Wal-Mart + Rednecks = ...

[rafini]

Police: Infant Doused With Pepper Spray


PONDERAY, Idaho (AP) - A woman doused a 2-month-old girl with pepper spray while feuding with the infant's family in a Wal-Mart, police said.

Lorlie M. Gantenbein, 36, of Sagle, was charged Tuesday with felony injury to a child. She was released on $5,000 bail.

The 2-month-old girl was recovering at home after being sprayed Monday, police Chief Mike Hutter said. The infant was treated at a hospital.

Gantenbein in a telephone interview on Wednesday denied using the pepper spray. She said her 16-year-old daughter used the spray, but did so in self-defense.

Gantenbein said she bought the spray for her daughter as tensions rose between the two families after the Gantenbeins rented property to the baby's family and then evicted them. The feud escalated when her daughter began dating the baby's father, she added.

According to police, Gantenbein's daughter sprayed the infant's grandmother and aunt, one of whom was holding the child. Gantenbein then took the canister and sprayed the baby, authorities said. The juvenile was cited with two counts of battery.

In the phone interview, Gantenbein said the baby's aunt grabbed her daughter by the arm, prompting the daughter to use the pepper spray. When the grandmother reached toward Gantenbein's daughter, the girl sprayed her too, Gantenbein said.

``The grandmother ran through the fog with the baby,'' she said. ``It didn't get hit in the face.''

However, the baby's mother, Christina Clayburn, told Spokane, Wash.'s KHQ-TV that Gantenbein ``was yelling, 'Get the baby! Get the baby!' ... Then she took the Mace out of her daughter's hand and sprayed it directly into my daughter's face.''

Gantenbein's daughter was cited for two counts of misdemeanor battery, Hutter said.

``We're taking statements from both sides and evaluating it from there,'' he said.

[QuikSand]

We may need a diagram from flere on this.

[Ben E Lou]

Actually, I think I got this one:

1. Gantenbeins rent property to un-named family (Let's call em "the Smiths.")
2. Gantenbeins evict Smiths.
3. Gantenbein 16-year-old girl starts dating Smith son, who is the "baby daddy" of a 2-month old, whose mother is named Christina Clayburn.
4. Gantenbein 16-year-old gets in fight with her boyfriend's mother and sister in Wal-Mart.
5. Someone sprays pepper spray during the fight, and baby gets hit.
6. SkyDog, GrantDawg, Buzzbee, Radii, JonInMiddleGA, Celeval, VPI97 and others rejoice to hear that this did not take place in Georgia.

What is unclear is whether or not Christina, the "baby mama," was present for this particular fight. It doesn't appear that she was, which makes it odd that the paper would quote her, rather than her ex-boyfriend's* mother or sister.


*--I may be giving them too much of the benefit of the doubt here, but I'm operating under the assumption that Christina actually dated her baby daddy at some point, rather than it being a mere hook-up.

[hhiipp]

under the assumption that Christina actually dated her baby daddy at some point, rather than it being a mere hook-up.

Well, they are from I-da-hoe.

[KeyserSoze]

You americans are so weird...

[Raven Hawk]

Originally Posted by SkyDog

4. Gantenbein 16-year-old gets in fight with her boyfriend's mother and sister in Wal-Mart.

Methinks that it was actually the extended family of the baby's mother, not the extended family of the baby's father.

[JeeberD]

Yeah, I took it that young Ms Gantenbein started dating the father of the 2 month old baby, and that the mother was a "Smith", not said father...

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by Raven Hawk

Methinks that it was actually the extended family of the baby's mother, not the extended family of the baby's father.

Hmmmmm.....

Gantenbein said she bought the spray for her daughter as tensions rose between the two families after the Gantenbeins rented property to the baby's family and then evicted them. The feud escalated when her daughter began dating the baby's father, she added.

I had the above as a "Romeo and Juliet" scenario--the girl is dating the baby's father much to the chagrin of his family AND her family. I now see that it could be this scenario: "Not only did they evict us, but that little ho of a daughter of hers stole Christina's baby daddy."

[Ben E Lou]

Dola:

That's probably the result of me working with teenagers for a living. My automatic assumption is that both the boy and the girl got together to piss off their parents.

[WSUCougar]

Too bad Jed was out a-squirrel huntin', Granny was bakin' pies, Ellie May was gettin' the shorts out of her crack, and Jethro was down at the bank banging Miss Hathaway, or this would've been much more interesting.

[BigJohn&TheLions]

Originally Posted by WSUCougar

Too bad Jed was out a-squirrel huntin', Granny was bakin' pies, Ellie May was gettin' the shorts out of her crack, and Jethro was down at the bank banging Miss Hathaway, or this would've been much more interesting.

Whoooo-Doggie!

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by SkyDog

Actually, I think I got this one:

1. Gantenbeins rent property to un-named family (Let's call em "the Smiths.")
2. Gantenbeins evict Smiths.
3. Gantenbein 16-year-old girl starts dating Smith son, who is the "baby daddy" of a 2-month old, whose mother is named Christina Clayburn.
4. Gantenbein 16-year-old gets in fight with her boyfriend's mother and sister in Wal-Mart.
5. Someone sprays pepper spray during the fight, and baby gets hit.
6. SkyDog, GrantDawg, Buzzbee, Radii, JonInMiddleGA, Celeval, VPI97 and others rejoice to hear that this did not take place in Georgia.

What is unclear is whether or not Christina, the "baby mama," was present for this particular fight. It doesn't appear that she was, which makes it odd that the paper would quote her, rather than her ex-boyfriend's* mother or sister.


*--I may be giving them too much of the benefit of the doubt here, but I'm operating under the assumption that Christina actually dated her baby daddy at some point, rather than it being a mere hook-up.

Classic funny.

SI

[judicial clerk]

Idaho, its the "other" Georgia.

[Comey]

I thought the answer to the math problem was "Walmart".