This story brought back a lot of memories.

http://www.myfoxny.com/story/21793733/cops-ny-mom-turned-on-dryer-with-her-son-inside

Remember the good ol' days when sticking a toddler in the dryer was just plain fun?
Well, I am sorry to report that those days have long since past.
Now it's an issue for DeFaCS and "the police".
Both are a real buzz-kill if you ask me.

I've written before about spending a good 75% of my childhood in the trunk of "the Source of the Trouble's" Dodge Dart.
What I didn't mention was that my brothers were kind enough to put me in the dryer on those days when "tSofT" was just too busy for a little carbon monoxide poisoning, aka, a drive thru town.

(Hint for new parents: a little carbon monoxide CAN be used as an effective disciplinary device.)
(Guess who never forgot to take out the trash again?)

(Are you folks starting to get the picture I've been painting these past many months?)


Many is the day that my brothers and I wiled away the afternoon hours (before "tSofT" got home from work of course) bouncing 'round the inside of a warm Whirlpool.
Them on the outside laughing hysterically, me on the inside screaming bloody murder.
Boy, it just brings tears to my eye to think that in today's America such simple pleasures would be denied our young ones.
There is something wrong about being labeled a "criminal" for giving your brother a little tumble 'round the dryer and the truth is they toughened me up, even if that was incidental to the goal of amusing themselves.
Later, when I would wrestle with friends or get in fights at school I would often win because I learned to fight dirty.
There is no win or lose when you fight with your 3 older brothers, there is only:
A. not being killed or maimed, and
B. not tattling to "tSotT", which would result in an even more heinous beat-down the minute she turned her back.
It's exactly like prison.

Still, something is being lost in all this effort to keep us all safe.
I think all this trying to keep people safe is resulting in a nation of self-important, weak-kneed sissies.
Friends and family have seen me kick a lot of sand around here these past few weeks because of all the energy I have to spend "being safe" on the big project downtown.
We have to wear hard hats and safety goggles and even orange fluorescent vests.
You read that right.
We are installing window film on interior office windows, on the 47th floor, and have to wear the same orange fluorescent vests that road crews wear.
To keep us safe.

Except I don't feel any safer.
Because I was not unsafe to begin with.

But to be fair, I coulda used that hard hat back in the Whirlpool.
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Cops: NY mom turned on dryer with her son inside

Posted: Mar 26, 2013 8:07 AM EDT
Updated: Mar 26, 2013 8:07 AM EDT
GATES, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a western New York woman has been charged after police say she turned on a clothes dryer while her 2-year-old son was inside.

Police in the Rochester suburb of Gates tell local media that 17-year-old Jasmine Brown allowed her toddler to climb inside the dryer Saturday in the laundry room at St. Joseph's Villa, a group home with a program for young mothers.

Officials say the dryer was on for less than 30 seconds before another person intervened and removed the boy. An ambulance crew that checked out the child determined he didn't need to be taken to a hospital.

Police charged Brown with reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child.

She pleaded not guilty at her arraignment and is being held Tuesday in the Monroe County Jail on $50,000 bail.

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