tfl: The Flatiron Life

“President Bush Calls On Business Leaders To Create 500,000 Crappy Jobs”

The Onion Radio News reports more truth than the MSM.

Last weekend in the suburbs, Ellen “Treffly” Coyne took her children to Wal-Mart to donate some money to Salvation army. As a result she was arrested.

“My 2-year-old had fallen fast asleep,” Coyne said. “It was sleeting, and I said, ‘I’m not going to risk carrying my kid and falling.’”

Pretty sound thinking if you ask me.

So she turned off the engine, put her hazard lights on, locked the car and walked 30 feet from the car to get a few snapshots of the girls, Coyne said.

“I was always within ear- and eyeshot of the car,” Coyne said. “It was a five-minute affair.”

But that was enough time to get the mother of three in serious trouble with the law.

Coyne said when she turned around, a uniformed police officer was standing by her car and told Coyne, “You’re not going anywhere.”

She was not only arrested for child endangerment but like any reasonable person she resisted being arrested. (Resisting arrest has to be the most prevalent charge in America, right?)

So according to the police officer she was endangering her daughter. How did the agents of the state rectify this?

Officers then went to her car and started the engine with the baby inside — “exposing my child to carbon monoxide poisoning,” Coyne said. She assumed the other girls were in police custody.

She assumed wrong. The great protector of children had …

“…abandoned my other daughters at the Wal-Mart,” said Janecyk, who eventually found them seated on a bench in the Wal-Mart. “I asked them why they didn’t ask for help, but they said the police scared them.”

Is it possible we live in a police state, but generally have not realized it yet?

Please post the answers to the following in the comments. If you do not know the answer, post a question you think that might make me reveal the answer but not also make me suspicious.

What is my favorite movie?
What is my favorite cartoon character?
What was the name of my first pet?
What is my favorite place to visit?
What is my favorite food?
Who is my cable provider?
What is my password to their site?