December 18, 2007
Teens Find Newborn in Queens Dumpster
Given how cold it is, this story is amazing: A teen who had been skateboarding with friends in Elmhurst last night heard some crying and found a a newborn baby girl wrapped in a blanket, inside a brown paper bag, at the top of a dumpster. The temperature was below freezing.
Christopher Moncada said his brother Brian found the baby and when they opened the bag, "The baby was facing down. It looked like it was suffocating. I turned it over and its arms started to move...We just helped out the baby, because it's bad to see a baby die, you know." The Post reports that the boys left the infant with their friends and then headed to the 110th Precinct for help.
The 4-pound baby was slightly hypothermic, but she is now in stable condition at Elmhurst Hospital. Doctors think she was a few hours old and had been in dumpster for 30 minutes; they aren't sure if she wold have survived much longer. Medic Giovanni Caballero told the Post, "It's a Christmas miracle. Thank God for these kids walking by at the right time."
NY State does have a safe haven law, where babies may be abandoned at police stations, fire houses, and hospitals - with no questions asked - but there has been some question as to how effective the law is.
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tragic story – but i can't help being reminded of this classic family guy scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bDJ8yMtxec
"We just helped out the baby, because it bad to see a baby die, you know."
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Poor kid will grow up now and find out his mama did that to him.
navinjohnson: maybe we give them a pass just this once on their grammar structure since they did actually save the child's life.
Yeah, what the kids are saying is just a variant of the much more noble "I just did what anyone would do in that situation." It comes out dumb because, you know, they are kids.
you have to be a special kind of idiot to comment on grammar when a baby was left to die in below-freezing temperatures in a trash dumpster & it was saved by a couple of skateboard kids.
if all you can think about when reading that kind of story is proper grammar then you really are a loser. get a life.
Not to pile on, but navinjohnson's takedown of some teenagers for their words after finding and rescuing a newborn infant from a dumpster only came after his more mature and measured reaction: posting a clip from a cartoon.
i bet its either a teenager or immigrant who is scared.
hey morons – i wasn't commenting on the grammar. i was saying (and i posted this earlier but it seems to have disappeared) that it was tragic the "blasé-ness" with which these kids talk about the death of a baby.
to casually refer to something as 'bad' (instead of – you know – fucking horrific) is unbelievably sad and makes me wonder what their own lives are like.
hey morons – i wasn't commenting on the grammar. i was saying (and i posted this earlier but it seems to have disappeared) that it was tragic the calmness with which these kids talk about the death of a baby.
to casually refer to something as 'bad' (instead of – you know – fucking horrific) is unbelievably sad and makes me wonder what their own lives are like.
Welcome Olivia Kickflip Moncada. (We'll call her "Ollie".)
No offense, even after the "morons" thing, but if the point was teens who stumbled upon a horrific scene and their "blase" reaction, how is it your own was to think of a cartoon, find the relevant scene and post it as YOUR initial reaction? Isn't that, I don't know, a little blase?
No offense, even after the "morons" thing, but if the point was teens who stumbled upon a horrific scene and their "blase" reaction, how is it your own was to think of a cartoon, find the relevant scene and post it as YOUR initial reaction? Isn't that, I don't know, a little blase?
navin- Maybe those boys are in shock and couldn't properly articulate their thoughts in a nicely structured sentence. Just a thought.
Yeah, and what 13 year old boy uses the world "horrific". Come on now.
It is bad to see a baby die.
Catchy tune!
Catchy tune!
those damn skaters are always causing trouble