberaltarians on this thread?
I think.
Yes, but there is hope for redemption; he turned himself in. He didn't have to.
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