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Title: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: StL FinFan on April 30, 2008, 10:06:15 pm Did anyone hear about this. Supposedly it happened at a Detroit Tigers game. The father did not know it was alcohol and bought one for his 7 year old. :o
I found several articles about it: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080428/COL04/804280375 Title: Re: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: SportsChick on April 30, 2008, 11:22:39 pm Oh my
Title: Re: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: YoFuggedaboutit on April 30, 2008, 11:29:21 pm Typical government overkill that goes on nowadays. Yeah, the dad made a big mistake, but does it constitute placing the child in foster care and barring the dad from his own house??
Title: Re: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: run_to_win on May 01, 2008, 12:11:55 am Typical government overkill that goes on nowadays. Yeah, the dad made a big mistake, but does it constitute placing the child in foster care and barring the dad from his own house?? Agreed.Kind of a dumb mistake. This is exactly how my state would have handled this. If the child is not in immediate harm then my state goes into Nazi like overkill. If the child IS in immediate harm then my state does nothing. Really. Title: Re: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: Sunstroke on May 01, 2008, 12:15:25 am By age 7, I was sneaking a helluva lot harder stuff than Mike's out of Dad's liquor cabinet. This kid probably took more damage from the ER doctor drawing his blood than he did from that tiny little bit of alcohol. The pussification of America is shifting into overdrive... Title: Re: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: Defense54 on May 01, 2008, 01:13:00 am Typical government overkill that goes on nowadays. Yeah, the dad made a big mistake, but does it constitute placing the child in foster care and barring the dad from his own house?? I've got to agree. It was a pretty dumb mistake.......but I can definitely see it happening. The state does nothing about Parents who Chain smoke in a closed Mini Van but they want to cruicfy this guy. My only hope is that they knew this was going National so they broke out all the stops to CYA themselves. I'd certianly take it up with the company and possibly even the Stadium and the vendor. Title: Re: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: bsmooth on May 01, 2008, 01:15:30 am They should be glad he wasn't abused in one of those wonderful foster homes.
Title: Re: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: Brian Fein on May 01, 2008, 09:01:00 am At least Dad went to buy the kid a drink. He coulda said "No, you'll get what I give you!"
Title: Re: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: Buddhagirl on May 01, 2008, 09:07:36 am This was a dumb mistake, but that child shouldn't have been taken from the home. Period.
I was given beer as a child and I turned out ok. Title: Re: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: Brians Stalker on May 01, 2008, 10:39:58 am They should be glad he wasn't abused in one of those wonderful foster homes. Most foster homes are not bad environments. You only hear about the bad ones, but most places are good with the children's interests at heart. Here, unless the parents are a direct threat to the child, they are usually allowed visitation in the foster home as well. Title: Re: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: StL FinFan on May 01, 2008, 10:47:45 am Most foster homes are not bad environments. You only hear about the bad ones, but most places are good with the children's interests at heart. Here, unless the parents are a direct threat to the child, they are usually allowed visitation in the foster home as well. I second that. My cousin is a foster parent and they take the babies born drug addicted that nobody else wants. Title: Re: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: Defense54 on May 01, 2008, 12:19:00 pm Most foster homes are not bad environments. You only hear about the bad ones, but most places are good with the children's interests at heart. Here, unless the parents are a direct threat to the child, they are usually allowed visitation in the foster home as well. Thing is.........as long as they investigated it and came to the conclusion that there was no bad Intent they should have just let it go. Maybe did a follow up in a few days , a week. When the kid grows up do you think he would have remembered this incident? Now.........You betcha. THEY traumatized the kid unnecessarily to show there concern and cover their asses. This is a direct result of Dumb people who only know how to follow the letter of the law because they are just too stupid to come up with their own conclusions in a grey area. Title: Re: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: StL FinFan on May 01, 2008, 12:40:42 pm The problem here was someone jumped the gun and got a court order before the details were known that it was accidental. Once the court order is issued, it has to be carried out. Whoever went running to a judge before they knew the details is the person to blame. I applaud the family for taking the high road.
Title: Re: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: Brians Stalker on May 01, 2008, 01:34:35 pm Thing is.........as long as they investigated it and came to the conclusion that there was no bad Intent they should have just let it go. Maybe did a follow up in a few days , a week. When the kid grows up do you think he would have remembered this incident? Now.........You betcha. THEY traumatized the kid unnecessarily to show there concern and cover their asses. This is a direct result of Dumb people who only know how to follow the letter of the law because they are just too stupid to come up with their own conclusions in a grey area. I agree with you, but that is Child Protective Services doing that, not the foster homes. I was just stating that not all foster homes are bad. What happened here was completely unnecessary. Title: Re: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: run_to_win on May 01, 2008, 02:08:07 pm This is a direct result of Dumb people who only know how to follow the letter of the law because they are just too stupid to come up with their own conclusions in a grey area. Where's that comment about letting the judge sort it out? (http://www.prieteni.com/layout/images/emoticons/whistle.gif)Title: Re: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: SCFinFan on May 01, 2008, 02:45:17 pm Who gives a damn about giving a 7 year old alcohol. Look at this mess:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/370583/ Title: Re: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: bsfins on May 01, 2008, 02:53:37 pm ^^ he was playing too much grand theft auto...Bad parents....
Title: Re: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: StL FinFan on May 01, 2008, 02:54:31 pm Let's just reward the kid by putting him on TV! >:(
Title: Re: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: AZ Fins Fan 55 on May 01, 2008, 03:16:00 pm To me it sure seems that it was an honest mistake blown way out of proportion!!!!!
Title: Re: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: run_to_win on May 01, 2008, 03:21:15 pm Bad parents.... What parents? Grandma has custody and she sounds scared of disciplining him. Surely I'm not the only dad who's looked his son in the eye and said, "I'll gladly go to jail if I think it'll help you." He knows what I mean. Grandma - it's way to late to start whipping his behind now - you're in big trouble. It's only going to get worse. Title: Re: Seven year old given Mike's Hard Lemonade? Post by: bsfins on May 01, 2008, 03:33:30 pm He said he did it because he was mad at is mom,and it says during the very opening He lives with his mom...but then at the end of the story,grandma has custody ??? There's your problem.... :D
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