Dumbass Awards

A mother has been charged with leaving her toddlers in her car, in freezing cold temperatures, while she went tanning.

Enfield Police Chief Carl Sferrazza (sver-AH’-zah) told the Journal Inquirer that Rock left her two children — ages 3 and just under 1 year — in the parked car, which was not running, for 18 minutes during her tanning session at about 9 a.m. Monday. He says weather reports showed the wind chill was 19 degrees at the time.

This mom and dad aren’t exactly working to dispel the stereotype of the ignorant Southerner. A couple with children from different marriages tattoo six of their children with black crosses ON THEIR HANDS and now they can’t understand why in the world this would be a problem:

A Georgia couple is facing child-cruelty charges for tattooing their six kids.

Georgia authorities say they used a homemade device to tattoo black crosses on the hands of their children. But, the children’s mother says they weren’t hurt and she doesn’t understand why she was arrested.

Patty “Jo Jo” Marsh said, “I don’t understand why this got blowed up so big, I love my children, we’d never do anything to harm our kids.”

I guess kids aren’t exempt these days for paying their debts to society. Next thing you know, our government will have children pay taxes too. The Park’s Department employees that gave this little girl the fine earns our Dumbass Award.

RIVERSIDE PARK, N.Y. (WPIX) - A 10-year-old girl in Riverside Park was slapped with a fine for setting up a lemonade stand without a permit Saturday.

Opening a lemonade stand has been Clementine Lee’s dream since last year. She decided to take advantage of the day’s nice weather to finally set up shop with her 49-year-old father, Richard.blockquote>

A deadbeat Dad who abandoned his 9 children between the ages of 1 and 17 last year under Nebraska’s safe haven law is now expecting twins with his girlfriend.

What a loser!

Let’s hope authorities don’t allow him any access to these children and that DCFS closely monitors the situation. And what about the girlfriend? She’s got to be a real brain-iac too, eh?

Both “parents” get MT’s Dumbass Award of the day.

The Nebraska man who abandoned his nine children last year under the state’s Safe Haven law and whose girlfriend is now expecting twins is “clearly troubled” and brings a “black eye” to the state, local lawmakers told FOXNews.com.

Gary Staton, 37, became a single father in February 2007 when his wife, RebelJane, died shortly after giving birth to their ninth child. Unable to handle the burden alone, Staton made national news more than a year later when he dropped off his children — ages 1 to 17 — at a hospital in Omaha.

MT presents it’s dumbass award to Sgt. Walter Schmidt, a corrections police officer who tased school children as his unique brand of education was delivered to several school children on “take your child to work day”.

What a moron.

So he took out a handheld stun device and zapped them with 50,000 volts of electricity.

The children, whose ages are not available, reportedly yelped in pain, fell to the ground and grabbed red burn marks on their arms. One was taken to a nearby hospital.

Authorities in New Zealand are claiming that a woman secretly gave birth on a plane on her way to New Zealand from Samoa, and left it in the airplane’s bathroom. That must have been an interesting discovery for the cleaning crew. Believe it or not, the baby was given back to her mother.

Hard to believe, but this Virginia bus driver is only on “administrative leave” with pay…

What a jerk.

Two students were arguing on the ride home. The frazzled bus driver tried to intervene. Then came, according to authorities, the driver’s offer to the entire bus: $20 to anyone who would bombard one of the boys with a snowball.

Seven took her up on the offer, and now Loudoun County school bus driver Katina M. Mitchell, 34, of Sterling has been charged with seven misdemeanor counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. And she’s the talk of the county.

Not that we’re big fans of banning things, but Bratz seems like the bigger target than Barbie.

An Ohio woman has been charged with child endangerment after police discovered she was breastfeeding while driving. Oh, did we mention she was also talking on the phone as well? Hey, lady, I think the kid would rather suffer the brief discomfort of being hungry than go sailing through the windshield in an accident.

How can you call a man a “father”, who has such disregard for his baby, that he would rather murder him than pay child support. What a loser.

Detectives escorted Danny Platt, 22, into jail Saturday evening and booked him with first-degree murder in the death of his son, Ja’Shawn Powell, less than 24 hours earlier.

Platt had confessed to detectives at midday and led them to an overgrown section of a Central City playground where he had dumped the boy’s body in a bag, police said.

Platt told police that he did not want to pay the child support he owed to the boy’s mother and that he had previously threatened violence over the money.

“He had made some comments that he would kill either the wife or the child before he paid child support,” NOPD Superintendent Warren Riley said at a news conference.

A couple in Easton, Pennsylvania are upset after the local grocery store refused to put “Happy Birthday, Adolf Hitler” on a cake. And why would they have wanted them to do that? Because that’s the name of their 3 year old boy.

Heath Campbell, who is 35, said in an interview Tuesday that people should look forward, not back, and accept change.

“They need to accept a name. A name’s a name. The kid isn’t going to grow up and do what [Hitler] did,” he said.

After ShopRite refused the request for the cake as inappropriate, the Campbells got a cake decorated at a Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania, Deborah Campbell said.

The Campbells two younger children are named JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell (somehow a tribute to Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler) — but don’t think there’s any hidden meaning there, oh, no. The Campbells just wanted to be “unique” — surely it’s not a reflection on any viewpoints they might hold. They’re just setting these kids up for success, huh?

A man in Cape Coral, Florida has been arrested and charged with cruelty to a child after police found his son driving his pickup truck.

Cape Coral police arrested 27-year-old Joshua James Fagan last week, after seeing a pickup truck drive onto a median. When officers stopped the truck, Fagan told them he was teaching his son to drive.

Officers say the father’s speech was slurred, his breath smelled of alcohol and he unable to stand without swaying. Police say an open case of Budweiser beer was in the backseat.

A school bus driver in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts has been fired for dropping a 9-year-old girl along the side of a busy road after the girl changed seats.

“I switched seats,” Cyrena Medbury told FOX News on Monday.

Donald Davison Jr. of Grafton was fired by the school bus company AA Transportation Inc. after the incident came to light.

“I would like to see child endangerment charges on him,” Melissa Doyle, Cyrena’s mother, told FOX News.

Another parent from the school picked the girl up and drove her home after being phoned by his daughter from the bus.

A Metra train engineer in the Chicago area is in hot water after officials claim he allowed an 18-year-old to man the train’s controls.

“Obviously this is unacceptable. This is a serious matter,” said Warren Flatau, spokesman for the Federal Railroad Administration.

Three engineers are accused of allowing an “unauthorized person” into the cab of a locomotive, and one of the three is accused of allowing the same person to operate the controls, Flatau said.

Judy Pardonnet, spokeswoman for the commuter rail service, said three engineers have been suspended and face disciplinary action.

Pardonnet said Metra became aware of the situation about two weeks ago, but she could not say when the incident happened.

Possession is nine tenths of the law or so an elderly Ohio woman thinks. An 89 year old woman confiscated a football that landed in her yard, saying that it disturbs her to watch kids having fun and throwing around balls near her property. And what if said ball should land in her yard? — she’s takin’ it and the poor owners can just piss off.

What a jerky old lady.

Edna Jester was placed under arrest last week and taken to the police station in Blue Ash.

Police say there had been an ongoing dispute over the errant football and a child’s parent called to report that Jester kept the ball after it landed in her yard again.

“I’m 89 years old and I want a little piece of mind,” Jester said. “This is my life here in this chair, looking out that door, and all I see is playing the ball down and all over and all over.