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Detroit Freep: Hard lemonade, hard price - Dad’s oversight at Tigers game lands son in foster care

A couple of lemons, a little sugar, a teaspoon of grain alcohol, a few state-appointed nuts, shake and pour.

The 47-year-old academic says he wasn’t even aware alcoholic lemonade existed when he and Leo stopped at a concession stand on the way to their seats in Section 114.

“I’d never drunk it, never purchased it, never heard of it,” Ratte of Ann Arbor told me sheepishly last week. “And it’s certainly not what I expected when I ordered a lemonade for my 7-year-old.”

But it wasn’t until the top of the ninth inning that a Comerica Park security guard noticed the bottle in young Leo’s hand. ...

S. Ransom Posted: May 01, 2008 at 08:33 AM | 306 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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301. Exploring Leftist Conservatism since 2008 (ark..) Posted: May 02, 2008 at 11:13 PM (#2766915)

it would have been MORE than reasonable, once the poor kid had got dragged into the ER, to let the kid go home after the ER doc said the kid was fine - and then just do a routine investigation instead of reasoning that if a man doesn't read the label on a bottle of lemonade that the kid's life is in danger and needs to get his little self took away...

Yes, if it even gets as far as the ER. Imo, it's the cop's job to check out the incident while at the Stadium, consider the father's attitude, and if he's contrite, let him and his son go then follow up with a referral to the CPS. That's as intrusive as this kind of thing should get, assuming the father's professed ignorance of the alcoholic content of the lemonade is convincing.

Poison control informed her that she must report to the ER, and if she didn't, they would dispatch a police unit with a CPS rep and take the child.

I take it you're not kidding. For the parents to not be able to call back and say, no, we've checked and it's nothing serious, and have it end there, is amazing.

302. Misirlou's got a busy day, he's wearing a vest Posted: May 02, 2008 at 11:42 PM (#2766930)

I take it you're not kidding.

No, I'm not. The mother had to go to the ER and spend about 4 hours and a couple of hundred bucks for nothing, under threat from the state.

303. Exploring Leftist Conservatism since 2008 (ark..) Posted: May 03, 2008 at 12:04 AM (#2766938)

I'm not criticizing your friends, but were I certain my child was safe I wouldn't have been able to go to the ER. I'd have been too angry.

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