Pulls shotgun out of her baby's stroller

[dgriffin]

Utica woman arrested after pulling a shotgun out of her baby's stroller during an argument

www.wktv.com/news/local/22823134.html

You have to wonder, depending upon where she was walking, if she was exercising a certain degree of diligence. But what I find interesting about this story is the following question. Is the endangerment charge the result of using the weapons or just having them in the stroller?

[lucy]

It is obvious that she wanted to hunt down somebody. She had three weapons in that stroller! Crazy.....

[Clipper]

If ya think she is dangerous, watch out for the other gal with the twin 50's mounted on her kid's baby carriage canopy.LOL

[dgriffin]

Jul 3, 2008 14:21:46 GMT -5 lucy said:

It is obvious that she wanted to hunt down somebody. She had three weapons in that stroller! Crazy.....

Lucy, I suppose you make more sense than my theory that she was simply observing normal precautions.

[Swimmy]

I disagree. I think its obvious she was demonstrating her right to keep and bear arms...

[dgriffin]

Yup. Then we know who she'll be voting for ...

[jrcummings]

Wow, tell me again why Utica's youth don't have any direction or guidance?

[Clipper]

Oh! They have direction and guidance. It is just pointed at guiding them in the wrong direction!

Sounds like this gal has LOTS of serious issues, or LOTS of enemies that she fears. It is pretty sad when a mother has to involve her kids in that kind of a scene. Pretty damned dangerous to have a sawed off shotgun anywhere around children, much less within reach of them, tucked in a baby stroller.

What the hell has society come to, when young mothers are carrying weapons hidden in baby strollers?

I would be the first to defend one's right to bear arms, but two knives and a shotgun seems a little over the top for a simple walk with the babys.

[lucy]

I agree clipper 3 weapons is crazy to have in a baby stroller. I do believe in the right to bear arms but personally I'm scared of guns. When my husband takes his out and cleans it I just hate it. I have never shot off a gun, maybe that's what I need to do to get over my fear. Growing up I was surrounded by a family that hunts and so I have always been around them, I'm just scared of them.

[Clipper]

There is no reason to fear guns, unless one is pointed at you! It would be a good experience for you to fire a gun, and to resolve your fear. If your husband has a 22, have him take you out shooting. It is fun. If guns are handled safely, there is nothing to fear. Always check to insure they are unloaded and the chamber is open when passing from one person to another, and be double sure, if you are going to clean the weapon. NEVER point a gun toward a person, whether it is presumed to be unloaded or not.

With a small caliber rifle, such as a 22, you may discover a new form of recreation. All of my boys were started out with BB guns, supervised to the max, never alone with them, and they graduated to 22's and then to shotguns when they were old enough to hunt large game. They still have a respect for guns, and handle them safely. Target shooting is a lot of fun, and not expensive, if you use a 22 rifle. You don't have to hunt to enjoy firing a gun.

[dgriffin]

Carrying a shotgun in your stroller is a far cry from my grandmother carrying a "growler" in my mother's baby carriage. Grandma Blanche and her sister, Lucidia, got sort of wild and crazy on the front porch one night in the summer of 1913 and decided to go get a pail of beer at a saloon down the street at Steuben and Eagle, a smelly den of beer, spittoons and cigars. On the way home, they packed 6 week old Mom and the open pail of beer in the covered carriage, pulling the lace coverlet down to hide the pair. When they had walked back as far as Lousia Street, old Mrs. Beisser intercepted them and wanted a look at the new baby.
Grandma began to muster an excuse, when she remembered Mrs. Beisser’s poor eyesight. So she rolled back the lace and opened the carriage.
"My goodness," said Mrs. Beisser, when she unexpectedly reached down to the open pail and dipped her fingers into the beer. She knew she hadn’t touched a warm baby, but she hadn’t the slightest idea what her fingers were into.
Great Aunt Lucy, a born mischief maker, stifled a laugh and blurted out, “Heavens, Blanche, we’ve lost the baby!”
“No, no,” said Grandma, her elbow shooting out to Lucy’s ribs, “she’s only lost in her covers. with an awfully wet diaper.”
“She smells like beer,” said Mrs. Beisser.
“And cigar smoke,” said Lucy, not too helpfully.
Baby Mom began at that moment to cry lustily and Grandma picked her up, saying,”Oh, she is so wet!”
“Probably from all that beer,” said Lucy.
You shouldn’t give beer to a baby to make her sleep,” offered Mrs. Beisser.
“Yes, yes, you’re right,” said Grandma, “but she was so cranky tonight.”
“Maybe from the cigars,” said Lucy, for which she received another elbow to the ribs.

My Mom, pretty much a teetotaler, always told that story with relish. It never failed to get us laughing when Grandma would deny any memory of it. Great Aunt Lucy was the source of the story, but she was not there to defend it. After a long and agreeable life, she had died in bed after smoking her last cigar.
“It’s a wonder she didn’t burn the house down,” said Grandma.

[dan]

After that story I'm pretty sure were related. Change the street names to Rutger and Culver and the names to Pearl and Peg and we're real close.

[Ralph]

I actually don't see what all the fuss was about.

Sounds pretty much the norm for around here in the hood.

[gearofzanzibar]

This story was covered on BBC4, one of the UK's state-sponsored television channels.

That means the Utica area is now world famous for it's shotgun toting moms, it's urine-filled coffee, and for spending tens of thousands of dollars on a giant watering can.*





*Those being the other local stories that were covered around the globe.