Teddy Bear Kills 2,500 Trout
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Teddy Bear Kills 2,500 Trout
I don't know why, but I find this story cute. Well, it's not cute that 2,500 trout died, but the killer bear itself is so cute and ragged-looking that I couldn't help but smile when I read the story.
This teddy bear clogged a drain blocking oxygen flow in a hatchery pool, killing 2,500 trout.
Full story here: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/26/killer ... index.html
This teddy bear clogged a drain blocking oxygen flow in a hatchery pool, killing 2,500 trout.
Full story here: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/26/killer ... index.html
A couple years ago while visiting a botanical garden I saw a small child stomping around in a beautiful flower bed planted with spring bulbs.
I'd recognised many of the flowers to be from bulbs that were rather expensive.
I didn't see any one close by who looked like they were his parents
and I was concerned not to frighten the child (as a stranger)
so I quietly said something like, "hello little boy. Please be careful. Try not to step on the baby flowers."
Just then his father dashed across the garden and shouted at me with an loud and angry voice that the child was only 2 yrs old and wasn't accountable for his actions.
I remember thinking at the time that if the poor child takes after his father he might never be thought mature enough to be held accountable for his actions.
I'd recognised many of the flowers to be from bulbs that were rather expensive.
I didn't see any one close by who looked like they were his parents
and I was concerned not to frighten the child (as a stranger)
so I quietly said something like, "hello little boy. Please be careful. Try not to step on the baby flowers."
Just then his father dashed across the garden and shouted at me with an loud and angry voice that the child was only 2 yrs old and wasn't accountable for his actions.
I remember thinking at the time that if the poor child takes after his father he might never be thought mature enough to be held accountable for his actions.
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hyldemoer wrote:A couple years ago while visiting a botanical garden I saw a small child stomping around in a beautiful flower bed planted with spring bulbs.
I'd recognised many of the flowers to be from bulbs that were rather expensive.
I didn't see any one close by who looked like they were his parents
and I was concerned not to frighten the child (as a stranger)
so I quietly said something like, "hello little boy. Please be careful. Try not to step on the baby flowers."
Just then his father dashed across the garden and shouted at me with an loud and angry voice that the child was only 2 yrs old and wasn't accountable for his actions.
I remember thinking at the time that if the poor child takes after his father he might never be thought mature enough to be held accountable for his actions.
I would have politely taken the child away from the flower bed...
Then went to war on his father.
You're too soft Hylde..far too soft.
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And many a poor man that has roved,
Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
W.B.Yeats
Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
W.B.Yeats
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Ahhh precious offspring of parents who should have earned a Darwin award much earlier in life... When I worked at a maritime museum there were days when we wished that we could volunteer such visitors for hands-on demonstrations of the fine old arts of keel-hauling, flogging and hanging from the rigging.
And the gentleman you encountered was too juvenile himself to be told "of course your child is too young to be held accountable...that's what parents are for." GRRR
And the gentleman you encountered was too juvenile himself to be told "of course your child is too young to be held accountable...that's what parents are for." GRRR
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Whatever happened to forgiveness? Children can't help it if their parents are less than wonderful.Martin Milner wrote:Quite - and he should have been presented with a bill by the owner of the flowerbed.KateG wrote: of course your child is too young to be held accountable...that's what parents are for." GRRR
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Children are much easier to forgive when their parents have made restitution.Cranberry wrote:Whatever happened to forgiveness? Children can't help it if their parents are less than wonderful.Martin Milner wrote:Quite - and he should have been presented with a bill by the owner of the flowerbed.KateG wrote: of course your child is too young to be held accountable...that's what parents are for." GRRR
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