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BS: How much younger?!

23 Jun 00 - 04:51 PM (#246694)
Subject: How much younger?!
From: GUEST

SPOKANE, Washington (AP) -- A 2-year-old boy found wandering in a Spokane, Washington, parking lot with a loaded handgun had to be disarmed by police...


23 Jun 00 - 04:53 PM (#246697)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: Brendy

Send him to the Electric Chair!!!!!


23 Jun 00 - 04:56 PM (#246703)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: SINSULL

But first keep him in solitary on Death Row for 22 years.


23 Jun 00 - 05:33 PM (#246720)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: Peter T.

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23 Jun 00 - 05:44 PM (#246730)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: Brendy

Apparently electric chairs, gas chambers, and needles, achieve the same end.
"The world began to find
A cleaner way to kill.
A cleaner way to kill."
Remember the Brave ones

B.


23 Jun 00 - 05:57 PM (#246738)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: Amergin

Obviously the kid got it from his parents (who grossly neglected their duties). He thought it was a toy. Good thing he didn't hurt anyone... Whoever was in charge of him should be arrested and charged for child endangerment.

Amergin


23 Jun 00 - 06:09 PM (#246743)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: katlaughing

here is the rest fo what "GUEST" didn't copy and paste:

Cops Disarm 2-Year-Old With Handgun
The Associated Press,br> Friday, June 23, 2000; 2:29 a.m. EDT

SPOKANE, Wash. –– A 2-year-old boy found wandering in a parking lot with a loaded handgun had to be disarmed by police.

The child was placed in foster care by the state Child Protective Services after the incident Wednesday at the La Casa Apartments.

The boy's mother was sleeping in a nearby apartment, police said. She told police she didn't know where the weapon came from.

Police said protective services officials had been at the apartment the day before and an investigation was continuing.

© Copyright 2000 The Associated Press

Comment: Police had to "disarm" him?? How hard is it to take a gun from a two year old!!! You 'spose they yelled "Freeze, we've got you covered?" Poor choice of rhetoric.


23 Jun 00 - 06:24 PM (#246747)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: Brendy

I know places, where the police would have shot him.

Poor kid.

B.


23 Jun 00 - 09:30 PM (#246816)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: Mooh

Will he be tried as an adult? I suppose this could happen anywhere, but doesn't it seem like a good excuse, among others, to ban handguns? Mooh.


23 Jun 00 - 10:55 PM (#246845)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: DougR

Jeeze! What cynics.

The kid got a gun some way. He wandered out of the house and the police relieved him of it. The question should be, why in the hell did he have such easy access to a gun? His parents should be held accountable!

DougR


23 Jun 00 - 11:25 PM (#246852)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: simon-pierre

"why in the hell did he have such easy access to a gun?" Too many guns?


23 Jun 00 - 11:56 PM (#246858)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: Amergin

Maybe the mother's boyfriend is involved with drugs...


24 Jun 00 - 12:30 AM (#246870)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: katlaughing

Maybe she lives in poverty surrounded by drug dealers and worn out.


24 Jun 00 - 12:50 AM (#246876)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: DougR

Maybe she just didn't lock a drawer that should have been locked or maybe the gun should have been placed out of reach of a two year old. Maybe drugs are not involved, maybe she lives in an expensive Penthouse but just screwed up! Maybe the mother doesn't have a boyfriend! Whatever.

DougR


24 Jun 00 - 02:26 AM (#246893)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: Lonesome EJ

As long as it wasn't concealed, he was probably completely within his rights to be carrying a handgun. Maybe it was a tough neighborhood and he didn't want anybody stealing his Nike's.


24 Jun 00 - 02:31 AM (#246895)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: Crowhugger

Probably out to get a for a rabbit for dinner.

CH.


24 Jun 00 - 11:35 AM (#246970)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: Brendy

Probably...


27 Jun 00 - 09:27 AM (#247670)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: alison

Heard a sad one over here today.. and I hope it's an urban myth....

some 7 year old kid supposedly pulled out all his teeth with a pair of his dad's pliers to get enough money from the tooth fairy so that he could buy a Brittany Spears CD....

it's a sick world.....

slainte

alison


27 Jun 00 - 09:51 AM (#247686)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: Kim C

what I'd really like to know is, is the guy who beat his dog to death in Florida because he thought the critter was gay, going to be charged with a hate crime?


27 Jun 00 - 10:32 AM (#247714)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: kendall

for once, I agree with Doug.


27 Jun 00 - 10:48 AM (#247729)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: GUEST,Mrr

And why were protective services there THE DAY BEFORE? Maybe one of them left their gun behind...Also, I believe the term for taking a gun away from someone is "disarming" so the fact that the cops "had to disarm" the toddler may just mean they took the gun away from him.


27 Jun 00 - 11:38 AM (#247766)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: Amergin

Plus the reporter was using the word "disarm" to sensationalise it a little.


27 Jun 00 - 01:57 PM (#247859)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: DougR

Kendall! I'm shocked! But pleased.

DougR


27 Jun 00 - 02:27 PM (#247889)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: kendall

Hey, a busted clock is right twice a day!!


27 Jun 00 - 02:36 PM (#247898)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: Mbo

Man, they disarmed the Venus De Milo, and look what happened to her!

--Mbo


27 Jun 00 - 06:15 PM (#248103)
Subject: RE: BS: How much younger?!
From: MarkS

Did the gun have a triggerlock?