A lady I work with told me this story this week. her son's fiance works for Social Services locally. She had to go to court for this 5 year old boy she placed in foster care. The boy's mom has visitation rights, and on one visit, mom decided to take Junior to the zoo. Baltimore zoo, DC zoo, we're not sure which, but a zoo.
They get there, are having a good time, and...she loses him. She finds him soon thereafter, but he's soaking wet from the waist down. his shoes, socks, pants are soaked, but his shirt and backpack are fine. Mom asks him what happened, and Junior, being 5, says, "Nuf-in."
So they go about thier business and then mom takes Junior back to her house. A little while later she hears something from upstairs, and goes to investigate. As she approaches the bathroom door she can hear water running, a tapping sound, and a weird squeeking noise.
She opens the bathroom door. The water is running into the tub so much so that it's overflowing onto the floor. Junior is there, buck naked, doing a little side to side tap dance kinda thing. And in front of him is a BABY PENGUIN!
She yells at him about what he's doing, and Junior points to the baby penguin and says, "Happy FEET!" and continues to dance, trying to get the penguin to dance like in the movie. Mom calls the zoo, they come and get the bird, but they have to sequester it and sterilize it now. They press no charges. At court, the judge broke out laughing, saying this is the craziest thing he's ever heard on all his years on the bench. And the mom lost her visitation rights, since she lost the boy at a zoo.
Apparently, Junior got away from her, climbed a five foot tall wall, crossed a moat and grabbed the baby penguin. he put it in his back pack and then carried it home, so he could have his own Happy Feet penguin. But I can't help but wonder how no one SAW him do this! I've been to 2 zoos 3 times with Freddie in the last year, and they always had a good number of people roaming around in them. How a little boy could do this an not be seen by anyone is beyond me
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5 comments:
LMAO That is a funny story?? Is it REALLY true? I can't imagine a kid getting in with the penguins AND no one seeing him do it!! Hell, in the Detroit zoo, the penguins are behind glass!! I have a feeling that kid is a little tyrant though..hehe
I find it amazing that the mother lost her visitation because she lost her son at the zoo for a short time. Most parents lose track of their child at one time or another.
Pretty cute he wanted his own Mumble.
Ms SD
It is hard to believe that nobody saw anything. Also why did the mother not notice a squeaking coming from the backpack? Weird.
Onanite
Chelle: As far as I know, it's true.
SD: Well remember, the boy was already in foster care, so there were already some parenting issues invovled. (You've been gone for a while, glad to see you back).
Onanite: the zoo people said the penguin was probably in some sort of shock it was scared so much, so it probably didn't peep or squeek while in the backpack.
HUGS..
if that kid has such magical elusive powers, makes me wonder if they're being too hard on the mom....
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