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Parents arrested after baby has up to 200 rat bites
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| May 4, 2006
| AP
Posted on 05/04/2006 4:39:12 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
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Who the hell finds a rat and brings it home as a pet? Do they bring home pet cockroaches and lice too?
To: Bubba_Leroy
Had to read it twice to determine if it was the rat or the boy that had escaped the cage and I'm still not sure which.
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posted on
05/04/2006 4:42:02 PM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: Bubba_Leroy
Keep your kids away from DemocRATs.
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posted on
05/04/2006 4:42:34 PM PDT
by
Yankee
To: Bubba_Leroy
This is just wierd. Their side of the argument basically boils down to "We weren't neglectful, we're just stupid!"
There's nothing wrong with having a pet rat (I've had three over the years, and they're unbelievably bright animals), but any idiot knows that you don't just bring home any rat you catch in the wild. The thing could have anything from rabies to the bubonic plague!
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posted on
05/04/2006 4:43:31 PM PDT
by
Arthalion
To: Bubba_Leroy
Forget the insanity of a rat as pet. Who the hell puts a 6-month old anywhere near a rat. Why not place him straight in the drains? I hope these nitwits goto prison.
To: Bubba_Leroy
They didn't know the child had been bitten 200 times until the NEXT MORNING? You could assume the baby was screaming while he was being bitten and nobody even checked on him. Disgusting slime ball parents!!
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posted on
05/04/2006 4:49:54 PM PDT
by
PistolPaknMama
(Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
To: Bubba_Leroy
They brought it home and kept it in a cage in the room where they slept with the baby. A normal baby might cry during the night and parents would wake up. A baby with 200 painful bites would be screaming...and parents would wake up? Right?
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posted on
05/04/2006 4:50:29 PM PDT
by
Sender
(“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.” – Old Chinese proverb)
To: Bubba_Leroy
I would not be surprised if they were WWF (not the wrastlin' thing) or ELF members.
To: Bubba_Leroy
A second child at the home was placed in foster care. No word on when, or if, rat-bite-baby will be removed from custody of his "parents".
The parents are being held in the Jackson County Jail on criminal mistreatment stupidity allegations.
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posted on
05/04/2006 4:57:01 PM PDT
by
caryatid
(Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
To: PistolPaknMama
That was my first thought.
Wasn't the baby screaming?
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posted on
05/04/2006 4:58:26 PM PDT
by
It's me
To: Bubba_Leroy
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posted on
05/04/2006 4:59:25 PM PDT
by
hispanarepublicana
(The GOP should not fall for the soft bigotry of assuming all Hispanics are pro-amnesty.)
To: PistolPaknMama; Sender
I was thinking the same thing.
A baby would not just lie there silently while being bitten repeatedly. I'd say the kid would be screaming from the first bite.
Something is just not right in this story. Besides the obvious idiocy of the parents in bringing home a wild rat for a pet.
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posted on
05/04/2006 4:59:26 PM PDT
by
RMDupree
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To: Bubba_Leroy
. . . the parents, 21-year-old Robert Horsfall and 19-year-old Maegan McCleary . . . What kind of "parents" are these? The kind who can't be bothered with marriage.
To: Bubba_Leroy
They just ignored the baby as it screamed in pain?
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posted on
05/04/2006 5:03:06 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: Bubba_Leroy
Strap the parents down in a cell with 100 hungry rats for a just punishment.
To: Bubba_Leroy
Parents must be meth tweakers
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posted on
05/04/2006 5:09:32 PM PDT
by
Horatio Gates
(When it hits the fan, it may not be evenly distributed.)
To: Bubba_Leroy
To: Bubba_Leroy
I would expect children to try to keep a pet rat. This article makes me sad. These people are very young. There is no way they are prepared financially for a baby. Still, I would rather the baby stay with them. I just hope they take parenting classes and find a supportive church. A wild pet rat is not an appropriate pet for people with a small child ,however CPS will use this as an excuse to take babies away from people who have dogs.
To: Horatio Gates
Parents must be meth tweakers DING, DING, DING. We have a winner!
That was my first thought when I read the article. If not meth, they had to be on something. There is no way anyone could be that stupid and not be on drugs. In the long run, the rat probably saved the baby's life.
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posted on
05/04/2006 5:40:29 PM PDT
by
Bubba_Leroy
(What did Rather know and when did he know it?)
To: after dark
I would expect children to try to keep a pet rat... There is no way they are prepared financially for a baby.A six-month old wanted to keep the rat as a pet?? Give me a break. The only thing in common with this couple and babies is that they can make them... not much beyond that.
Perhaps a supportive church can help, but let's face it -- these people are off to a very bad start.
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posted on
05/04/2006 5:42:22 PM PDT
by
ken in texas
(come fold with us.... team #36120)
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