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2006-12-05 -Lurid Crime Tales-

2 Month Old Hospitalized, Had Blood Alcohol Level of 0.364

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Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-12-05 02:05|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...I work for a private social services agency, and we see stuff like this on a regular basis. Makes you want to take the parents and just start beating them until they figure it out.

Then beat them some more because they were that stupid in the first place.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-12-05 09:05|| 2006-12-05 09:05|| Front Page Top

#2 I was gonna guess that maybe she got into the cabinets, or something and found rubbing alcohol. Then, I realized she's ONLY 2 months old. I'm not a real big fan of gov't intrusion into reproduction, but some people just need to be sterilized.

Wonder if she had a cold/fever and was given a LETHAL hot toddie, or something with whiskey. I was given that as a child, but in SMALL doses, with honey. Sounds like this one was out of that scene in Sweet Home Alabama:

"Oh, you have a baby.....IN A BAR!"

Posted by BA 2006-12-05 10:34|| 2006-12-05 10:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Rubbing alcohol isn't ethanol, they put whiskey in the kid's bottle. Parents knew what they were doing was wrong. Just spectacularly bad judgement.

Posted by gromky 2006-12-05 10:58|| 2006-12-05 10:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Back in the olden days of La Belle France, when alcohol (red wine) consumption was much higher than today, kids were given red wine at a very early age, starting with milk for infants.
IIRC, this was changed after WWII, when the gvt promoted giving milk to children, instead of red wine (which was seen as nutritious and health-building, even if kiddies showed up drunk at school).

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-12-05 12:33|| 2006-12-05 12:33|| Front Page Top

#5 I remember this one poor individual who was utterly perplexed by being arrested for being staggeringly drunk--because he didn't drink. But his blood alcohol was sky high.

Turned out that he had a rare condition that fermented carbohydrates in his digestive tract, so he was a walking beer machine.

He was given some drugs to help, but was basically condemned to the Atkins diet for the rest of his life.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-12-05 13:05|| 2006-12-05 13:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Turned out that he had a rare condition that fermented carbohydrates in his digestive tract, so he was a walking beer machine.

Systemic candidiasis?

Posted by eLarson 2006-12-05 13:26|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2006-12-05 13:26|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm what might be considered a "regular" at a neighborhood watering hole. I've known the owner for almost 20 years and had the same bartender for about 17 of that.

I can't tell you the number of times I've seen newborns or infants only several weeks old brought into the bar along with their mother or parents.

It's so commonplace we don't even think about it anymore as scandalous (it's annoying when the kid starts to cry however).

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-12-05 17:26|| 2006-12-05 17:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Greg we have the same thing here at our pub. It's a family thing. The locals would beat the stuffing out of someone that started to give their kids booze....

So why isn't this mom in jail right now? I'm guessing the victim crowd would raise a fit.

Posted by Icerigger 2006-12-05 17:34|| 2006-12-05 17:34|| Front Page Top

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