Labor pain = gas station birth, near arrest Police thought mother was driving a stolen car

msnbc ^ | 3 31 05 | The Associated Press

[freepatriot32]

KETTERING, Ohio - A woman rushing to a hospital to give birth hit a few stops along the way — first at a gas station where she delivered the baby herself, then when confused police ordered her out of the car at gunpoint.

Debbie Coleman, whose 3- and 4-year-old daughters were asleep in the back seat, pulled over at a gas station just after midnight Tuesday.

“I asked if she needed help, and she just leaned back in the seat, hollered a little, and I looked down and there was the baby’s head,” said station co-owner Lloyd Goff, who was alerted to the emergency at pump No. 7 by a customer.

[freepatriot32]

msnbc is excerpt only rest of the story is at the link its a wild story

[JLS]

Boy not a good day for the police in the article I have read so far. Pulling a gun on a dangerous citizen delivering a child, you can never tell what other criminal activities she might be up to at the same time.

[beaversmom]

Ping. I don't want to have mine this way.

[Feiny]

Are you sure? Sounds like an quick delivery.

"Goff said Coleman “threw her leg over the steering wheel, groaned once, and the rest of the baby came out."

[Sonny M]

Here's the white elephant in the living room, the question no one is asking.

Where is the father?

[beelzepug]

So, did they taser the baby, or what?

[Samwise]

OK. That beats all the other delivery stories I have ever heard. Hands down winner...er, I mean Hands Up.

[Revel]

I saw this posted the other day. I was thinking that in this day and age she is lucky they did not put a bullet through. Police today are taught to shoot first and ask questions later. On top of that they are taught to shoot twice just in case the first time does not do the job.

[joesnuffy]

Surprised they didnt take the newborn away from her insist
it was in a persistent vegative state and since it couldnt feed itself a SWAT team should have surrounded the child kept its parents away from it and guarded it until it died due to lack of water and food..

[Spirited]

Snuffy bump.

[fanfan]

We had a couple here who's husband was in big do-do when he felt he had to stop at Tim Hortons for a coffee, and the wife ended up givng birth in the truck.

[beaversmom]

Ping

[beaversmom]

Exactly--they could have thought the baby was a gun.

[ccmovrwc]

I don't want to have mine this way.

Oh my! Me, either, although I do have nightmares about it every time I'm pregnant.

All in all, though, I guess I'd rather have fast deliveries and nightmares than have days and days of labor. :)

[TXBubba]

Thanks for the ping, saw it yesterday.

[Titan Magroyne]

...on the other hand, it was a FAST delivery. ;o)