while dressed in drag in order to go to jail to see his dad.

http://www.newschannel9.com/news/year-987196-old-christmas.html

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" CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WTVC-TV) - A 4-year-old boy, beer in hand, is accused of stealing Christmas presents from his neighbors. It's a strange story, but also a sad one. April Wright is 21 years old and is going through a divorce with her husband who is in jail. She says she is not sure how her 4-year-old managed to get out of the house, open a beer, and steal the neighbors presents from under their tree. Now she's just glad he's okay and says she won't let it happen again. The child, Hayden Wright, was found around 1:45 am Tuesday, wandering the streets of his neighborhood. In a police reports, officers said he was wearing a little girl's dress and drinking a beer. The police report says the child had to be taken to the hospital to be treated for alcohol consumption. April Wright said, "Biggest concern was him being out there, getting kidnapped, getting run over, the alcohol, having to have his stomach pumped." Wright says she woke up that night at 1:45 am and panicked when she found Hayden was gone. She says she put safety devices on all the doors so her kids couldn't get out, but Hayden was able to break the safety device off the doorknob and get outside. Once out, Wright says her four year old followed his father's footsteps and was found on Blue Spruce Road, drinking. "He runs away trying to find his father," she said. "He wants to get in trouble so he can go to jail because that's where his daddy is." The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office report says Hayden rang the doorbell a few houses down and the neighbor answered, finding the child holding a partially consumeed 12-ounce beer. Wright said, "He got it out of my father's cooler in the back and how he got it open I don't understand because it was one of those tab beers." But it doesn't stop there. The report said Hayden then snuck into a neighbor's house through an unlocked front door, and stole five wrapped Christmas gifts. One was a girl's brown dress which Hayden was wearing when police found him. "Going to the neighbor's house and taking their presents, very embarrassing," said April. She admits she was not just embarrassed, but scared, and rushed to the hospital that night with Hayden. She said she tries to be a good mother and loves her son, but now feels like a failure. "Kids do things like this and it's out of your control, you can do the best you can as a mother, everyone makes mistakes, it was an honest mistake," she said. Wright did meet with child protective services today who told her she will get to keep custody of Hayden. "

[Edited on December 17, 2009 at 7:07 PM. Reason : .]

12/17/2009 7:06:27 PM

haha

12/17/2009 7:07:25 PM

Why'd they pump his stomach?

12/17/2009 7:10:08 PM

THIS IS AWESOME

12/17/2009 7:10:36 PM

pics or it didnt happen

12/17/2009 7:30:14 PM

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"Why'd they pump his stomach?"

I'd imagine to get any alcohol in it out, n00b

12/17/2009 7:30:36 PM

damn...poor kid...poor mom.

12/17/2009 7:32:35 PM

classic

12/17/2009 7:35:37 PM

21 with a four year old son and a husband in jail. I don't envy her life choices.

12/17/2009 8:03:41 PM

somehow, this story leaves something to be desired...it doesn't ever get into third gear

the kid should have drunk Everclear rather than beer and gone to the hospital in serious condition, or set the neighbors' house on fire, or the neighbors' dog should've mauled him, or something, anyway

12/17/2009 8:06:39 PM

regardless of the mother or father's life choices, i feel sad for the little boy.

12/17/2009 8:09:17 PM

that is so sad

12/17/2009 8:12:25 PM

I'm impressed that not only could a 4-year break off a child safety lock and crack open a beer, he could also open a present and dress himself without any help. He's either a genius or something in the story doesn't add up.

12/17/2009 8:15:25 PM

That is just a crazy story. Any one of those details alone would have been noteworthy.

12/17/2009 8:17:17 PM

^^ haha, are you kidding? My daughter just turned 3 and I'm pretty sure she could do all that (although I don't think she would actually drink the beer or walk down the street alone). Maybe not the child safety lock, depending on what it was. Hell, she might drink the beer...she'll drink a Starbucks latte, haha.

I did put the childproof doorknob covers on the front and rear doors the first time I got to bring her to my house (she she was only 2.5 years old)...she had always ran to my room and woken me up if she got out of bed before I woke up, but one morning, I caught her trying to go out the garage. She'd gotten up, found that the front and back doors were childproofed, and gone out the door into the garage and hit the button to open the garage door, haha. After that, I put a childproof cover on that door, too.


for that matter, the reason I had to childproof the doors to begin with is because, at 2.5 years old, she'd unlock the doorknobs, then unlock the deadbolts, then try to go outside.

I don't remember exactly how old she was, but it was before she turned 3...we went out to my car one morning late last summer, and I said "Baby, get in the car and strap yourself into your carseat...I'm gonna step back inside to grab something out of the fridge." I watched and made sure she was opening the door and getting into the car as I was walking back inside (my kitchen is just inside my door from the garage, so I was only inside very briefly). When I came back out, she'd gotten in, closed her door, raised the convertible top on my S2000 and was strapping into her carseat. As I climbed into the car, she said "It blows my hair"...hahahah

[Edited on December 17, 2009 at 11:06 PM. Reason : ]

[Edited on December 17, 2009 at 11:11 PM. Reason : I have NO doubt that some 4-year olds could easily do all that stuff.]

12/17/2009 11:02:41 PM

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"her 4-year-old managed to get out of the house, open a beer, and steal the neighbors presents from under their tree."

as long as this guy stays on the misdemeanor side of the law he's on track to be, at worst, the coolest guy you ever hung out with and at best, POTUS.

12/17/2009 11:13:53 PM

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"wearing a little girl's dress and drinking a beer"

At this point I about died laughing from the imagery.

12/17/2009 11:55:26 PM

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"haha, are you kidding? My daughter just turned 3 and I'm pretty sure she could do all that (although I don't think she would actually drink the beer or walk down the street alone). Maybe not the child safety lock, depending on what it was. Hell, she might drink the beer...she'll drink a Starbucks latte, haha."

My son is 23 months old and classified as having a 'developmental disability.' I am 99% positive that he could possibly do all of the things that this four year old did. He undresses himself and helps dress himself. He's quite adept at getting into containers and packages. And he's just learned how to open doors on his own and busting through a child proof door knob would be a stretch, but I wouldn't be shocked by it.

Once you have a child of your own and realize just how ingenuitive the little buggers are, you quickly adjust what you think 'adds up.'

12/18/2009 12:22:24 AM

Yep.

I would be surprised at a 4 year old who couldn't do everything on that list, save the child safety lock...and conversely, i wouldn't be surprised at a 2 year old who could open it.

12/18/2009 12:25:57 AM

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"Kids do things like this and it's out of your control"

12/18/2009 1:48:32 AM

ha, you can't necessarily keep a preschooler from getting into mischief, but I feel pretty comfortable, based on the article, with inferring that some less than model parenting was going on.

12/18/2009 1:51:02 AM

yeah, i just liked that she insinuated that this kind of thing is inevitable.

12/18/2009 2:30:33 AM

It is, if you're a fucking idiot.

12/18/2009 2:34:15 AM

THIS IS AWESOME

12/18/2009 2:57:20 AM

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"somehow, this story leaves something to be desired...it doesn't ever get into third gear"

thats what i was thinking, then i realized it got to third gear for me about here:

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"a girl's brown dress which Hayden was wearing when police found him"

12/18/2009 9:22:49 AM

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"as long as this guy stays on the misdemeanor side of the law he's on track to be, at worst, the coolest guy you ever hung out with and at best, POTUS."

I gotta agree with this one

12/18/2009 9:33:45 AM

Kid's pretty smart

12/18/2009 9:34:15 AM

i dont think a 23-month old boy would have the strength to pop a beer can open..

12/18/2009 10:08:32 AM

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"as long as this guy stays on the misdemeanor side of the law he's on track to be, at worst, the coolest guy you ever hung out with"

12/18/2009 10:21:14 AM

This is right up there with that time the angry, naked man hijacked a bus full of students

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/28/georgia.naked.bus/index.html

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"An angry, naked man commandeered a school bus full of teenage students Thursday in Atlanta, police said. The man drove the bus for less than a mile before a student confronted him and the bus crashed into a wall off the road, according to police. The incident started Thursday afternoon when the bus stopped to let students out, said Atlanta police officer James Polite. Arris Pitmon, 23, darted toward the bus and hoisted himself in through an open window, Polite said. Pitmon took control of the bus as the frightened driver ran to the back of it, the officer said. While the bus was moving, the man abandoned the steering wheel and walked toward the back of the bus, Polite added. A student then ran toward the steering wheel, prompting the man to fight the student. The unmanned bus continued until it left the roadway and crashed. "

12/18/2009 10:29:39 AM