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Pomona police rescue child trapped in washing machine
kcal9 los angeles ^ | may-25-2003 | kcal 9 /AP

Posted on 05/24/2003 11:04:31 PM PDT by green team 1999

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unbelievable
1 posted on 05/24/2003 11:04:31 PM PDT by green team 1999
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To: green team 1999
"Splish splash I was taking a bath..."
2 posted on 05/24/2003 11:05:48 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: green team 1999
Attempted murder. Lock up the bad mother for the rest of her life.
3 posted on 05/24/2003 11:06:34 PM PDT by strela (24-26 May 2003 - Its Not Just Another 3-Day Weekend)
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To: green team 1999
Her mother, Erma Osborne, 35, of Pomona, later was arrested for investigation of child endangerment.

You know, if that had been a cat or dog the punishment would probably be worse

4 posted on 05/24/2003 11:07:14 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: HiTech RedNeck
yes,but is california
5 posted on 05/24/2003 11:09:53 PM PDT by green team 1999
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To: strela
she is not going to serve time and the child possible will be left with the mother,soft judges
6 posted on 05/24/2003 11:11:11 PM PDT by green team 1999
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An officer smashed the window of the machine with his baton to rescue the girl,

Why didn't he just open it up?

7 posted on 05/24/2003 11:11:41 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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The machine apparently locks automatically when the wash cycle begins and will not unlock until it ends

I see now.

8 posted on 05/24/2003 11:13:24 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: green team 1999
It is unbelievable, but reading between the lines I am not sure this is her trying to kill or punish the child. It almost sounds like she was trying to use the washer as a playpen, and it had time left on it and she didn't realize it. If that is so I bet she has done this any number of times before. It says they were frantically attempting to rescue her, and doesn't say anything about her putting money in it. It also says that the washer automatically starts and locks when the door is closed.

Even if that is true, putting your child in a closed washing machine is pretty stupid. Half a brain could recognize that is "child endangerment". I'll be she thought she was pretty smart coming up with a way to keep the kid from running around the laundromat.
9 posted on 05/24/2003 11:13:28 PM PDT by I still care
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is one of those big front loading machines,it won`t open until finish the cycle,and the glass window is small and thick,a real nightmare,
10 posted on 05/24/2003 11:14:12 PM PDT by green team 1999
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To: Mr. Mojo
The article says the machine locks when it starts up, won't unlock till the load is done. ;-D
11 posted on 05/24/2003 11:14:36 PM PDT by Judith Anne (Fulltime experienced tagline wanted, irregular hours, lousy pay, no benefits, mandatory overtime.)
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To: I still care
What you say makes a lot of sense.
And there are plenty of stuuuuupid people.
12 posted on 05/24/2003 11:16:42 PM PDT by gcruse (Vice is nice, but virtue can hurt you. --Bill Bennett)
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To: I still care
Even if that is true, putting your child in a closed washing machine is pretty stupid. Half a brain could recognize that is "child endangerment".

And this is the reason for all those Warning Labels

I agree, I don't think she meant to harm her child, but she is guitly of being an idiot

13 posted on 05/24/2003 11:19:37 PM PDT by Mo1 (I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!)
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To: gcruse
I know, its amazing, isn't it? I've run into them more than once.

I once had a tenant that called from MY house threatening to plant a bomb at the electric company if they didn't turn on her electricity. She couldn't understand why I had a fit. It seemed a great way to get their attention to her.

You know when you are a landlord you meet these people everyday. You wonder how they get through life.

The sad thing is, they have children.


14 posted on 05/24/2003 11:21:17 PM PDT by I still care
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To: green team 1999
Something is missing ... why were police at the scene to do the rescue?
15 posted on 05/24/2003 11:25:46 PM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: green team 1999
Her mother, Erma Osborne, 35, of Pomona, later was arrested for investigation of child endangerment.

An investigation? What does it look like?

16 posted on 05/24/2003 11:29:55 PM PDT by yonif
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The same tenant went out and loaded up her fridge with hundreds of dollars of food for a hurricane warning (the one that took out the electric), never realizing that when hurricanes come you lose your electric....

As far as the police go, it doesn't say they were on the scene. In fact, it says the kid was half drowned by the time they got there. Cops can come pretty fast if they get a call a kid is drowning.

On LI where I lived the cops were never more than a minute away. I remember one night I heard a girl screaming in a backyard on my block, I called the cops and by the time I got out to the front porch there were two cars in front of my house.

Here in FL that's another story...
17 posted on 05/24/2003 11:30:17 PM PDT by I still care
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To: I still care
But if she was just playing, why place coins in the machine?
18 posted on 05/24/2003 11:30:35 PM PDT by yonif
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I'm just guessing of course, but it doesn't say she placed coins in it. Sometimes machines have coins in them already, and you don't realize it.

Just last week I went to the stamp machine in the PO, and someone had walked off leaving almost a dollar in change in the machine. It was waiting for the next order, and when I put in my order for 2 stamps, I got them for free.

I've never experienced that in a washer in a laundromat, but there is often leftover times in dryers. In any case, this woman is in a boatload of trouble. Even if don't mean them to go, those washers look airtight, pretty scary.
19 posted on 05/24/2003 11:35:07 PM PDT by I still care
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To: HiTech RedNeck
"well now ya know ya can't be mollycoddling these kids all the time!" (I think this is a near-quote from Barney Fife.)
20 posted on 05/25/2003 12:14:31 AM PDT by zook
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