Grandma takes kiddo to a bar ... then all hell breaks loose

From Joe Lambe:

Police rolled en masse this afternoon on a child kidnapping call, locked down two De Soto schools and cuffed a suspect, only to find a family spat to blame for all of it.

Unified School District 232 put out an e-mail to parents and staff saying that administrators shut down Starside Elementary and Lexington Trails Middle School for about two minutes on orders of the Johnson County sheriff’s department. Deputies arrested a kidnapping suspect outside the schools, it said.

Deputy Tom Erickson said, however, that there was no kidnapping. He explained:

“A dad goes into a bar where grandma (his mother-in-law) has his daughter (who is about 4). He takes his daughter out of the bar and grandma calls and says kidnap — we send everybody.”

Deputies caught the man, Erickson said he had every right to take the girl.

Another day of drama, he said, “as the world turns.”

Comments

[Biggin]

This father needs to realize that dads do not have rights to children, only moms.

[Searching]

Shut up biggin.. this dad OBVIOUSLY does know that he has rights.. and he executed them.

[jhawker]

Sounds like Grandma needs to let go of the bottle

[Biggin]

Not a popular reality I know. Unfortunately true.

Why would anyone need to take a kid into a bar? I think the father had every right to take the child out of the bar and I believe that they police should be going after the grandmother for child abuse and making a false report of kidnapping against the father.

[zyreah]

Biggin, you appear to have an obvious hatred for all women, for I have yet to see a post from you lacking derogatory or cynical gender based remarks (regardless of topic). There is however, a difference between blogging in reference to a particular subject or story, and grandstanding personal prejudice.

[Biggin]

No

[Sasquach]

Just ignore biggin. Unlike TT, he'll never attempt to back up anything he says with any kind of credible support.

And while I agree that the father was within his rights, I'd be interested to know what they mean by "bar" in this story. Do they mean Buzzard Beach "bar" or Governor Stumpy's "bar." One of those I'd have no problem taking my kids to. The other, not so much.

[Truth Teller]

I happen to agree with Biggin.
Do we hear about charges for Drunken Gramma? Filing a false police report? No, and don't hold your breath.

[Biggin]

Yes

[Sasquach]

Once again though, TT, we don't have anywhere close to all of the facts. If grandma was sober and had the kid at someplace similar to Gov. Stumpy's to eat lunch, what should she be charged with? I wouldn't be suprised if there is some sort of custody issue involved here. That tends to make everyone crazy.

[Truth Teller]

What is the name of the bar in DeSoto - The Wheel or Wagon Wheel - bet that's where she was. A real pit! If that's where it happened it shouldn't have mattered if she was drunk or not! Child Endangerment by Proxy.

[Sasquach]

But you don't know that for a fact. She could have been at Cecil's, Mulligans, Wally's, The Tumbleweed, The Double Nickle, Grumpy's, and on, and on...

My father in law started taking her to Jake's Place on Johnson Drive in Shawnee when she was 4 or 5 years old. They'd eat and he'd have a beer. Nothing wrong with that.

Grandma was probably in the wrong for calling in the kidnapping, but this sounds like a fight that the family just let get out of hand.

[Sasquach]

By her, I mean my wife.

[jewwellsp]

Grandma should be writing a check to the county for $10,000, help cover the costs she wasted.

Heck by the time I hit 6 yrs old. I had been into pretty much every single bar from one end of Troost to the other. mainly Gene's Place, Bigger Jigger, Shamrock. Heck I remember the hot spiced shrimp from Biger Jigger like it was yesterday.

Here it is, 40+ years later. Heck I don't hardly even drink.

Biggin maybe pushing the "envelope", yet most know he is speaking the truth.