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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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toadman on July 01 at 2:12 p.m.
“1:55 p.m. EMTs are checking on a possible heat stroke involving a 6MO baby left inside a vehicle in Wal*Mart parking lot.”
This should be grounds for immediate action by child welfare, and result in immediate jail time. How much of a complete moron do you have to be to do this to your child? It's grounds for having your parenting rights revoked.
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Phaedrus on July 01 at 2:39 p.m.
Ruth reports that her greyhound is missing.
How do you lose a bus?
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Pounder on July 01 at 2:43 p.m.
Phaedrus beat me to it… was going to say I saw her Greyhound headed WB on I-90 doing about 70 mph. He was about 10 feet tall and 50 feet long though, weighing several tons so I wasn't going to stop him.
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Cabbage Boy on July 01 at 2:43 p.m.
Toad, I will say that it shouldn't be grounds in and of itself. But should be a reason to look. People do make mistakes. People, especially mothers get harried and hassled and hurried. Sheesh, if only I could count my dumb parent mistakes on one hand.
But by the grace of God…
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Phaedrus on July 01 at 2:46 p.m.
a 6MO baby left inside a vehicle in Wal*Mart parking lot…
…is not a mistake; locking your keys in the car is a mistake, leaving your baby in it is gross negligence.
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Cabbage Boy on July 01 at 2:56 p.m.
Phaedrus,
Are you a parent? A perfect one? I am not saying this parent doesn't need to be looked into, but you are going to judge a person based on a scanner report?
You must be a better pseudonym than I.
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Aliasjax on July 01 at 3:00 p.m.
What???!!! Cabbage Boy isn't your real name?
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Cabbage Boy on July 01 at 3:03 p.m.
Yeah, but I usually go by CB for my handle…
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Cabbage Boy on July 01 at 3:03 p.m.
Oh, and that isn't really a picture of me either.
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MamaJD on July 01 at 3:24 p.m.
I would like to think that there was more than just the grace of God in helping me *NOT* leave my baby in the car in July. And I make the judgement based off of the scanner such as not ever wanting to let THAT mother be responsible for my children. So Cabbage … are you saying that if you knew the identity of said mother that you would still be willing to be open minded to letting her watch your kids?
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Cabbage Boy on July 01 at 3:35 p.m.
Heck no. I wouldn't let her watch my kids because I don't know her other than she left her kid in a car. Sometime merda happens. Most of the time, we are the cause of our mistakes, but has no one here ever left a kid somewhere, lost a child, made that horrible mistake that had you thinking, “what a terrible parent I am.'? I'll be honest. I have. But I ain't telling anyone here, ya might turn me in.
Just saying, that isn't a lot of information to judge the issue as black and white. That said, a blog probably isn't the place nor am I the person to point this fact out.
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Cabbage Boy on July 01 at 4:15 p.m.
4:08 p.m. 4 or 5 juveniles are drinking something from a hose along East Lakeshore Drive/CdA
OMG, call the police right now Ethel.
But what a nice lede for this
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/…
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Digger on July 02 at 9:13 a.m.
Two things -
1) I agree with Toadman 100%
2) “4:14 p.m. A 20YO male has regained consciousness and is vomiting after passing out in the men’s lockerroom of the Kroc Center.” – Did he swallow some pool water after a “Code Brown”?
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