Thursday, May 04, 2006

Now Oregon's in the news!

Check out this article that was in the paper this morning:

MEDFORD, OREGON--The parents of a 6-month-old boy who was bitten as many as 200 times by a rat that the family found at a nearby creek were in the Jackson County Jail on criminal mistreatment allegations Wednesday.
Robert Horsfall, 21, and Maegan McCleary, 19,
[Evidently they didn't teach rat bite prevention in the teen pregancy class.] took their son to the emergency room at Rogue Valley Medical Center in Medford with the bites early Tuesday, police said.
Medford detectives said the parents apparently believed the rat was a domestic breed,
[Yeah, that's my first thought, too, when I see a bedragled rat along a creek swimming in germs with that "plague" look about it.] brought it home and kept it in a cage in the same room where they slept with the baby. When they awoke the next morning, they found that the rat had escaped and bitten the boy, police said. [Wouldn't the baby have made any noise? Mom and Dad must have been REALLY out of it--or sleep with really effective earplugs! And what's up with the rat not biting the parents? My theory is that they were so reeking of patchouli and BO that the rat wouldn't come near them, and can you blame the rat? Living on Hawthorne Street here in Portland, I sometimes have to cross the street to avoid that particularly foul stench.] He had from 100 to 200 bites all over his body, including his face, and was being treated at the hospital for infected wounds, police said. [That poor baby--now growing up with those scars on his face, he'll have to explain to people that they're RAT BITES! Nothing ruins a nascent political career like rodent scars.]
Horsfall and McCleary were arrested on suspicion of criminal mistreatment, child neglect and reckless endangerment.
[Unfortunately stupidity isn't against the law, or they would be charged with THAT too! Well, it's a good thing it isn't, or our prisons would be even more overcrowded than they already are!]

Well, that racks up a stupid story from Wyoming a couple of days ago and now one from Oregon. I'll be on the lookout for someone doing something completely stupid from Idaho and we'll have a trifecta. Fortunately my tribe's General Council is today and tomorrow, so you won't have to wait too long.

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