Some children's parents...

I'm not one for keeping tabs on news, current events and such, but I'm one of those people who get drawn in by a really good headline. The headlines that usually catch my attention enough to make me read the entire article are what real news enthusiasts would probably call, "Tabloid News". Today's headline, 'Eleven-month-old boy accidentally dials 9-1-1 and gets dad arrested', which popped up on the sympatico msn page that appeared after I logged out of my email account was a classic headline that lured me right in.

The story in a nutshell (click on the post title to read the full news story):

• Baby plays with phone
• Baby pranks 9-1-1
• Police follow up on prank call (assuming it was a serious emergency)
• Police discover grow-op
• Baby's Papa - BUSTED!

Talk about bad karma. How embarrassing is that? Dimed out on an unintentional tip to the authorities by your own child whose vocabulary likely consisted only of 'Dada' and 'Goo-Goo'?

This story was just as good as the one I read a few weeks ago about the NL woman who didn't know she was pregnant until she went to the hospital on New Year's Eve with what she thought was gall stones and came home with a baby. The best was listening to her speak on Canada AM about the whole experience. Apparently the same woman gave birth to a baby in the shower a few years back.

Things that make you go "Hmmm..."