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Craziness

I have kind of a quirky imagination, but there is some stuff that just cannot be made up.  I heard this on the local news the other night.  A toddler found a gun in her own diaper bag after being dropped off at a daycare center.  A LOADED GUN.

The child's grandmother had "forgotten" the loaded gun was in the diaper bag.  WHAT??

Even more curious--the daycare's solution to this little problem--children will no longer be permitted to bring diaper bags or backpacks to the facility.

Do we live in a crazy world?

Comments

  1. UnknownAugust 15, 2014 at 12:40 PM

    A loaded gun? I am still shaking my head. Are you sure that grandmother wasn't wearing one of those signs around her neck that says "I'm Stupid"? Should have been! I'm still shaking my head...

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  2. AnnAugust 16, 2014 at 10:38 AM

    WHOA--what can I say to such stupidity-there are no words for people like that! Thank God the little one didn't pull the trigger.
    Ann

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  3. MuffieAugust 16, 2014 at 10:55 AM

    ...and it gets crazier by the minute!! What do they say, "Truth is often stranger than fiction!" So true!

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  4. Arkansas PattiAugust 16, 2014 at 11:47 AM

    And these are the people raising our future generation? Scary and thankfully there was no terrible accident for some innocent to suffer and that child would have had to live with.

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  5. AnonymousAugust 16, 2014 at 12:18 PM

    I would call it a PSYCHOTIC world. That grandmother should be committed to an insane asylum.

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  6. Linda MyersAugust 16, 2014 at 3:07 PM

    Jeez.

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  7. SakuAugust 16, 2014 at 4:03 PM

    Totally insane! Thank goodness the child didn't do any harm after finding it. I hope the grandmother was penalized as well...beyond having her stupidity publicized. Wow!

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  8. SextantAugust 16, 2014 at 4:50 PM

    Obviously the child should have been expelled from the day care center. Zero tolerance and all.

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  9. Sally WesselyAugust 16, 2014 at 6:54 PM

    Beyond crazy. Why would the grandmother even put it there? Thankfully, it was found. Thankfully, no one was injured.

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  10. Linda ReederAugust 16, 2014 at 11:18 PM

    The gun carelessness is crazy enough. The "punishment" is just stupid.

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  11. TaborAugust 17, 2014 at 11:08 AM

    We are idiots!! We are all f*****g idiots!! Except you and me, of course.

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  12. Country GirlAugust 17, 2014 at 12:16 PM

    I certainly hope the Grandma was reported to the police! Why ban back packs and diaper bags? Just check them at the door! What do they bring diapers in now?

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  13. Granny AnnieAugust 19, 2014 at 4:22 AM

    Really? That's the way they solve the problem? Backpacks don't kill people, People (like stupid grandmothers) kill people!

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  14. BarbAugust 20, 2014 at 1:16 AM

    Sometimes I just shake my head. At people and at arbitrary "solutions."

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  15. KayAugust 31, 2014 at 10:29 PM

    Oh my gosh! This is nuts!

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