Did trash media go too far?

Brooke Shields' 75-year-old mother who suffers from dementia was apparently checked out of her nursing home by someone posing as a friend, who was actually a freelance journalist. How sad... now you might say there is an issue with the security at the nursing home. And perhaps that should be considered, but who'd stoop so low for a scoop? Police are investigating and I hope this journalist and her photographer are prosecuted for something. Read the story here.

Mom drugs daughter so she'd have sex with mom's boyfriend

A truly sad story of a mother who apparently drugged and alcoholed her daughter so the mother's boyfriend could have sex with the daughter and impregnate her. Read it here. The mother can't have children anymore, but wanted one with her boyfriend, who apparently was on board and tried several times to rape the 13-year-old girl.

Sex with a vacuum...

I don't know what to say about this... except, times must be tough in a lot of ways

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Restaurant scam sounds like a scan

My brother sent me this one... a scam during which a local restaurant is called "by it's regional office" and told to put cash ($700 in one instance) in an envelope and leave it in a ditch at a certain intersection, for bad service provided to a customer. Each time, restaurant employees complied with the caller's request. The caller of course knows the managers/owners of the restaurant names. But even so, to me, the story sounds suspect. Check out this News4Jax article.

Of course I say, you never know what you'd do in a situation until it happens. But for real, for bad service, you provide an apology. Even if you did refund or pay someone with the apology, leave the money in a ditch!?!?! I know we are taught to listen to what our superiors tell us, but for real, I am thinking I'd think this was some kind of test or something. I just don't know if I'd be responsible for complying.

Something funny is the craziness

I admit, I haven't been following Madoff too closely... but even understanding the ridiculous amount he's accused of taking from his clients... this testimony from whistle blower Harry Markopolos is hilarious... watch the whole thing... but it's around 40 seconds where it gets good. Like the reason why we posted the "Drunk and a Priest", sometimes, in these times, we just have to laugh.

Sometimes a request is really a demand

How often does this happen? A woman complained that the tv was too loud and asked her boyfriend to turn the volume down. The next things that happened are in dispute by the girlfriend and boyfriend. But the end result is indisputable... the boyfriend has a stab wound to the leg from the girlfriend. You read the First Coast News (Jacksonville, Fla.) article detailing the incident here and you can decide whose version of the story you believe.

The proper way to abandon a baby

Various news sources are reporting that a young couple in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, has been charged with child neglect after abandoning their child at a fire station. After reading the headlines and lead to the story, I was confused because I thought S.C. must have a safe law that allows people to abandon infants at the hospital or fire station. Well, they do, but because the parents did not ensure the child was safe before they left, they have been charged. Apparently they left the child in only a towel in 30 degree weather. When the baby was found, it's body temperature was only 88 degrees.

So, I understand the concern and am thankful the baby was found alive. I wonder, though, about how much and how well the law about abandoning babies is communicated in terms of what is required of the persons leaving the child. (I doubt if people are using this route, that they want to stick around.) I mean they didn't put the baby in a bathroom at a gas station or in the trash somewhere. I am just saying, it seems they made an effort to do the right thing. They didn't do it right, but the effort was there. I just hope their arrests and charges do not deter people from "doing the right thing" in the event that some other young couple decides they don't want or can't take care of a baby appropriately. Just FYI, the father of the child is 21, I believe, and the mother is now 17, but was 16 at the time of the abandonment. I do believe in other outlets like adoption, but like adoption I'd guess this is a tough decision to make for the parents.

Halloween trick is deadly

It wasn't bad candy this family had to worry about.
A 12-year-old South Carolina boy was shot and killed as he trick-or-treated with this family. Upon knocking on the door of a porch with the light on, T.J. Darrisaw was shot through the door by a convicted felon with an AK-47, who told authorities he feared being robbed. Read one of the news articles here. What a sad situation.