FL: Great-grandmother pleads in negligent death of child

[seamusTX]

According to reports (since I wasn't there) in Fort Meyers, Florida, this week a 57-year-old great-grandmother pled in the death of her 2-year-old great-grandson who found the woman's revolver and fatally shot himself.

The woman must serve five years probation and pay for a billboard to inform the public of the hazards of unsafe storage of weapons.

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Apparently this really was a negligent occurrence, not the usual gangster disorderly household kind of thing.

The defendant's race is not mention.

57? My great-grandparents were born around 1850. I don't think any of them made it to 1900.

- Jim

[KaiserB]

57? My great-grandparents were born around 1850. I don't think any of them made it to 1900.

- Jim

You evidently don't understand urban generations of 12-15 years spanning a generation, opposed to 25-35 years for most country folks :) There was a news story here a year or so ago about a 27 year old grand mother getting into some sort of altercation, so 57 would probably be a pretty old Great Grand Parent in this context.

Or you have this example, where in theory the great grandmother could be age 37: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/432463.stm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

As for me:
great-grandfather was born in 1850
grandfather born in 1890
father born in 1922
me 1967
my first son 2002

[seamusTX]

If urban is a synonym for poor colored folk or trailer trash, this is not exactly the case. Go to your favorite map site and look up Calusa Palms Drive, Fort Myers, FL.

Your chronology is quite impressive.

My father was 40 years older than I. The Irish tended to marry late and have children late. I don't know if they couldn't read the manual or what.

- Jim

[KaiserB]

urban meant an area of large population, such as Dallas, Tx.

[SwimFan85]

Or you have this example, where in theory the great grandmother could be age 37: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/432463.stm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

According to that story the mother went to her doctor (GP) a few weeks earlier and they didn't figure out she was pregnant. Is that what we should expect here when Obama forces us to have socialized medicine?