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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: luckee on March 24, 2002, 07:15:55 PM
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Mother Gets Sitters High, Pays Them With Pot
Hawley Woman Convicted On Child Endangerment, Delinquency Of Minor Charges
POSTED: 9:45 a.m. EST March 22, 2002
UPDATED: 9:46 a.m. EST March 22, 2002
A northwest Minnesota woman has been found guilty of paying two babysitters with marijuana and allowing the two to watch her children
while high.
A Clay County jury Thursday found Lois C. Graff, 29, guilty of two counts of child endangerment and two counts of contributing to the
delinquency of a minor, according to a Minneapolis broadcast report.
Her lawyer called the verdicts "frightening" and said he and his clients are pondering an appeal.
The jury deliberated for about three hours in the northwest Minnesota courthouse before rendering the guilty verdicts, according to The
Fargo Forum newspaper.
Prosecutors had contended that Graff, of Hawley, Minn., smoked marijuana with the two teenage babysitters, left them marijuana as
payment and then left the house and the two girls in charge of caring for Graff\'s 4-year-old and 6-year-old children.
The incident came to the attention of police after a teacher intercepted a note one of the girls wrote a friend about the incident days later,
the newspaper reported.
Sentencing is set for May 20.
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/1317979/detail.html
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Man registered soldering gun as firearm
Manitoba resident not concerned he could go to jail
OAK LAKE, Man. (CP) -- The Manitoba man who successfully registered his soldering gun as a firearm to protest new federal gun laws
says he is not concerned he could go to jail.
"I don\'t think they would be foolish enough to want this thing to drag out for a year or two, because it could if they charged me," Brian
Buckley said from his auto body shop in Oak Lake, 250 kilometres west of Winnipeg. "I won\'t plead guilty."
Last Christmas, Buckley, who is opposed to the new gun laws requiring all firearms to be registered by 2003, mailed his registration form
back to the government with information from his soldering and heat guns on it.
The "guns" were registered in the national database. On Wednesday, government officials said Buckley could be jailed for what he did.
The threats have made him angry.
"I\'ve got an eight-year-old and a 10-year-old kid and they\'re hearing on the radio some bureaucrat from the east threatening I could go to
jail for five years," Buckley said.
"Even though I have reassured my kids that the government would never actually do that, I know when my son got on the bus this morning
he said, \'I don\'t think you\'ll go to jail, eh dad?\' And I said, \'No, I never will.\'"
David Austin, spokesman for the Canadian Firearms Centre, said Buckley\'s case has been turned over to the RCMP.
"It\'s limited what I can say here because we\'ve got the prospect of criminal charges," Austin said.
As far as making an example of Buckley, Austin said it is not the centre\'s call.
"Enforcement of the Criminal Code is the responsibility of the police," Austin said. "We do not make the decision on prosecution. We\'ve
got our job and they\'ve got their job."
Buckley, who has a possession-only firearms licence, calls the gun registry laws a waste of time and money.
When he got a registration card back with the make of the gun listed as Black & Decker/Weller, he said he couldn\'t believe his eyes.
Under the Criminal Code it is illegal for anyone to provide false information to register a firearm.
Officials have said Buckley violated the Criminal Code because the information he supplied does not relate to a firearm.
Depending on the type of conviction, an individual who provides false information to get a registration certificate could be given anything
from a $2,000 fine or six months in jail to five years behind bars.
Buckley admits the publicity that has swirled around him this week has been "kind of fun."
He said he heard from about a dozen people Thursday who said they support him.
"I\'ve had people phoning me today and stopping in here saying \'If you do get charged and you need financial help to pay a fine, let us
know. We are sick of this,\'" Buckley said.
A member of Parliament has even contacted Buckley to say he can get some free legal help if he needs it.
"This is a pretty friendly town as it is, but I can\'t believe the number of people who have big smiles on their faces and are waving at me
today."
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSWeirdNews0203/21_solder-cp.html
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god damn..
Luke.. you should become a babysitter :p
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Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
god damn..
Luke.. you should become a babysitter :p
Heh..I was thinking the same thing..for him and me :)
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the thing about that is.. the mother could have just gotten her own kids high.. and left them alone for a couple of hours withOUT a babysitter..
such a waste..
;):p