… but unfortunately Treffly Coyne already has one. Still, I can’t help but want to be in that courtroom to make the argument in her defense. I’ve got the perfect gimmick. When I get the arresting officer on the stand I’d have a car brought into the courtroom, put a toddler in the backseat, lock the doors and activate the alarm – just like she did. Then I’d take a step back and ask if he thinks the child is at risk. No? Take a step back. Now? No? Take another step, and another, and another. Is the child in danger now? When is it? Apparently at 10 yards it is.
The playground I take to my kids to is 50 yards across – five times the distance that this woman was away from her child – and the playground is right across the street from the town police department. Yet, to the best of my knowledge no one has ever been arrested there on child endangerment charges for setting up a lawn chair and letting their kids run wild for the afternoon.
Oh crap. Does this mean that bullshit like this is gonna end up on some presidential candidate’s platform?
