[blparent] Happy Thanksgiving, eh?

Wed Dec 3 17:49:05 UTC 2008

I still hear that every Christmas eve. V
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Happy Thanksgiving, eh?

> And I'm disappointed that the media doesn't make as big a deal as it used 
> to
> about where Santa is.  I remember listening to the radio and them giving
> updates of his whereabouts.
> Barbara
>
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> From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M." <Rebecca.Pickrell at ngc.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 7:20 AM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] Happy Thanksgiving, eh?
>
>> Would be interesting to know if police officers have procedures that
>> they *have* to follow if say they witness a prong or two, i.e. an
>> argument about money, an argument about money with kids present,
>> whatever.
>> It's kind of like NORAD, where they *have* to report any object that
>> flies into U.S. airspace if that object hasn't filed a flight plan.
>> And, that my friends is why Santa gets reported every year.
>> You can see the reports and watch NORAD tracking Santa at the NORAD
>> site.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>> On Behalf Of Veronica Smith
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:24 PM
>> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Happy Thanksgiving, eh?
>>
>> Yup, no law breaking here.  We tease her, if she didn't have bad luck,
>> she'd have no luck at all.  It was very scary for her and her children
>> watching mom being taken away in a police car.  I call it harassment. I
>> wrote a letter to the city and complained about those kind of officers.
>> Instead of going after the crooks, they harrass young families minding
>> their own business. V
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 11:04 PM
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Happy Thanksgiving, eh?
>>
>>
>>> Good grief, that's awful!  It doesn't sound as if your friend broke
>>> the law or anything, just stepping out onto her porch and yelling.
>>>
>>> Jo Elizabeth
>>>
>>> It is easy--terribly easy--to shake a man's faith in himself. To take
>>> advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work. Take care
>>> of what you are doing. Take care.--George Bernard Shaw in "Candide"
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 9:01 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Happy Thanksgiving, eh?
>>>
>>>
>>>> And it doesn't only happen to blind parents.  A few years ago my
>> friend
>>>> and her husband were having a discussion about someone they knew and
>> my
>>>> friend was really mad, yelling, but not at anyone inparticular and
>> went
>>>> out her front door slaming it behind her.  She wasn't hitting anyone
>> or
>>>> bothering anyone, just venting her frustrations and there across the
>>>> street from her house was 2 policemen.  They heard her yell and they
>> saw
>>>> her slam her front door.  they came right over and asked her what was
>>>> going on.  She told them she was upset and was venting her
>> frustrations.
>>>> Well right about then her kids came out of the house crying because
>> mom
>>>> was yelling.  then out came dad, almost shouting at her to come back
>>>> inside.  Then without asking any more questions, the police officer
>> hand
>>>> cuffed my friend and put her in the police car.  She was stunned and
>> so
>>>> was her family.  She said she started to cry and her husband tried to
>>
>>>> tell
>>>> the officer that nothing was going on except her venting about
>> someone
>>>> who
>>>> didn't pay her for babysitting.  they took her to the police station
>> and
>>>> then made her take anger management classes for 3 weeks.  She says
>> never
>>>> again will she yell to let out her frustrations. Aaah! V
>>>
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